The New Year

2009 was a stressful year but I very much enjoyed watching my little baby sprout into a charming little boy. When we moved to Detroit the summer of 2007 my son was crawling, well army crawling on his elbows. Last Christmas he had just mastered walking but was still teetering now and then. Now he's running like the wind and talking up a storm. Most days I wake up to his call: "Mami. Mami. Maaaami. Where are you? I want to talk to you." Even at 5:30am I have to laugh. I look forward to watching and recording a whole new year of this little person's development.
We're 6 days into 2010 and I wish I could say I'm off to a good start. I'm not! I just remembered this morning the my pilates class started Monday night (completely forgot). I hadn't checked our bank account in over two weeks and it was overdrawn. Now if we didn't have the money that would be one thing, but we do. It was just stupidity on my part. Of course the bank loves it when we make mistakes like that because they can charge us for it. ARGGHHH!!! In addition to that I'm way behind on my work and have to prep for my classes which begin next week.

I usually don't resolutions but I feel I have to this time around. I want to embrace the idea of "WORK FIRST" i.e., start the days with work and after 5-7 hrs (stopping for breakfast and lunch of course), putting the work aside and enjoying my hobbies: knitting, spinning, reading, etc. I work mostly from home so this can get really tough: "I'll just do the laundry; I'll just clean the bathroom, I'll just organize whatever" there's always something that needs to be done but this year I will try to commit to work and schedule chores like I would any meeting outside the home. I haven't exercised since the pregnancy over 2yrs ago so I signed up for Pilates on Mondays. That's it for resolutions: 1. Work First and 2. Pilates on Mondays.

Good luck with your resolutions.

New Year Cleaning Frenzy

Ok, I know it can't just be my crazy family's tradition to clean the heck out of one's house before the New Year, right? Well I didn't quite make the deadline. I ended up cleaning today. All the laundry, dusting, scrubbing, putting away all that laundry (I hate this most of all). What a day. But it does feel good. I want to devote a couple of days next week to shredding papers and organizing our home offices. Oh and of course HAPPY NEW YEAR to everyone out there. 2009 is definitely going to be interesting. Happy knitting to you all.

I've made some knitting resolutions.
1. No more than 5 projects on the needles at once.
2. Knit an entire adult sweater.
3. Knit a pair of socks every other month (6 pairs for 2009!)
4. Choose knitting projects that will teach me a new technique or help me perfect one.
5. Spin, spin, spin. -- I've had the wheel since May '08 and I still can't do it so this is the year I master spinning and make yarn that I use.
6. Limit the stash enhancement. I promise to "shop" my own stash before buying.
7. Comment on the blogs I visit.
8. Lace. Need I say more? I love lace projects but have never completed one. This is the year.
9. Try colorwork.
10. Increase my blogging output. I will have to work this in to my morning coffee routine.

My only non-knitting resolutions are to do more yoga and work hard at the office so I don't have to work once I get home at night.

Good luck with all your resolutions this year.