When Life Gets Messy

When life gets messy for me, I find two things very helpful:
1. Return to the classics
2. Organize

Yesterday I started my first Pi shawl...now this certainly isn't a classic for me, but it is a classic in the knitting community. This particular shawl is a lot of mindless knitting in the round. Around and around with a bit of variation every several rows, but basically around and around knitting. All knitters start with the knit stitch. Once you learn the knit stitch you only have one more stitch to learn (purl) so you are halfway to expertise.

Today we went through the chore of sorting the mail and paying the bills. Blech. We don't sort the mail very often...who wants all that bad new that often? As I sorted I came upon a sympathy card from RCVH. They sent it to me after Lessa's passing. It was a kind thought for sure. One of the signers was Dr. Tom. I've known Dr. Tom as long as I've known the clinic, or nearly so. He wrote that Lessa was one of the true originals. She sure was.

Lessa kitty crossed paths with me in 1989 or 90, I think. She was a barn cat with a badly fractured leg. I was a newish tech and hadn't been around long enough to have filled my house with rescues. When I opened the cardboard carrier, I knew she was meant for me. Before we even took xrays, I told David that, "if they pull the plug on this cat, I want her." That was the beginning of a 19 year relationship.

This morning before we commenced with the household stuff, I drank my coffee while knitting on my Pi shawl and enjoying another classic, "Harold and Maude." I have enjoyed this movie for 25 years or so. What a gift to the world is a good movie. I enjoyed the Cat Stevens sound track as well as the familiar Maude quotes: "Oh don't be officious. You're not yourself when your officious. That's the curse of a government job. is one of my favorites.

So, the classics were out of the way for this messy day.

On to organize.

I went through all of this accumulated mail. Shredding and putting to the recycling. Writing checks while husband muttered and swore over trying to put the protective shield on his Droid. Why won't he just pay BestBuy to do it? Well, that's a question with no answer and a subject for a different kind of blog. When the bills were done, I moved on to organizing myself by taking a shower.

Refreshed and ready for the day, albeit late in the day, but it's Sunday after all, I went through my Naked Sheep knitting bag putting the contents away. When I had to quit knitting last July, I gave the bag to Mom because she agreed to finish some socks for me. It finally made its way back to my house, but I'd not done anything with it. So, this morning I did.

Now I'm ready for another movie and to knit some more on the Pi shawl. Anthony is to call when he's ready for his lesson.

Around and around the knitting goes...