HAPPY NEW YEAR!

2010 is going to be a very exciting year for my family and I. We will be going on a special trip soon to reunite for a few weeks, then my husband will return from his deployment this spring/early summer, and it looks like I will be starting a new one year job covering a maternity leave in a department that is awesome to work for!

I didn't do much last night, the plans were for my daughter and I to go to a family dance at a local community centre, but it was so cold out and the buses were not convenient and the thought of trying to get a cab was scary enough! So we stayed home, watched tv and ate junk food! :)

Yesterday I rented our spare room out to a fellow who's from Chile. He's here studying french at the local french university. He seems very nice and I'm sure it will work out well for everyone.

Wednesday night I went to my second knitting meet up at a local pub. It was great, I met some lovely women and I can go another three Wednesday nights because I have respite. And, best thing is it's really close to my house, a short, direct bus ride almost from doorstep to doorstep!

Knitting

I went to a knitting group last night. I haven't knitted in years, and even when I did knit I was so beginner I never even completed one project - how lame is that! So now I'm back into it, with my orange cotton yarn knitting a dishcloth. Last time I tried knitting (also a dishcloth) my husband was teasing that it looked like I was making my own thong underwear (and when you looked at what I was making, you could say it DID look like thong underwear... takes a man to think of that!). My "thong" was freecycled along with a bunch of yarn and needles I bought at the thrift. So last night I bought new needles and yarn and hope to get back into it. Knitting seems like a nice relaxing thing to do, especially over the long prairie winters. Maybe it will help pass the time and keep my sanity while my husband is away. Okay, maybe thats a lot to ask of a hobby, but one can always hope.