All wrapped up

I wrapped my Christmas presents tonight - took about 15 minutes. Which, for me, is not nearly enough wrapping time - I like wrapping presents, I love giving presents. But this year, money is tight and I'm being good. Dammit. Nevertheless, all the presents are wrapped except those which have yet to be bought... ouch. See, my sister in Frederiction has two kids. My neice was easy - girly sparkly crafty stuff. My nephew, video games. Or rather, a gift card towards the purchase of video games. The problem being, the store where I need to get the gift card is in the Mall From Hell, in which I will not venture during the month of December. And my sister, herself? Also a gift card, but not yet purchased. So I will call her, explain the situation (because mailing now is TOO LATE and courier costs more than the gifts), and send prezzies after New Year. Which is a cheat, but it's been a rough month.

Knitting!

My striped scarf is now over 40" long. I'm loving it but have fumblethumbs tonight so only knit about an inch and a half. Would like to finish this by the end of the weekend, but so many house-chores to do - like find my dining room table. Actually, the whole dining room is rather buried. It's a "non-urgent area" so we've been dumping stuff in there all week. Now I want to decorate for Christmas, and I want to put my village on the dining room table, and the table is covered in plants and hiding behind a MASSIVE painting of a steam engine. Peter's brother painted it, it's gorgeous, and it needs to get on the dining room wall ASAP. However, I first need to move the china cabinet that is currently on that wall because it's too tall to hang the painting over. Which means moving the plant stand. Which means moving the OTHER plant stand. Etc. You get the drift. Tomorrow, I will find and make beautiful the dining room. Then I will go back to work at Michaels, which, honestly, I've missed the past week or so. I need my retail gang, they make me feel smart and useful. But first, the dining room.

And you know what? I have this weird urge to knit mittens for kids. I saw a post on Freecycle tonight that someone wanted warm mitts/etc. for a toddler. But I've never knit mitts, and really don't want to start any new projects now... and yet I feel guilty that there's some poor kid with cold little fingers. *sigh* Not fair, having a hair-trigger guilt response. Maybe I could whip off a quick pair over the weekend? Time to look for quick kids' mitt patterns, I guess.