Absenteeism

Last week I came to a realization:  I had only taken one vacation day all year.  I'm not sure how that happened, but clearly this situation had to be remedied immediately, if not sooner.  Therefore I'm embarking on Mission:  Absenteeism, and the pursuit thereof.

I planned a vacation day for Friday, and then I had to work anyway for, inter alia, a call that ended up being canceled.  You may feel, gentle reader, that this development sheds some light on why I had only taken one day so far this year, and you may be right.

Nevertheless, I tried again today and succeeded!*  And I met my primary goal for today, to take up a very complicated lace project (for you non-knitters, "complicated lace project" is, arguably, redundant) and figure out which row I was on when I dropped the scarf in the middle of a row about three months ago. 

Please understand, I had other projects to knit in the meantime, and I knew that figuring out where I was in the lace chart would take a calm afternoon and the moral support of other knitters.  Today I gathered up lace and chart and trotted up to the local yarn store for the afternoon.  I generated great consternation by taking it off the needles (truly, shocked gasps could be heard) but within a pleasingly short span of time I had it back on the needles, down to a row I recognized (only two down from where I was, which is nothing), and I was knitting away again in a state of extreme contentment laced with a large amount of relief. 

I stayed for the afternoon, helped an out-of-town knitter who had dragged her husband along for three miles until she found the store and who just needed a quick fix and a little moral support (you get, you give), and generally enjoyed myself until hunger drove me home.

I have a couple of other knitting projects I'm working on, and one of them I Must Finish before I go back to the lace scarf, and of course I only want to work on the lace.  Oh well.  I would show you a picture of the lace, but it's likely fated to be a present so I can't.  But here's what it looked like when I first cast on, or maybe when I was swatching.  The graph paper is five squares to an inch.

 

I've scheduled another day off for Friday (I have a LOT of vacation days to use up before I lose them) and I'm hoping to get TFL to take it off too so we can go to the shore.  And maybe to a yarn shop in the next borough, but don't tell him.  We have to ease into these things.

*We're going to ignore the 3 hours I spent this morning putting in my time and answering emails.

Comments

[lam]

How about taking a long weekend the following week and heading out here? I know a place you could stay that has comfortable beds, good food and a great poolside bar!

[ckm]

And save some days for when Mommy & Daddy visit!