Thursday already? Time flies when you're not having fun too. My posts are so boring - I work all day, I come home to shuffle through stuff in the kitchen cabinets to throw out or give to the kids or to Goodwill, I crochet part of a cat blanket and I go to sleep, and then I wake up and start all over again. The excitement never ends - pinch me.

I'm still reading Dana Carpender's book about low carb dieting, and I'm still very impressed with her research and her readability. It's definitely an explanation liberal arts majors can grasp, and so far she's said nothing that struck me as far out or unhealthy, on the contrary, it's mostly reasonable stuff I can remember hearing from my grandmother before "low carb" was even a part of our vocabulary. She cites a few "doctor's diet books" written in the 1800s as evidence that some medical types were onto this a long time before Dr. Atkins, and before the media discovered it and declared it a "fad diet." She's given me some reminders about how I've stalled my own diet by letting it drift too far and it's helping to get me back on track. I already feel better and have more energy since I've been watching myself more, and my mood has improved too - I'm not as homicidal as I was this time last week.

I need to get cracking, because summer is here in Florida, and I'm so not ready. I'm not bathing suit ready, and even my work wardrobe is a disgrace, and trips to the mall have turned up almost nothing to help me. I guess it's time to visit the online catalog world and see what I can turn up that is wearable and classic and neutral and not screaming lime green and shocking pink. I work in a casual office which means I don't need to show up in suits and heels every day, thank God, but that really doesn't make finding appropriate clothes that much easier - in fact, lately it makes it harder, since everybody jumped on the Lilly Pulitzer bright colors bandwagon. A little of that goes a long way for me.

After I finish the cat blanket marathon and ship them (this Saturday - I swear!!!) I'm going to start a combination crocheted felted bag design festival and knitted Trinity Stitch shawl binge. I have a tendency toward binge fiber consumption - once I start making something, if I like it I want to make a bunch. It started with Sock Fever years ago, was followed by slipper knitting, then on to multiple felted bags and mice last summer, followed by a Sitcom Chic-a-thon, followed by more felted bags. I've been drifting since then, until I hit on the Critter Knitter page and got sucked into a strange attraction to Lion Brand Homespun. Yep, binging on fiber consumption is part of my nature. At least these binges are low carb.