The *right* way to open a banana

who knew?

I’m back! Now with 20% more flavor!

Ok I’m not sure how back and please don’t lick me to check on the flavor.  I’ve been playing with the idea of blogging again for a while.  I freaking miss it and I miss all my knitting and blogging peeps! When I surrendered to the overload in January I had my day job, was teaching a class at the university and was prepping to teach some workshops. There just was no spare time.  But all that’s over and I took a new job and I moved to Georgia! Georgia! I’ve been here about 2 months and its seems like a good time to reclaim my life.  I still don’t have a lot of time to knit so I’m not sure how much of that you’ll see.

So what have I been up to?  Let’s see.

The new apartment has super low window sills so Simon can keep watching for invading hordes really easily.

Fretting about Oscar – we had to change his meds again and he goes in for a check up next week to see if the new dosage is working. Cross fingers and toes please.

Chilling at the pool – only in the early morning or late evening I’m far too pale for most of the day.

Meeting local knitters

I went to Chicago for a conference

Checking out local attractions – Butterfly gardens! hurray endless photo possibilities

Speaking of photos – I got a new camera! I finally made the leap to an SLR. I’ve signed up for classes at the university but wont start till September. In the meantime I’ll probably be shooting mostly in auto mode.

What did you do this weekend?

It’s been beautiful here, althougth a little, warm I’m ready for all ok. I had to turn on the air today to knit. Let’s see what have I done?

• worked
• saw some horses
• finished the back and started the front of the $1.50 Cardi
• watched Season Two of Heroes – can I say just how glad I am that Nikki died, what a whiney bitch
• considered taking pictures of the two FOs I have to show you, but then realized the battery on my camera was dead. 
• Walked around downtown both days
• spent a lot of time rubbing doggy bellies.
• Tried out Plurk again, is anyone else using this and loving it?

Well if I haven’t been knitting what have I been doing?

edited to add a pic of the nose per weezalanas request

Mostly adjusting to the changes in my life over the last 6 months

• commuting – when I sold my house I moved to a nearby town, about 30 miles from where I work.
• Reading or more accurately listening on my commute, thank God for books on CD
• writing presentations & giving presentations, I’ve done 14 & taught a 4 day workshop in the last 6 months
• attempting to date and failing
• going to the gym
• taking the boys to the park
• getting my nose pierced, actually that didn’t take much time, but I’ve been wanting to do it forever
• traveling – England, Italy, Colorado, St. Louis, Iowa and I have two more trips before the end of the year

But with the start of the Fall tv shows it means more time in front of the boob tube which means more knitting. Speaking of – what did ya’ll think of Heroes?

10 positive things

Me and Chicabean in Rome

Saw this over on Lorenzo Knits a Tomato and I’ve been trying for perspective and balance and what not so I thought I’d play along – it’s easy just post 10 positive things.

1. I love my job
2. I got to go to Italy this year
3. I get to go to Denver later this month
4. I’m almost off work for the day!
5. I have the best doggies in the world
6. It was nice enough ttoday I could walk outside on my breaks
7. I have good friends
8. I’m making some great changes in my life
9. I love living in my apartment I’m still so grateful I sold my  house
10. Flickr – even when I’m too busy to read blogs or keep up I can see at a glance what y’all have been up to.

Play along if you want to.  We can never take too much time to appreciate all the good things in life!