More Reading ...

I suppose I am on this reading kick now, and hopefully these reading challenges will keep me going.
It helps that I can now read before bed and I have managed to learn to knit and read at the same time - provided I am doing non-complicated knitting!
So I am going to join another reading challenge! This one is to read a book a month from the "To Be Read" list ... which of course, mine is quite lengthy!!

So here are my choices for the TBR Challenge:
1. Devil in the White City
2. The Day the World Came to Town
3. One Thousand White Women
4. Riding the Bus With My Sister: A True Life Journey
5. Size 12 is Not Fat - Meg Cabot
6. The Dogs of Babel
7. The Historian
8. The Secret History of the Pink Carnation by Lauren Willig
9. What Comes After Crazy: A Novel
10. The Nazi’s Officer Wife
11. Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers
12. Crewel World by Monica Ferris

Some bonus choices:
Amanda Bright @ Home
Lucia, Lucia
Teacher Man
The Handmaid’s Tail by Margaret Atwood
The Widow's War
These is My Words

Diverging from knitting ...

Because again, secret knitting is taking place and well, not much to say (although the person who is getting it either isn't visiting here - which is extremely likely - or hasn't made the connection)

I have decided to join the 2007 Winter Classics Challenge. Here are my 5 choices:

1. The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
2. Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
3. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
4. A Room With a View by E. M. Forster
5. A Farewell To Arms by Ernest Hemingway

So we'll see where these books take me ...


2007 Winter Classics Challenge

More on Secret Knitting ...

Well, I guess secret knitting is sort of boring to talk about on a blog, because well, I can't say much or show much.
I do have two pictures I can show you though. I finally managed to finished the back and so now onto the front it will be. Let's hope the front goes quickly and the sleeves follow as well .... I am pretty nervous these days with the house hunting, making offers, waiting for counter-offers, and knitting is sort of relaxing to me. So it's good I have something to do during this time of waiting ....

The front piece of secret knitting has been started ...

The yarn I am using for secret knitting ...

Not much knitting ...

Aside from some knitting Friday, the day in which we stayed home due to the snowstorm, I have not been knitting a lot lately. I suppose this is an issue since I still have to knit several Christmas presents, but for the moment that is neither here nor there - I will make up the time now that babyboy seems to be on a semi-regular sleep schedule and I can get an hour - an entire hour - without any distractions prior to 1 am -
But I have not been knitting as dh and I have been house hunting.
I don't know how this will end. I of course have my dream house, but my budget is slightly lower than my dream house costs - okay, my budget is about a third of what my dream house costs, but I like to kid myself into thinking I could at least buy half of it.
One of the houses I don't particularly want, but dh likes, he tried to bribe me into - the sub-basement is unfinished. He said "We could finish it in a few years, and you know, make it a craft room for you."
Now, I don't really think it will happen - when a few years comes and we go to refinish it, we will probably be turning it into an office or a place for the kids to go hang out with their friends, or about 2 million other uses.
But if we do end up buying that house, before I agree, I'm getting his statement in writing. And I'm saving it. And when he goes to theoretically finish it one day, I'm pulling out that piece of paper!

How much snow?

Wondering how much snow fell around here last night through noon today?
Well, it was knee high on my little guy.
Knee high is also known as 8 inches. Yes indeed, it's a good day to stay in, curl up under a blanket and knit as much as the kids will let me!