Friday, January 7, 2011

Vacation!

I've been off of work since Monday morning when I finished the night shift.
Just about then the weather forecast turned quite bad and I've had the luck to sit on my couch and knit while other meteorologists at work have been working they're ears of during the storms. Granted, I worked the storms before Christmas so it's all quite even by now.
But the thing I've missed quite alot since I became an obsessive knitter is reading. I don't read - other than school books and work related stuff I don't read anymore. But then, this past week I had a stroke of genius. Well, not -but almost. I remembered a website I'd seen while nursing Trausti for long long hours in the night when he was newborn, it's a site where books in the public domain are read by volunteers and you can download them or stream! So, now I've been sitting on my couch, knitting my boys t-shirts and listening to Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South, and I just started another one, Jane Austen's Persuasion. Too bad my school books aren't available as audio books.
I really did need the week of after working almost non-stop since August. It's a welcome relief. But I do look forward to going back to work, and that is something to be grateful for - looking forward to work. I think there aren't a lot of people that can say that. Anyway. I'll leave you with pictures!


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