Who's Jack Bauer...

Jack's back baby!
I signed up for the 24 KAL. You can only work on your project during 24, and basically it's to see what you can knit in a 24 hour period. I was going to work on a hat andI probably will stick with it, but part of me totally wants to frog my log cabin blanket that I started for my ex a while back for many reasons, 1. he's my ex and is not getting the blanket. 2. I like the kitchener stitch as much as the next person, but to do it over 100+ stitches, uh, no. 3. kinda want to make a mitered square blanket for my fly fisherman. don't ask, I don't know.

I have also started on a new pair of socks for me! they will be pink and girlie. :p and I need something to knit whilst I watch tv other than 24 before the Ravelympics start.

I also have the desire to bake banana bread. I'm strange.

As if...

Sara Evans has a song As if, and I think that I'm going to try to live that way, sounds like a good way to live.
So far, 2010 is off on a good start. My ex FiL Frank, is on the road to recovery from cancer treatment and surgery and a little more treatment. Things seem to be going well with the Fly Fisherman and hopefully that will continue. I'm starting to get back on track financially, which is nice and something i never thought would happen.

I finished my sock with the linen stitch heel and have started a second toe up sock.
Ravelympics start in a month!!! WOOO!!!

Louie, this is the beginning of a beautiful....

My fly fisherman was ill, however, with some TLC and some homemade chicken noodle soup, he is well on the road to recovery. Sadly, that put a kabosh on our going out on a date-date, so instead hung back at his house, watched a bad movie or 2, made a fire in the fireplace and just relaxed, laughed and enjoyed each others company.

I also knit a little more on my sock and with any luck it will be done tomorrow. Not sure what kind of project I'll start after that, maybe another pair of plain jane socks.

Hopeful

My date with the fly fisherman tomorrow may be canceled because he is feeling ill. Now being me, my first instict is to assume he is politely blowing me off, then I feel bad as he's done nothing to give me the impression that he would do such a thing and I realize that all that thinking is, is nothing but my own insecurity. My second thought was "that's what you get for looking forward to something", but in reality more likely than not, he is ill, it is afterall the winter. I am still a smidge hopeful that he'll be better after resting up today or that he'll take me up on my offer to make him soup and care for him.
I'm trying to be hopeful with this one. My fingers (and toes) are crossed that it works out and becomes something real and dare I say, permanent. I am hopeful that he will accept what I have to offer and not take advantage or take it for granted. He says the things I need and have waited to hear, and he says then often, sometimes jokingly, sometimes very seriously. I am aware of how happy I, we, could be, and how lucky I would be to have his love and his heart.
I am also aware that he is a fisherman, which means that there is something he will always love more than me, and that is the sea. I am strangely ok with that, as long as, at the end of the day, he comes home to me.

Rewind....

I spoke to my fly fisherman the other day and i am happy to report that i did not scare him off after our in initial date, he was busy with work on Nantucket, which is why i hadn't heard from him. :)

I am driving down to his neck of the woods on Sat. and i am very much looking forward to this adventure. I realized today that i have a strong urge to feed him, an urge i do not have for the boy, sadly. i know can't see the future, we've already had that conversation, but i have hope that whatever we become, my fly fisherman and i, will be great, and the biggest obstacle being distance. ::fingers crossed::

haven't don't much knitting the past 2 days, something intend to rectify tomorrow night.

Happy New Year!

Normally this post would be full of resolutions which would never be kept and quite frankly they would have been forgotten 10 seconds after i wrote them. This year, however i have one simple goal, simple in theory only but i think something that is both doable and neccessary, i'm going to be happy.

on the knitting front, i knit the boy a hat for christmas, which impresses him to no end, that i created something in less than day that is usuable with sticks and malabrigo string.

i also have 1 & 3/4 of a pair of socks made with yummy yarn that is 90% merino wool and 10% cashmere for ME!

I signed up for Ravelympics on Ravelry, Team Cooper Boom! i don't know what catagory i'll register under but i'd like to see about making a Hemlock Ring Blanket out of some stash yarn i have. After that, i will work on my UFO's, a cobblestone sweater for Todd for christmas (figure if i start now, it'll be done in time) and lots of socks from my own personal sock club, which i have to organize, after the ravelympics and i figure i'll start that in March.

And Now The End is Near

And so I face the final curtain
My friend I'll say it clear
I'll state my case of which I'm certain
I've lived a life that's full
I traveled each and every highway
And more, much more than thisI did it my way
Regrets I've had a few
But then again too few to mention
I did what I had to do
And saw it through without exemption
I planned each charted course
Each careful step along the byway
And more, much more than this
I did it my way
Yes there were times I'm sure you knew
When I bit off more than I could chew
But through it all when there was doubt
I ate it up and spit it out, I faced it all
And I stood tall and did it my way
I've loved, I've laughed and cried
I've had my fill, my share of losing
And now as tears subside
I find it all so amusing

Wishing everyone a Happy New Year!