I have been terribly distracted lately. Obviously, being in another country for 4 weeks can do that to you. But in fact, I have become distracted by knitting, from my purpose, Knitting a Blanket. I am just so excited and inspired to knit so many different things, I am loosing focus on the blanket. I was doing so well up until the point where I found my knitting mecca in France La Droguerie. Unfortunately their website does not have photos of their store nor their products, but it was heaven. We accidentally discovered...
I saw your votes on the poll last week. I was supposed to give five strangers compliments on the street. “What an easy assignment,” I said to myself. Then I didn’t do it on Monday night. “I’ll definitely do it tonight!” I thought as I wiped down the counters on Tuesday after dinner. “Tonight, when I go to the grocery store. Tonight is the night!” I told myself on Wednesday. Reader, I didn’t do it. I totally and completely failed. Not only did I fail, but instead of going unplugged, I watched some television...
I have an admission. I have made zero progress on The List. In fact, I didn’t even participate in Unplugged Monday this week. I was having a bad day and I wanted to watch a movie, so I did. I’m not proud, but at least I’m a little less cranky. I’m feeling unmotivated and scared to work on The List. I have one item lined up (listen to live music with my kids—I’m going to see the Indigo Girls with them, my husband and some friends) but the rest? I’m a little scared. I want to do these things, but I need a little push...
I forgot that this week’s unplugged evening fell on the same day as a cross-country flight. After flying three thousand miles for almost six hours, waiting around in airports or at bus stops, the last thing I wanted to do was go get a pedicure or compliment people on the street or be a better version of myself. What I wanted most was a warm bed in a dark room so I could go to sleep. This means that there has been yet another week of no progress on The List, but you know what? I made a few dents: I sent out some...
Well my trip to France with my family arrived so quickly. And now it is going past so quickly. One week in Paris. Five days in Nice. The days are flying by. I thought the days would be longer, but each one that passes us by seems to be shorter. The knitting continues. I have knitted at: the Louvre, the Museum of Modern Art, in our apartment, at breakfast, on the train, at Versailles, on a boat in Nice, on the beach in Nice and I am sure a few other places that I have forgotten. It’s amazing that when you are so...
As I was knitting my last row for tonight, I had a thought (well more than one, but only one that didn’t involve me cursing at my knitting needles). This knitting challenge is like a relationship that is doomed from the start. It starts off well. Discovery. You discover each other (well I discovered the knitting needles so to speak). Everything is amazing and new! You learn things about each other, spend so much time together, share everything with each other, talk incessantly about the other person, almost to a...
The last time I wrote here, I vowed to make more of my unplugged evenings, tackling a list of items I’d always wanted to accomplish, but claimed I never had time to do. I haven’t actually started on the list, but I’ve done one better than that, I haven’t been on the Internet or watched much TV for three weeks now. A few weeks back, I travelled across the United States to visit my parents’ and my in-laws’ families. Since my computer was busted, I left home without a computer. Their homes are with limited computer...
I don’t feel like a particularly responsible person. At the same time, I realise that I appear incredibly capable. I have quite a lot of responsibilities, I suppose. Perhaps I don’t think about them...
My unplugged evening started out with a bang, literally. The shelf where we keep our laptops came crashing down to the ground, and my poor little computer fell, hard. Besides a few scratches and bruises, it’s….oh, who am I kidding, it’s looking fatal. The screen is cracked, the battery is pretty much gone and the “M” key only works if I hit it with hammer-force. But it’s still working, for now. In its condition, I can’t exactly use it for watching movies, or take it into a cozy chair to blog-surf. No, it does exactly...
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