This week at work has felt like about 9 days instead of 5. Consequentially I haven’t knitted a stitch since last weekend. I have just looked in my back issues of Simply Knitting (British knitting magazine) for baby patterns as I have 3 friends who are pregnant and due at the end of the year. I have found a couple of cute beanie patterns, one like a christmas pudding ;o) and a very plain jacket that depending on the colours would be nice for either a boy or a girl. But as there are three impending babies and one that’s just happened I may try to find a nice book of baby knits. And I’ve had a request for mitten with string between them so they don’t get lost.
I did manage to eat healthily this week and didn’t have a single cup of tea or chocomilk (we have a drinks machine at work – ick) until today. I ate my 5 portions of fruit/veg every day and drank tonnes of water. But I think mostly due to work being so tiring and just having too much to do I didn’t really feel the benefit. So I will try again this week.
I did read Special Topics In Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl, mainly because I was attracted to the cover, the main character’s name (Blue Van Meer) and it had physics in the title. I did read it quite quickly as it’s not a small book but I didn’t love it. I wouldn’t read it again. Looking on Amazon.co.uk it says that other people bought The Emperor’s Children and I didn’t really enjoy that either. Blue is a teenage girl who has spent most of her life since her mother died travelling all over America with her father who is a college lecturer. They settle down for her senior year and Blue becomes friends with a group of people who are known at school as the “bluebloods”. A character dies and Blue decides to investigate to find out what really happened. I don’t really enjoy reading stories about teens and their friendship problems, you know the popular kids bully the unpopular/odd kids. It’s too much like being a teenager again!! It’s also written as if it’s a text book or study guide and whilst it’s quite quirky at the beginning I did get a bit bored of it after a couple of chapters.
I’m looking forward to Friday/Saturday as Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows is being released at midnight. I probably won’t go to a midnight opening as I haven’t preordered it and I can wait until Saturday morning. When book 6 was published I was working for a bookselling company and all I thought about for 7 months was HP6 so it’s been nice to just get excited along with all the other fans this time.
Tags: baby knits, Food, Harry Potter
