November '08 Recap

I set myself a couple goals for November. Considering how much traveling we ended up doing, I didn't do too badly on them, though I missed one by half.

I sort of planned to post every day, though I didn't actually sign up for NaBloPoMo as I wasn't really aiming for 100%, just to get back in the habit. I missed three days, but I did set up posts ahead of time a few times when I knew I just wouldn't get to it. Two of my non-posting days fell just after a break with the pre-queued posts and I didn't notice that I hadn't actually written a post the days I had ones pre-written. And I missed the first of December for no good reason other than allergies that made me sleep all day but still fall asleep that night. It felt like a good reason at the time. So, I did a bit better than I expected on the posting but didn't quite accomplish my goal. I did make progress.

I also made progress on my Motley Crew-neck/NaKniSweMosweater, but got maybe half of it done despite actually signing up for the Ravelry group which functioned as the official KAL site. If I'd known I'd have so many distractions and impediments this month, I'd have gone with the bulky-weight alpaca/Jacob blend rather than the 6spi sock yarn. But I got the project well under way and I still feel the need to finish ASAP, so I'm happy with what I did here.

I could have knit more than I did today, but it's just as well I didn't as now I'm babying my right thumb joint with a heating pad. Occasionally wrapping my hand around a cup of tea didn't quite do the trick. I got only four rounds knit over the holiday weekend but knit two or three times that today. I also took some time to rewind my disintegrated balls (alternating 2 balls to prevent pooling and obvious difference between balls) of yarn back into functional balls from their other end. I need to remember that large balls of yarn work better knit from the outside even if I wound them as a center-pull, especially if the yarn itself is not large.

December looks promising. We'll see. I want to finish my Motley Crew. I signed up for the NaKniSweMoDo, knit a dozen sweaters next year, challenge. I may pull out an old UFO or two, especially as the year goes on, but it won't feel right to me to count this one in next year's total when the goal was to finish last month. Besides, I want to start with a couple of larger gauge projects for the mental boost of a speedy completion.

PS E-mail is still down. I can receive on my karenjoseattle address as I get that over the Internet, but cannot reply or receive on any of my other addresses. It seems we have a confluence of our ISP experiencing a power outage with no one on this weekend and something amiss in the phone lines. Trouble-shooting it while almost a thousand miles from our server is proving challenging. We'll owe our concierge when we get home.

Comments

[margene]

Life is what happens while we're busy making other plans? You did well for as busy as you were.

[akabini]

Nice work, Missy!
It's nice to see someone else assessing how they did with big goals… and not beating themselves up for falling short of some sort of "perfection." Taking a reckoning and seeing how well we did, considering life and its realities, is a lovely thing.
(I'm trying to draw a parallel between my walking parts of the marathon and your not finishing the Motley in November, but I'm only on my 2nd cup of coffee here…)
Good job!