friday
I haven't been outside yet this morning but the thermometer says that it is 52F out there. Wow. Once it goes below 0 in the season (it did) it changes your perception of the cold, and when you get above 32F (freezing) it feels "nice" out. Above 50 will be feeling balmy today.
I basically liked the Avatar movie yesterday. Not the kind of movie I'd pick to watch myself but it was well made and interesting and I could appreciate that. Lots of fighting. I'm usually not a violence loving person but I was actually enjoying seeing the bad humans getting their comeuppance. Jules, Sebastian, Roswell and I spent some time afterwards examining it to try and figure out certain parts. In the very first minutes they introduced some characters and situations and if you didn't pay attention you might wonder what was going on later. Anyway. Got out of the theater around 2:30 and we were hungry. But when you are with strict vegans then your restaurant choices are very limited. So we decided to come back home and I'd put something together that Jules and Roswell could eat. Something quick. Gardein meatballs in marinara with mashed potatoes on the side.
I'm doing more things with Jules lately and I really like it. The other night he and Roswell played OuiSi with me and it was fun so I suggested maybe we could have a regular game night. Jules thought that might be okay. I asked Sebastian if he wanted to come too and he said, not for board games but if there was food then yes. So maybe our first game night with food will be tomorrow night. We'll see how that goes.
Spending a lot of time thinking about making shawls with a larger triangle loom. The one I have now is only 1' across so I need 36 triangles pieced together to make a decent sized shawl. I could get a big 5' or 6' loom and make a nice sized shawl all in one go. I love the look of shawls I've seen made that way. But that's me - getting all excited about the next thing when I haven't even finished the thing I'm working on now. So I'm trying to tamp the urge down to get the larger loom. Where would I even put it to use it? Who even wants a shawl? I don't want to make them to sell. I guess like the lap robe idea I had I could make them and then give them to nursing homes. I call it the "octopus of wanting". I'm always wanting things. New lenses for the cameras, more yarns, new tools and supplies, looms, now it's new games to play for the future game night. I make myself tired sometimes just wanting things and then needing to turn myself down. It's a struggle. I have enough to do! Piano practice, weaving on the 1' loom I have now and the many other looms I have, I have dozens of ideas for things I want to crochet, I want to redo the living room window with something new - that will be a big project, and then there is just the regular art, writing, drawing and painting I like doing. So settle down Mary. Do something today with what you have and stop "wanting".
I basically liked the Avatar movie yesterday. Not the kind of movie I'd pick to watch myself but it was well made and interesting and I could appreciate that. Lots of fighting. I'm usually not a violence loving person but I was actually enjoying seeing the bad humans getting their comeuppance. Jules, Sebastian, Roswell and I spent some time afterwards examining it to try and figure out certain parts. In the very first minutes they introduced some characters and situations and if you didn't pay attention you might wonder what was going on later. Anyway. Got out of the theater around 2:30 and we were hungry. But when you are with strict vegans then your restaurant choices are very limited. So we decided to come back home and I'd put something together that Jules and Roswell could eat. Something quick. Gardein meatballs in marinara with mashed potatoes on the side.
I'm doing more things with Jules lately and I really like it. The other night he and Roswell played OuiSi with me and it was fun so I suggested maybe we could have a regular game night. Jules thought that might be okay. I asked Sebastian if he wanted to come too and he said, not for board games but if there was food then yes. So maybe our first game night with food will be tomorrow night. We'll see how that goes.
Spending a lot of time thinking about making shawls with a larger triangle loom. The one I have now is only 1' across so I need 36 triangles pieced together to make a decent sized shawl. I could get a big 5' or 6' loom and make a nice sized shawl all in one go. I love the look of shawls I've seen made that way. But that's me - getting all excited about the next thing when I haven't even finished the thing I'm working on now. So I'm trying to tamp the urge down to get the larger loom. Where would I even put it to use it? Who even wants a shawl? I don't want to make them to sell. I guess like the lap robe idea I had I could make them and then give them to nursing homes. I call it the "octopus of wanting". I'm always wanting things. New lenses for the cameras, more yarns, new tools and supplies, looms, now it's new games to play for the future game night. I make myself tired sometimes just wanting things and then needing to turn myself down. It's a struggle. I have enough to do! Piano practice, weaving on the 1' loom I have now and the many other looms I have, I have dozens of ideas for things I want to crochet, I want to redo the living room window with something new - that will be a big project, and then there is just the regular art, writing, drawing and painting I like doing. So settle down Mary. Do something today with what you have and stop "wanting".