the Akamai Knitter

I hope you all had a marvelous holiday! Despite a run of bad luck, I sure had a lovely time, but before I get into that let’s time travel back to Thursday, December 21st and look at what Veronica was doing at the Aloha Knitter’s meeting.

Does she want the sock or the sandwich?

The sock! The sock! The delicious sock!

It was just too delicious to pass up. And what was Kim doing? She’s working on the Rosedale from Knitty.

And KnittyBird was working on her gorgeous lime green sweater from Loop-D-Loop.

What was I doing while all this was going on? I was plodding along on my second Shifting Sands scarf, which has become my exclusive KIP project. It’s just the perfect KIP project!

As for the run of bad luck, it goes as follows:

1. My debit card debacle, which you all might recall from an earlier post.
2. My printer has died and gone to hardware heaven.
3. One of my fillings has fallen out and my dentist takes Wednesdays off, so I won’t be able to get it fixed till Thursday at the very earliest. Ouch!

I’m almost tempted to add in the fact that the Dallas Cowboys got trampled by the Philadelphia Eagles on Christmas Day, but that really isn’t my personal bad luck. It was however extremely disappointing. Oh well. It’s only a game. Haha.
On the whole though, my Christmas was very merry. Colt Brennan of the UH Warriors kicked arse in the Hawaii Bowl and I got a lot of knitting done, more on that in my next post. I wasn’t depressed this year. I wasn’t overly stressed by the holiday season. I got my all holiday knitting done, even though I didn’t mail any of it out in time. I did get the knitting done in time. Next year I’ll have a better plan on how to avoid the crush of the Post Office.

Most of all, I handled my little run of bad luck without a lot of drama. I didn’t go running around like a headless chicken screaming that the sky was about to fall. (Okay, that metaphor needs some work, since a headless chicken has no mouth to scream with.) I didn’t bust out a bottle of brandy to make the season easier to cope with. I didn’t have any personal drama flying around like I normally do. No flashbacks, no unreasonable panic attacks.None of that. And let’s not forget that nobody died around me this year either.
So all in all, I feel like this was just one of the best Christmas holidays ever. Things can only get better from here is what I’m thinking. Okay. Meandering done. Carry on! Time to bring on the new year. I’m ready. Are you ready?