Challenges...

So, I've been facing a few personal challenges lately. Nothing major, just some lame stuff in my own head/body.

I have been stuck for quite a few months and haven't been able to lose. I don't want to accept the idea that this may be it. I can't help but think if I could just exercise more, it would help. And maybe it would. Maybe I should get up and exercise like I have been, and then again in the evening after dinner. When I think of that, it just makes me tired though. If I want it bad enough I will do it. And I DO want it...just maybe not as bad as I think I want it...I can't keep thinking "next week will be the week."

Knitting challenges...basically finishing projects is a problem of mine. I have found myself stock-piling yarn and projects for the past few weeks. I haven't started any of them, but I also haven't finished any of the projects that I started months ago. I really need to finish the beautiful Blue Sky Alpaca Silk wrap I started six months ago to wear to my cousin's wedding...last November. Oh well, my other cousin is getting married four months before me, so maybe I can have it done by then. I also started to crochet a blanket for Ed in August...I hope to have it done by this August! I may just give up on the Oh My! Sweater I started for Chels, frog it and make her a scarf/hat/mitten set out of the yarn...hey, that's a pretty good idea...I JUST thought of it. I should write it on a post-it so I don't forget!
I have two projects on the front burner right now. My first toe-up sock out of Tofutsies. When I first picked up this yarn, I wasn't sure about it. I LOVE IT! So much so that I bought 3 more balls. The other project is from the latest Interweave Crochet...a knit/crochet combo. The magazine is somewhere else right now, so I'll share the name at a later date.
I have also felt the need to challenge my skills as of late. I want to do fair isle, even though it scares me...I want to steek...which actually doesn't scare me as much as multi-strand knitting. Weird I know. Perhaps after I dig myself out of what I've got going on....

Yarn space...this is just not going to get better until I get a house...with my very own yarn room (it will happen, Ed said I could have one!). It doesn't help that I've already made two Anniversary Sale purchases and am contemplating a third...at least they are for specific projects.
The yarn space issue leads to my messiness issue. I do not like mess. You would not know this by looking at my room right now. There is too much stuff, and it is making my life messy. I wish there was some stuff I could throw away, but a lot of it, I just don't have the heart yet. Though I do have big plans. The parents are redoing our Closet next week during April vacation (my mom's, certainly not mine). Perhaps I shall take pictures...though since the closet is in my room, it will lead to mess there.

My fingers hurt...too much knitting on small small needles (I know, hard to believe), and now this unusually long post.