Stress Reaction

Not ready to blog, but not ready to give up on blogging either. I envy those whose blogging is always light and cheerful, despite their mood. But I think I enjoy more those bloggers who write from the heart, sharing the trials and struggles of day-to-day life. I think being real is important; it makes us all feel less alone in life.

Stress Reaction was a fun name for my blog when life was mundane and my reaction to stress was to buy more sock yarn. It’s not so much fun now. My perspective has changed dramatically since my mother passed away so unexpectedly.

I love the knit blogging community, and I don’t want to give up a single one of you. But I want my blogging to be about more than knitting now. I want it to be about life and loss and the joy that can be found on the other side of that loss. I’m still searching for that joy, and more than one of you have been instrumental in assisting me in that search. I *heart* you for that.

There will still be knitting.

And sock yarn shopping.

There will also be a blog name change.

But rather than silence, my goal will be to acknowledge the good days as well as the bad, with words, and pictures and the friendship that each of you offers.

I hope you will stick around for the journey.

Correct me if I am wrong, but somehow I’m thinking that this is not what Keri had in mind for her Fingerless Mitts for Fall KAL. What do you think, Keri? Would this win me any points for style? Thought not.

I have a rather painful case of tendonitis in my right wrist. While it represents multiple challenges to activities such as knitting and other, I assure you, quite necessary personal functions, it was worth it. I now have cute office furniture.

And before my hand was laid low by super heavy particle board, I managed to finish up one Monkey and start the mate.

I fell in love with these socks when I saw (now sadly blogless) Amanda’s version in blue. So as to not induce severe withdrawal symptoms, I did not completely abandon my habitual purple color family, but instead selected Dream in Colors Smooshy Sock Yarn in Deep Seaflower. Me likey a lot!