- Browse Pinterest or your pattern stash or some craft magazines or...Sometimes seeing what is out there will get me interested in something I've been working on, and I'll get back to work. Looking at the colors or thinking about how happy an item I've run across would make a recipient turns on the right switch.
- Do an Easy Craft or a Small One Maybe when you're on Pinterest you can find a teeny tiny thing to make. Or something that will be done quickly. Or something that involves gluing one thing to another. The easy peasy stuff that looks good can get the ball rolling. Something like this where you are rubbing on a vinyl cling and filling a frame with something. Quick and cute.
- Make a Whole New Craft Maybe your stitchy mojo is gone--try knitting! Or jewelry making. Or card stamping. You get the idea. Don't force your one hobby to carry all your creativity.
- Start Something New As a serial starter, this is very appealing. I just seem to get momentum from new beginnings.
- Finish Something What's that you say? Having too many projects causes you anxiety? Well, then, look for the project that is closest to being done and just work on it until you finish. That finish will give you a boost and you'll be on to finishing the next thing.
- Schedule Time to Craft Unless you're retired (and even then) you're too busy. I know you are. We all are. My father used to tell my mother "you can't stuff 10 pounds of stuff in a five pound bag," which is the physical corollary to this. You can't do 28 hours of things in a day. If you have a million other things to do, you are not going to be able to stitch. Put it on your calendar. Seriously. Tomorrow, I'm heading to a stamp party. It's on my calendar!
- Do It First If you come home from work and then do the dishes and clean up the house and do the myriad other things that need doing, you are going to be too tired to stitch. So skip the dishes. Unless you have some kind of infestation, the dishes can wait. Do those when you don't have the energy to go on.
- Go to a Museum I think this is the 3-D version of No. 1. You can be inspired by other people's craft. I once took my six year old niece to the Brandywine River Museum. She raced through it in about 45 minutes. I thought I had failed miserably bringing her there, but when we got home she asked if she could draw. And I took out her paper and crayons and she drew for hours. Literally hours. If a six year old can be inspired by the Wyeth family, your local museum might work for you.
- Fondle Your Threads Pretty pictures are one thing to get you inspired, but sometimes you need textures too. Looking at the rainbow of colors you've amassed in silk and cotton and petting the angora and very velvet (oh, that sounds dirty) may stimulate (I'm not doing it on purpose, I swear) your creativity. (oh, is that what we're calling it now?)
- Take a Class Letting someone else make some of the decisions, and in fact tell you what to do, may be the jump start you're looking for. That's one of the things I love most about my jewelry making classes--I'm more the conduit than the creator. I'm putting someone else's idea into action (with my own colors, natch). It takes some of the thinkiness out of the equation.
- Revisit Successes Look at the things you've made. If you've given a lot of them away, reread old blog posts to see your record. Sometimes looking at one piece, or a series of pieces, will motivate you to finish one that is similar or part of the series.
- Turn Off the TV The tv is just a symbol here. Maybe you are spending too much time on Facebook or Pinterest (irony). Turn off the electronics and pick up the analog needle and thread.
- Turn On the TV I stitch more when the television is on. Much more. But the dude reads a lot so we don't have the tv on very often (seriously we go weeks without turning it on) (sometimes I just turn it on so that it won't stop working completely). Maybe you're like me and you'd stitch if the idiot box was on. Seriously there is something about my hands that can't keep still if I am just sitting there.
- Live Through It Maybe you've got big heavy stuff going on in your life or even small annoying things. This too shall pass. You'll get back to it when you are ready.
- Get Help My health system requires my doctors to ask during regular exams if I feel safe at home or if I'm falling down a lot or if I've lost interest in things I used to enjoy. Pay attention to that last one. It's a sign of depression. And if you need help, go get it. You're worth it.
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Showing posts with label meta. Show all posts
Thursday, November 19, 2015
Recovering Your Crafting Mojo
The other day Brigitte said that she usually loses her blogging mojo when she loses her crafting mojo. How does a person get that back?
