If the average human life span was 40 years, how would you live your life differently?
Happy Groundhog day, everybody! I don't know if the groundhog saw its shadow or not, but I would imagine not, at least not to judge from how cold it is here in Finland. We have actually had -38 degrees Celsius in Eastern Finland, somewhere close to the Russian border. It's not that cold where I live, near our capital, Helsinki. Still, it's cold enough, and perfect weather for knitting.
I finished knitting the itty bitty pullover today, the sewing won't take very long. I also started on that shawl I've been talking about. The pattern is called Crann bethadh, which apparently is Irish for "tree of life". It's a fast and fun knit, that looks a lot more complicated than it actually is.
And I've made a lot of progress with Emma, there's only about 40 pages left, so I will likely finish it today, praise be. It's been a really slow project, and I won't read it again in a hurry, although it's a good book. I think I'll read To kill a mockingbird next. I may even blog about it a bit, since it's a new book for me.
The entry title is my question for today. It's particularly appropriate, since today has gone by like a dream. Sure, I did the laundry, took the garbage out, knitted quite a bit, read Emma and practiced the keyboard. But I didn't translate those two texts, so I'll have to do it tomorrow. We have a proverb in Finland, "What you leave behind you, you find in front of you", and that describes the life of procrastinators perfectly. When I take a "tomorrow is good enough for me" approach to tasks, I always want to kick myself afterwards, but it never prevents me from doing it again. So, to answer the question, I would probably try to make each day count more than I do now. I try to, anyway, because I actually have a hard time doing nothing. But knitting and playing the keyboard, although they are good things to do, don't make the house cleaner, get me groceries from the store or do my translating for me, more's the pity. Tomorrow I will try to do better. See you then:).
I finished knitting the itty bitty pullover today, the sewing won't take very long. I also started on that shawl I've been talking about. The pattern is called Crann bethadh, which apparently is Irish for "tree of life". It's a fast and fun knit, that looks a lot more complicated than it actually is.
And I've made a lot of progress with Emma, there's only about 40 pages left, so I will likely finish it today, praise be. It's been a really slow project, and I won't read it again in a hurry, although it's a good book. I think I'll read To kill a mockingbird next. I may even blog about it a bit, since it's a new book for me.
The entry title is my question for today. It's particularly appropriate, since today has gone by like a dream. Sure, I did the laundry, took the garbage out, knitted quite a bit, read Emma and practiced the keyboard. But I didn't translate those two texts, so I'll have to do it tomorrow. We have a proverb in Finland, "What you leave behind you, you find in front of you", and that describes the life of procrastinators perfectly. When I take a "tomorrow is good enough for me" approach to tasks, I always want to kick myself afterwards, but it never prevents me from doing it again. So, to answer the question, I would probably try to make each day count more than I do now. I try to, anyway, because I actually have a hard time doing nothing. But knitting and playing the keyboard, although they are good things to do, don't make the house cleaner, get me groceries from the store or do my translating for me, more's the pity. Tomorrow I will try to do better. See you then:).