I’ve been avoiding sewing the buttons onto my February Lady Sweater, even though it’s finished and just needs the ends woven in. Anything involving a yarn needle just feels like seaming…let’s see how long it takes me to sew on three little buttons. In the meantime, I am knitting–look, an armwarmer! I haven’t knit the second one–just finished the first this morning and have been updating Flickr and what not.

Lately I feel like I’ve been checking out mentally. At work, sometimes I just get flustered and have to let my brain shut down for a few minutes at a time. My job, by the way, is still making me insane. Especially since we’re getting closer to the Presidential election and my co-workers are so utterly unprofessional as to discuss politics every other day, while in the workplace. I don’t participate whenever possible–unless someone speaks to me directly–but I’m really getting fed up with it. My workplace doesn’t feel very much like a business at times so much as HIGH SCHOOL. Seriously. I want to complain to Human Resources, but with the buddy-buddy atmosphere, I’m afraid I’ll just get tagged as a snitch and they probably won’t discipline anyone, anyway. And I don’t think they have a way to submit a complaint anonymously, otherwise I’d do that. ugh. Maybe Santa will bring me a new job in time for the holidays.

In the meantime, I’ve kind of fallen back into an old habit, which is comforting myself with new yarn whenever life starts to suck. But I’ve been knitting and not just hoarding, so I’m ok for now. Knitting is becoming an escape again, which is perfectly fine with me. It helps me when I zone out and check out mentally. Once again, it’s helping to keep me sane.

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