Catch-up time...

I haven't posted in a bit. This is because my friends keep having babies. Really, it is. They keep having babies, which means I keep having to knit things for the new little humans. Right now I'm knitting a tote bag for a pal who will need something to carry baby gear around in. I'm knitting it from yarn another friend of hers made. Next I finish up some Christmas things I'm knitting for a relative who will remain unrevealed and then comes a sweater for the inimitable Truman. In between all this knitting, I have writing to do and books to read, volunteerism to be trained for, and work to do -- oh, and before all that, I have to be an engaged partner. Woo! Anyway, new: I scheduled my second bunionectomy, this one on my right foot. Looking forward to it, but ... argh ... also not so much. It'll mean no driving for six weeks, minimum. I'll be stuck in my condo unless my sweet husband cares to ferry me about, or I care to crutch myself up to the subway or bus line. I'm not sure yet how I'll maintain my fitness level, but I will need to, as working out is one of the tools I use to avoid insomnia. Anyway, that whole journey will start sometime in mid-January. I'll take two weeks off work immediately post-surgery. I should be able to stop the pain meds after three days. And then I will have loads of time in which to write. Yay! Finished Poem No. 1 and I'm quite pleased with it. I must break a promise and not post it here. If you care to see it, comment and I'll send it to you. I've started Poem No. 2, and continue with Short Story No. whatever, with a hard deadline of the end of this month, as I owe it to my writing group. And now, I'm off to make a quick batch of chocolate-chip cookies (with pistachios), because my husband has asked for them. It's his opinion that chocolate-chip cookies taste better when someone makes them for you, and who can argue with that?