After all my Big Talk about the books I wanted to read and the movies I wanted to watch, last weekend—and basically all this week—I spent all of my free time working on getting caught up on my temperature afghan. The nonsense pictured above absolutely doesn’t convey the scale of it—I weighed it this morning and it’s currently at 11.5 pounds… and I’ve got a whole lot more to go.
Soooo, despite STILL having a giant pile of books and movies that I’d like to dive into, I’m going to continue working on it while listening to the current season of You Must Remember This… because the winter solstice is coming fast, and I need to finish this thing on time so that I can start the process all over again. (I don’t know what it says about my personality that I find something really fun about having an EXTREMELY silly thing to complain about all year?)
What about you? What do you have on your plate? Also, if you’ve got any stories about projects that you triumphantly finished on time despite having fallen extremely behind… well, I could use some inspiration.
I'm about to start The Merciless King of Moore High and I'm excited because it sounds like it's going to be a big ol' book of bananas. And I *hope* I'm finishing this grade school musical I agreed to write because I'm a total sucker with an underdeveloped ability to say no. Good luck with the never-ending afghan!
LOL, I'm going to join you in the 'fallen extremely behind' camp, because I'm several thousand words behind where I should be right now for a novel that's due the end of January... and there's all the holidays and nonsense hoopla in between now and then (plus my NEXT novel coming out, oy) and I cannot simply ignore people and go into a cave and write (ALTHOUGH YOU'D BEST BELIEVE I AM GOING TO USE THAT AS AN EXCUSE FOR ANTI-SOCIALING EVERYTHING). You'll finish your project triumphantly - I suspect the night of the Solstice, but that still counts.
Speaking of holiday hoopla, any Thanksgiving game suggestions you have for family welcome btw; I'm supposed to be getting something "new" for the voracious nephews and niece. (The youngest is fourteen now. Four. Teen. No little kids anymore around.)
BOOKS: I read such a compelling review of Christelle Dabos' A WINTER'S PROMISE, that I picked it up immediately, and Elise Kova's A Trial of Sorcerers as well for this weekend. I just finished Faith Erin Hicks' HOCKEY GIRL LOVES DRAMA BOY, and it was so cute I wanted to crawl inside of it. When I'm drafting I try and avoid book cross pollination, so reading fantasy YA right now is fun. I *should* be knitting hats because I said I'd help with a project, but... feeling lazy. Maybe next week.
It's a beautiful afghan! My oldest has got one going this year too, and I wonder how that's going....
My day off appears to have become dedicated to boring necessary things like shingles vaccines (reportedly a rough one) and shepherding a kid through a medical procedure. I'm sitting here waiting for it to be over. I read Kingfisher's new title, Thornhedge, last night! It was great!
That afghan is the coolest. This weekend I grabbed up all the company T-shirts with the old, verboten, logo; cutting them into tote bags, and dyeing them with the walnut dye I made a couple weeks ago. Holiday gifts for my team! Bc christ knows I need another tote bag like I need another ear.
I'm about to start The Merciless King of Moore High and I'm excited because it sounds like it's going to be a big ol' book of bananas. And I *hope* I'm finishing this grade school musical I agreed to write because I'm a total sucker with an underdeveloped ability to say no. Good luck with the never-ending afghan!
LOL, I'm going to join you in the 'fallen extremely behind' camp, because I'm several thousand words behind where I should be right now for a novel that's due the end of January... and there's all the holidays and nonsense hoopla in between now and then (plus my NEXT novel coming out, oy) and I cannot simply ignore people and go into a cave and write (ALTHOUGH YOU'D BEST BELIEVE I AM GOING TO USE THAT AS AN EXCUSE FOR ANTI-SOCIALING EVERYTHING). You'll finish your project triumphantly - I suspect the night of the Solstice, but that still counts.
Speaking of holiday hoopla, any Thanksgiving game suggestions you have for family welcome btw; I'm supposed to be getting something "new" for the voracious nephews and niece. (The youngest is fourteen now. Four. Teen. No little kids anymore around.)
BOOKS: I read such a compelling review of Christelle Dabos' A WINTER'S PROMISE, that I picked it up immediately, and Elise Kova's A Trial of Sorcerers as well for this weekend. I just finished Faith Erin Hicks' HOCKEY GIRL LOVES DRAMA BOY, and it was so cute I wanted to crawl inside of it. When I'm drafting I try and avoid book cross pollination, so reading fantasy YA right now is fun. I *should* be knitting hats because I said I'd help with a project, but... feeling lazy. Maybe next week.
It's a beautiful afghan! My oldest has got one going this year too, and I wonder how that's going....
My day off appears to have become dedicated to boring necessary things like shingles vaccines (reportedly a rough one) and shepherding a kid through a medical procedure. I'm sitting here waiting for it to be over. I read Kingfisher's new title, Thornhedge, last night! It was great!
That afghan is the coolest. This weekend I grabbed up all the company T-shirts with the old, verboten, logo; cutting them into tote bags, and dyeing them with the walnut dye I made a couple weeks ago. Holiday gifts for my team! Bc christ knows I need another tote bag like I need another ear.
That afghan is gorgeous! Wow! I’m learning to read tea leaves this weekend because why not.
My book club is reading War and Peace, and I am WAY behind. Got my work cut put for me. 😄 Your afghan is beautiful.