Packing Up and Shipping Out...

...in 10 days anyway. Maybe 11 days. I'm shooting for 10. I've packed about 6 boxes, all books and for some reason, I keep committing myself to things that take me away from packing...College counseling, teaching children how to crochet....cooking for parties....Someone make me stop. But seriously, I guess it has to do with a reluctance to cut ties with certain elements of Iowa City. Now there are some things that I will eagerly leave behind, but there are a few things (mostly people) that I wish I could strap down to the roof of my car and make them come with me to B'more. Look forward to a bunch of posts where I complain about packing, being sad about moving, moving between elation and depression and how I'm going to learn to take certain things and cut them out of my heart (too dramatic? yeah, probably).

Detox

So I spent the last four days with a terrible summer cold. It totally knocked me on my ass. After ingesting too much high sodium chicken soup, NyQuil, and Theraflu (none of which really work by the way) I'm going on a detox. My lungs are still weak but I do feel a lot better and I'm excited to get things done. And there are a lot of things to get done.

More WIP's

Ugh. I'm about to start the packing process and, while my yarn will be one of the last to be put away there are so many UFO's in my apartment that I think it might be the hardest to sort out. The books are easy. The ones I need for school and the books I need to have eyes on (Interesting Women, etc.) will go in one box for my office (yes, I have an office now and it is big and awesome!!) the rest, storage until I find an apartment. The yarn...well, I like to have it around me, so I'll be carting around a whole bunch of yarn for about a month. So, I'm setting some impressive goals for myself in this last month of easy living.

1. Finish my February Lady sweater. I'm down to the last sleeve and then I need to rework the cuff of the other sleeve, block it and sew on buttons. It's about 4 hours of work (or less?).

2. Baby Sophia's sweater. Actually, I think this will be more of a "I can't believe I left Iowa to take on a real life job and I need to knit to de-stress" project.

3. My Clapotis scarfy-shawly type thing. I started it back in January and estimated it would take me about two weeks to finish. Ha! seven months later, I'm just picking it back up. I went through nearly one skein of the yarn (Ella Rae lace merino--YUM) before it got all tangled up and I got so annoyed that I stopped dealing with it. Now that we're all untangled, I'm going to wind the second skein and hopefully get it done this week.

4. Dad's socks...eh....

5. Jen's fingerless gloves...These are another August/Spetember project. They're fair isle and lovely but time consuming. I'm optimistic she'll have them for the fall.

6. Elizabeth Zimmerman's Mitered mitts....One down one to go. I definitely need to finish the thumb on the first one. Really I need to finish them both because I did them the E.Z.  way and I need some hand holding for making the thumbs. The person whose hand I need to hold is here in Iowa.

8. Socks! My fishnet anklet needs to me completed, something I could literally do in an hour or two. Also my Rushing River sock, one done, one to go.

9. Traveling Woman, I'm 1/3 of the way done. This week, or next

10. Two at at a time two up socks. I need to restart them with yarn I really like and a patten that's exciting. I have both. I really just need to start them and get to the heel. More hand holding is involved.

So that's July. Oh yeah and I need to pack and clean my apartment. And plan a semester of 9th grade English. Hahahaha....shoot me.