Erica’s Blog

Computer’s still in the “hospital”, so I’m relying on the free one at the library (1-hour limit per day or 30 minutes if there are people waiting) and Hubby’s laptop.  Bleh.

B/c of not having my computer, I don’t have any pictures for you, but this week I got LOTS of gorgeous yarn via a couple of trades on the Knittyboard.  THANKS, Barb & Melissa! 

 Made decent progress this week on Nana’s resurrected wreath.  Poor Nana!  Also made some progress on the 2×1 ribbed chenille scarf set aside in November, then picked up recently.

 So far, so good.  I acquired yarn this week, but it was via trades, so that’s OK.  I *did* just order a bunch of cotton from Elmore-Pisgah, BUT that qualifies under rule   2.b. If someone asks for a specific knitted gift that we really and truly do not have the yarn for, we may buy yarn to knit that gift.  OK, the recipients didn’t exactly ASK for the gifts, but they are worthy gifts, and b/c I spent the same as what I’d spend on non-knit bday gifts for said recipients, the money comes from the gift budget, right?  (I also got a great deal by buying online; WITH shipping, it came out less than buying in-person from a store, especially since stores only carry a fraction of the colors.)

Finished the third Fun Fur chemo cap.  No more for a while.  One can only deal with so much Fun Fur at once.

Must knit the second Cashmerino Aran mitt for Angela.

Knit up to the armpits in the round and the whole rest of the front of a gift for Julie’s soon-to-be-born son, A.J.  Shower’s tomorrow, and I can’t make it, but I want to get the gift done before this kid arrives, or at least soon afterwards.  After all, I still need to knit for the following expected babies:

Yupp, lost a pound this week.  It was one of those weird weeks where I was SO SURE I’d gained a bunch of weight, yet I lost.  I’m sure it helped that I “walked with Leslie” three times this week, even when I didn’t want to.  I know it also helped that I didn’t go into total “vacuum mode” at Baby Thomas’s funeral last Saturday. 

I really like that my BMI has already gone down a whole point.  That’s really good and means a lot for my health. 

Before I weighed myself at home this morning (I only weigh at home on Saturday morning, nekkid ‘cept for my glasses, before my shower, before a single thing has entered my mouth), I was really battling with not wanting to go to WW today.  Even after I weighed in, I still couldn’t just accept the loss and be glad; I was telling myself that I would have lost MORE if I’d done xyz or not done abc, etc.  That book I’m reading, The Search for Significance talks a lot about this kind of stuff, how we get our self-worth from the wrong things, believing the lie that my performance + other people’s opinions of me = my worth.  It’s so easy to be on top of the world if I have a good loss and feel worthless and like a failure if I gain or don’t lose much.  Stupid, isn’t it?  Funny b/c the WW topic today dealt with how those who succeed slip-up as much in a 3-week period as those who fail, but those who fail choose the wrong path after a slip-up, whereas those who succeed get back up, dust themselves off, and continue on the right path….