Spring in the Air

The forces have been against me when it comes to regular blogging. And my HotSync has been acting up, so the few Palm blog entries I've typed up late at night haven't made it to the site and are a bit dated now. (This, too, is a Palm entry. A reboot seems to have corrected the HotSync issue for now. I'm trying to convince myself that just because I've got a tax refund coming, I don't really need a new Palm - after all, they don't have one with the kind of keyboard entry I'd like yet anyway! But, the screen on M's recent upgrade is VERY compelling.*)

I have been getting some knitting done, but my pace feels a little sluggish right now. A short knit-related list seems in order...

1. Finish My Charlotte.
2. Finish typing up Ninja pattern and submit it.
3. Submit article pitches.
4. Must Have Cardigan.
5. Swatch new lace yarn for original shawl pattern.
6. Sangria Shawl from Christmas gift Cherry Tree Hill yarn.
7. Knitting on the Road socks (started in purple Lorna's Laces).
8. Find my copy of the right Interweave to look at Flower Basket shawl (lace) - especially since I am haunted by/obsessed with photos from the Yarn Harlot's site of one she recently made in Chai from Art Fibers.
9. Use my gift certificate (which I purchased at full price at the school auction) to ImagiKnit.
10. Try a Bottoms Up hat for one of the boys. (We are a very fair, hat-dependent family.)
11. Finish Easter Eros. Yeah, yeah, Easter has come and gone, but the scarf got 'lost' behind a couch, and I just finally spotted it a while back.
12. Tackle ripping out and restarting my Philosopher's Wool cardigan?
13. Add a gallery to my/this blog.
14. Work on stash reorganization project. [Requires me to be in basement - hard with Sp. May have to carry all bins up a few at a time and reorganize. I sorted and re-binned a few bins last week and got all excited by the yarns I was looking through. Some were colors I bought for Jo Sharp's Wattletop. It's still really tempting to me.]
15. Finish "Pregnant Penelope" essay and submit.
16. Whip up some Dulaan hats http://www.nwkniterati.com/movabletype/MossyCottage/.
17. If I could find my Anjuli, I'd finish it. I still really want it.
18. Check out the new sock for Six Sox. (I really fell of the wagon a while back when it comes to this knitalong.)

Well, that's the short list. I haven't really "committed" in terms of what projects I want to be working on right now, other than the few things on my needles that made this list.

(If I'd posted my April 1 Palm blog entry, an itemized account of what we "did" that day, you'd see how even this short list can seem almost impossible relative to the "day-to-day" of it all!)

(* Palm note: Okay, I'm a big Palm user, but I'd really like a well-integrated keyboard. When it comes to journaling or blogging, graffiti will never be fast enough for me. I use the onscreen keyboard, but it feels slow typing my stream of thoughts one letter at a time. My new Nokia has a foldout keyboard that is cool. When you want to use it, you just flip it open, and you have a traditional Qwerty keyboard flanking the sides of the screen. When done, you flip it closed again and have just the normal number pad. A great design. Functional. Small footprint. Why are there no handheld manufacturers doing it?)