{"id":177,"date":"2007-08-03T14:20:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-03T21:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/MamaOKnits\/2007\/08\/03\/of-naps-and-nighttime-knitting\/"},"modified":"2007-08-03T14:20:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-03T21:20:00","slug":"of-naps-and-nighttime-knitting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/of-naps-and-nighttime-knitting\/","title":{"rendered":"Of Naps and Nighttime Knitting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I should get more sleep.<\/p>\n<p>My husband will crack up when he sees this because, when he&#8217;s home, I generally get eight hours (without which, you really don&#8217;t want to be around me&#8230;really). When he&#8217;s gone, though, I putter. I am able to putter my circuitous way around the house, putting up pictures, making things right, gradually going through drawers and filling boxes with Things To Go Elsewhere&#8211;not that they ever GET there&#8230;<br \/>If he were here it would only make him nervous. So. I save the putter for his trips.<\/p>\n<p>But then, while puttering, I&#8217;ll glance at a clock and see that it&#8217;s nearly eleven p.m. and I&#8217;ve not knitted or woven or spun or&#8230;anything. And I get rather jittery and my hands start to twitch. And I stop whatever I&#8217;m doing pretty much mid-stream, and sit and knit. Or weave. Or something.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve found that without question I sleep better after knitting etc. at night. I imagine it&#8217;s something about the Alpha Waves or some such thing, but whatever it is, it works for me.  Right now I&#8217;m in catch-up-sleep mode, Andrew having just returned, and I should take a nap. But instead, I&#8217;ll probably finish warping the loom for the Huck Lace table runner.<\/p>\n<p>So goeth the nap.<\/p>\n<p>The runner had better be worth it!<\/p>\n<p>OffTN: Syd&#8217;s Horcrux Sox<br \/>OTN: Victorian Lace Sox, MS#3, Pomotomus (I&#8217;m so polygamous with my knitting&#8230;must be the influence of HBO&#8217;s <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Big Love<\/span>&#8211;Andrew will be glad it stops at knitting).<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and speaking of <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Big Love,<\/span> if you have HBO watch <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">I Have Tourettes but Tourettes Doesn&#8217;t Have Me<\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I should get more sleep. My husband will crack up when he sees this because, when he&#8217;s home, I generally get eight hours (without which, you really don&#8217;t want to be around me&#8230;really). When he&#8217;s gone, though, I putter. I am able to putter my circuitous way around the house, putting up pictures, making things [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7,13,18,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-love","category-sock-knitting","category-spinning","category-ufos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}