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Recently finished a baby blanket for some friends of mine who are expecting (any day now actually...I'm impatiently awaiting the phone call/email).
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In non-crafty (sorta) news, I took the whole week of Thanksgiving off to go absolutely nowhere and have been loving it. I may have to make the non-travel vacation a yearly tradition cause it sure is relaxing. And I get enough time off that I could easily do a non-travel vacation, a travel vacation AND make it to CO for the holidays. I'll have to keep that in mind.
Basically spent the week doing as much nothing as I possibly could. This involved a lot of reading, crafting, TV/movie watching (mostly Dr. Who DVDs...fun!). I've crafted several Christmas presents thus far and worked on a few projects for me.
I also have started on the window shrink-wrapping. I'm sort of dreading out first heat bill since this is the first winter in the new apartment and I haven't a clue what to expect.
Basically, I've been a bit of a homebody, it's been grand. Though I did do some Christmas shopping (not today, thank you very much, I'm not that insane) and some book buying (to help with the reading).
Speaking of books, I'm on track to do a book a week this year. Finished book 47 today and it's the end of week 47 so I'm pretty much spot on. I'm in the middle of three right now that I hope to wrap up next week. A non-fiction on math that's been kicking my ass, but I want to finish it, my bedside reading...short stories by Neil Gaiman, and, when the math gets too much, I've started the Susan Cooper, "Dark is Rising" series again for another re-read.
The re-reading of Cooper was inspired by this talk.
( The video should be up soon, but I did take some notes: )All around, an amazing way to spend an evening, however, my notes are fairly garbled so I highly recommend a viewing of the lecture as soon as the video does become available.
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In non-crafty (sorta) news, I took the whole week of Thanksgiving off to go absolutely nowhere and have been loving it. I may have to make the non-travel vacation a yearly tradition cause it sure is relaxing. And I get enough time off that I could easily do a non-travel vacation, a travel vacation AND make it to CO for the holidays. I'll have to keep that in mind.
Basically spent the week doing as much nothing as I possibly could. This involved a lot of reading, crafting, TV/movie watching (mostly Dr. Who DVDs...fun!). I've crafted several Christmas presents thus far and worked on a few projects for me.
I also have started on the window shrink-wrapping. I'm sort of dreading out first heat bill since this is the first winter in the new apartment and I haven't a clue what to expect.
Basically, I've been a bit of a homebody, it's been grand. Though I did do some Christmas shopping (not today, thank you very much, I'm not that insane) and some book buying (to help with the reading).
Speaking of books, I'm on track to do a book a week this year. Finished book 47 today and it's the end of week 47 so I'm pretty much spot on. I'm in the middle of three right now that I hope to wrap up next week. A non-fiction on math that's been kicking my ass, but I want to finish it, my bedside reading...short stories by Neil Gaiman, and, when the math gets too much, I've started the Susan Cooper, "Dark is Rising" series again for another re-read.
The re-reading of Cooper was inspired by this talk.
( The video should be up soon, but I did take some notes: )All around, an amazing way to spend an evening, however, my notes are fairly garbled so I highly recommend a viewing of the lecture as soon as the video does become available.