Ready to say good bye to 2015

The last 4 days have been rough.  G's dad's brother died Christmas Eve, and one of his mum's sisters died today.  It's hard for G, being so far away.  He can't just hop a plane and be there in a few hours, for funerals and then back to work the next day.  We won't go into the fact that none of us has a current passport at the moment....

The work situation is still up in the air.  G's boss has been stringing him along since last March.  And I am still unemployed.  Time to step up my job hunt.

GTFO, 2015.  May 2016 treat us all better!

Bear likes it

Same sheet of music

Still knitting Acadia. It's kind of kicking my ass. I think it's under control now. *Knock wood*  We'll see.  At least Coast Guard Alaska keeps me entertained while I am fighting, haha.  I need new episodes!  I am already on season 4 again.   I'm pretty sure I have seen all of season 1-3 at least 3 times, but they never get old.

I only had one crafty item to make as a present for Christmas. I sewed the kiddo a new bag so she can drag her knitting around. It's a messenger style bag. She picked out the material awhile ago, but it has just been sitting there while I was more interested in knitting her last pair of socks. I finally decided to get it done so she could have it for Christmas. I buckled down and got it done the last few days. Today was her last day of school before the holiday, so I was running out of time.  In fact, she called asking me to come pick her up just 20 minutes after I completed the last seam, haha.

I think it turned out pretty well, considering I cobbled together two patterns and kind of flew by the seat of my pants, haha.  At least I know myself well enough to know not to plan on making too many things for the holidays, so there wasn't too much stress ;)  Obviously, I can't post pictures until after Christmas Day.

A little bit of knitting going on

I finished Isabel's green sparkle socks and started a blanket square out of the same yarn.  But then knitting ADD hit, and I started knitting myself a new hat.  But I don't like the way it's going.  I was going to knit an Acadia Cap in the lovely red yarn my daughter gave me for Christmas last year and cable the band in black.  I hate it.  Not just because I seem to be one stitch short all of a sudden.  The black is just too dark (Plus the join looks funky.  Bleh.).  No point in taking the time to cable the band if you can't even see the details, right?   So I am tinking back to the red and going to knit the band in a cream instead.  Sheesh.

Now I am off to pick up the kiddo from her Knitting Club.  Yeah, she's knitting hats too.  Haha.