Tuesday, November 17, 2015
10 Ways to Beat Blogging Procrastination
I raced home after work to take care of the dog and go to my (unusually early) hair appointment. From there I went to pick up my half of the farm share. I wrote a post but found it totally uninspired (and it was illustrated with a horrible selfie). I couldn't do that to you.
So I checked BlogHer to see what the November writing prompts were. Meh. But I kept poking around and found "75 Writing Prompts to Avoid Blogger Burnout."
Ironically I chose "10 Ways to Beat Blogging Procrastination" because if there's one thing I know, it's procrastination.
1. Plan. I know that it is easier said than done. Here we are more than halfway through November, and my plan is basically WIP Wednesday and Farm Share Friday and nothing in between. I'm getting to it! Next. Really.
2. Write When Inspiration Strikes. When you think of a good idea, write it up and put it in the can. Some people will tell you to keep a notebook of ideas, but I think if you've got something in your head, get it all out. Use it when you need it. (Unfortunately because I fail at #1, I usually need whatever I can get out of my head!)
3. Prewrite. It's probably unsurprising that I would recommend the same techniques I recommended to students when I taught writing. Sometimes what you most need to do is untangle your ideas and there are lots of helpful techniques for that: clustering, free writing, brainstorming. (If you are unfamiliar with these techniques, you can google most of those and helpful writing centers at colleges and universities across the country have explained them.)
4. Schedule. Sit down at the same time every day and do your post. Just sit there in front of the computer, open a composition screen, and go. (If you mostly blog about your works in progress, be sure to schedule your picture taking too.)
5. Promise. Tell yourself you can have 15 minutes of fun if you do 15 minutes of writing first. Then when the 15 minutes of fun are over do another 15 minutes of writing. Use a timer.
6. Ban Perfectionism. Perfect is the enemy of the good. And "done is good." Yeah, just look at this pile of doodoo.
7. Change Your Attitude. If you think you have nothing interesting to say, you don't. Believe! If you think writing is too hard...well, you know what things you are thinking that block your progress. Take a good hard look.
8. Do It First. I took this project management training eons ago, and one of the tips they had for getting things done that you were putting off (for me it was always phone calls) was to do them first. Your success was supposed to propel you through your day...or something. Another approach is to schedule the hardest tasks for when you have the most mental energy.
9. Time Yourself. Ages ago, I read the Slob Sisters book Get Your Act Together. They pointed out that it only took about 15 minutes to unload and reload your dishwasher. "Ridiculous!" I thought. So I timed myself. They were right! Do you know how much easier it is to do something you know will only take a short time? (That's how I got myself to go on a roller coaster at Six Flags once: the whole ride lasted for 45 seconds. You can do nearly anything for 45 seconds.)
10. Change Your Environment. If you can't get to writing if you're at home (because doing dishes, say, is more enticing than writing a dissertation) go somewhere that will eliminate the distractions. When I was freelancing, I'd go to a coffee shop (seriously unique, I know. I was the only one!).
Well, I hope this helps you get to your blog. Or gets you through November. Or me. Getting me through November would be good too!
So I checked BlogHer to see what the November writing prompts were. Meh. But I kept poking around and found "75 Writing Prompts to Avoid Blogger Burnout."
Ironically I chose "10 Ways to Beat Blogging Procrastination" because if there's one thing I know, it's procrastination.
1. Plan. I know that it is easier said than done. Here we are more than halfway through November, and my plan is basically WIP Wednesday and Farm Share Friday and nothing in between. I'm getting to it! Next. Really.
2. Write When Inspiration Strikes. When you think of a good idea, write it up and put it in the can. Some people will tell you to keep a notebook of ideas, but I think if you've got something in your head, get it all out. Use it when you need it. (Unfortunately because I fail at #1, I usually need whatever I can get out of my head!)
