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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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November & December Recap 2022

Close up of nametag that has Whoops! I didn’t mean for November to just disappear, but with working the polls for elections, a road trip to NC with the puppy, my first set of final papers in grad school while working full time, and my general November/December busyness it just disappeared in a poof.

So, when I finally sat down to write my recap post sometime around the 15th or 16th I just thought “Nah, I’ll combine November and December and give myself a reprieve.” Now, in early January, I’m not sure that was the best idea—thanks past-Geoff, thanks a lot.

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October Recap 2022

It’s weird writing this a week into November. I was doing so good about keeping up but the end of October and the beginning of November has been long and exhausting. School is picking up with shifting from fall one to fall two classes and midterms and the reading is no joke. And that doesn’t even take into work ALWAYS picking up around this time.

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September Recap 2022

I got a little more reading done in September than I did in August, but only because I leaned into romances. This academic reading is no joke ya’ll—if I added that in you’d think all I did was read for the entire month! It also didn’t hurt that we were on vacation for the first week or so of September so I got plenty of reading and knitting done without adorable puppy interruptions.

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