A very belated happy new year!

Ooops, it´s been way too long!!!! I´ve been totally busy the last couple of weeks. First, I had a couple of days off between Christmas and New Year which the boy and I used to relax and see lots of friends. Then as soon as I had to go back to work, things got really hectic. I have been working my sorry little (well, ok not so little) butt off the last two weeks. Things are slowing down to normal now and now I´m getting the flu or something. It´s always the same: the stress wears off and I get sick...
Well I´m just going to wish for the best.

In this post I want to write down my goals for 2008. They aren´t all knitting related, because I want to accomplish some things this year that I had trouble with last year.

First of all: I want to lose weight. Not just 2 kg, but at least 15kg. I want to do this in a healthy way, which means making time for workouts and eating healthier. I´ve had trouble with my body weight for at least the last 10 years and it´s definitely not getting better. 6 weeks ago I tore the ligaments in my right foot, which didn´t really help!!! Last week the doc told me, I could start doing sports again, so I spent the last couple of days picking out a gym in the area. I found one and tomorrow I´m going to make an appointment.
Sooo, I´m going to be honest and tell you where I´m at and where I want to be: currently I weigh 80 kg at 168cm and I want to lose 15kg. I won´t turn this into a weight-loss blog but I will update it on a semi-regular basis. Wish me luck guys!

Next on my list of goals is to be more disciplined concerning my economics diploma. My goal is to get good marks on the two exams I have planned for this year. I started studying and hope to keep up the discipline!!! ;-)

Now to the most interesting things: my knitting goals for 2008!

1. Here I wrote "finish Interlocking Cables", but in the meantime I´ve ripped the damn thing! It was about three times too big!!! Next time I start this I promise to swatch... Yes, you heard right I will swatch!!!!! I still want to finish this thing this year and I will!

2. Knit Starsky ( I don´t have yarn for this yet, but more about this later)

3. Knit at least 6 pairs of socks (one is in the making)

4. Knit one big lace project (this is my Indigo Spring which can be seen on ravelry, username: ribbit)

5. Knit one fair isle project with steeks

6. leave no UFOs at the end of each quarter of the year
-> if I accomplish this: I will allow myself to buy 3 skeins of sock yarn from the Loopy Ewe.
=> for the end of march this means I have to finish two sweaters, one pair of "fetching" and
a hat. (so far I´ve been working on the sweater that needed the most work, but more
about that in another post)

Currently I have yarn for 5 sweater projects. I will only allow myself to buy yarn for Starsky if I finish my current UFOs and knit at least one sweater out of my stash!

Ok, I´ve been rambling and rambling, now I´m tired and need to go to bed!!

I´ll tell you tomorrow, what I´ve been working on lately!!! With pics, I promise!!!