3. Prewrite. It's probably unsurprising that I would recommend the same techniques I recommended to students when I taught writing. Sometimes what you most need to do is untangle your ideas and there are lots of helpful techniques for that: clustering, free writing, brainstorming. (If you are unfamiliar with these techniques, you can google most of those and helpful writing centers at colleges and universities across the country have explained them.)
4. Schedule. Sit down at the same time every day and do your post. Just sit there in front of the computer, open a composition screen, and go. (If you mostly blog about your works in progress, be sure to schedule your picture taking too.)
5. Promise. Tell yourself you can have 15 minutes of fun if you do 15 minutes of writing first. Then when the 15 minutes of fun are over do another 15 minutes of writing. Use a timer.
6. Ban Perfectionism. Perfect is the enemy of the good. And "done is good." Yeah, just look at this pile of doodoo.
7. Change Your Attitude. If you think you have nothing interesting to say, you don't. Believe! If you think writing is too hard...well, you know what things you are thinking that block your progress. Take a good hard look.
8. Do It First. I took this project management training eons ago, and one of the tips they had for getting things done that you were putting off (for me it was always phone calls) was to do them first. Your success was supposed to propel you through your day...or something. Another approach is to schedule the hardest tasks for when you have the most mental energy.
9. Time Yourself. Ages ago, I read the Slob Sisters book Get Your Act Together. They pointed out that it only took about 15 minutes to unload and reload your dishwasher. "Ridiculous!" I thought. So I timed myself. They were right! Do you know how much easier it is to do something you know will only take a short time? (That's how I got myself to go on a roller coaster at Six Flags once: the whole ride lasted for 45 seconds. You can do nearly anything for 45 seconds.)
10. Change Your Environment. If you can't get to writing if you're at home (because doing dishes, say, is more enticing than writing a dissertation) go somewhere that will eliminate the distractions. When I was freelancing, I'd go to a coffee shop (seriously unique, I know. I was the only one!).
Well, I hope this helps you get to your blog. Or gets you through November. Or me. Getting me through November would be good too!
Friday, July 10, 2015
Happy Birthday, Dude
Don't let anybody tell you that being able to visualize on a grid--a skill I learned in the obvious place--isn't a useful, transferable skill.
Tuesday, November 25, 2014
Thanksgivings Past
Thanksgiving is at my cousin's house this year, so I won't be repeating the exercise.
*If you think I've reached a NaBloPoMo low, check this out: one Nablo'er wrote a post about how it feels to write every day, in pictures. Right about now, I'm baby Sylvester with a bag on my head.
Sunday, August 25, 2013
Cleaning House
The other night I spent a couple of hours going through my reader. I got rid of all the blogs that haven't been updated this year (over 30). I used to have a folder called "hiatus"-- that's where I kept the blogs of people I really hoped would return. Increasingly, though, I have come to accept they'll never be back. No matter how much I like and miss them. (There are people who stopped blogging eight years ago who I still miss!)
This has opened up space in my feed. If you think I should be reading someone, (even yourself!) leave a comment or you can email me.
That said, I don't know about the future of blogs. Microblogging is the new black. Many people are doing that with Instagram, which makes sense from the stitching perspective since so much of what we do is provide updates of our work. But it makes me wonder if I should just skip that and go on to the next thing? Another part of me thinks, another fucking login?
And you know what? I like writing too much for microblogs. Even my twitter activity is about linking people to the blog. I've actually got Things to Say. Or I think I do anyway.
On our trip to Maine, we were listening to "Star 69." "I know you called/I know you called/I know you hung up my line/Star 69/" Wow. Who even has a phone anymore? This may have been a technology that completely passed me by. I never used it. I figure if you called and didn't leave a message, it wasn't important. (Tell that to my sister.) And, you know how to redial and call back if you need to talk to me. I guess I've always been one of those people who were a little disconnected any way.
(Oh, okay, you can find me at stitchnik.)
