November 27, 2006
Doing What Needed to Be Done
In the car home from my parents' house two days ago, The Gov. put his fingers together, moved them around a bit, and then made a motion where he circled his pointer finger on his left hand around the one on his right. What are you doing, pumpkin, I asked.
I'm knitting, mommy--he said and smiled.
I thought the exchange was very interesting because as of the past couple of weeks, I've been practicing my knitting. There are a couple of immemorable hats and scarves already knit, and on that car ride home, I finished a mobius shoulder wrap in brushed baby alpaca (which I wore to work today). They say she moved to Kansas and took up knitting, some will say. And that's pretty much exactly what happened.
The Thanksgiving holidays were great. I ran a 5-mile Turkey Trot on Thursday and made a decent pace. It ended up being a lot of fun. I loved the sound of everyone's feet hitting the pavement at the beginning when we began the race-it really was like rain. And I loved running the race with Conan, even though he had to briefly walk at around 100 yards from the finish line due to a side stitch.
This morning, I hung my number in my office as a small reminder that I did what I'd set out to do, which sometimes gets lost in the everyday.
November 12, 2006
Allez avec moi
Yesterday was the first day Chez Equilibrium and its denizens had absolutely nothing planned. What did we do? We got up and...made plans. Yep. We accomplished a lot, in fact maybe too much.
Yesterday I accomplished the following:
-Made a list of household items
-Bought all items on the above list
-Went to the gym avec Le Gouvenator and Cher Conan in tow. Ran 4 miles and then frolicked in the pool with both of them.
-Ate so-so sushi
-Purchased knitting supplies
-Started learning to knit (casting, knit, purl, & picking up dropped stitches accomplished)
-Had earnest conversation with Conan
-Got nooky
Not too bad for a "lazy" Saturday. I'm one of those people who relaxes by doing something, so I found yesterday to be very nice indeed, especially the knitting part. I now know why the strizz-a-lator likes it so much. I'm a kinetic thinker, so maybe this will help out much of the knotted thoughts residing in my little brain.
This is the part of the entry where I insert the gratuitous artistic photograph:
