Stash Dash: Not so easy

I was feeling quite confident and this weekend happened. Mason darted across the street at my church's yard sale, my left arm (now) is hurting quite a lot up in the bicep are like the right one was/is. I feel quite falling apart and I'm forty, so it's not making feel to eager to get older. Not to mention dealing with doctors and x-rays is something I sort of have to mentally pump myself up to go deal with. Mason running out really wrecked me this weekend (combined with the arm pain and not being able to do anything driving me flipping nuts) and has had me thanking God A LOT that nothing happened. I couldn't live with myself if anything happened to him or River. I'm rather tempted to cast on a simple-ish shawl out of one of the three yarns calling to me. Two of them I could gift for birthdays or the Holidays. I might bring the yarn to recake/reball to Draven's as I need to go in a little less then a hour out to his place.

Sunday's service was challenging to sit through let alone listen to since I couldn't knit and with a dull pulsating arm pain. I'm eager to watch and properly take notes once the video is uploaded to YouTube, like I usually do. I don't know how others are able to write and keep up with Pastor Shane's message. I finally got a new phone as the previous one had a cracked and splintered screen that I just had my limit so that's where the cash when to this month. Thank God for baby-sitting Draven again this month, and sometimes after the 23rd he's off school so that's going to be all day. He's not going to run from me or do anything stupid like run out in traffic, thank God. He's a little gaming nerd. Babbling to me about games like I have any ray of hope of following him.

With the pain in my arm, I'm not finishing pretty much anything sadly which is urking my self apposed goals and deadlines I absent mindlessly place on myself. The devil is working on me there, trying to get me to feel like it's something else I'm failing when it comes down to it, and as the Knit Girlls themselves say, 'imaginary points'. I know I shouldn't hang out at home but my spirit & energy/patience is just spent. I know getting my phat butt back to the gym, some what regularly does help, even though I'm not sure when I'm going to have time once I'm with Draven all day. Guess I will have to make good those days I'm off and go to the gym, when mom has him.

My loud drunk neighbors moved out so I'm hoping this might be a better summer then the past two years that I can live out on the porch. Glad I didn't make a stink about getting and putting up a screen divider now. Thank you God for that one! ;)

One Goal 2017 Down

Well I did it!

-crazy sauce happy dance with a cat-

I knitted my first sweater/top! I admit I haven't worn it yet because of the weather just hasn't been right for it. It's just what I wanted - not crazy big, as I would so look like the slob I feel, I am at times. I distinct remember another navy sweater I had back in the day that had a wide collar or was probably a v-neck at some point, but man did I wear the heck out of that top and it was over-size on me. I've learned that such tops just don't look good on my body type. Though I wish I did make it a little bigger but really, when I think about it, when it comes right down to it, I don't wear sweaters that often unless it's like after November type thing. I WILL wear it of course but just not in the next coming months.

Unless you've been under a rock, it's the Worsted Boxy by Joji Locatelli, who is currently hosting a Mystery Shawl that I keep playing with doing as it uses up five full skeins of fingering which I have and want to get rid of ... but they're in green! Psst, I LOVE lime green! Maybe after Stash Down, of course I say the same thing for Stephen West's Penguono that I rather do instead. Let's face it, it comes down to priority and being an adult. I have bills to pay primarily so these two projects will have to wait till fall and I have a bunch of WIPs done. As you can tell by the project page for my worsted boxy, I used three Caron Cakes Lemon Lime yarn mostly all on a 4.0 circular though. When or if I'm EVER feeling ballsy, I may frog back the top and do another 2-4" on the sleeves. Not just to use up the rest of the yarn but because even tough I didn't do any of decreases in the arm, it's still more close then I'm use to.

Me wearing said top.

I like to think I can always get my phat butt to the gym and work out a heck of a lot more for the top to fit even better, at least as a added bonus as to being able to keep up with the munchkins. I have Bernat Pop, similar to Caron Cake that I bought to make a sweater/top for a certain munchkin but in the back of my mind I find myself tempted to cast on another Worsted Boxy. God will tell what I end up doing with these four cakes of Bernat Pop that look and feel much more thick then Caron Cakes. 

2017 Goals

• Loose 10+ lbs 
• Knit or Frog Languishing Knits 
• Finish that 2nd Charity Rag Quilt 
• Knit and finish an adult clothing item 
• Handmade Christmas ONLY. 
• Read 4 books
• Blog more
• Self care IS important!
• Fancier knits and products for the shop
  
  These are end results, must be consciously aware of the tasks to get to the end result goals.