Thinking on Gifts...

It's holiday season, and Silas and I have come to an understanding.

1. we've bought everything we're going to buy for each other this holiday season. We just haven't wrapped it yet... don't worry, we picked up a bunch of stuff during the big shopping specials on Friday, so we're not going to be disappointed with our unwrapping options on the 25th. :)

2. Looking into the future, I've made Silas promise he will never buy me yarn (without an explicit shopping list from me, I guess) cuz too much is reliant on how much I need/want for a given project, what colors I'd prefer, and all that fun stuff. Of course, an exception could be made for sock yarn (would just need ~400yds of one colorway in a fingering / sock-weight) or for interesting other yarns that could have usages for a single skein... likewise, I won't be purchasing gaming supplies (books, etc) for him without an explicit shopping list, primarily because I have no clue what he'd like or what he already has. ;)

As for other family, I'm trying to do hand-knit gifts this year -- possibly combined with other small goodies. We're running a bit short on time for making stuff for our overseas family members, but I hope we'll be able to send stuff in time. :)

If anyone is wondering what to get for me, I have a few wish lists set up on amazon.com... one with knitting books/patterns/etc, and a couple others. Using these wishlists could help prevent duplicating a gift someone else gives. Then again, I very much enjoy hand-made stuff, or something personally selected. Heck, I very much like receiving cards. ;)

I think Silas and I are going to be a bit bad about sending out holiday cards this year. We haven't even chosen cards or anything yet (except one set of cards that's been ordered but we don't know when we'll receive them)... let alone determined a mailing list. Plus the fact that we only sent thank-you notes to about half our wedding attendees... ... heh. Oops. We'll get ourselves organized at some point, but if we're completely disorganized this year, please don't feel it was intentional!

Anyway, enough rambling. On to knitting.
I'm having a LOT of fun with the stuff I'm knitting right now. I'll post photos and updates once I've made a little more progress. I really want to show off this shawl, but it's still on the needles and I think it'll look MUCH better once it's blocked. :)

Sometimes, procrastination doesn't work

I thank my husband for insisting that we work on cleaning up the back bedroom today. Even though I had found a great means of procrastinating (watching the History Channel's mini-series on the American Revolution, which my husband knows little to nothing about thanks to the British not being so keen on teaching their school children about that particular series of events).

End result: we got the table in the back bedroom completely cleared off of stuff. We even rewarded ourselves by pulling out one of our new unopened jigsaw puzzles and working it on the table. Sure we've only got the border done and some of the interior sections, but hey -- we haven't had anywhere we could work a puzzle since the move.

And we have plans to spend part of tomorrow cleaning up even more.

Our hope is to have that room be available and useful during the time that guests are in town from all over the place for our wedding celebration next month.

Oh, and related to that -- he and I have finally gotten ourselves a dance lesson to get the basics down on some steps so we won't make complete fools of ourselves. :)

And yes, I'd be asleep right now -- I even tried once tonight -- but my body's not being cooperative. And the Tums I took a bit ago haven't helped at all. oh well.