Yowzers...

I have 2.5 weeks of updates to post a bit later. For now I just wanted to put this out there to internet land....

I have a renewed energy for my dissertation project and at the same time i have 9 friends who are expecting babies.

Nine.

That is not even counting friends of friends. These are wonderful amazing women in my circle of friends - and my circle is not that big these days! Women for whom I would readily host a baby shower rather than attend. 9 soon to be fabulous mothers with at least 9 very lucky babies.

I only count 4 of my friends that are not expecting and three of them I suspect soon will be. I am over the moon happy for my friends, but that means I have serious baby knitting to get to. I better get faster at those little baby sweaters!

Week 5: Two projects, one week

Knitting:

I was determined last week to catch up on my project a week goal. So I got two projects in just in.

This luscious elliebelly guppy creek went from this:



to this:



These took me most of the week, but I managed to crack out these shorties as well:



School:

I had a frustrating week in terms of school. I am perplexed by the results I found after much time programming. I am troubleshooting this week and exploring potential sources of trouble. As the great Forrest Gump says - That's all I have to say about that.

Week 4: Marble Rivendell Daycare

School

Daycare continues to be the most limiting factor in my productivity these days by far. It's expensive, it's hard to find and it's impossible to coordinate with a changing schedule.

Anyway... I was offered an extra day of daycare this week and jumped at the chance. It's a stretch for us to afford it, but I think it will be worth the investment for another half day of work each week. That's good... I love my day care provider and J loves going (I think). I told her earlier that wanted more days, but she was full and I didn't want to move J to another provider... they say children with too many caregivers have a hard time forming trusting relationships later in life. Is it true? I don't know.

Maybe it's just that I didnt have the heart to go through the search, check references, adjust process again.

When she told me there was an opening and we could have the extra day... I was a happy girl.

Also, I sent a pair of drafts to the advisor this week and resumed programming on the next phase.

Pretty successful week in this boat.


Knitting

Last week had been a bust as I finished one WIP, but frogged another. I stared to finish yet a third WIP and it wound up taking me way longer than I thought to finish. Alas. Oh well... knitting is like that. I intend to catch up this week by finishing two new projects. One is about 50% done already, and another will be quick, so Im hopeful that I will get back on track with my challenge.

Finished WIP 1: Longies in Rivendell Bulky BFL by Western Sky Knits




Finished WIP 2: My So Called Scarf in Marble Angel on Pixie Super Wash Merino by Elliebelly



The first project this week is arising out of this piece of fiber art (also by elliebelly):