Poor, neglected blog...

Sometimes you start things off with the best of intentions, and then reality gets chaotic. Welcome to my life.

I can't even count how many times I've looked at the link to this blog off my Ravelry account and said "I really need to update..." only to instead pick up some needles and yarn, and get completely lost and distracted. I think it's mostly the time of year, as it's turning quite nicely to fall around these parts, getting chilly, and of course, getting far too close for my comfort to the holidays, and I am not even close to being done with the gifts I'm making. I have many in various levels of completion (although nothing is more than half done at the moment! Meep!), and a few things I haven't even cast on yet. This doesn't exactly bode well for me, but hey, nothing like a little pressure, right?

Oh, wait. But it's almost November. Which means NaNoWriMo time. And a weekend trip to Vancouver for some hockey on my best friend's birthday. And going to hockey locally too. Plus I have a friend from Australia coming for a two-week visit, over Thanksgiving, which we're having at my house (currently expecting between 5-10 people), and I'll be doing 100% of the cooking, in my tiny kitchen. This is due in part to my mom just having surgery on her hand and not being able to do anything at all with it for nearly two months; so the entire holiday falls on my shoulders. Not that I mind, but... yeah, breathing time would rock. Sadly, I don't have any.

As I'm at work at the moment, I don't have access to my camera, thus no pictures of any current projects, or of anything else, but I'm working on a lot of things at once. A single-rib scarf for my dad. An entrelac scarf for my mom. A herringbone scarf for one of my roommates. A bag for another friend. A bunch of baby stuff for yet another friend's daughter, who is due at Christmas. Once my new shipment of yarn from KnitPicks arrives, I'll be casting on a hat, and dying some yarn so I can get to work on another bag for my other roommate. I also have perhaps 6-10 other projects I want to try and get done by the holidays. Hello, my name is "crazy person."

All of this adds up to why my poor blog has sat without any attention for a while, but in spite of this, I'm going to try and keep up more often. If nothing else, my fingers are itching to play with some photography sometime very soon.