It’s been a very busy 2 weeks at work, we have taken on new work we’ve not previously done before, and I have been hard at work learning those tasks so I can teach them to my team, as well as creating new procedures to track the new work. I am actually quite amazed at what I was capable of accomplishing in only two weeks, but my brain has paid the price.

This is to say, I am exhausted. I’ve also had family in town (That’s a good thing!) so we’ve had some various dinners together and so on as well, taking up evenings where we’d typically be chilling and unwinding at home.

So, today, I planned a quiet day. I knew Mr. Ink would be working in the morning, so I didn’t sign up for my regular volunteer shift at the dog rescue. I decided what I was going to need most was a day of introversion. A day of quietly getting tasks done at home and unwinding. I plan to walk the dogs, maybe take them to the dog park as well, but in general, keep things quiet and chill.

This morning I managed to finish a chunk of a newer knitting project, enough of it to finally show it off.

The pattern is scottish stripes by Ursa Major knits. I have knit this before. It got old toward the end of the scarf, and I didn’t want to knit it again immediately. But, Miss Marja really liked it and had hoped for one for herself out of her own handspun. It’s been a while, maybe even 2 years, so I decided I wanted to knit another, and we recently searched her stash for an appropriate yarn. I think this yarn, a chain ply, is working out beautifully! It has a lot of interest and I am staying highly motivated on knitting it so far. It’s mindless enough to knit while watching TV with Mr. Ink in the evenings but I do need to pay attention to the pattern from time to time as well, so not so utterly mindless as to be mind-numbing. It’s working out so well at the moment.

I have another project going at work, and these are the only two knitting projects in my life right now. I am enjoying them both immensely and am satisfied with just those two. Hopefully the sharp focus on both of them will make it seem that they are getting finished up in a rapid amount of time.

That’s all from here on my quiet and relaxing day. I hope you are having one of the same!