Free Pattern at Craftzine.com! I really like this little sweater! I can’t wait to finish the thing I’m making to submit to knitty fall so I can start a new one. Speaking of knitting, I never heard back about first fall. Is that good or bad?
I’m trying to remember how I lived before moving to the school. Did every single day of my life start and end with an unfinished list? I’m hormonal and thus feeling a little overwhelmed today.
Every morning I get up and look at my list and try to plan out the shape of my day. Every night, look again and see I’ve fallen short.
There’s always so fucking much to do, and it never ends, and I’m always broke.
I think this was also true in my previous life; it’s just that the same crap weighs more in the school, and I’m old now, with less energy. And I’m generally happier, which makes working to distraction much less appealing.
I know from experience that the only cure to angst in my pants is hard work and crazy productivity. While I know that crossing shit off my list is just a pointless nod to Sisyphus and that the list will just fill right back up again, there is some comfort in the crossing off.
Okay, enough whining. Time to jump in to several hours of hard labor, followed by a nice shower. Yay.
Does it help that you always *look* productive? Also, the sweater is fabulosity in red!
Sorry you’re having such a bum day.
I really like this sweater. I don’t generally make things for myself, but I think I will do so with this pattern.
In regards to your comments about the never-completed list: I empathize. I wish I had words of wisdom to immediately alleviate those feelings. Everyday I try to squeeze in a bit of time-at least 15 minutes-away from tasks to breathe/relax/read a blog. That helps most of the time. In those really awful days, I grab a beverage, rip up the list, and tell the day to f-off. ;-)
Thank you for the beautiful pattern.
I was just taking a breather, catching up on some of your old posts. Ever read “Simple Abundance” by Sarah Ban Breathnach? That book really calms me down and helps me to get some perspective…especially since I am a list fanatic, too. I think that creative people are often dismissed as ‘carefree’ and ‘whimsical’, when the truth be told, we probably put in more work hours than the working white- collar Joe who’s the last one to leave the office.