Sewing and Soap Operas
Well, another week has gone by and I have not applied for any more jobs nor gone back to the temp agency. Every time I try to make myself do it, I just can't. I'm so freaking tired of spending nine to ten hours a day working at or driving to/from a job I hate, finally getting home and being too tired and cranky to do anything I actually WANT to do. I'm just not ready to do it again yet. It has also been snowing like mad here; nearly every day when I get up and look out the window there is a good six inches of new snow covering my car. Not exactly the type of weather I want to have to venture out in to find my way to interviews or temp jobs in unfamiliar areas.
So instead, I have spent the last week holed up in the apartment in a mad frenzy of sewing projects. I haven't done very much sewing as of late, but have more than made up for it this week. I seriously have been sewing for probably 10 hours most days, and only stop when I realize I've missed a meal and am growing weak from hunger. My living room is now a mess of chopped up fabric scraps and threads, my hands are sore, and I've been wearing the same pajamas every day for...eek, I think two weeks now. But it's not like I'm getting particularly sweaty from sewing, so I'm not gross even with the same pajamas, I swear! I think my creative surge of sewing energy is finally starting to wane, though, so I'm going to have to find another project to occupy myself.
I have also developed a very set schedule of daytime television viewing over these last two weeks that I'm really enjoying. I have gotten into quite a few shows that I could never watch before due to my work schedule. It's a nice mix of true crime programming and strong female character-centered shows (and some even have BOTH elements): American Justice, Gilmore Girls, New Detectives, Days of our Lives, Crossing Jordan, Law & Order or Little House on the Prairie depending on which episode it is, Charmed, and Bones. The thing that is so funny to me about watching Days of our Lives again is that I quit watching it last year around this time, and yet I can still go back to it and know most of what is going on with minimal confusion. A character who had just lost all his memories last year is STILL memory-less and still trying to get them back, for instance. It appears another character has come back from the dead since my last viewing, and I think it's about the 10th time that particular character has done so, no exaggeration. God, I love the complete ridiculousness of Days of our Lives. Even though I don't need to tape it every day and make sure I don't miss a single episode as I did for the nearly seven years of my obsession with it, and can go for years in between bouts of watching it, I still have a fond place in my heart for the show and probably always will. There's something very comforting about being able to turn on the t.v. and see characters you first started watching over a decade ago, a bit older and more Botoxed perhaps, but still being kidnapped and faking pregnancies and getting amnesia and having passionate affairs and still doing the same weird eyebrow raising faces and saying "I love you" with the same horribly sappy inflections...I love things that never change. :-)
So instead, I have spent the last week holed up in the apartment in a mad frenzy of sewing projects. I haven't done very much sewing as of late, but have more than made up for it this week. I seriously have been sewing for probably 10 hours most days, and only stop when I realize I've missed a meal and am growing weak from hunger. My living room is now a mess of chopped up fabric scraps and threads, my hands are sore, and I've been wearing the same pajamas every day for...eek, I think two weeks now. But it's not like I'm getting particularly sweaty from sewing, so I'm not gross even with the same pajamas, I swear! I think my creative surge of sewing energy is finally starting to wane, though, so I'm going to have to find another project to occupy myself.
I have also developed a very set schedule of daytime television viewing over these last two weeks that I'm really enjoying. I have gotten into quite a few shows that I could never watch before due to my work schedule. It's a nice mix of true crime programming and strong female character-centered shows (and some even have BOTH elements): American Justice, Gilmore Girls, New Detectives, Days of our Lives, Crossing Jordan, Law & Order or Little House on the Prairie depending on which episode it is, Charmed, and Bones. The thing that is so funny to me about watching Days of our Lives again is that I quit watching it last year around this time, and yet I can still go back to it and know most of what is going on with minimal confusion. A character who had just lost all his memories last year is STILL memory-less and still trying to get them back, for instance. It appears another character has come back from the dead since my last viewing, and I think it's about the 10th time that particular character has done so, no exaggeration. God, I love the complete ridiculousness of Days of our Lives. Even though I don't need to tape it every day and make sure I don't miss a single episode as I did for the nearly seven years of my obsession with it, and can go for years in between bouts of watching it, I still have a fond place in my heart for the show and probably always will. There's something very comforting about being able to turn on the t.v. and see characters you first started watching over a decade ago, a bit older and more Botoxed perhaps, but still being kidnapped and faking pregnancies and getting amnesia and having passionate affairs and still doing the same weird eyebrow raising faces and saying "I love you" with the same horribly sappy inflections...I love things that never change. :-)