My back feels normal again, so of course I tried to screw it up by rearranging the yarn storage room, which is also the guest room because it has working cable. Yeah, I could move the yarn into the Girl's old room, but I'm too lazy to rearrange that much stuff. Rearranging the Stash was a walk down memory lane - I realize now that while I was dealing with my husband's illness I was in a sort of Ebay yarn-buying fugue state. Yarn buying was therapy, obviously. "No Yarn for Lent" my ass, I need to do No Yarn for 2004. In fact, that may not be a bad idea - it would force me to revisit yarn and patterns and actually remember why I bought it. I have sock yarn I forgot I bought. I have two unfinished afghans - I can distinctly remember why I stopped working on the first one, I was on a dark section in a poorly-lit hospital room, so I put it aside and...never went back. I still like the pattern, it's a good TV project, I must drag it out and start it again. I have two unfinished cardigans just waiting for button bands. Again, "hospital knitting" - I haven't had any desire to touch anything from that bad time last spring, but maybe by this summer I'll be ready to finish those sweaters. The blue pullover I was working on at the nursing home at the end is going to Goodwill, though - it was therapy for me but I sure as hell have no desire to wear it.

I have the makings of a Ribby Cardie in a Manos-like product which I think must hit the needles by June, so I can have it when it finally turns cool again around December (I'm a realist about my current knitting progress). I have the makings of at least five other wool cardigans and multiple dog sweaters, plus baby booties and the aforementioned shitload of socks. I didn't see anything that I now hate, though I do see things that, if I had examined before bidding, I would have passed on. I do see I don't need to buy yarn again for the next year. Of course I probably will. Probably not much, though - right now if it's a choice between buying yarn and buying new clothes, it's not really a contest, clothes are gonna win every time.

I've finished the right front of the Lo-Tech Sweat and cast on the left. It's my kind of project, my hands can work while the rest of my brain watches a movie.

Tomorrow will be yard work day - one out of three, not what I had in mind at all when I took these days off. But tomorrow will be good because it's going to get cooler again, so it will be much more comfortable, and I have been productive on my "wasted days" - the kitchen project is finally moving along, the garage is a bit cleaner, the house is cleaner, a carload of household excess went to Goodwill yesterday, today the room Girlchild will be sleeping in when she comes home in a few days (Yay! Spring Break!) was tidied. (This mainly involved putting all the yarn at one end, so she could sleep on the air mattress and not have to dodge too much other stuff.) I'm getting more ideas about what I want to do with this house to make it useful for me, with less wasted space. It'll take time (and money) but it's starting to come together.