Yesterday during some much needed time at home, I finished the 8th square for my log cabin blanket. I've been working on so many projects lately that this is growing very slowly, and in my mind I keep trying to cut down the number of squares I want for the final product. I started out thinking I would make 25 squares for a 5 by 5 blanket. But at the rate I'm going, I wouldn't finish that in the next year and a half before I move home. So more recently I started thinking that maybe I would make a 3 by 4 rectangle. But now that I have the blocks laid out on the back of my couch like this (they really brighten up the room!) I know that I want to make a 4 by 4 square. I'm halfway there, but that is not counting the mistake square in the bottom right-hand corner that I will almost definitely have to re-knit.

I thought I'd be moping around all weekend since my friends went snowboarding and I can't go because of the silly tailbone injury. But it's already noon on Sunday and as usual, the weekend went by too fast! A night out with my co-workers on Friday left me sleeping late yesterday, and then dedicating the rest of the day to a big cleaning/reorganization of the apartment. It's nice to change things around every now and then and this new setup feels good. Now my place is clean and free of dustbunnies (even behind the couch!), my laundry is washed and folded, I have fresh sheets on my futon and I even got to talk with my mom and dad for a few hours last night. It's easy to forget that these weekends in are always great. Tonight I am having a Veronica Mars marathon and dinner with my friends in the newly cleaned apartment so that should mean even more log-cabining time.

If I could finish one block per week from now on, I would be done by the end of April. Looking at my busy calendar, it doesn't seem like a feasible goal, but I'll see what I can do. I want that finished blanket on my couch for spring!