New Beginnings

It's hard to believe it's been almost 2 and a half months that we've been out of a home. It seems like it's a long time, but at the same time not long at all. But I am SOOO ready to start fresh! It has been one thing after another in the experience, from the inital disaster, to moving from house to house, being in yet another tornado, then finally some-what settling into a house and finding out it was infested with spiders! And not just any spiders, like the worst ones you can have. But things are turning around. This will be a month of new beginnings. I got a new job! (yay!) I"m excited. It will be challenging, but I need it right now. And it's with the State of Oklahoma, so I actually get benefits! And most of all it will be rewarding. I can't wait to start! We will also be moving back into our home<3 some point this month. And in the meantime- goodbye spider house! After everything we put up with in that awful place, we got screwed over and have to move out. Sounds bad, but it is actually fantastic because we get to move into a really nice hotel for the remainder of our time as squatters! I'm pumped.

And what does this have to do with this lovely, partially completed blanket I have posted? Everything. It's weird where you find meaning in times like these, and I have found it in my current mindless-chillin-on-the-couch-watching-tv crochet project. And here's why;

             I literally started this the weekend before May 20th. We have AC and I'm always cold, so I      wanted to try to make a nice blanket for the couch. This is supposed to be "super quick." Yeah. When I did the initial chain it didn't seem wide enough, so I doubled it. Well it apparently stretches as you get going on it, and it is now humongous. Because you never know when you start out what you will actually face, and it may be way bigger then you imagine. Just like those silly storms on May 20th.

            I had a few rows of it done by that Monday, and was planning on just leaving it out and working on it a little every day, so this baby was just chillin on the couch when the storm hit. It had a front row seat to whatever it looked like from inside the house. Instead of just throwing it away and starting over though, I banged the crap out of them to get the glass out and put it aside to continue. It hung out in the house for about a week, but then I took it with me to another house we were staying at, right before the May 31st storms. And guess what I was doing to try to stay calm that Friday? Working on this thing. It's my tornado blanket.

          And now, as we move out of this spider-infested crappy house, I have finished the inital stage. I've used all the original yarn I bought, that survived this with me. And now it's time for a new phase, to start with new materials but the same direction. I refuse to buy more yarn for it until we are OUT of that place and in clean conditions. It is how I will move forward from this, symbolically. It will need a real good wash when it's done though..or maybe now.

And whoever actually gets out here to visit me- you can sleep with it :)