Not Sure if You've Noticed....

....but I don't knit as much as I used to. I use to do it on lunch breaks from work--and in the last year at my job, it was basically to break up the misery of trying to sell large phone systems in an economy where no companies could get credit, no one was sure what the future would bring, and the contacts I had at companies were disappearing on a regular basis. Knitting brought me sanity.

Now I'm not working, I have planted a garden TWICE the size of last year's garden, and I don't seem to be as stressed. Either that or with this much garden, sanity is not really welcome around here right now........

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toni in florida said…
My own knitting time got cut significantly at work, too. As a 9-1-1 operator and fire/rescue dispatcher on midnite shift, I'm paid to be at work and alert at all times, so I can respond instantaneously when needed. So all of us were allowed to read, knit, crochet, etc., in the "down" times. That stopped in January, due to a decision by a higher-up who doesn't work in the center itself on shiftwork any longer. Lord, how my output has slowed, as a result. And, lord, how hard it is to stay awake and alert at 4 a.m. now. Sigh.
August 11, 2009 at 9:51 AM
RobinH said…
It sounds like you're having a lot more fun gardening :). I only wish I could knit at work...there are meetings and phone conferences where it would be a huge boon, but unfortunately not socially acceptable.
August 12, 2009 at 11:26 AM
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