Five can be a strange number sometimes in my life. Today was a perfect example. I decided to spend about 5 minutes cleaning up the table in the knitting room. Well I feel into the rabbit hole I call deep cleaning. I went through every kit that I had. I decided that I did not want to do about 20 of them so I put them in a box to go. That lead to every shelf having a through clearing. I went through everything. Then I decided to go through my yarn. Let’s just politely say that in 22 years of knitting I many have kept a few to many skeins that I acquired. Over the years my skills have vastly improved. My projects have changed quite a bit. My taste in yarn has improved. I tried to follow a few fads like lace knitting, not enough time, but I still acquired a lot of lace yarn. Sock knit was also a fling that did not last long. Sock knitting was hard on my hands even before all the hand surgeries. I stopped doing some charity knitting but failed to pass on the yarn.
So today’s 5 minutes of cleaning turned into an almost all day cleaning spree. I have bag's and boxes of yarn ready to get out of the house. Except that I will have to go through all ten bags to pull the sock yarn for my current favorite scarf knitting project. That should not take long tomorrow.
I am trying to keep only the projects and yarn that I like. The same goes with books too. Too much of any thing is clutter. I am going for a clutter free lifestyle. I have even found a few projects that are almost finished. That should help even more.
Now my other problem with 5 happened at lunch. I ignored the 5 grams of fat rule. I had 1/2 of a piece of tempura. That was a mistake that I will not ever repeat again. Let’s just politely say that my body had a temper tantrum. I guess when I can taste the fat it is not under 5 grams.
Well even though I am very hyper from a fantastic day of cleaning, I should try to get some sleep so I can have another fantastic day of cleaning tomorrow. De stash, de stash, de stash.
