Royally Miffed...

 Do you ever get up in the morning and, after your morning rituals, find yourself really miffed?  And realize that, yet again, you have only yourself to blame for the predicament you are in?!  Well, that happened to me today.  I am not happy.  Not at all.  And there is no way to point fingers at anyone but myself.

This being the case, I have proclaimed today the first day of the new year and am changing my ways.  At least, that is what happened early this morning.  Now nearing the end of the day I find my resolution was not wholly carried out, but still, today was better than yesterday.  That is a plus.

Of course, as usual, Dear One gets the brunt of my dissatisfaction.  I have also made a proclamation about eating upstairs in the evening.  WE WILL NOT HAVE IT PE RIOD.  Anyone who wants to eat must go downstairs to eat in the kitchen or dining room.  It is just too easy to eat a cup of Chex mix in the evening,  Or even more. Especially when one's hands are not busy knitting or doing some other handwork.  The lap is empty and the hands are idle so what to do but pick up the canister of salty buttery nutty treats.  VERY BAD IDEA.  At least as far as health is concerned.

Do you have a plan for better health for the new year?  Please share!

One of my plans is to continue on with hand work when I am upstairs in the evening.  Tonight I will work on the initialed hem of my Jacqueline Fee Sweater Workshop sampler. I am getting ready to share that book in a class starting the first week in January.  We shall see how it goes.  I needed to get a sampler made in advance to catch any problems I might have forgotten since the last time I made that sampler.  It really is a useful workshop.

While the book is not available currently on ThriftBooks, it does appear to be available in several other places. Maybe even in the local library.  It is worth getting.  Another book worth getting is Knitting Workshop (or any other book by Elizabeth Zimmermann)!  ThriftBooks does not have Elizabeth Zimmermann, either, but I am confident her books are available at Schoolhouse Press.   

One final book I want to mention that helps me keep my hands, and my mind, busy instead of eating bad stuff is Sweater 101 by Cheryl Brunette.    I have owned at least three copies of Sweater 101 though I only have one now.  I had the great fun of following her directions and made a size two sweater for a child.  I finished that sweater just in time to go to a knitting guild meeting in Vancouver, Washington when Cheryl was there to speak to us and encourage us in our knitting,  I loved learning at her feet and was so pleased that she admired the work of my hands that night. Another dear sister from our mission also attended and brought her sweater which also was perfect.  That sister has knit a sweater for herself following Cheryl's instructions and it fit her perfectly!!!

So--new year, and this time I plan to keep promises I made to myself. I hope you do, too.