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So do we talk about new year's resolutions or can we just skip that part and say I am always working on being a better me and sometimes I am not as successful as I would like. We good?

I did pick up some new habits that I will be carrying into the new year. Want to hear about them? Of course you do!

I finally pulled out a nice thick journal I had bought a while ago and started writing in it. Maybe to compensate for not writing here? Maybe, I've just wanted to start working through some things and journaling is something I've wanted to try for a while. Plus it is a covert way to fill my school supplies love basket. 

I made a few entries and they confirmed that one of the things I really wanted to do was start exercising regularly again. This time I instituted a guilt free and recordless plan. I tend to beat myself up a lot and I wanted to get out of the "shoulda" way of thinking. I shoulda did this, I shoulda done that. Now I just go do it for however long I want or I take a night off. There are no rules or goals other than checking the box or not. Personally it has been rather freeing. 

Another thing I identified as a priority was catching my knitting journal up. I was a year and a half behind at one time. I am proud to say that I ended 2019 caught up and ready to do better. I realized how much I missed writing up my knitting when I saw how much was sneaking into my new journaling habit. That's fine I can still talk about it over there too. Heck my old knitting journals worked as my first journaling endeavor anyways. I can split them, I can join them, I can do whatever I want with them. No guilt!

And speaking of doing what I want I made a couple of ornaments with leftover sock yarn. Though I only managed to snap a pic of one of them. My little pink one is at work hanging by my name plate.  It is super cute too.

I finished up some socks by the end of the year too. I started these the first time D went to Czechia and they sat and sat. When I went to Czechia I made sure they came with me. I ripped back the few inches I had, and turned them into my Czech Monkeys.

I just love the look of Monkey socks. It is one of those patterns that seems written on my soul. They look lovely but are not too hard to knit and easy to memorize.

One of the things I found in Czechia were cute little graph paper notebooks. I bought this one first then allowed myself to go back and get a bigger one and one more like a school notebook. See I told you I love school supplies. I have learned that it is easier for me to rewrite a pattern. I love the little squares but don't always need to count them. I have figured out a way that makes sense to me and will most likely be rewriting more.

These socks are just the splash of color I need mid winter. Even when my winter is no longer white, I love some funky colored socks!

This my languishing project that will be getting attention this year. Bouncy squishy handspun yarn, that I need to learn from. I want to make mitts or mittens from it but I need to write out the pattern for the gauge I'm getting. I have Ann Budd's handy book of projects at multiple gauges that I need to narrow down to my specific gauge and write out. See I knew those little notebooks would be handy.

So now that we're caught up I have some new yarn to take pictures of so that I can post here. Yeah I had a nice time in a yarn store yesterday. I even logged it into Ravelry the same day! I am winning!