So I ripped the shawl back to the very beginning (I knew I would, you knew I would) and have plugged along dutifully to find myself once again well along in the final chart. I am about 10 rows short of where I was when I discovered the mistake. This seems promising and I still hope I might be able to have it OTN by the time I head out on Sunday. I don't want to take this on the plane. After all that's happened, I don't think it is travel knitting. I'd be sure to snag it on something, or drop all the beads, or ...
Elder Daughter and I have managed to be quite diligent about the gym this past week. Spring break is good for such, and I hope she will keep going while I'm away. She is still hoping to find a way to keep swimming as her PE credit for the spring but our league is notoriously picky about this. Maybe if we bill it as shoulder rehab?
Like most parents of school age children at some point or other, in late December we finally had to deal with the horror that is head lice. We live in a building with three other families and thirty-one other teenagers, 99% of whom have long hair and a penchant for hugging. It's been a nightmare, and probably plays a role in Younger Daughter's decision to cut her hair "like Emma Watson's". It's a cute hair cut, but it actually makes it possible for me now to see the extent of her dandruff issues -- and I have been moved to interfere in her personal hygiene in a way I haven't had to for some time. I'm a little worried though, about the effects of the serious dandruff shampoos on the rest of her skin. We've tried a product from Alpenglow Skin Care, a small producer in Alaska that I like a lot, but it's so concentrated that I need to be present for its use (not popular with YD ... or with me, as I am usually sopped by the end of the process). So, back to the drawing board on that one.
There's a lot of my spring break to-do list still standing up and waving at me. E-mails to authors for a collections of essays I am co-editing, starting my tomato seeds, cleaning up the debris of the past three months (the "I'll just throw this on the bookcase and deal with it over spring break" pile), getting organized to go and scout potential conference sites, and, yeah. I'm not going to keep going with that list, it's too wearing.
Focusing on what HAS been accomplished: YD and I have been to a new movie (The Secret World of Arrietty), I've accomplished one task I'd promised myself as a birthday present (it was a milestone last fall, say no more), I logged off Pinterest this morning without adding to my wish list, and I've been knitting. And now I have blogged.
