Emerging From the Fog

Little by little, slowly but surely, I am trying to get my life back into order after what will hereinafter be referred to as The Crazy Time [aka The CamPAIN]. But am I? Yes, I think I am. I'm not sure.

I was up at 4:00 this morning due to insomnia brought on by the wild winds outside that woke me up, and then my mind started going a thousand miles a minute. 

I now find myself in another one of my periods of under-employment, but this is working in favor of getting some long-overdue organizing and decluttering done in the house and the ability to do things like take impromptu trips to New York and to do some cooking to try to get my nutritional needs back on track and to get in some more exercising and knitting, and even -- *gasp* -- to plan a vacation. It's all good, eh?  

I remembered at 4:30 that I had not written a blog post, and decided that it was not too early to do a drawing for the winner of the book. And the winner, as chosen by the Random Number Generator, is long-time reader and commenter Mary Beth Mathews! I've emailed you, Mary Beth. Congratulations to Mary Beth, and thanks to everyone for playing!

It continues to amaze me that all of you have continued to live your lives and write your blogs while I've been In The Mists of The Crazy Time. WTF? Really! I just spent an hour trying to catch up with Anne of Knitspot, and am totally gobsmacked as always as to how productive you are, Anne. And I could die at the beauty of your new sweater, Leaving. DIE. I want one! And/but I've got so much still on my plate, and have to finish up these sweaters I've been working on, and I hate to admit it, but my forearms are again being bothered a bit by the knitting. And the sweater is knitted in Kim's beautiful yarn, and I just had no idea about all this wonderfulness that was going on out there. It's all just like -- Wait, you guys! Slow down!! I can't catch up! 

It is truly freezing outside right now, and has been for the past couple of nights. And soooo windy. I'm afraid to look to see whether there is snow swirling out there on that wind. I don't think it was predicted, but I've been too busy or distracted (or something) to look at a forecast.

I did not have a chance to look yesterday, but I'm guessing that my broccoli plants that were hanging on and which I hoped to get some more leaves from for eating (the florets have ceased forming, but I've been harvesting and eating and freezing the leaves) have probably succumbed to the frost. I'll have to check on them today, once the sun comes up.

Also once the sun comes up, I have to make a trip to do a whole bunch of errands -- bringing donations to three or four charities and picking up the turkey and getting some groceries and stuff. This, of course, is probably exactly when it will hit me that I have not had enough sleep and I'll be useless.

Oh! Before I forget it, there have been some inquiries about Red Scarf and someone asked whether I'll be collecting red scarves this year. Well, I've never really collected them -- only been sort of the head cheerleader -- and this year I just haven't had time for that, as I've mentioned once or twice or three hundred times so far. Please, though, I hope you are knitting or crocheting or weaving your scarves and sending them to the Orphan Foundation of America. All the information is on this page.

Even with all that's been going on with me, I've knitted four scarves so far this year, so come on! I know you can do it too! I have asked for a status update from Lynn, but I have not gotten an answer yet. Lynn, if you are reading this, go ahead and put a status update on the scarves in the comments here, if you have one.

 

 

Comments

[Geri]

My cranky 17 year old cat tries to wake me sometime between 4 a.m. and 6 a.m. every morning. This has been going on in we switch to DST. What the..... Leaving is in my queue, but down there on the list as least for now.

[gayle]

Your broccoli may still be hanging in there - it takes a lot to kill a broccoli...
Anne is amazing, isn't she? I love that sweater, too.

[Karen J.]

Norma, this has nothing to do with today's blog post, but I wanted to let you know that I was looking up how to line a knit hat with fleece and stumbled upon your 2006 post in my google search. Since I'm a long-time reader, I decided to go with your tutorial...and it worked wonderfully! Thanks !

[margene]

Your weather sounds much like ours. I wanted to steal a little broccoli and Brussels sprouts from our neighbors garden, but refrained. I'm not sure the 8" of snow did it any good.
Anne and Kim work so well together. I can't wait to finish my latest K & A concoction. Leaving is wonderful, too.
It's a crazy time of year, which will go from nothing to do to warp speed. Enjoy your down time. xoxo

[Cookie]

WTF?! This just popped up for me. TypePad is still sucking at getting feeds to see us. Bastards!

Wait...

You knit?

xo

[Kitten]

Cookie is cruising, methinks!
I have long said that we should all get November and December off (with pay, of course) because we're just too damn busy to have a job, what with preparing for the holidays. Sheesh. No one listens to me.

[Carole]

It's 2pm, I bet you're napping by now.

[anne]

awwww, thank you norma!
i am so behind on reading your blog too and just when i finally got to it, there you are talking me up—i blush!

[Lucia]

Ooh, I didn't know you collected scarves, could I send you mine, please please?

Just kidding. Try not to smack me. I'm on scarf #3.

[Lucia]

P.S. Actual serious question: any chance the deadline will be extended again this year?

[Sarah]

I've been having Red Scarf fail this year, but I'm not ready to give up yet.