This has opened up space in my feed. If you think I should be reading someone, (even yourself!) leave a comment or you can email me.
That said, I don't know about the future of blogs. Microblogging is the new black. Many people are doing that with Instagram, which makes sense from the stitching perspective since so much of what we do is provide updates of our work. But it makes me wonder if I should just skip that and go on to the next thing? Another part of me thinks, another fucking login?
And you know what? I like writing too much for microblogs. Even my twitter activity is about linking people to the blog. I've actually got Things to Say. Or I think I do anyway.
On our trip to Maine, we were listening to "Star 69." "I know you called/I know you called/I know you hung up my line/Star 69/" Wow. Who even has a phone anymore? This may have been a technology that completely passed me by. I never used it. I figure if you called and didn't leave a message, it wasn't important. (Tell that to my sister.) And, you know how to redial and call back if you need to talk to me. I guess I've always been one of those people who were a little disconnected any way.
(Oh, okay, you can find me at stitchnik.)
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Hello, Cruel World!
Yesterday as I was driving to Jo-Ann's to get stuff to make this and this and a pinking rotary cutter (I hope to show you the results of that project soon), there was a huge line of traffic. About three miles before the Jo-Ann's exit, there is this fake third lane. It only lasts for about a mile, and you have to merge back down to two lanes well before the exit. So of course because the other two lanes were backed up, people were speeding down the fake lane, then screwing me over because they had to get back into my lane. I noticed that people were also driving in the break down lane (aka hard shoulder) to take the exit. It was cheesing me off real bad. I inched along legally getting angrier and angrier that there's never a cop around when you need one.
But there was. He had pulled over five cars that were using the break down lane. He had blocked it with his car and was catching them like flies in his web. I rolled down my window and said "ha, ha!" as I crawled past each car. Terribly petty, I'm the first to admit, but you do not know how good it made me feel for driving responsibly. For a change.
You may not have noticed, but blogger is letting its users make separate pages. I have made two and may make another. One is my wish list. The other is far more important and useful. Since we agree that it isn't Just Cross Stitch's photography that makes us want to stitch their ornaments--it's the photos on our friends' blogs--I've made a collection of links to photos of completed projects from the 2010 issue. So far only two links. As you stitch up the ornies--or find photos from someone else who has done so--please let me know and I'll add a link.
Perhaps eventually we will have links to all of the 2010 ornaments, and we'll change our minds about whether we should keep buying the magazine.
But there was. He had pulled over five cars that were using the break down lane. He had blocked it with his car and was catching them like flies in his web. I rolled down my window and said "ha, ha!" as I crawled past each car. Terribly petty, I'm the first to admit, but you do not know how good it made me feel for driving responsibly. For a change.
You may not have noticed, but blogger is letting its users make separate pages. I have made two and may make another. One is my wish list. The other is far more important and useful. Since we agree that it isn't Just Cross Stitch's photography that makes us want to stitch their ornaments--it's the photos on our friends' blogs--I've made a collection of links to photos of completed projects from the 2010 issue. So far only two links. As you stitch up the ornies--or find photos from someone else who has done so--please let me know and I'll add a link.
Perhaps eventually we will have links to all of the 2010 ornaments, and we'll change our minds about whether we should keep buying the magazine.
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
If Music be the Food of Love...
Can it!
If you must, make the default silence.
Thank you.
Wednesday, November 05, 2008
Queen of the Pumpkins
I know I promised a picture of my gifts but the sun shineth not this morning in Havertown.
I am queen of the pumpkins.
I was looking at the searches that landed people on my blog. Pumpkins are the number one: pumpkin cross stitch, scarry [sic] pumpkins, tree pumpkin pattern, xxx pumpkin patterns*, cross stitch pumpkin, cross stitch pumpkins, celtic pumpkin pattern, heart in hand the great white pumpkin, heart pumpkin stencil, pumpikin [sic] designs, pumpkin list**, scared pumpkin pattern, xxx pumpkin pattern, stitch pumpkin pattern, tree pumpkin patterns, trees pumpkin pattern.
