Candy Crush

We’re starting to see the other side of everyone being sick and cooped up with cabin fever. The sun is shining today, the ice is starting to slide off the roof (much to Jackson’s delight), and even my books and yarn are bright and cheery. I finished Eleanor & Park and really enjoyed it. I thought it did a nice job of capturing high school, in all its awfulness and fleeting high points. I wish the book came with a soundtrack as I really loved all the musical references. Last week at the library I picked up Candy: A Century of Panic and Pleasure by Samira Kawash. I have a massive sweet tooth and while I try to be green and eat somewhat healthy, I cannot kick my refined-sugar-wonka-candy habit. I am 26 pages in and I have already found myself drawn in by the good points brought up: How do you define “candy”? and also wondering what horrors await in further chapters. Apparently salvage candy is ending up in cattle feed mixes? I am feeling a bit overwhelmed by it (like watching King Corn) and maybe it will motivate me to make a few changes. I did pick up The Rosie Effect so I could alternate story with hard truths, but I didn’t realize until I got home that this is the 2nd book – I must have thought this was The Rosie Project. I’ll be returning it to the library – I think I should read those in the proper order.

I am adding the finishing details to a baby gift, sock #1 of Dan’s socks now has a leg that is halfway done, there’s another sample knit project I can’t share right now, and that orange? I’ll be sample knitting a Sproutlette Dress for MarigoldJen in that lovely merino-silk fingering weight yarn, Orange Crush is the colorway. Can’t wait to get started!