The Blog's Not Dead, I'm Just Dead Tired

Kinda sounds like the title of a bad country song, and it was more appropriate when I thought of it in November. Well, time flies when you're in school and then again when you're trying to recuperate from school, so now it's a new year and I hope to do a better job of posting.

I haven't done enough photography to do pictures yet, so I'll just itemize some things I've finished (and will photograph) and the WIPs, of which there are many.

Items Finished, Since Last We Spoke

• the Rowan sampler sweater
  
• Rogue (hadn't even gotten it onto the WIPs list!)
  
• an alpaca hat for me (much less dorky than the old one)
  
• Socks for mom for Christmas
  
• Koigu meeting socks
  
• Bat Belfrey socks, a sock of the month kit from theknitter.com
  

Items Begun but not finished, Since Last We Spoke

• jacket in Rainbow (just needs a zipper!)
  
• sweater copied from one someone was wearing in the student center on Halloween
  
• yet another baby sweater, this one for a baby coming from Kazakhstan!
  
• seems like there should be more...
  

Items Which Continue to Languish (and Accompaning Excuses)

• High Tide. It's for summer, so it won't be out anytime soon.
  
• The Red and Black Sweater, which is in a miserable intarsia-in-the-round stage. Following the chart takes attention, which I haven't had time for, or I'd rather watch TV.
  
• the Baby Surprise sweater. I discovered some miscrossed cables several rows back and rrrripped. Back in the bottom of the bag it went. The baby's born, but the sweater will be 5-yr old size, so I've got plenty of time, right? Right??
  
• the baby bunny sweater. It has sleeves now (they're attached) and a button placket. I just need button loops, sewing the buttons on, and knitting the collar. This baby is supposed to be moving to Colorado from California this month, so maybe when I see the daddy again I'll get my motivation back.
  
• That doily. It's not so much languishing anymore, because now it's rrrripped. I needed the needles! It had inherrant problems with double yarn overs and I was pretty sure there were mistakes somewhere, so out it went. I'll try it again someday, I'm sure.
  
• Mitered square socks that my mom and I were working on together, but have set aside, and another pair of my own, which need the heel construction sorted out.
  

So it's not like I've been sitting idle all these months, despite classes, exams, concerts, opera, tutoring, getting my Lendurm finally (yay!), holidays, and such. I just haven't written about it. But now I hope to change my ways, have a little fun with the camera, and show you all of this new stuff.

Happy new year! (I'm even a bit late for that, I guess...)