For the last couple of years I’ve been toying with starting a Temperature Blanket. I spent a lot of time in early January trying to find the perfect yarn colors and temperature scale along with a knit pattern that included both the highs and lows. I wanted my blanket to be as extreme as possible. I scrolled through yarn websites and looked at yarn stores but always came away overwhelmed when attempting to coordinate the color scheme. So by mid January I had the even started. Early February he came to visit me and I was still talking about this project, though by now I was over a month behind. He encouraged me to go ahead and do it and we went to the craft store together. I immediately, as usual, got overwhelmed with all the choices (or lack there of). I had decided that I would do a 12 color scale, and that’s as far as I’d gotten. At this store I could not find 20ish colors in the same yarn that I liked. I was just going to give up on the whole thing. Then he started pullin
I’ve been thinking about writing a blog for awhile. It’s not that I think I’m interesting or that anyone out there cares about what I’m doing- but I just have this compulsion to put my thoughts into writing. So this afternoon as I’m sitting in a fancy French restaurant in a little coastal town I knew it was time. I get to travel a lot. Sometimes to places that nobody wants to go to, and sometimes to little mini paradises. However, most often I travel alone. Even when I have coworkers traveling along, I tend to spend a lot of time alone as I’m terrible awkward and introverted. So today, I’m exploring. Here I am walking around a town that they make Hallmark movies about. Small town feel, quiet coast, a few tourists and lots of locals. I’ve been fasting the last two day (that’s another story), so today is my feast day. I find an upscale French restaurant with patio dining and request a table. It’s perfect, weather, scenery, layout, everything. I get there just as they open f