SourCherries

What's Come Over Me?

I don't know what's come over me? Maybe it's the change in scenery, but for some reason the only knitting I've chosen to do for a month is on a sock. I can't believe all I've knitted in a month is a tiny little inkling of a cuff on a sock.. and I'm not even a sock knitter.

This is though some of my new sock yarn that I picked up on my mini Seattle yarn crawl and does qualify as a blue project too for the end of this months project spectrum colours. Hopefully, as my manic working spree ends and I settle in more here I will get some of my knitting mojo back. We'll see. 

Out and About

I finally made it out of my apartment this week and out and about:

These are from a rather random, unplanned trip to downtown Seattle on Monday. The weather cooperated quite nicely though and as usual there are many more shots at my flickr page. I also managed a mini yarn crawl today and got some nice sock/lace acquisitions. Hopefully if I can drag myself out of bed tomorrow I'll get some shots. Things are getting a little less daunting driving wise for me- Everett has been a snap lately... although as soon as I say that I'll get myself hopelessly lost somehow. Even Seattle wasn't too bad although I didn't really appreciate the downtown parking. I even managed to make it from downtown to up on Queen Anne without using my map which I was rather proud of although I probably took the most circuitous rout possible.

I don't know if anyone has noticed yet, but I tend to be somewhat of a  workaholic, so all further exploring is being put on hold while I work seven 12 hour night shifts in a row. I'll be lucky if I  manage to much more than roll myself to/from bed/work and feed myself for the next week.  I also  somehow managed to stay committed to working one weekend a month at my old job in Coeur d'Alene, so the next week which would normally be my week off I'll be driving back to Idaho for the weekend to fulfill my work duties there. Crazy I know, but at the time it seemed like it would be resume building to stay at my old job longer.  I have at least finally knitted a few stitches again... so at least I  know I haven't gone completely crazy. 

I've Moved!

Obviously, I've been holding out on everyone. I had all the intentions in the world of trying to be more open about my 'real' life on this blog and not just post pictures of knitting, but it does tend to be one of my personality traits that until I get warmed up to people I can be a little shy. Anyway, one of the benefits of being a nurse is that I have the opportunity to take part in what's called travel nursing due to the nursing shortage in the country. This just means that I send my resume out to a recruiter who then sends it out to hospitals all over who then decide if they want to hire me for a short, pre-specified period of time. If they do, then they pay me to travel there, and pay all my living expenses while I am living there working. It's a pretty sweet deal I think and due to a variety of reasons I decided it was high time I got out of my comfort zone in Idaho and went for it. So last week I packed up all the yarn and books and cds (who cares about practical things like pots and pans and bedclothes) I could fit into my tiny car and made a run for the coast (almost). I'm now in Everett, Washington which is 25 miles north of Seattle and about six hours away from my old home in Idaho and I'm committed to be here through June. After that things are pretty much up in the air. I could sign up for another contract here, go somewhere else or return back to my old hometown. I'm just kind of waiting and seeing. So far all I've managed to do is get somewhat settled in my apartment which is a 'corporate' apartment and thus comes furnished with rental furnishings that remind of motel furniture and go back and forth to work at the hospital. I am very much a small town girl, so even though people here say Everett isn't 'big' I tend to think it's huge and have a death grip on my steering wheel every time I venture out onto I-5. I did learn a back way to the hospital posthaste that does not require any freeway driving. I just couldn't take the adrenaline rush right before work. Hopefully this week will give me some free time so I can get back on track with the whole knitting thing (I haven't knitted a stitch for a couple of weeks- I'm going into withdrawals) and also venture out beyond the little two block radius I've made myself comfortable with so far. Also, hopefully pictures of my somewhat stark new digs and view to follow soon.