So...

Yes, I know, this post comes in a little later than the aforementioned once a week, but...better late than never?

I don't have any new finished-object news, but I will list the wonderful knitting books I got for Christmas:

Vogue Knitting: The Ultimate Knitting Book
The Harmony Guides: Cables and Arans
Inspired Fair Isle Knits
A Treasury of Knitting Patterns
Favorite Socks
Classic Knits
The Best of Interweave Knits
Cables Untangled
The Harmony Guides: Knit and Purl
Vogue Stitchionary 2: Cables
The Knitter's Book of Yarn

From TheBolter, I received Lace Style and an audiobook of the Yarn Harlot's At Knit's End. I received from lilyriver a subscription to Interweave Knits. So cool!!!!! Thank you!!! You get your own paragraph because your gifts are awesome. (I know you read my blog so I can thank you again over the interwebs.)

I made out like a bandit this Christmas. A part of me feels bad, like I'm in hoarding mode...but another part of me says I'm a poor graduate student, and I like gifts. (Although what part of me wouldn't like gifts, really?) I'm very much looking forward to having the time to knit all these exciting patterns once I've gotten sufficiently caught up on the (post-) Christmas knitting.

And of course, I also received yarns, including this Malabrigo Chunky in "Velvet Grapes":

I think it will become mittens.

And now it's time for bed. I'm sorry, I would link to all the book titles and yarn, but I'm too exhausted. I hope it snows really hard tomorrow so that we in this central Jersey area get snowed in with the shi*tload of work that we all have to complete in the next week (although maybe I should just speak for myself...I certainly have enough to keep me on the edge of hysteria for the remainder of the break) but a lot of comforting knitting as well.