Time Between

I've got a little bit of time to use while I'm waiting for a meeting, and a rather unpleasant meeting at that.  So here I am.

This afternoon I bought a new keyboard for my work computer, a nice little wireless keyboard that not only takes up vastly less desk space, but it doesn't rock, all of the keys work, and it will even turn on my music for me.  It will open my email program.  I think it even has a special key to lock my computer when I leave in the evening.  The keys are nice and responsive, and it's actually a pleasure to type on it.  If I need to I can put it on my lap and still type (I'm doing that now).  Pretty cool!

This weekend I got out my funky little "skip stitch" rotary blade and put holes around the edge of a nice piece of fleece I bought a couple of months ago.  Then I spent the next couple of evenings crocheting a nice scalloped edge around it.  We've been using it as a couch throw, and the Emperor loves it.
Oop, gotta go, that meeting is in about five minutes and I need to make a few copies.  As they say online, "BRB."

 ... a few days later ...

Well, I got through that meeting in one piece, but I'm not convinced everyone else will when that committee reconvenes next week.

Isn't that little scalloped edge nice?  It's the Emperor's new favorite blanket.  I'm so excited about it that I skip-stitched around my old Mona Lisa fleece square, and have already started doing an edge on that.  The Emperor and I seem to have started to use those kind of light blankets a lot, and to have a couple that are inexpensive and easy to wash and use is really handy.  I might make one for my dad, and one for my cousin who takes care of him, for Christmas this year.  Cousin J-- needs easy-care stuff for Dad and this might fit the bill.  I'll just need to find some appropriate patterns or colors.  Dad has simple taste.  Anything blue will do, he would say.

The Cardigan That Ate the Western Half of Kansas is back in progress after a goodly time out.  I've been picking it up at odd moments, early in the morning while I'm having my coffee, and while we're watching stuff in the evenings.  I think -- I think -- I'm about twenty rows from being finished with the body.  I know, GASP!  There is nothing like a good series of consistent decreases to get a big project down to size.  Oh, and sticking to it.  That helps.

Tonight is mine; it's a mental health night and after the last couple of days, I need it.  Tonight I will knit, and we'll watch something sent to us by Netflix, and I will even go to bed early.  Tomorrow I can return to the grind, to the short stack of papers waiting for me, to working on the last lecture before I give an exam on Wednesday.  Tonight, however is mine.