Challenge Started!

It was a wet windy miserable weekend and there is nothing better than sitting curled up on the couch watching good crap on TV in weather like that.  It struck me as I sat there that it’s the perfect knitting weather, and wanting to do at least 12 crafty something’s in the next 12 months what better time to start…  So a quick fruitless trip down to the storage locker and back-up into the back of the linen press found I had 3 balls of wool, which is where I remembered that I gave all my wool to the lovely goodwill people before I left Melbourne.  I told myself last winter that I could only have something on the needles and a project waiting not 40 odd balls of wool hanging around with no direction of what they would be used for.  So on I cast with 28 stiches and a cowl or scarf (I’m undecided) in seed stich is being created… 

On track to 15 books...

One of the things I want to get done in the list of 30 is to read 15 books - sounds easy over a 12 month period but there are times where I just can't get into reading even though I do enjoy it.  I am currently in the middle or start of 3-4 books and I just can’t get into any of them, one of which surprises me as its my favourite stage production, but I think I just keep thinking “this isn’t how the show went”.  I will none the less continue with trying.  So the first 3 books are:

Wicked by Gregory Maguire

The Mephisto Club - Tess Gerritsen

Under the Knife - Tess Gerritsen

I see a trend with my reading here...

Why am I here again in blogland???

Recently an old family friend was catching up with my parents and he mentioned that he had met a woman who had turned 60 that year and she came up with a list of 60 things she wanted to do in the year she turned 60.  He then gave that challenge to his daughter whom was about to turn 30 and was looking forward to catching up with her to see how she has gone in the challenge.  As I was about 8 weeks off turning 30 myself I thought it was a great idea so here I am 2 weeks out from the big birthday and I’m trying my hardest to come up with a list to complete, lets see how I go...