New Year, New Me!

It's now January 2009 and my goals for this year are to lose weight and finish the projects I started before the new year arrived. So far, so good!

I gained a few pounds over the Christmas holiday, which was to be expected but the really good thing is they dropped right back off easily once I stopped indulging in the cookies and chocolates. The main goal this month is to lose at least another 4 lbs which will put me at my short term goal. When that happens I will try to remember to step off the scale before jumping up and down with excitement. Don't want to do serious damage to that scale ya know.

As for finishing projects, I have completed the Shetland tweed pullover I started last September. Yahoo! Photos to be posted soon. On to the next project. There is quite a list and it is really, really hard not to touch any new yarn in my stash right now. I must not touch until I have completed all other projects. I'll let you know how long I manage to hold on to that thought. LOL

New things have been added to my repertoire at the shop this year. The crochet classes that I teach will now alternate between Mondays one month and Fridays another month...depending on which day a holiday falls in that month. I will also be running the intermediate help classes on Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons now. First class was fine except that I had a moment of panic when someone presented a Tunisian crochet project to me. I haven't done that in a very long time but after fiddling with it a bit, it all came back to me and I had her on the go with her project again in no time. Phew!

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I hope your New Year is off to a great start like mine is and I wish you all the best to come in 2009.