In my world, 1+1…
equals 1.
I went to Spinning Guild last Satuday for some much needed time with my fiber friends. While there, Jane destashed some cursed corriedale pencil roving. The label in the bag says it’s from Crown Mountain Farms in Mountain Sunset. I weighed it at 5.25 ounces.
The plan was to do a Baby Surprise and spin this closer to worsted weight. Um…yeah. I even tried really hard to spin heavier than usual. So next time around, I spin heavier than what I think is heavy for me.
Baking – Sometime last year, I mostly stopped baking and cooking. Now I’m baking bread on a semi-regular basis and always have a cookie jar with chocolate chip cookies. My chocolate chip cookie mojo left me for the entire duration of my marriage. For some reason, I just could NOT make them (never mind it was the recipe on the back of the bag and I’d been making them for years prior). After the first tentative batch of dough where I had issues, I stopped stressing and churn out a small vat of dough every week or two. I use my tiny ice cream scoop and portion out the cookie blobs on a sheet and it all goes into the freezer. Then I drop the frozen dough balls into a freezer bag. I, or someone in the house, bakes a dozen cookies almost every night from the frozen dough (350 deg F for 10 minutes). I make enough dough at one time for around 100 cookies.
Considering the possibility of learning to ride a motorcycle – If anyone told me a year ago that I would be happily riding on the back of a motorcycle, I would have laughed. The thought of getting a motorcycle license? I might have hurt myself laughing at the absurdity. Now I have my own helmet.
Knitting and spinning - I am working my way through the Swallowtail Shawl that I started a year ago. I knit a bib as a gift in one sitting. Yesterday, I sat spinning through a dvd and currently have the silk singles drying. I’m even thinking about knitting with the finished yarn. Didn’t see that one coming, did you?
Getting back in touch with old friends on Facebook – Me? Use a social networking site? Yep. Anyone remember a post from a couple years ago where I talked about first loves? I get to see that smile every day, so I find it hard to actively dislike social networking sites anymore. Besides, I liked the people I went to school with in Germany.
Not playing Warcraft – Seems that when I’m happy, I don’t feel the need to escape reality. Oh yeah, that reminds me…
I am happy.
I´m sitting here, waiting for my older sister to come back from her last bit of exploring around Barcelona before we head to the airport and go our separate ways. While on this vacation from life provided by my sister, my divorce became finalized. I return to Atlanta as a new woman with my life and all of my dreams ahead of me.
I’m actually posting something. About knitting, even.
