Well this is going to be a rambling post about everything and nothing at all. Life has been throwing me a lot of curve balls lately. I’m trying to cope but some days it has really kicked my butt. Due to this I’m not really doing good on any of my goals but I’m going to cut myself some slack. Walking longer and faster with Balloo is not happening and will not be happening, he can’t handle it. As he’s be diagnosed with cancer (tumor can not be removed, thank goodness it is slow-growing and doesn’t usually metastasize) I’m just going to be happy with everyday I get with him (usually – today I wasn’t so happy with the diarrhea he had in the apartment, it wouldn’t have been bad except he was ashamed of it so he dragged his dog bed over it. That’s the end of another dog bed).
Knitting has not been relaxing for me right now either. I’ve been working on the same sock for about 3 weeks now. It’s not too complicated it’s just that as it is two colors I can not get it to be sized right to go on right. It’s toe up and fits fine right up until I join the gusset stitches back into the heel (hopefully this makes sense to you, I can’t think of a better way to express it). So once again I’m going to rip back and not decrease as much, hopefully it will work this time. In the mean time I’ve sort of finished the lace weight project- it’s done except picking out the provisional cast on and joining it. I decided to wait until I visited my folks so I can borrow the same size needle from my mom. I’ve also been working on the sweater that’s been languishing since last year. I’m just about done the front- about 1 inch before I have to put the neck stitches on a holder- which I need to go buy.
I’ve been spending a lot of time contemplating what I really want to do. It is a conundrum. I know what is best for my career and I know what I want to do and I can’t think of any way to get this two things to agree. I wish there was some way to combine the two but until I gain magical powers or win the lottery it is not going to happen. 
I think I mentioned this was going to be a totally rambling post, I wasn’t joking.
