"Being here is like--like--being taken on a holiday when one has been a good little girl and done all one's lessons."

Instead of spending my snow day munching burritos, I am finishing up some projects in desperate need of attention while enjoying the film adaptation--and Martin Scorsese directed (god! I love him! and his glasses!)-- of Edith Wharton's amazing society novel, The Age of Innocence.Who doesn't need a little Daniel Day Lewis in their life every now and again, I ask? Especially when there aren't any burritos in sight.I've decided to finish up some crochet projects that I've neglected since summer. Yes summer! Last June, I was dead set on making these brilliant chevron crochet afghans and the finished product really should have convinced me to finish up the last one I started. This is the third in the series, but for some reason, I could not bring myself to finish. It's been sitting in a box since August and I've felt so guilty every time I stick my head in the closet and see it.The pattern for the afghan was in the July/August issue of Crochet Today, which you can check out here. Honestly, my excuse would be that it's unbearable in summer months to have a hot afghan on your lap as you finish--the larger it gets, the harder it is to have a heavy blanket covering your legs when the sun shines dead on you.And so, I finish up old projects. This particular afghan is adapted from the original--the stripes a set of five in one color, rather than two. The previous version were more candy colored goodness--with rainbow tendencies--while this one is more strict, with a gradiation of greens to golds to blues. I'm pretty pleased with it. Here's to hoping it's completed today.I'll post photos of all the afghans when they are complete.What did you do on your snow day?