Why do I do this or the TS

Why do I do this to myself?
I get this crazy idea that I have to make something for some one, right this minute. Forget that I have other obligations, like going to work or bathing. (Only kidding about the second) And convince myself and others that I can complete the task in a ridiculously short period of time.

True conversation on the Orange line, Monday morning October 30:
Kat: "What are you doing?"
Me: “Casting on a Gossamer Shawl for my Mom, she going on a two week cruise the day after Thanksgiving”
Kat: “Well you better get crackin’”
Me: “Naw, I got plenty of time. I can knock this out in two weeks”

Famous Last words.

You walk around feverishly, crunching numbers. X numbers of rows per day are needed to accomplish….
Then you decided, feh, I will never get this done and I’ve got other things to knit and ignore the project for a day. But this is for your MOM, MA, MOMMY !
And you go back to it.
O but it is the major time suck. I don’t know why it seems to knit so slowly, then suddenly:
You are in the groove and this thing is beginning to look like something, yeah baby!
A few tweaks here and there and it actually is a pattern. Not bad, really. A nice use of this yarn, a variation of the usual rectangle.

Then the call:
Me: “Hey Ma”
Mom: “ Hi. Where’s my Capri’s ( She doesn’t know about the shawl, she is waiting for some Capri’s I picked up for her) you are going to have to fed ex ‘em. We’re flying to Florida to stay with Aunt Velda and Howard before the cruise”

Yikes.

This means that I have even less time to get this done. I thought I would have until this Saturday to mail the shawl. I assume she would be leaving form the ancestral home in Jersey Friday. But no.

Cross your needles and stay tuned.