25 Days

   There are many things to do, clean the house for the holidays, figure out what is going on with my spinning wheel, send out my holiday cards, buy people Christmas gifts, maybe buy a new pair of jeans? And homework. Lots and lots of homework. Over the next 25 days there is a ton of homework to do but then… but then… I’m done for a whole 3 weeks!

    I’ll get to knit, and bake pies, and watch cheesy Christmas specials. I can watch a Muppet Christmas Carol repeatedly and go for walks in the evening to see my neighbours Christmas lights. I can finally settle in and just relax (maybe clean my keyboard too, the J key is just kind of sticky)

   I finished the scarf, pictures to come when I have them. It is currently blocking upstairs. I am so proud of myself for finally finishing the darn thing now I can knit other stuff just for fun. My little cat friend is still as noisy as ever. Right now is quiet time because she is sleeping, but that can only last for so long, then the noise Siamese cats are known for will start again.

  Lately a couple things have kept me going. One is Knit 1 Geek 2, a set of lovely ladies with a podcast about knitting and being geeky. It keeps me light and laughing when school is dragging me down. For now though I’ll leave you all to get back to the real world. Hope everyone has a good time over the next week. Till next I have a chance to type.

Heather

When we are young there is no doubt in our hearts, only a full and complete belief that we CAN do anything. Such is the faith of our youth that no others doubts can hurt our dreams.

Then those doubts become your own. Every small perceived flaw or mistake torn apart by our own super critical, expecting a standard of ourselves no one else can even see.

Disbelief at kind words, offerings of too little too late, for we calmly say thanks and add on our own "but I didn't/don't/can't/"

So I tell you now only belief in your own abilities and your desire to try can limit you. Failing is a terrible word, trying and not getting the right answer is only failing when we don't try again. The person that hurts is only yourself. So try, believe, and do.

A mistake is the obstacle we make it, keep it in scale, because it is hard to crawl back on top of the elephant when we fall off, but you probably only fell off an mouse.

So with that esoteric motivational blurb I leave you to the night, and shall try to sleep like my body probably wants.

Goodnight world, I'll try all this again tomorrow.

Cat Pinned

This is what it looks like when a cat pins you. Please note the smug appearance and paw holding down her my arm and pillowing her head.  This is what happens when you sit still for even a little bit of time in this house now. Suki (exhibit A) has decided that I am her personal couch, so are visitors to the house, my darling man, the couch, the kitchen… you get the idea. I am not usually a cat person, I make an exception for her.

I am taking advantage of being cat-pinned to update this blog since I pretty much fell off the face off the earth with all of this. Firstly I’m back in school, it’s driving me insane but I’m working through and its only 4 weeks of class and a week of exams before I get my life back for a couple of weeks.

When I get my life back I plan to do a major knitting inventory for my ravelry page. My Stash (for any non-knitter tuning in this roughly relates to my closet full of yarn, shh don’t tell!) needs to be fully catalogued (I really don’t know what I have to work with so I am going to catalogue it all and then I can use it up (hahahaha) or at least use some of it. I also want to get some serious knitting done, mittens and hats and maybe a sweater! So excited!

The knitting that is holding me back is a scarf I’m making for my man’s sister. I’ve been working on the damn thing since September and it is literally CREEPING, small quarter inch by quarter inch. It is my goal to complete that project before the end of the semester (this weekend would be great but not likely happening).

Till my next update world!

Heather