Wednesday

I woke up energized this morning, despite having slept poorly. I cleaned off my desk & decided that I wanted it in a different spot in the living-room, so I moved it there. It looks so tidy now. All organized. I dusted the baseboards, put a load of laundry in the washer & hung it up to dry. It's so hot the load was dry in less than 45 minutes! Thank you sunshine.

I started another shawl. I'm using Malabrigo Sock again. I like to wear brown & I wanted a brown shawl for myself for the autumn. I'm using Swallowtail as a guideline. My very first lace shawl was a Swallowtail. I knit it in New Zealand last year, as blogged here and here. I love the Lily of the Valley border. I did a stockinette main section & I'm planning on knitting an extra Lily of the Valley repeat to increase the size a bit. The nupps are driving me slightly bonkers. It's been slow going. And I'm wondering what in the world I was thinking when I decided on brown lilies of the valley? Tsk. - Let's just blame that on the pregnant mind. Only a few days to go. I want to take full advantage of that excuse.

In my insomnia I went blog-browsing last night. Some blogs seem to be written by people who only blog when they are depressed or something bad has happened. Their life is a TV soap opera. Then there are blogs on the other side of the spectrum. There's no way in the world that life is always a happy, cheerful bubble like that where everyone lives harmoniously in love and light in a space that's constantly cleaned to perfection. It made me wonder where my blog falls in. I'd hate to be so depressing that you have the feeling you must smoke something or swallow a pill, or - worse, eat chocolate after you're done reading here. I'm sure my blog doesn't fall into the happy, cheerful bubble blogs. I'm just too melancholic for that. I suppose my hope would be that it's somewhere in between, 'cause then it would be "real." But I'd love to hear your honest feedback on that one.