Strangest one-word search that lands you on my blog: sonambulent
Most ironic (tie): jesus loves me counted cross stitch, jesus loves cross stitch
Some people came and stayed:
Visited the most pages: Catherine Theron cross stitch
Visited 10 pages: Walt the Malt cross stitch
Stayed for 45 minutes: the hearts content floral afghan***
And the most disturbing: "penis ornament" latex. No, no, no: I'm felt boobs.
The squirrel photo is a little visitor who demolished my beautiful white pumpkins. We weren't sure who was responsible (bunnies? squirrels? chipmunks?) until the GTG tea; when people left, we surprised the pumpkin eaters.
* They didn't find what they were looking for. Bounced right out.
** Surprisingly, they weren't looking for mine. They left early too.
*** It's like they stitched it with me!
I am queen of the pumpkins.I was looking at the searches that landed people on my blog. Pumpkins are the number one: pumpkin cross stitch, scarry [sic] pumpkins, tree pumpkin pattern, xxx pumpkin patterns*, cross stitch pumpkin, cross stitch pumpkins, celtic pumpkin pattern, heart in hand the great white pumpkin, heart pumpkin stencil, pumpikin [sic] designs, pumpkin list**, scared pumpkin pattern, xxx pumpkin pattern, stitch pumpkin pattern, tree pumpkin patterns, trees pumpkin pattern.
Strangest one-word search that lands you on my blog: sonambulent
Most ironic (tie): jesus loves me counted cross stitch, jesus loves cross stitch
Some people came and stayed:
Visited the most pages: Catherine Theron cross stitch
Visited 10 pages: Walt the Malt cross stitch
Stayed for 45 minutes: the hearts content floral afghan***
And the most disturbing: "penis ornament" latex. No, no, no: I'm felt boobs.
The squirrel photo is a little visitor who demolished my beautiful white pumpkins. We weren't sure who was responsible (bunnies? squirrels? chipmunks?) until the GTG tea; when people left, we surprised the pumpkin eaters.
* They didn't find what they were looking for. Bounced right out.
** Surprisingly, they weren't looking for mine. They left early too.
*** It's like they stitched it with me!
Monday, June 02, 2008
Weekend
This was me at reunion:
"Kitchen accident."
"Not exactly, you know the mandoline slicer?"
"Yes, the whole tip."
"No, it was too small."
"Skin graft."
"I had surgery yesterday/Friday."
"Vicodin."
Every once in a while I had a really interesting conversation with someone and that made it all worthwhile. Plus, each visit is always like an Amway meeting--I come away more invigorated and more in love with my school.
When I came home Sunday afternoon, I took a nap. Then read. Then slept...perhaps I overdid it on Saturday. Then we took my MIL to the airport. I'll miss her. It was so helpful to the dude to have her around. (And I got to impress her with the American medical system. Sure it's expensive, but sometimes you get what you pay for.)
I saw the doctor and they checked on infection in the area where they took the graft. None. Then they rewrapped my hand. If it is at all possible, I am wearing an even bigger bandage on my middle finger now. They'll take off all the bandages for a look on Thursday, but I think I am going to be bandaged for 7-10 days.
I'll be posting some pics from old projects over the next few days so I don't lose the few readers I have left.
"Kitchen accident."
"Not exactly, you know the mandoline slicer?"
"Yes, the whole tip."
"No, it was too small."
"Skin graft."
"I had surgery yesterday/Friday."
"Vicodin."
Every once in a while I had a really interesting conversation with someone and that made it all worthwhile. Plus, each visit is always like an Amway meeting--I come away more invigorated and more in love with my school.
When I came home Sunday afternoon, I took a nap. Then read. Then slept...perhaps I overdid it on Saturday. Then we took my MIL to the airport. I'll miss her. It was so helpful to the dude to have her around. (And I got to impress her with the American medical system. Sure it's expensive, but sometimes you get what you pay for.)
