It's Saturday Again

Yes, it's Saturday again... my favorite day of the week. My honey gave me "alone time" in the office.

Now those of you not married might not appreciate the concept of "alone time". Being alone for many, many, oh I can't count them, many (34) years gave me the mistaken idea that I never wanted to be alone again. I've changed my mind, and for good reason, now that I consider it:

1) Life in cubicle-city 5 days per week,
2) sharing buses and trains with hundreds of people who sometimes bathe, sometimes don't, most often smell like garlic and stale cigarettes.... well, when one comes home from a 12 hour day of that... just an hour or so of alone-ness might be nice.
3) But if your home office is like ours, then, one must stow the keyboard before the other can open a file drawer. hmmm... confining to say the least...alone time just doesn't happen without careful planning and begging and well, it just doesn't happen!

I've been in the office totally and completely alone for almost two hours and let's just say I got so much done in the first 15 minutes that I felt totally justified in catching up on my favorite blogs and then making a post.

ahhhhhh..... Santana playing on the stereo, husband running errands, laundry in rotation.... all is right with the world. I even did housework. ..gottaREALLY be happy to do that. =)

I know, I know, it all sounds so weird! But being married still feels strange after 6 years. I tell ya, spend 34 years alone and then acclimate to sharing space with someone. It really doesn't matter how much in love you are... sharing space means never, ever being alone....

All I think I need is a couple of hours a week, but ahhh the peace. I never thought, for instance that I would want to live in the country, separated from civilization... too extreme. I'm a chatty, social-type. Farm girl would be is just too much.... But a few stolen moments? Ahhh... time to regroup and appreciate humanity again. There is nothing so glorious. (or required when you are casting on stitches for a complicated knit pattern. See beginnings of sweater upper left.)
Want the pattern?

http://www.berroco.com/exclusives/tina/tina.html

I'm very excited. Skill level says Very Easy, but it will be my first attempt at cabling. Yarn used? See Feb. 16 blog. This is the Denim Silk. I've ripped and restarted this project about 15 times. Seriously. I think the results will be worth it, though. I like the way the stripes are playing out and really can't wait to get to the cables.

Okay, okay, back to my uninterrupted "office time". Husband will be home in an hour or two and I'll be wanting to chat again.

Have a happy Saturday.