Saturday Morning

Actually, it's perilously close to being Saturday afternoon, but since I only got up a few hours ago, it's Saturday morning to me.

Boy, would I like to have some great pictures to post showing my progress on either my ruffly scarf or my Phil Eponge sweater. In truth, I've been able to do almost nothing on them since earlier in the week. Which doesn't give me much to talk about here.

There's a part of me that wants to apologize for being irregular in my posting behavior. But another voice in the back of my head reminds me that the point that I start to look at this blog as an obligation rather than something that I do to chronicle my knitting experiences is probably the point at which I should shut it down. I've got enough things in my life that I put into the obligation category. My blog is the place I come to have a little outlet for my creative writing and crafting.

So, no apologies will be forthcoming. Instead, I will provide a warning that in the next couple of months I may not be as daily as I would like to be, and that if you don't want to make the cyber-trek over to my blog without knowledge that I've posted something new, I encourage you to subscribe to my blog with Bloglines (see the link in the sidebar) -- which is probably my personal favorite blog monitoring tool.

I also know that making a post like this will lead some reading to wonder what is going on in my life, and is it good or bad (after all, this is what goes on in my head when I read statements like this on other people's blogs). Generally speaking, I have no real problem talking about my personal life here on the blog, but when it comes to things going on at work, I tend to be very conservative. Right now my posting is being affected by my need to take care of more things at work. Some of these things involve not just doing more or putting more time into what I do, but also some personal growth things that involve pushing myself in new directions. Change like this is good, it's what keeps life interesting and makes me feel like I am growing and expanding my horizons. However, this kind of thing (especially when combined with the onset of allergy season) usually leaves me a little fatigued as my poor neurological system learns to cope with and integrate them into my way of being. And often that means that when I come home from work, I'm lucky if I can figure out how to remember how to use the remote control for our cable box, let alone figure out how to attach a raglan sleeve seam when lovely fine-guaged French pink boucle yarn is involved.

I'll have more interesting things to talk about on Monday (I'll be updating my "Where in the World" maps, since many people have left their locations since I first posted) and I have hopes of sitting down with a good Audiobook, my iPod and the Eponge sweater and getting as much of it assembled as I can. The weather is perfect for it, and I still have a few days before I head out to the most fabulous Maryland Sheep & Wool Festival.

Have a Great Weekend!