Knitting and socialising
So yesterday after work I went to a knitting event in The Constant Knitter where I was very nervous and talked a bit too much and lost the train of thought a few more times and fangirled a bit over Cat Bordhi and Kieran Foley (and told Kieran that I was in awe of his mad skilz) and networked a bit and had a lot of fun, which made up for failing to meet up with people on Thursday.
I didn't mean to shop but while I brought a Cat Bordhi book, and wore a pair of socks I had knit from them, I forgot my own knitting, so I bought needles, yarn (maybe a few more than I needed but they were on sale and purple and shush) and some stitch markers and while I was there completed a toe of another pattern she suggested, well when you have the author sitting there suggesting it and admiring your knitting, what are you going to do.
This year I will try to connect, I will try to maintain some social contact and I will go to things that scare me a little, I'm out of practice with people that I don't work with and my social anxiety is making me twitchy, I'm calling it social anxiety, it's not diagnosed but I have issues with dealing with people and places and things and my brain can get all self-defeating and want to flee and augh.
I'm not going to overstain myself but I need to have more people in my life, more often, that speak other languages other than librarian.
I didn't mean to shop but while I brought a Cat Bordhi book, and wore a pair of socks I had knit from them, I forgot my own knitting, so I bought needles, yarn (maybe a few more than I needed but they were on sale and purple and shush) and some stitch markers and while I was there completed a toe of another pattern she suggested, well when you have the author sitting there suggesting it and admiring your knitting, what are you going to do.
This year I will try to connect, I will try to maintain some social contact and I will go to things that scare me a little, I'm out of practice with people that I don't work with and my social anxiety is making me twitchy, I'm calling it social anxiety, it's not diagnosed but I have issues with dealing with people and places and things and my brain can get all self-defeating and want to flee and augh.
I'm not going to overstain myself but I need to have more people in my life, more often, that speak other languages other than librarian.