a monologue about being short (well ... rant, really)

It's been a bit of a slow week for me. (And yet, ironically, I'm more tired now than I was last Thursday.) Here is a list of things I have not done this week:

- laundry. (Well, that's a big one.)
- cook. (Another big one.)
- bought a house. (Not that I buy houses every week. But I was sort of hoping that I would this week.)
- made cards.
- knit on anything other than a giant man-sized sweater in stockinette.
- finish climbing a 5.11a.
- finish climbing anything harder than a 5.10a, now that I think about it.

I did, however, buy yarn. A big whacking load of it. And now I'm all antsy until it gets here, because then I can knit on something other than a gigantic stockinette sweater (because, you know, the big pile of sock yarn in the stash is nothing — nothing, I tell you).

So anyway, no, climbing is not going so well. The route-setters have this rhythm that I'm starting to get used to, but which annoys the Hell out of me — every three months or so, they decide to set up climbs that work only for tall people. It's insane. The 5.11a is not terribly difficult; it's very precise and I love it. Well. I would love it if I didn't have to stretch this way and that like ElastiGirl, and no, there isn't any other way to do it, because I am 5'1" and that's not gonna change. I wouldn't mind it quite so much if it was obvious that there's something I should be able to hold onto but can't; it's when I climb things and I get stuck because I literally cannot touch the next hold and then my 6'1" husband and his 5'10" friend easily and casually sail past it that I have a problem with. And I am having this problem on 5.10c routes — 5.10c. I can redpoint bloody 5.10c; this is not a strength or technique problem.

I am getting, as you can tell, very cranky. I only have about six weeks left to finish a 5.11c (toprope) and it's not looking so good any more. There was a perfect route I was projecting (not too reachy and über crimpy — exactly to my taste), but they took it away and replaced it with a 5.10d two weeks ago. Berks.

(Kniting update: still on the sweater, right front now. It's just chugging along. Man, bulky yarn on big needles is fantastic. Why didn't anyone tell me this before?)