I’m one of those people who has a really hard time cutting loose stuff from my to-do list until it’s so late in the game everyone’s rolling their eyes and shaking their heads and muttering “no duh.”
So I was kind of relieved my current 4-ounce challenge project, which I’ve already wasted too many precious pre-Yarn School hours on, fill me with ambivalence. But instead of frogging it seconds later, I decided to put it aside for now. Hey! Look at me! I’m exercising impulse control!
By the way, did you notice that the moment the little hand passed 40, I immediately got super tired looking? In fairness to my unusually dull eyes and pasty skin, the electronic glow of an iMac isn’t exactly beauty ligthing, and I always look like shit the month before Yarn School. Shoehorning too much stuff into to little time. Oh! But now one less thing, because I’m dropping out! Yay!
You know, it’s a shame I’m such a little steam engine at heart, because when I do finally quit something–well, it’s just my favorite thing ever! The very worst part of being self-employed is not being able to quit. Man, I miss having a job to quit. Quitting’s as fun as the circus! (And for those few of you who have actually seen me at a circus, you now know how very much I love quitting jobs.)
If they do another 4-ounce challenge, I’ll spin the yarn for and write up my little 4-ounce vest pattern, which I really do like–especially because now I have a very easy, reliable garment pattern that can serve as the low-yarn alternative to my top-down raglan standby. Now all those random collections of 2 skeins have a purpose other than the fictional future socks I pretend I’m going to knit of them.
Modeled by Autumn Howe . (Ah, nothing like a glowing, 5’9″ teenager to make you feel like Norma Desmond.)
Time to drag my ass upstairs for one more batch of dyeing before I haul my weary carcass to bed.
Loved your sentiments about quitting…definitely can relate! Have you ever listened to “This American Life”, in particular an episode called “Quitting”?
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/7/quitting
Cross a couple of things off of that unrelenting list and check it out. It’s one of my faves, and I think will give you a smile.
Let me preface this by sayin’–I’m a second over forty, too. It’s not that you have pasty skin, it’s just that you shouldn’t wear mustard! To best show your translucent skin tone, you should wear black, red (not orangey), pure white, and rich navy. You’ve got awesome looks, it’s just a matter of filtering out all the colors that other people are enamoured with but look like filth on us winters;)
It is goooood to exercise impulse control. That is such a beautiful start to your current 4-ounce challenge project.
Please can you let me know when you return to it?
Or I could knit it for you.
Such a dainty and intriguing start – it really piques my curiosity.
Happy knitting,
Janey