Macrophobia Monday

macrophobia ~ fear of prolonged waiting

So . . . I had an unintentional knitting marathon yesterday. I started working on the yoke of my Fair Isle sweater and I couldn't seem to stop myself. I took a break to add ingredients to a pot of chili I had in the crock pot; I took another break to start supper, which wasn't much of a break because it involved a lot of prep work; and I took a break to eat supper. Other than that, pretty much all I did Sunday was knit.

As I knew it would, we finally ran out of perfect autumn days. It started getting a little cooler towards the end of the week, and from Friday on it's been dark and gloomy. Not too much rain, but it's been warming up again so it's been a little on the humid side.

Hopefully it'll be bright and sunny again for Wednesday. I'm having a small, pre-NaNo planning party and it would be nice to have it out on the deck. :-)

Once again I got off to a slow start last week, but picked up speed as the week went on. I even managed to get this week's installment for Water written ahead of time. And if you didn't like last week's chapter, you're probably not going to like this week's either. ;-)

Blog Stuff For the Week:

Tuesday: Number twenty-one in my series on the Major Arcana of the Tarot is The World. This is the final card of the series.
Wednesday: A new hump day hunk for your viewing pleasure. ;-)
Thursday: Chapter 86 of Water. Well, we know there was at least one casualty of the tsunami, but will she be the only one?
Friday: Okay, it's 1 a.m. on Sunday night as I'm typing this and my brain is fried from over seven hours of knitting (I was following a Fair Isle pattern and you really need to pay attention to what you're doing). Anyway, I have no clue what the Ramble will be this week. Maybe something Halloweenish.

And speaking of Halloween . . . Don't forget to check out Alex Westhaven's Month O'Screams! There's lots of great, sometimes scary, stuff for you to check out. Leave a comment for a chance to win a great prize!

Other Stuff

This week's TraxTime report runs from September 29 through October 05.

Crafts - 13 hours and 19 minutes ~ way up from 7 hrs and 18 min
Emails - 8 hours and 54 minutes ~ about the same - 8 hrs and 43 min
Games - 4 hours and 02 minutes ~ slightly down from 4 hrs and 49 min
Reading - 7 hour and 50 minutes ~ down from 8 hr and 38 min
Non-fiction - 11 hours and 12 minutes ~ down from 12 hrs and 00 min
Fiction - 7 hours and 10 minutes ~ way up from 2 hrs and 42 min
Editing - 5 hours and 20 minutes ~ way down from 12 hrs and 44 min

Okay, see that Craft time? That's without including my knitting marathon yesterday. Can you tell the new season of television has started? And I hate just sitting in front of the TV doing nothing, so I either knit or crochet while watching.

All my other times last week pretty much stayed the same until we got down to Fiction. I was feeling rather inspired last week and got this week's episode of Water written on Friday. And I've been working on the rewrites off and on. I confess, however, that I'm lagging behind on the journal entries that are supposed to head each chapter. I guess that's something I'll have to pay extra attention to this week.