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serynIt's only taken a week of not having the volunteer gig looming to make fiber crafts seem more appealing again.
I knew it was sapping my creative energy, but it seemed to be balanced out by the participation in my community aspect. To give an example, I was at Target on Wednesday (I found another one that isn't beyond stupid to try to get to when there is traffic.) and this woman comes up to me and says, "I know you. You taught me to knit!"
But I've literally knit more on other people's projects 3-5 stitches at a time while fixing things than I have knit on my own work in months. There needs to be a better balance so 2 hours of volunteering doesn't poison the rest of my week's yarn handling.
It did mean I could pick up an extra tai chi class.
And maybe this weekend I'll actually pick up the yarn again instead of thinking about it and vaguely remembering that this doesn't completely suck.
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I've got a lot of TV queued up for me. I've been insanely busy. Probably not compared to real people, but compared to my normal schedule. I have gone somewhere every day this week. I've called people every day this week. And I've worked on a household project every day this week. But I still have laundry, grocery shopping, something toward spring cleaning to do tomorrow.
I need to go run at the gym too and that does need to be a priority.
(Need to do something about the taxes too. I said I wasn't happy with the tax guy but that doesn't mean I can do jack and expect it to magically sort itself. But that can wait for the weekend.)
But it is why I have so much TV queued up, I don't have spare hours when Simon* isn't sleeping on the couch unless I stay up too late.
I knew it was sapping my creative energy, but it seemed to be balanced out by the participation in my community aspect. To give an example, I was at Target on Wednesday (I found another one that isn't beyond stupid to try to get to when there is traffic.) and this woman comes up to me and says, "I know you. You taught me to knit!"
But I've literally knit more on other people's projects 3-5 stitches at a time while fixing things than I have knit on my own work in months. There needs to be a better balance so 2 hours of volunteering doesn't poison the rest of my week's yarn handling.
It did mean I could pick up an extra tai chi class.
And maybe this weekend I'll actually pick up the yarn again instead of thinking about it and vaguely remembering that this doesn't completely suck.
___
I've got a lot of TV queued up for me. I've been insanely busy. Probably not compared to real people, but compared to my normal schedule. I have gone somewhere every day this week. I've called people every day this week. And I've worked on a household project every day this week. But I still have laundry, grocery shopping, something toward spring cleaning to do tomorrow.
I need to go run at the gym too and that does need to be a priority.
(Need to do something about the taxes too. I said I wasn't happy with the tax guy but that doesn't mean I can do jack and expect it to magically sort itself. But that can wait for the weekend.)
But it is why I have so much TV queued up, I don't have spare hours when Simon* isn't sleeping on the couch unless I stay up too late.
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Date: 2011-03-11 06:34 pm (UTC)There might be an exciting trip for onion rings and a soda in about an hour and a half. Your life is apparently way more thrilling than mine.
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Date: 2011-03-11 07:54 pm (UTC)Playing with yarn is supposed to be fun and relaxing but it's stopped being that ever since I started teaching other people to knit.