I’m sooooooooo TIRED!!!

Why? ‘Cus I’ve been sticking to the goals I made on Monday and have been getting up every morning between 6:30 and 7:15 am and getting my lazy butt out of bed and going to Curves. Yes me. Who normally gets up around noon. Hence: tired.

What have I done lately? I’ve used the extra morning time to plan my meals for the day, then crawled back into bed. Usually I’ve knit. Today I think I’ll be trying to fall back asleep. I’m usually wide awake just until my dad calls to say “leave now” and then I start falling asleep once I’m driving. A little trick I learned to help stay awake is to chew gum. I could also probably stop at any of the Tim’s I pass and buy a coffee too, but I always forget until I’m already on the highway.

I ended up ripping out the 4″ high triangle I made with the Goldielocks. I was following the Fleece Artist basic pattern from the ball band, but instead of increasing on each row by doing a weird yarn-to-the-front on the first stitch that got lost in the fluffy tangles of the yarn, I was doing “k1, yo, k row” on each row. It made a really pretty edge of eyelets. Unfortunately, as the triangle progressed I was falling more in love with the color, but less in love with the idea of wearing a triangular shawl. Kathryn told me the skein was about 450m, which translates into something like 492y. The Falling Water Shrug pattern I have that I started a while ago in black mohair calls for 500y laceweight. I ripped the triangle shawl and began the shrug. I had originally stopped the black one because A) it sheds like crazy and B) I’m not skinny enough to wear a shrug. It’s my tummy I want to cover, not my back and arms. I’m knitting this one now because I’m in week 1 of the Curves thing, and I’m telling myself that I WILL be skinny enough to wear it once I’m done! 🙂

Where would we be without the power of positive thinking?

To Keri: You’re sweet. Ok, not a flower bowl, but definately some weird garland!

To my Secret Pal: I have the willpower to start a lot of things LOL, it’s the willpower to FINISH them that I lack! :]