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Craft Corner January 2023

2022 Best 9 Grid from @losing.my.knit instagram page.Welcome to the newest addition to my blog, Craft Corner. I’ve occasionally included callout sections in my monthly blog recaps about the knitting I work on during that month and occasionally talk about future patterns.

With the 2023 year change and future changes to the book portion of this blog, I thought I’d spend a bit more time on these recaps and talk a bit more about where a large portion of my time is spent outside of work, school and reading. The photo to the right is my Insta Top 9 and it’s basically me being a goofball and working on designs by Rastus Hsu and Maxim Cyr (who you’ll see more from below).

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2022 Year-End Recap

Snapshot of Goodreads "My Year in Books" with 22,935 pages read and 85 books read"The most shocking thing this year is that I was able to read anything after June 30. Between work being ridiculous love the summer, long-delayed pandemic vacations, and starting school again I’m shocked I read as much as I did.

You can definitely see a bit of a dip after June, but MM Romance novels kept my numbers up and probably will continue to keep them up over the next two years. My page count is way down, but what can you do? At least I’m still finding time to read.

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June Recap 2022

What a month! It started with us getting Covid from our trip to Texas (not bad cases, just knocked us out for a few days), was immediately followed by my graduate school program starting in the middle of makeup events at work from the last two years, with a birthday trip for Tim (thankfully drivable this year to Upstate NY), and the busiest time of the year at work in general for me (end of the fiscal year).

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