The blue and green felted bag is done but not felted yet - I'll save that for tomorrow evening, I think. The apricot Key Largo crocheted shawl is coming along fast, and while I don't think it will be done this weekend, it'll be done soon.

So it's time to think of the next project(s) - I'm thinking some small accessories. A felted bucket hat. Gloves. I haven't made a pair of socks in donkey's years, perhaps some nice warm house socks. Or maybe another pair of felted clogs.... It seems insane to think of these things when it's so unbearably hot and humid and stormy, but at the same time it's nice to think of cooler weather - this hell can't last forever.

I still have unfinished lingering projects marinating in various bags and boxes. Some of them were put aside for valid reasons - I'm having a hard time knitting w/cotton yarn, it's causing Wrist Issues. (I can crochet with cotton with no pain, though.) I feel guilt about my UFOs but I think I have to face facts - some of them ain't getting done, especially the ones that make my arm sore. Maybe this weekend it's time to say F it and Frog it, and recycle the yarns for other things. Or maybe not. I have to take them out, fondle them, knit a row and see if it hurts, and make up my mind.

I'm really looking forward to visiting the Girlchild over Labor Day Weekend. I plan to take off that Friday and drive up, stay Friday and Saturday, and return home on Sunday - that way I still have Monday to take care of my domestic duties. You know you are way overdue for a vacation when a weekend in Tallahassee sounds exciting, but it does. I'll get to meet the friends she's always talking about, and take lots of pictures, and of course make a side trip to Fay's to cheat on my Yarn Diet. It's going to be a lot of fun.

The next couple of weeks are madly busy at work, a string of mediations and trial dockets are screaming toward us in September and October. Whispered rumors that the powers that be actually have noticed that some of us are understaffed, while certain other people Don't Do a Friggin' Thing. I just hope we get real help, and they don't try some half-assed reassignment of the useless. We can't afford to take the time to teach people how to work.

I have a seminar downtown today, I wish I could bring knitting.