Best in Show: June 3rd-9th

Avoidance by Yarn Harlot. “PS. The astute among you will notice straight off what it took me 20 minutes to clue in to. I am now procrastinating by talking about procrastinating and trying to engage in a conversation about procrastination. I hate myself.”  

The honesty of that statement... that while she was engaged in thinking about how procrastination lies to her, she allowed herself to be lied to and it took her 20 minutes to realize it. Also, i have those feelings all the time. Sadly I allow procrastination to win out most of the time.

Is Pay the most important thing about work to you? To others? by The Happiness Project. “Although people recognize that for themselves, other values count more than money (though money remains important), they assume that other people find money the most significant aspect of work.”

This is what I love and hate about job searches. Or the good employment specialists who care about getting you a position. In my job search, I ran into some dead ends, but then refocused on child care/ mother’s helper. When I began to find jobs, the employment specialists treated it as sub-par work and only temporary. While it is temporary (in that children grow up), there will always be more kids until I spawn, but the work experience is lovely. I love the families I work with and I love being part of those children’s lives. The value of feeling necessary and appreciated far outweighs the pay. Yes, I could make more now, but I am so happy with what I am doing. I had to make that painfully clear to my employment specialists before they realized that I was incandescently happy as a nanny.

Did you read any articles that enlightened you, made you laugh or just made your day better? Care to share?

How arbitary, to measure our lives by a calendar that means nothing...

If my readership of one is DYING to know, I've been busy these last couple of weeks. Yes, I was hit with the sudden and inevitable "Knit/ Crochet All the Things" before Christmas, but thankfully I was able to read the Yarn Harlot and realize that it's okay to feel this way and if I don't want to have a mental breakdown, I shouldn't push myself too much. I still have two Christmas gifts to complete. Since one of them is for Alpha and I will steal it, I don't feel too badly.

Alpha was really sweet this year. Since we are the unemployed, he spent very little, but he intends on making me a swift. He was so cute about it really. A couple weeks before Christmas he told me that he had an idea for a gift, but since he was completely illiterate in the ways of yarn and notions, he didn't know if it would be useful, so he had to tell me. I agreed that a swift and ball-winder would be nice and then he set about looking online for homemade techniques. It's almost done. I think he is holding the finishing off until I finally look over his grad school essay.

Alpha also bought a large wooden salad bowl and cut a curve in the side for a yarn bowl. It's very pretty and one day, when I am not so lax about taking pictures, I'll show it to you all.

I've been looking on Pinterest at geeky sayings, fuzzy animals and crafts. It's my internet crack. I surf this website for hours and pretend that I don't have job applications to fill out and a dungeon to clean. I can successfully put off being an adult until the next day, when I do it all over again.