I saw the doctor and they checked on infection in the area where they took the graft. None. Then they rewrapped my hand. If it is at all possible, I am wearing an even bigger bandage on my middle finger now. They'll take off all the bandages for a look on Thursday, but I think I am going to be bandaged for 7-10 days.
I'll be posting some pics from old projects over the next few days so I don't lose the few readers I have left.
Friday, May 16, 2008
Stats
Last night the dude asked me what "google analytics" was. So I was showing him the stats on this blog. In the last 6 months, someone has visited from every state in the U.S. (California is the top, New York second, then PA) and a surprising number (to him) of countries from all over the globe. We were looking to see if anyone visited from Durham where the dude grew up (no, but Darlington, Newcastle, and Sunderland residents stop by). Then we were looking at N.H. where I grew up. People, I have what can only be described as a HUGE following in West Lebanon, N.H. More people visit from West Leb (pop 12,000) than Los Angeles (Glendale even). I'm thinking Hanover doesn't show up on the map, and that a handful of students or staff or faculty at Dartmouth are reading but using different computers and showing up as unique visitors. Or maybe I'm going to go to West Lebanon and be honored as the conquering hero (maybe you remember me as the girl who handed out Kudos bars at the grocery store when they were first introduced). Or maybe a bunch of kids at Kimball Union are just really, really bored. So, if you are visiting from West Lebanon or the surrounding community, do tell! Is my URL on the bathroom wall at Four Aces Diner?
The dude is also utterly convinced that my visitors from places like Bulgaria and Ghana* and Egypt are expats. So, a poll which is up there ^^^^. I can't make blogger put it down here. Also, I haven’t researched this so maybe I could but I am lazy today with the rain.
My MIL arrives today for 16 days. Don't forget I adore her. It might be rude to blog the whole time she's here. I will try to keep you up to date on the finger—doctor's appointment Monday.
Edited: *Oops, they speak English (officially) in Ghana. So change that to Brasil.
The dude is also utterly convinced that my visitors from places like Bulgaria and Ghana* and Egypt are expats. So, a poll which is up there ^^^^. I can't make blogger put it down here. Also, I haven’t researched this so maybe I could but I am lazy today with the rain.
My MIL arrives today for 16 days. Don't forget I adore her. It might be rude to blog the whole time she's here. I will try to keep you up to date on the finger—doctor's appointment Monday.
Edited: *Oops, they speak English (officially) in Ghana. So change that to Brasil.
Thursday, January 10, 2008
The Meme of me-me-me-me-me
Brave Astronaut tagged me, and because my best pal loves him, I'm going to do this research for him. Even though I should be revising my resume.Go back through your archives and post the links to your five favorite blog posts that you've written. But there is a catch:
Link 1 must be about family.
Link 2 must be about friends.
Link 3 must be about yourself, who you are... what you're all about.
Link 4 must be about something you love.
Link 5 can be about anything you choose.Post your five links and then tag five other people. At least TWO of the people you tag must be newer acquaintances so that you get to know each other better.
Link 1 must be about family. One of the reasons Brave Astronaut tagged me is the depth of my archive. But this is a pretty recent post. I'm including it because it brought at least one lurker out. My grandmother can be pretty compelling.
Link 2 must be about friends. I chose this item mostly because of the nude pillow fighting.
Link 3 must be something about me. This here is one of my favorite ever posts. And I still think stitchers should take the quiz if they haven't!
Link 4 is about something you love. I don't wax poetic about the dude the way that Brave Astronaut bares his soul when he talks about his wife. Almost every post about the dude is a complaint about how stubborn he is or a brag about how smart he is. He deserves better, but he's against the public display of affection. You'll just have to settle for more about my family. (And finally, I share the photo of the finished project, above.)
