A long hard winter

I have to say this has been a krappy winter. The weather has been beating us down and we still have a lot of snow on the ground. Sunshine is rare, and the rain always seems to be "thick" (like right now... love that "wintery mix").

So my solution is to close the blinds and play video games. I had totally planned on doing my usual "fix-it" Olympic knitting. I have 3 or 4 projects that I really need to do some maintance on before they are truely wearable. However, I ended up just playing Mass Effect 2.

I have been trying to knit. Even working on some projects from A Fine Fleece. Harriet is a project that I am going to love when finished... but it's lace. Even when I'm in a knitting groove, I find lace more challenging than most knitting. Considering that I am NOT in a knitting groove, there's been a lot of frogging (I've now ripped back the same lace repeat 3 times). It's not even a difficult lace pattern. My head just isn't in the game.

My head is in a totally different game: Mass Effect. I even bought the tie in books. I've hit total fanboy status. Doing the forum thing. Watching YouTube videos. Reading the Wiki. The only thing I can't seem to do is get the "insanity" acheivement (not just a clever name... this difficulty level is way past my skill set).

So maybe as winter starts to wind down I'll get a little spring fever and cast on a lovely spring project. Right now, I'm just not inspired enough to do much knitting.