Top 10 random thoughts that have popped into my head this afternoon

In which we begin knitting-related and eventually veer wildly off-topic. This would in all likelihood reflect the "other distractions" to which the blog title refers.

1. DPNs are A Good Thing. I have recently embarked upon a sock for the younger daughter in Opal Petticoat Cotton and have temporarily forsaken my magic loop experiment in favour of my beloved DPNs. What a relief.

2. The previously mentioned Opal sock makes three first socks in progress. Which is not good. Lordy help me when I reach the second sock crisis stage.

3. Charity knitting has gone all to hell recently. I've been working on the flippin' garter stitch baby blanket since the paleolithic era (approx.) and have not been accomplishing much else. Well, aside from a row on this sock and a few stitches on that one, which does not help my charity knitting situation as our group does not accept socks. So it looks like I'm going to be attending this week's meeting empty-handed. Again.

4. Although the previous item might make me appear incapable of constructing a proper sentence equipped with noun, verb and the other necessities, I deny this disability and plead poetic licence.

5. Professional dog grooming is another Good Thing. Our beasts (a German shepherd and a Catahoula cross) were stinky so we had them professionally laundered. Now they're soft and fluffy and smell like vanilla. Which is weird, yet good.

6. A vegetarian kid on a low lactose, low residue diet is very difficult to feed, especially when that kid is on steroids and wants to eat everything on God's green earth.

7. It is a very boring thing when ones husband is twice ones weight and therefore wants to spend all ones Christmas money on a better mattress, even though this lightweight is quite comfortable on the current mattress and could always use more yarn. Just saying.

8. I am way behind in updating my Ravelry stuff.

9. I hope there's something good on TV tonight. Why is there never a good movie on the movie channels when I am available to watch? We subscribed to them a good while ago, figuring we were entitled because we never seem to get out to the theatre, but it seems like they're always showing dreck.

And the #1 thought that has popped into my head this afternoon: New Year's Resolutions be damned. I have spent the day stuffing my face with pasta, chips and chocolate. Good thing I'll soon have a mattress strong enough to support it all.