Happy New Year to all. And hope that 2018 will improve.
Work is proving to be a lifesaver. I feel the closest to normal since I moved to hell -- more competent, more like myself and less trapped. Work, more work is on the way. I'll be trying to commute daily to the condo. I'm going to try to find and unpack my reference books. I may be able to afford the new AC system required. I hope Mom will be OK, left alone during the day, or at least some days, during the week. She's increasingly frail and distracted and depressed.
I'm actually trying to write again.
Travel? I might dream of travel in late spring or early summer.
Weather here isn't bad at all, though the Mom is acting as if it's arctic. 40s to 50s. Christmas was very quiet and almost nonexistent for me, as I stayed here alone. My Christmas gift to myself this year was modest -- just a bakelite bangle from ebay, to match the ones I wear whenever I leave the house.
And knitting... nothing exciting. I'm using up some wool that was expensive and pretty in the hank but awful when knit into lace. I'm making a plain, large, striped shawl. So far, I've doubled some lace-weight merino yarn in navy and gorgeous variegated greens, alternating with a variegated gray fingering weight yarn. I'll change to shades of purple later on. Using scraps. It will be warm. Kind of boring picture...
The book was a gift from the Squid -- The Exploding Detective.
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Work is proving to be a lifesaver. I feel the closest to normal since I moved to hell -- more competent, more like myself and less trapped. Work, more work is on the way. I'll be trying to commute daily to the condo. I'm going to try to find and unpack my reference books. I may be able to afford the new AC system required. I hope Mom will be OK, left alone during the day, or at least some days, during the week. She's increasingly frail and distracted and depressed.
I'm actually trying to write again.
Travel? I might dream of travel in late spring or early summer.
Weather here isn't bad at all, though the Mom is acting as if it's arctic. 40s to 50s. Christmas was very quiet and almost nonexistent for me, as I stayed here alone. My Christmas gift to myself this year was modest -- just a bakelite bangle from ebay, to match the ones I wear whenever I leave the house.
And knitting... nothing exciting. I'm using up some wool that was expensive and pretty in the hank but awful when knit into lace. I'm making a plain, large, striped shawl. So far, I've doubled some lace-weight merino yarn in navy and gorgeous variegated greens, alternating with a variegated gray fingering weight yarn. I'll change to shades of purple later on. Using scraps. It will be warm. Kind of boring picture...
The book was a gift from the Squid -- The Exploding Detective.
This entry was originally posted at https://unovis.dreamwidth.org/618288.html. Please comment there using OpenID.