Three weeks, 2500 miles

It has been 3 weeks since K left for Afghanistan.  In that time, I have driven from Colorado to Illinois, from  Illinois to Detroit, from Detroit to Illinois, and run a million errands.  I have literally put 2500 miles on my car in the last 3 weeks.

It has also been an emotionally taxing few weeks.  First, K left (down).  Then I packed up the apartment (down) and drove back to IL and got to spend time with pets and friends (up).  Then I drove to Detroit for my best friend's graduation from her surgical residency (up).  Then, I found out my cat was sick (hopefully much better now -- next checkup Tuesday) (down), and one of K's ferrets has been diagnosed with lymphoma (down).

My kitty Lemur.

Our sick girl Sushi.  This is a normal sleeping position for a ferret.  I know.  They're weird.

Two other cats need to go to the vet this week (down), and I am waiting to hear if I got an apartment close to school for this year (up I hope, but I'll have to move again (urg)).  There is another big thing too, but that one needs to stay internet dark until September.

So today, I only had 90 miles of driving to do (MIL to airport), and have been enjoying my free time.  I am working on a Camp Loopy project right now, and it is nice and simple and pretty.

Daybreak, medium size.

It is the Daybreak shawl.  I'm knitting it in Loopy Solids color Tangerine, and Dream in Color Everlasting color Posy.  I'm on stripe 9 of 16, and it's slow going as it's getting bigger every row.  Still, it's nice relaxing knitting, and looks just the way I hoped it would.

Hopefully in the next two or so weeks life will settle down a notch or three.  In the meantime, I'm striping.