New Year

We made it through a year of deaths and sickness and some hard financial times. I sometimes felt like giving up, especially when the drama with my cousins and my sister started happening. I admit, I feel like I'm in convalescence, and I've felt that way for a long time. The good thing is, we have new babies on the way in our family this year, and we've got less people in this house. Now if I can just get the kids to get to school on time...

 I've spent my day doing kitchen stuff: cleaning, dishes, cooking, etc. and playing WoW and knitting and watching movies. I'll post a photo later of the hat I'm making. I'm also making pot roast for dinner and my mother is making homemade bread. It is very peaceful right now because all the kids are asleep. They had too much "partying" last night (playing Just Dance on the Wii and having as many snacks as they wanted or could eat). We stayed home, watched movies, played some WoW, and had a couple margaritas to mark the new year. I barely checked out Facebook because it's boring to me. It seems like everyone says the same things all the time. At least in WoW I can choose my adventure and go do it and have fun. I checked in on SL earlier, but it remains as buggy as always for me. I considered cleaning my inventory, but I'm not ready to commit to deleting 100k things today.

Only two more days until I'm back to work. Not looking forward to it. I could stand another week at home, reading, knitting, watching movies,cooking, cleaning, doing laundry, and playing WoW. This seems to be the life I've chosen for the moment (though I should get going on graduate school applications). I'm satisfied. I'm thankful for my blessings, and I do feel blessed with my life and my family and friends. There could be more to it, but for now, I'm satisfied.

It's later, and here's the hat, which I finished this evening (Jan. 2). I still have to knit a lining for it, but it turned out too big for me. Luckily my husband has a big head. :)