Link 5 can be about anything you choose. There's some good stuff in my archive, and I invite newer readers to dip in. Hell, I invite old friends to dip back in. I mean how often does your stitching blog use the word autopeotomy? But I think I'm going with this. It's got popular culture, it has critique, it has stitching content, everything I'm about! (Be sure to follow the amazon link!)
Will people be mad if I tag? Will lurkers recoil in terror? (There are so many others I wanted to tag, but I hope this will get around to you eventually!)
Thursday, December 28, 2006
Holiday
Well, I've just been so peeved with blogger I took a bit of a minivacation. That, and I left the camera dock in Philly so I couldn't upload any of my photos. Here, you can
Sissy loved her ornaments, and she's using the cell phone case even though it's too short (should be a snap to make a longer one and reattach the decoration). She was really impressed with the ornaments. Really loved them. So now I know: don't bother with the things that take aeons to finish, just give them a finished gift. Mom and auntie were really impressed with their gifts too. I think I did really well this year, all except my father's mother. I carried something back from Slovenia to her, and she couldn't have cared less. Next year my parents are coming to PA for Christmas, so I won't have to see her at all. See how she likes that handpainted Slovenian box then!
I didn't get a lot of stitch stash this year. Just two pieces on my list: Heart's Content French Harvest and Be Merry and Bright. My father was appalled when he found out how much those kits cost. I started Merry and Bright, and the light in my mother's house is so bad I actually used her cheaters. Wow. I'm going to have to get me a pair of those. At least they were cute, all diggied up with olive rhinestones. Leave it to my mother...
My main stitching piece over the holiday was my friend's round robin. I decided to go with the free chart from camp that I am going to personalize. So far I have taken just about every stitch in that piece twice--I kept screwing up the color or placement. So it is taking way longer than I had hoped. Oh, it also calls for a discontinued WDW thread. Can anyone describe Julep?
Thursday, December 21, 2006
Makin' It
I decided to finish the Mill Hill angel for my aunt. I have more pictures but blogger refuses to let me upload them. I hate blogger and I am going to refuse to upgrade until they tell me they're getting rid of this version all together. You'll live without a picture, right?So I delivered that present and the others that are going to Merrimack, NH to my cousin last night. In return, she sent me home with four potato pancakes. A good thing too because the dude was still screwing around with his marmalade endeavor (with the goal of making the kitchen uninhabitable, by my guess). I sewed together the easel for my mom, and glued the trim on last night. When I get home tonight, I have to wrap mom's and Sissy's presents--you should see the adorable cell phone holder I made her out of Week's overdyed wool. Oh, you could, if blogger weren't Totally Fucked Up. Then I'll deliver those presents to Sissy, stop at Ikea to pick up a duvet for the guests, and then home. Now, should I finish my Christmas cards at that point or clean? Either way, things are Getting Done, and I'm starting to feel a little more relaxed.
PS: Meye2cuties, I'll be in Amherst, NH, but my time is totally accounted for unfortunately.
Tuesday, December 19, 2006
Meta
Here's the question: as I've implied, I blog under an assumed identity. My real identity has a google account, but I do not want to blog under that identity. Every now and then if I've read my gmail, then go to comment on people's blogs I see my real identity listed when I want to comment under the blog id because that's how you know me. I've read all the "news" about the blogger-no-longer-beta. I get no info on this question.
I'm also still wondering if people with longer blogs are finding that their whole extensive history doesn't migrate. Because, and my archiving friends will be happy to hear it, I have a paper version of my blog but really, what's the point of that? I'm not inviting you over to read it.
And can I not upload photos because I refuse to switch or what? Is this blackmail?
I'm also still wondering if people with longer blogs are finding that their whole extensive history doesn't migrate. Because, and my archiving friends will be happy to hear it, I have a paper version of my blog but really, what's the point of that? I'm not inviting you over to read it.
And can I not upload photos because I refuse to switch or what? Is this blackmail?
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