Bossygirl

Next to snow days, teachers relish forced vacation days--aka Spring Break--as manna from heaven, the oasis in the desert, the proverbial rescue from the jaws of...well, you get the idea. I'm on Spring Break this week. My husband and my boys are not.

This means:

I miss them.
But I have the house to myself.
I miss them.
But I can watch any movie I want whenever I want. (By the way: Miss Potter just totally made my cry. Who knew?)
I miss them.
But I can sleep in while everyone trudges off to school so early in the morning.
I do miss them.
But I am happily very, very quiet all day.
I really do miss them.
Really.
Really?

So, one of the treats of the week is having the chance to update the blog for the 2 or 3 of you that read it every now and again. *s* Here goes...

In the interest of self-preservation and mere sanity, I have been continuing to knit in the midst of all that's going on:

Here's sleeve #2 of the CPH. It is brought to you courtesy of March Madness, during which I knit cables like a woman possessed. (By the way, I only dropped 3 teams from the Sweet 16, a causing my 18-year-old son--and fellow bracketeer--to tear his hair and rip his clothing. Moms aren't supposed to know jack about basketball playoffs. "Fie!" I say. It's a gift.)

I've also started this:

Knit Ruana from Oat Couture. I see it looks pretty fire-engine red in the photo, but it's a little more subdued in real life (at least that's what I'm telling myself.) The yarn is Alpaca Boucle from Plymouth. It's knitting up quickly and nicely, though I'm a little concerned about Boringus Garter Stitch-itis once the long stretches start in the middle. However, it will be perfect knitting during the outdoor track season, kicking off this weekend: mindless pattern and warm on the lap. After I'm done here, I'm hopping over to Ravelry to enter the new project. (I think I'm really going to love that site. I just need the time to play!)

A couple more updates:
First--for the archives. Since Feb. 12 post led off with snow in the backyard a while back, I also need to add the same shot taken a few weekends later, when the now-infamous "Blizzard of 2008" hit Columbus. We got 20" in about 24 hours, which is more than I've ever seen here (since I was an undergrad at OSU in 1981, anyway. Yes, I am that old.) So, here's that shot, with a couple more tossed in there.

This represents a shoveling festival we had that day just to get the car out. Oy.


And this picture, just because it's funny...this is how Izzie likes to rest(in hour-long intervals or so) by the fire.
See? It's just funny. And she really does do this. A lot.

While the cute cat pictures are out, here are the gals checking out the blowing leaves on the patio while I'm sitting here working.

Cat TV.

2 days down, 5 to go.
What to do, what to do?