a quick thing

 Today was a big grading day; I just got done after working most of the afternoon and into the evening (taking a break to eat dinner and to shower). 

Also got some bad news yesterday that I'm still digesting. No, it's nothing with my biological family, no, it's not a health concern of mine. But it's something unhappy and it means a big change and upheaval on very short notice and maybe me having to go out and try to find a new group of people....and I just don't have the energy for it right now. 

there's going to be a meeting tomorrow, I may know more then. I'm just tired though and tired of what is or what seems like bad news. 

I didn't get as much knitting done over Thanksgiving as I had hoped but I did manage to secretly work some on the socks for my mom:

I don't know why the colors look so different. I had a phone update last night and it seems like it lights differently in pictures now or something. The second photo is more true color. 

Anyway, hoping to find the happy at some point. This is the first week of Advent, "Hope," and right now it feels a little like hope is kind of thin on the ground. Or at least earthly hope? but it is difficult to keep showing up to work every day when it feels like a cold wind is blowing through your chest and you wonder what shock is coming next.