Time Mismanagement

I know how I lost the hour today.  I think that Benjamin Franklin was a fine fellow, but he was completely misguided in his plan to muck around with the clock.  Although I love the extra hour in the fall, the price of paying for it in the spring is too steep.  I need every hour I can get today to finish work in time that disappeared last week.  

I don’t know how last week disappeared.  It started out inauspiciously with the most snow we’ve received all year in a single storm, causing me to postpone a doctor checkup.  It would seem that all this would do would shift an obligation to another time slot, but for some reason it disrupted my plans for the week.  In addition, work I had been expecting in December arrived on Thursday, as did the short assignment I thought would fill this coming week, once I cleared out the other surprise assignment that I didn’t expect until April.  So the next few weeks—extending into April, I think—are going to be full of work conflicts and excuses about when I’ll be done with a particular task.

Knitting didn’t seem to move along more smoothly.  I had hoped to finish the Arbor Rose pullover front, and here is a boring picture showing how much “more” I managed.  

This lack of progress leaves me having to figure out the neck, and should I get so far, the sleeves on weeknights, when I know I’m mentally challenged.  And the ETA for finishing this sweater is now the third week in March, not the second.

So what to do?  Well buying yarn is always soothing, and I succumbed to one of the many excellent sales that seem to be abounding.  Morehouse Farm had an email offering 25% off on all yarns, and I couldn’t resist.  [If you are a Morehouse yarn fan too, sign up for the newsletter to get the sale notices.]  So I bought some of the natural brown heather that came in kit form for the basketweave sweater.

It was cheaper to buy the yarn in kit form than as individual skeins, and although I don’t usually buy kits, I like this sweater a lot.  The design makes the most of the hand-spun look of the yarn and shows off its texture.  It is an old-fashioned boxy sweater, but I’d wear it instead of a jacket on cool spring and fall days, so I may follow the pattern with just a small modification to the sleeves to make them a bit more fitted.  I may not have the time to work out the design for Sweater #3 this week, and so it may become Sweater #4 with the Morehouse Basketweave as a replacement—the new Sweater #3. 

Now if Franklin could have only figured out how to get an extra week by manipulating the clock, he would have been truly a great man.

Comments

[WoolEnough]

That new yarn is lovely. I am a huge fan of natural-type colors, and this one had me salivating. Too bad about the schedule slippage, but you are still creating some truly gorgeous sweaters, even though more slowly than you would prefer.

[Walden]

The Aurora Rose pullover is looking lovely!

[tiennie]

Even though the time change is hard during the 1st week, I just love it. It makes me happy that it now comes earlier and lasts longer. Makes me feel like spring is on the way! The sweater is coming along great!