I suck at blogging

I suck at blogging. Always have. I post until I get bored, or forget to. And then there's huge gaps of missing time that I go back through and try to fill up. But that's not really the point right now.

We moved on Monday, and I was going to start up this blog again with all the yarn related adventures I was going to have this summer. Our new place is furnished so I can use our little kitchen table for my sewing machine. Our bedroom is big enough to have a yarn corner, bookshelves and a gaming table. Worldwide Knit in Public day is coming up. I was going to rent a spinning wheel from the Ottawa Valley Weaver's and Spinners Guild (OVWSG) and take part in Tour de Fleece this year.

But I went to the doctor yesterday. I went two weeks ago as well, but that doctor said I'd just overworked the muscle in my forearm. So I took a break from knitting until the first. The muscle was feeling better but the pain had spread to the tendons on the top of my hand, around my thumb and my elbow. The second doctor said it was repetitive strain injury and that I'd have to get physio. And that I'd probably never be able to knit at the same rate I used to.

And I feel stupid about it. Like, why didn't I see this coming? Because I was writing all my notes by hand and knitting everyday for the past 8 months.

So now I'm surrounded by knitting I was going to do this summer and yarn I can't use. I was in the middle of a shawl for my best friend, a blanket for her and her husbands first anniversary, a tablecloth for my mom that was supposed to be for mother's day, three pairs of socks, a mat for the cat, a large blanket for Aaron and I, and projects I've probably forgotten about. And now I can't do any of it.

I'm giving myself till August to try knitting again. I've spend the afternoon trying to train my left hand to use the computer. I guess I'll just learn continental when I'm better, take more breaks, get back into reading, do other things as well as craft.

I'm still planning on posting. It's something I'd like to do. I'll probably be posting old things I've done as we continue unpacking. Take up sewing, struggle with a wheel for a while, make a yarn fort.

I'm too far deep down the rabbit hole to give any of this up.