Unknown Obsession

Green. I think I've shared before how I love green. I have about 4 green shirts. (lime color) I wish I could change my blog to the green color, but I feel I might be projecting my obsession on my readers and I don't think that would be fair. I have green hand soap. Green Listerine. Green shampoo. I'm about to embark on project organization method...with of course, my green felt pen and a green recipe-card caddy. Oh,oh...I even have light green lotion (Palmer's Olive Butter Formula)! I just finished my green Tao body shower gel.    *let me stop*

I didn't realize this was so apparent until my son pointed it out to me!  Once I had my green t-shirt on and I ran into the library to check out one book and the cover happen to be...lordy...GREEN- the librarian actually joked with me..I see you had to match your book with your shirt! As you can see in my picture of some WONDERFUL post-cards I have received from my Knit The Classics Swap Partner...theme is- women traveling...you will see Kermit peeking over. Sorry for the blinding effect. Thank you so much Partner..they are beautiful- a birdy must of told you I collect post-cards ;)

All right, so my DH is out to sea once more. There are more drills and training and gun shoots they must go through before the upcoming 6-month cruise.....they are working with Canada 'hunting' subs in our waters off the coast. Time is going by fast this time as I remain busy....work (bookkeeper for community paper), school finishing for both children (array of concerts, award ceremonies, clothes chosen for 8th grade promotion, ortho appointments in close series to get T started, Choose To Move, finishing some projects, and trying to keep up with reading with KTC -that is faltering big time!) I'm doing really well balancing the rest out and making sure I exercise! Monday is my self-imposed weigh-in.   On weekends, my son fills in for his Daddy...he really has the same persona..the need to FIDDLE...it's a very quiet soothing type. Not one to just sit down...always doing something. Eager to mow the lawn..eager to wash the truck....I know he misses his Dad...misses those Saturday mornings on the golf course....you really should have seen how long he was at this:

WARNING: to those knitters on yarn diets you may want to end reading my post now.

My LYS had a 50% off sale.   I normally don't do this or even show photos of it... I went on Tuesday to investigate..went through my list of projects that night that I would like to attempt...I went on Wednesday. There are two bags sitting on my table. I'm blushing and I'm only showing the first one. This has led me to the Massive Project Organization (MPO) idea. Yeppers, I shared it with my kids this morning. They seemed eager to hear this one!      The response with a raised eyebrow: T- you still need to finish my bear.  N- you still need to finish my felted bag.        I figured I'm doing so well with my CTM  (okay we love those acronyms- ie. choose to move) that if I put forth the same effort...it CAN be done... more on the MPO later!!!

Comments

[Lilli]

PJ, I perfectly understand your affection for Green, green, beautiful GrEeN ! I find that it both soothes me AND gives me energy. Once when I was 4 and was watching The Wizard of Oz, I fell in love with the Emerald City and I said to myself "that's my favourite colour".

These days, I usually gravitate toward the yellowy greens like Lime, Chartreuse, Pear...as listed here...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chartreuse_%28color%29

Team one of those up with a lavender or lilac colour and I'm in Heaven!

Your yarn splurge reminds me of one day I was out shopping with my grandmother in a lovely little town in Ontario where many of the buildings were made with big river rocks, including our destination: Needle Emporium. They had a big sale that day, where everything in their basement was 50-70% off. Yes, I confess that I did come away with almost a green garbage bag full of delicious yarns. I was dreaming in Kaffe Fassett colour in those days, so it didn't bother me that most of the balls were mismatched. Oh yes, they also had Ehrman needlepoint kits (not on sale, of course!)

Gramma was the worst sort of enabler when it came to crafts, which is why it was so fun to shop with her :)