March Resolution

I'm a little late for my March resolution.  My months are sort of sliding to the middle.  (As if I'm frosting a cake or something...)

Water.  I resolve to drink 8 glasses of water a day.  

That's the goal.

The plan is to drink a 4 cup water bottle over the course of the day at work.  And that just leaves four cups to fit in at other times.... maybe two cups in the morning before I leave the house and two cups in the evening?  I'll have to see if that works.  The trouble I have is I don't like to drink cold water.  I like it lukewarm.  So I really need to fill my drinking water bottles the night before, so that it's room temperature when I drink it.  This will be a big part of the challenge for me.  Remembering to refill when empty.

Plus I'm still completely on track with both my January and February resolutions, too!

5!!

Umm.  Yeah.  That does bring my works in progress (WIP) up to FIVE.  I will finish this this weekend.... and then the other four quickly... and then I'll go back to my one (or maybe two-- with one in the purse) at a time.

1. Pebble Vest in Monsoon
2. Flowing Lines
3. Socks
4. Missoni Cowl
5. Pixie Hat for GabGab

Maybe I should be doing some prioritizing....

Pebble Vest

When I gave this Pebble vest to the mother of the newborn in summer 2010, I didn’t think she liked it. (She did like other gifts she got that day.) Fail. I thought it was cute, but I guess I didn’t have a read on her. Oh well.  It was the third Pebble I had made, and so I sort of stopped making them after that point.

About two years later (in spring 2012), I saw the vest on an unknown little girl at my local library. Huh? I "ended up" sitting next to them for a small performance that was going on…. because maybe someone used the same yarn and pattern, but not the buttons??? So, yeah, I was angling to see the buttons. They were the ones I’d selected and used! After the performance, I told the mother that I had made vest. Turns out we have a friend in common-- the mom I gave the vest to in summer 2010.  She then told me how much she loves it! She has even gone so far as to have a knitting aunt in Mexico copy the vest and make a larger size for her daughter. Not such an epic fail after all.

All of this is to say that this weekend I've dusted off the Pebble pattern and am again knitting one for a new mom.  I'm a little nervous, but I do love the pattern so.  We'll see how it goes.

Resolutions 2013

I've made the decision to create a mini-resolution each month of 2013 instead of one big goal on January 1st.  (It seemed silly to resolve to hang my pjs in the closet as a year-long resolution.  Surely, I could master that goal in less time.... a month?  Sounds good.)

So in January, I resolved to hang my pjs.  (They used to live under my pillow, but they made the bed lumpy.)  And I did it every day.  I'm still doing it every day.

The trouble is... I didn't pick my February resolution until the middle of February.  (Not 100% true, I knew what it was going to be, I couldn't make myself do it.)  So in the middle of the month, I started keeping the counters clean.  Stove, kitchen counters, and kitchen table.  Once a day clear them off and wipe them down.  The interesting thing is that it has also extended to keeping the sink clear of dishes and keeping the clean dishes put away.  It's made for a much tidier kitchen, and has improved my mood.  Pride in my ability to stick to this one, and happiness when I see the clean counters and stove.

I really should create some sort of plan for the rest of the year.... what I'm thinking....

• create a weekly meal plan frame
• drink more water (really a winter goal, I do alright in the summer)
• cut out salty snacks (or salty junk food)
• cut out candy (this could be a full year resolution)

And that's not going to get me through the year.  So I'll have to keep thinking.

Of course... I did resolve to not buy any more yarn.  I will continue knitting only from the stash.  It's a good challenge, and has been really fun to figure out ways to use up little bits and pieces of yarn leftovers.