What's the Holdup?

Tuesday again -- the weekend flew by, as it always does. Isn't it strange in this new reality of working from home that I sometimes look forward to a work day because it means I'll be forced to sit all day and that means a higher likelihood of getting some knitting done?

Saturday would have been the perfect day to sit and knit all day -- starting midday, it was gloomy and pouring off and on. But I ended up being busy most of the day. I went for my walk in the morning, while it was dry, then cleaned the bathroom and started the laundry, and then Rainbow and I did a Target run in the afternoon, mainly because while the few things we needed we were in desperate need of, she needed the distraction from the discomfort of her new orthodontic device (she's doing much better with it now, by the way, but she was cranky for a couple of days after she got it). Once I did get a chance to sit down, I was determined to finish plying the last skein of my HipStrings yarn, and then I spent pretty much all of my Saturday evening skeining and washing the skeins.

Sunday was a similar story. I knit through my weekly Zoom session, but then there were chores to do around my house and my walk, and then we had dinner on Sunday evening with our siblings and siblings-in-law and nephew (only the human one; the dog nephew stayed home).

All of this is a long-winded way of saying that I really have not made as much progress on my ADVENTuresome Wrap, and while I know that one reason is just a general lack of time, I still can't figure out what's taking me so long. I have only had to tink back one row in the past week because I've forgotten the wrong-side decreases, which means I'm finally getting the pattern into my head. But I've only just started the eighth stripe, so I'm not quite a third of the way through it.

I know one issue is that this is a project that I have to look at while I knit, so I typically only work on it while I'm watching TV or other videos. And lately I've been prioritizing projects (be they knitting or spinning) that I can do while I read so that I can make progress on my bingo cards. So maybe I need to listen to more audiobooks. But I think there's also something about the fact that this project uses mini skeins, and that means that there are inevitable interruptions to my knitting -- I have to wind a new mini for each stripe and periodically pause to weave in ends -- so I can't really get into much of a flow. 

It might be a little ambitious of me, but I would really love to finish this by the end of the month. That would mean knitting almost two stripes per day on average or, by my count, about 30 rows a day. That seems doable, especially if I prioritize the project. So please, hold me accountable, will you? I'm going to start keeping track of how many rows I knit per day, and maybe I'll even make things easier on myself by using my ball winder to wind a few mini skeins ahead of time (so far I've just been hand-winding them because it seemed like too much work to set up the ball winder and swift for something that would take just a few minutes). I've found lately that I also seem to be getting more done when I make a daily to-do list for myself, so I'm going to put those 30 rows on my list as well. What do you think -- can I do it?