The Busiest Time of the Year!

It never fails.  Every year, the last month is the busiest time of the year.  Working long hours, cleaning the house, running errands, buying presents, everything is crammed into short hours of the day, as darkness falls at 3:30pm.  This month is busy busy busy.  Making gifts, making hats, making dice bags, making dinner, making time for family....

I am jealous of the people who seem so relaxed during this month.  Have they no family to suck all the hours out of the day?  Yesterday I felt guilty for sitting down for 2 hours to watch a movie.  So I attempted to cast on for a hat to make, and in the half dark I had to restart 3 or 4 times.  My bad, I know better.  I really do.  I just wanted to watch one movie with hubby and best friend.  I was able to get a good start on it today, while at niece's b-day party.  It was a swimming party, and well, I just hate bathing suits.  Means I have to shave places i don't want to shave.  So I opted to sit and knit.  But when we got home, it was nap time for the whole family except me.  So here I sit, every light in the house turned off while they all sleep on the couches.  I am so jealous, but if I go to sleep now, I'll be up all night.  And tomorrow starts the 4 am shifts.  Fun yet not at the same time.  They want us to be done with the truck shipments by the time the store opens at 8.  But if we finish by about 9, then I will have 2 extra hours to knit while waiting for T to get out of school, which works for me.

And here I feel like I've been ignoring my blog.  I know, its been a while, but such is life.  Well, to remedy the situation here I am blogging!

This week I've decided to try IndigoDragonfly's yarn.  They are a Canadian dyeing "company" who sell their items via their blog on Wordpress.  They are very... how you say... creative with the naming of their yarn.  They take a lot of inspiration from some very popular tv shows and movies and create colorways with them.  They make several kinds of yarn.  My favorite weight for the last while being sock yarn.  They have all sorts of blends using wool.  The standard merino wool/nylon blend, theres a blend of one with cashmere, as well as the straight up merino superwash yarn.  Superwash is wonderful if you are giving gifts to a person who may or may not want to (or know how) to hand wash a knitted item.  But they also have worsted weight yarn, lace weight yarns, and DK (double knit) weight.  I've heard them raved about on Ravelry a lot, so I decided it was time for me to try some.  Well, eventually.  After Christmas some time.

Speaking of Christmas I'm so excited!  I know at least 2 of my presents!  My mother talked with me about buying the family a chest freezer!  Something I've been bugging my husband about for almost a year now.  I want one so we can buy meat when its on sale and store it, as well as all the goodies from my garden, and my brother's garden.  I will have to clean out the corner of the garage, but who cares!  A freezer!  Whoopee!  The second one is my husband was sweet, saw me oogling a nice digital camera when we went Christmas shopping with his yearly bonus money (Thank goodness for bonus money!)  He bought that for me so now I will have a nice camera to a) take family pictures with and b) better pictures for my Etsy account.  I am so excited to play with it.  And the fact it was on uber sale makes it even better.  It has something like a 15x's zoom on it.  Something ridiculously wonderful I'm sure.

So this blog post is a bit more up beat than my last.  Its amazing what a decent Christmas bonus will do for an attitude.  That and the fact that the kids will now not be quite so disappointed with lack of boxes under the tree.  Just this year there is nothing BIG under the tree.  Like when T was 2, he had a whole wooden track set under there.  But this year will have to do with character jammies, movies, and a few posters of his favorite characters/movies.  Same for K, minus the jammies.  She has 100 sets already, I think she has enough, but she's getting a robe, movies, under garments (*cry* she cant be this big yet!) and posters.  Oh how they grow!  As well as they are each getting a hand knit item.  Such as socks or a hat.  Which reminds me, I should be getting back to knitting.  Happy crafting, and happy holidays everyone!