I start my Mondays with the best of intentions. At the start of every week, I tell myself that:
I will manage to conjure up a home cooked dinner - or at the very least be home for one or two.
I will keep up all the frenzied weekend pseudo cleaning.
I will set out my clothes the night before AND iron them so I'm not running around at 7:48 am looking for the one of six green sweaters I know I own, and to use that as a excuse to buy yet one more green sweater on the way home from work.
I will pack something for breakfast and not spend $3.50 everyday on breakfast burritos from Yolanda the coffee lady.
I will pack my gym clothes so I have to make up a REALLY good excuse not to workout over lunch.
As you can imagine - actively blowing off all of these weekday goals takes a lot of time.
Therefore, most of my knitting gets done on the weekends, but by Wednesday, I'm going through a bit of withdrawl - and by Friday, I find myself trying to sneak in a row or two in the parking garage of my office building before I head up to face the day.
Today was one of those frantic mornings when I knew I didn't even have time to pet and say nice things to the hanks of 4-ply cashmere sitting in one of my stash baskets. But then- just before the top of the hour on NPR there was an interview on NPR with Tracey Ulman promoting her new book. It made me giddy. Not the book so much. (I've seen it and while its fun, I don't feel the need to knit aprons or pants for me, my husband or anyone else) Yet, hearing Tracey's love and passion for knitting and knowing that at that moment hundreds of thousands of other knitters were feeling giddy too - made me love the community as much as the craft.
(In celebration - I knit a few stitches at the long stop light on the way to work.)
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