Friday, January 29, 2010

Yoga, work and knitting

That pretty well sums up the last month or so.

I can't show off the yoga, but I can share the knitting,
(Like I would miss the chance to do that!)

Some mittens for me...



And a sweater, too...



A bag for my smaller knits...




A cashmere cowl for Mom...


and convertible mitts for Dad...



Just for fun...


Updated with deep red top-stitching to keep my toes toasty in a more fashionable manner...


Time to get back to knitting - so much more to do!

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Moments of absolute contentment

I didn't even know this was possible, and yet there it was.

On Sunday, January 10, 2010, the Physicist and I were driving back to IL after a day's adventure in Madison, WI. There was lunch at a great veg cafe, sub-zero walking along State Street, tentative steps out onto the frozen lake, shopping at Willy Street Co-Op and thawing out at the Olbrich Botanical Garden conservatory.

We were making our way back - I was knitting and listening to Zoe Keating - there were wide expanses of white glistening snow and the sky was that perfect winter blue.

I couldn't help but feel perfectly content, not just in an instant, but in that expended way that allows it to deepen and take root throughout your whole self.

There was nothing I needed, nowhere else I wanted to be.

I've had glimpses of that, but never an extended time - my distractible nature makes sure of that.

But not this time - this time I got an hour or so.

The spell was broken when thoughts of packing and planes got in the way, but I look forward to welcoming more of these moments into my life.

Wednesday, January 6, 2010

Yoga, work and coughing

That's what 2010 has been.

Not bad, but the coughing could go away.
I had a cold over the holidays, but now I have another cold and since the Physicist has one too, and he's just got back from abroad and I'm visiting him soon, I expect to have a third cold soon.

Blerg.

Work has been challenging and things feel a little like graduate school - projects with lots of possibility... and coughing.

Yoga is something I started around the holidays, thanks to Netflix and their fabulous stream-tastic streaming option.

So I signed up for 3 weeks at a local studio and so far, so good. I'm nice and bendy again - and a little blissed out.

But maybe that's the cough syrup talking.