Cr-r-r-r-r-u-u-u-u-unch!

Yep, I'm still feeling it a little. That crunch. That pressure. That OMG-what-am-I-forgetting-to-do panic. It's better than it was -- the transition and damage control resulting from the departure of a former disgruntled employee is about 80% complete -- but then the holidays hit.

I still have shopping and wrapping to do. I still have baking and cooking, and cleaning, and where the hell are all my gift boxes? My new computer still needs some set-up work, and for some reason my camera software and my computer aren't on speaking terms. I have to fight to get any pictures at all to load, and I just don't have the strength for that right now.

There has been some knitting. I'm maybe three rounds away from finishing the fair isle banded bottom of Catherine Parr. I finished a sock gusset -- the same sock I'd managed to knit half a gusset on during the worst of the work crunch a few weeks ago. I don't think I'll ever be able to look at that sock without remember this time in my life. Wish I could show you a picture of it. Someday!

I was going to take off work the entire week next week -- my big plan was to lay on my couch for as many consecutive days as possible with the clicker in one hand and a jug of wine in the other -- but it looks like I have to work at least a little.

But there will be knitting. Oh, yes, there will be knitting. And someday soon, maybe even pictures of knitting.