Goodbye 2008, Hello 2009

2008 was a funky year, a year of extreme highs and lows, both personally and professionally.

Every New Year I look back and think, "Maybe next year will be better. Maybe X problem will be resolved." But things don't generally improve this way. I'm coming around to think that I need to take the bull (perhaps in this case Taurus the bull of worldly success) by the horns and aggressively MAKE it better.

I'm no longer on a "yarn diet," I'm "stash busting". Active instead of passive.

Anyway, I didn't get many projects completed this year and what I did complete wasn't very interesting and I simply put it up at Ravelry. I would like to get back to more documenting here. I'm doing Mystery Shawl 11, my first mystery knit, and I'm really excited. I need some small weekly cookie. I will try to document each clue here, though I doubt I'll be finishing in anything resembling on time.

One of the good things from 2008 is new kitten Cassie, who keeps Arthur busy and plays with yarn in approved kitten fashion. She also turned out to be a little typhoid Mary (one of the bad things), but I think both cats will finally kick all her shelter-born diseases shortly.



Oh, I did learn to knit fair isle holding one color in each hand!