Posted by SewPixie on February 25th, 2009 in Daily Life, Knitting
I’d love to show you my progress of the February Lady Sweater. But I’m at work so I can’t get to Flickr. So like go to my stream and stuff and see. I just past my 2nd buttonhole so it is going well. I have two other gift projects to work on as well so I’m going to have to alternate projects. That and I want more hats done for the shop.
Once upon a time my friend C had a Mini Cooper. Sugar was its name and it was a fine little car even it she was a bit of a lemon. Life changed and Sugar went on to a new home but C still pined for the Mini life. Another piece of the universe fell back into place last Friday when C drove off with her new Mini Clubman. I had the pleasure of riding in the new car to the Pavilions on Saturday night to meet up with other Minis and on a ride to Show Low and Payson on Sunday. Most of my February Lady Sweater progress was done on the run.
Other than that life is much the same as when I last left off. I’m still trying to get the house clean and the animals are still ruling said household. It still isn’t May (for reals, what’s up with that?! haha) so I haven’t left for my vacation yet.
I’m knitting and sewing and playing Mafia Wars on Facebook and chatting and smiling and working and exercising and thinking and cleaning and falling hard and crocheting and catching up and pondering and well…living
Posted by SewPixie on January 10th, 2009 in Daily Life
So last weekend I received an email from Jen that a photo of us from the 6th grade dance was on Facebook. This of course prompted me to try Facebook. I was afraid going in that it was too much like MySpace. I feel about 90 years old the few times I’ve checked MySpace, all the garish layout and blinking graphics make me ill and quite irritated, I start telling kids to get off my lawn and such. Anyways, so I get on there, Facebook that is, and it is much nicer than MySpace to me.
After about a week of it there is this very strange mix of people as my friends. A bunch of us from grade school which is a treat, sharing stories that we remember, photos from camp, all the old memories. Then some from high school (even on old boyfriend if you can imagine that), some from college, and some from today (both work and outside work). All these pieces from from life all put together. I have to wonder, if these people from the various slices of my life were to get together would they all think they knew the same me? How much have I changed, and how much has stayed the same? Which parts of you are your core, your true nature and which flow and change over time like a leaf down a stream?
I’ve spent much of the past couple of years trying to figure out who I am. Yes, I know myself in a way, but the real me, what I really want and how I want to be. Tossing aside all the expectations I image of what others want me to be, who am I? I’ve ruined many a friendship supposing what people thought of me and supposing how they wanted me to act. Quite silly and actually quite rude on my part to be honest. People don’t generally like assumptions being made about them. So being more true (both to myself and in how I present myself) is certainly on my list of goals. It will probably serve me much better.
Oh yes, and the back is much better. I am being a good girl and setting up the tripod when I take shop photos now. I’m coming off a cold but I slept most of the day away on Friday and that has helped quite a bit.