Today, a gift. Of the most random kind. My Dadini’s Mum was a craftsperson par excellence. Everything she turned her hand to, she turned it well. When she died in 2004, Dadini and I were among the Clean Out The Craft Room Committee. Butter my butt and call me a biscuit, it was astonishing. We [...]
Also taggedI am infused with a spirit of finish-it-uppity, like some sort of dynamic knitting vodka. Finished today: Black mitts for Dadini, Green Sprite (which I mentioned earlier). It’s good to get these done, just in time for spring (I hope I never have to knit my way out of an emergency). It’s good to finish [...]
Also tagged FO Report, knittingI love the word supper. It sounds cosy and uplifting, like a meal you would need after a hard night’s snowshoeing to rescue an injured baby moose. You stumble home, exhausted but jovial, and your waiting loved ones would bring you supper while you regaled them with the thrilling and humourous tale of how you [...]
Also tagged awesomeEtiquette: you have been out walking in your lunchbreak. You are listening to your ipod and generally grooving. As you return to your workspace, you realise a quick bathroom stop is in order. Do you (a) return your ipod to your desk and then double back to go to the bathroom; or (b) wear your [...]
Also tagged banging on, foodIt’s Sunday and I’m sitting here with a coffee and a case of the shoulds. I should finish cooking and packing my lunches for the week. I should finish the two saved-but-not-really-written blog posts open in the other browser tabs. I should start the edits and rewrites on the short story I wrote yesterday. I [...]
Also tagged banging onWhen you’ve got Things You Really Should Be Doing, there is no finer time to put bootees on a brown dog: Sometimes I’m really good at using procrastination to light a fire under other things I’ve been meaning to be doing. It’s a way of legitimising the not-doing: I avoid doing the washing by cleaning [...]
Also taggedJust stop it. I know, you’ve got a whoooooole day to squander. Plenty of time, right? You can cook, knit, do the sudoku, do the cryptic crossword, and still have heaps of time left over. Plenty of time for writing/whatever thing you were going to do today. Probably not. I have this conversation with myself [...]
Also taggedI procrastinate a lot. I think there’s probably a fairly robust argument to be made that currently working on this blog post is a form of procrastination, since I’m supposed to be working on something else, but let’s move past that issue, shall we? I have always used doing the washing as a procrastination tool: [...]
Also taggedHow the hell would I know? I’m a short-arse with blue hair and a predilection for polski orgorki straight from the jar. I think about this question a lot, usually while munching said polski ogorki. The same answers come up, over and over, from almost everyone you ask. Family. Health. Etc. Those are givens. That’s like [...]
Also tagged banging on…doing things we always wanted to! Well, faithful chums, M and I are off for a month to New Zealand. I can’t wait. We depart tomorrow morning, so consider this your official warning that this here blog is going to take a one-month hiatus while I prowl around the wilds of NZ, getting my boots [...]
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