A lot to do, little time.

Ohhh the time goes sooo fast i have no time to think! Last week i was down with the cold that sort of progressed into flu then into chest infection and i'm still a bit not too great. Have been cycling like crazy though, i mean just fast, but always stopping at the red lights and generally being careful. Ever since we came back from our holidays we have been going all the way, and that 15 miles every day, half of it up the hill. I can just feel my hamstrings turning into stone. Or wood. Anyway, point being- I have been going up Greenwich hill every day and didnt get off once. You know Greenwich hill? Then you'll know what i mean.
Apart from congratulating myself and patting myself on the back i have been cooking (a lot) and knitting (not quite as much). Oh and getting excited about alpacas. I decided im fed up with retouching and wanna have an alpaca farm. Not tomorrow of course, but like in 5 years time. Or 10 years... Just have to see. When there is a will there is a way. And i am serious.
Im so serious i booked myself some spinning classes. I want to start spinning yarn and dying it so that when i have some alpacas i can do those things. I also have been reading a lot on alpaca farming and it all makes perfect sense.
And im progressing nicely on Drops Top 2 in black for my mother in law's Christmas present. Im just being realistic about my ability to knit and also about the amount of time i have. I know i said that my next project was gonna be Superman pullover for Leo, but he suddenly slipped to the darker realms of Batman so now im left with some wonderful cotton in Superman colours (and it did take me FOREVER to find just the right shade of red) and my son doesnt want to hear anything about Superman and totally Batman obsessed. Im personally more of a Spiderman kind of girl, he is not as dark as Batman and not as unobtainable as Superman, just your local hero.
Aaaanyway, it is a bit slow at work today (as in noone has shouted angrily at me yet) so i have time to write my thoughts down. Oh, another thing is that for my mother's birthday she asked me to knit her a vest. It seems everyone is vest obsessed, but i dont mind. So i just received the lovely green wool i have bought on ebay for it. Even though the picture looked totally emerald green and the wool itself is more of a leaf green, which reminds me:
Stop fuffing with the colours in Photoshop people, especially if you dont know what you are doing!
So many ebay sellers think: "oh i'll just up the saturation and lighten it a bit to make it look prettier" It doesn't work like that, all of those things make your colours look wrong. Adding saturation makes things more yellow and lightening things make them more red/blue/green depending on your base color.
Sorry got destructed from important stuff there for a second. So yeah, another Drops vest, here i come. Not the same Drops vest though. So a lot to do, little time.