Tempting Fate?

So I've started the new year by breaking some of my traditions.

Growing up in central Pennsylvania means pork and sauerkraut for New Year's Day; but unless it's on a reuben sandwich, I'm not a big fan of sauerkraut (I did do pork ribs and coleslaw... I figure that it's the same ingredients, just in a different format, right?).

I also didn't cast on a new project on the first day of the year. It's something I've done for years, but I have not finished the last 3 years' New Year's Projects. After a discussion with my friend Julie, we decided to concentrate on one of our many WIP/UFO's... hopefully setting us up for a "year of finishing". My initial plan was to work on one of the projects that I started on New Year's, but never finished, but instead I worked on my eyelet & cable cardi. However, 4 days later, and I'm definitely feeling the itch to cast some thing on!

While I've never been a fan of resolutions, I do usually set goals for myself. Either project specific, or volume specific (ya, remember that year I tried to finish 24 projects... and I did, but most of them were failures... we won't be doing that again. Rather have it right rather than get it done).

However, I haven't even done that this year. I don't really have any goals set. Maybe finish Matt's fair isle pullover (Bayberry) in time for his Christmas gift. Maybe do some sorting of stash (and maybe even thin it down a bit). Eh. What gets done gets done. The only thing that I'm setting as a goal for this year: knit with more color (which also means: knit more for me!).

So hopefully all these things that I did differently this year will not come back to bite me. Maybe all those traditions for good luck are there for a reason? I guess we'll find out this time next year!