Makin' Plans

It must be the change in the weather; fall has always been energizing for me. I'm making lists, researching, and imagining. Consider this my late New Year's resolution list. (Rosh Hashanah, not the Gregorian New Year. I'm not that much of a slacker)

My student loan
I'm finally gonna open a can of whoop-ass on this thing. By April 2007, I want it dead. Damn you, expensive university education coupled with poor financial skills! Why April, you ask? Because of:

My career path
I'm pretty sure this whole management lark is just not for me. I'm starting to think that the corporate world in general is not for me. Plans are being made, foundations are being laid, and that's all I'm going to say on the subject for now. More news when the nebulous bits become certain.

Writing
I've barely written a thing since Adam was born; I'm afraid I may have forgotten how. This week's frantic blogging is in preparation for:



Yup, I'm going to post every single day during November. It will be a good way to warm up before working on:



Hey! Stop laughing! Look, the math works, people:

full time job + toddler + blogging + Nano + knitting = one month - (sleeping + eating)

I just need to figure out how to keep typing through my bathroom breaks, and I'm set.

Knitting
If I'm going to devote every spare penny to my student loan, that means no more yarn purchases. If I'm going to feed my addiction through these dark times, I'm going to have to knit down the stash. Someone hold me.

Step the first: identify and organize stash yarn. I'm thinking of stealing Jessica's brilliant idea and starting a stash blog to figure out what I have, and what I want to do with it. It's difficult to plan for stash knitting when everything is hidden away in a footlocker. Watch this space for an embarrassment of yarn.

Of course, even penny pinchers can have new yarn if they're creative about it. Last night I got a ton of yarn from Ryan for the Dulaan project. True, I can't keep anything I knit from it, but that's not really the point, is it? I still get to knit.

If you're a dedicated stalker, you may know that I also won some Dulaan yarn from Erika. No, I haven't gotten that from her yet, and it's entirely my fault. Note to self: email Erika.

Ambitious project alert! (No, not another wedding ring shawl.) I've decided to knit my way through Elizabeth Zimmerman's Knitter's Almanac next year. Since the first priject is an Aran sweater, this may be in direct conflict with my No New Yarn pledge; I'm pretty sure I don't have an entire sweater's worth of unallocated yarn in my stash.

There are a few other things running around in my head, but I'm not ready to lay them bare to the world just yet. Check back soon for Makin' Plans II: The Plannening!