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Knitting is my preferred method of writing-procrastination, and here are some of my recent pieces:

a baby blanket knit using the entrelac technique.  My good friend Jenn first introduced me to the amazing method and I love the illusion of weaving.

I also did a baby sweater with matching hat and booties.  They’re gifts for the same baby and I’m glad I finished them in time for the shower.

I got the pattern for this purse out of Essential Guide to Color Knitting Techniques by Margaret Radcliffe (which is a great reference that every knitter should have-it detailed the entrelac technique in the above blanket with lots and lots of pictures).  I thought the bag would be bigger (I should have read the finished dimensions before starting on it), so I’m sending this one to my mom and I’m going to rework the pattern for a larger size and finally knit something for myself!

I was on a Lord of the Rings kick over the New Year holiday.  I watched all the movies. FX, or TBS, or one of the cable networks was playing it, but it was broken up by commercials so I put the DVDs in.  I also started listening to the BBC’s audio dramatization.  Ian Holm, the voice of Frodo on the audio, plays Bilbo in the Peter Jackson movies.  It’s a good listen; right now Merry and Pippin are with Treebeard, waiting for the Ents to decide a course of action.

I’ve been listening while walking Dinah every day, and working out every other day, and the story’s just been flying by.  It’s not an unabridged version, it’s the dramatization so it’s mostly dialogue, with a little narration. To this point, it has seemed truer to the books than the movies are, and the movies were close to being dead-on.

However, it has been a few years since I read the books.  And I did resolve earlier this year to do more reading…Maybe I’ll pick it up and set out on that journey.  But there are so many books on my to-read list, it wouldn’t be fair to them to go back to an old favorite.  Would it?

It’s been a while since I blogged.  And it’s been several years since I had a new years resolution.  So, at the start of this new decade, I resolve to write more, read more, and watch less television.  And to send out that which I write to more markets and increase my efforts to publication.  I really should manage my web presence better and update my website more often.  I am going to attempt to save more money, pay down my debts, and eat healthier food.

And I suppose I can be nicer to Nick, even though I let him get away with murder and drive all the way out to Delta with his uniform when he forgets it.  So that’s it, some simple resolutions for the new year.  May it be happy and healthy for everyone.