Home again, home again, jiggety jig...

Finally got home last night, after almost three weeks away. This schedule depresses me, not least because after all that time away, after paying bills & such I end up with near zero bux in the bank.

Astro still coughs and chokes - maybe he needs a fuel filter? but now has two new snow tires on the rear, a gift from a co-worker. Sort of a gift. When I tried to pay for them he told me to wait till I could afford to. At this rate that could be a while.

Since last I blogged, I rediscovered the yarn shop in Kanawha City and have visited several times. Saturday they're open till five, and if I work Saturdays it's only till 3:30, so I got in a couple of hours knitting in the company of other knitters before heading to the apartment where th'Mr had arrived for another weekend.

Aranmor has been put on hold while I knat up a pair of fingerless gloves for Mom's birthday and housesox for Dad's Christmas. Now I'm 3/4 through with a scarf for the brother-in-law and plan to crochet a bear, fishing, for the other BiL before making th'Mr's requested housesox. Then I can get back to Aranmor, and to the worksox I've been wanting for myself.

I'm not in a very good mood. I don't like December. It's dark, and cold, and often wet, and traffic is nuts and everyone's in a hurry and the commercialization of Christmas drives me batshit (and like it or not, I get caught up in it too), and I never feel like my gifts to others are adequate and all this nifty stuff I'd like goes on sale but I don't buy for myself because I figure someone will gift me with the same thing (which never happens). January's just as bad with my birthday at the end of it, but this year by gawd I'm going to get myself something neat for my birthday.

Tomorrow we drive north for the holiday. Tuesday we'll drive back home, and Wednesday morning I'll head back to WV to work for two days, THEN I'll have a four-day weekend at home. I like the relatives and like seeing them on holidays or any time, but what I'd really like to do is just come home and hibernate, covered in cats, for a few weeks. I feel like I need healing.