I don't really care for making resolutions, but I am now 30 and still living like a 20-year old. I think it's time I started trying to set goals for myself before I'm 40 and still living like I am today.
Happy New Years, everyone...by the by...
Since this is a craft blog, I'll start with my crafty wishes first!
1. I bought some Noro yarn this fall and I want to use it but on something good for myself. It's not often that I knit for me...I dunno, I like to give people things. But this is what I want to do for me, and I've been looking at shawl patterns, lacy complicated things that might have scared me off a couple years ago, the triangular kind that people wear with the point hanging down under their chins, which is what inspired me to buy the yarn in the first place.
2. I literally just bought a stitch dictionary just now, so I can learn more stitch patterns and design my own things. I want to actually say, "I made it myself." I usually use a pattern once anyway, before modifying it to my own preferences, but I don't feel it's fair to the person who wrote it. Maybe I'll never sell anything, but I want to have that option.
3. I've had the idea for making a blanket for a while, but it sounds very involved, seeing as how the biggest thing I've made was my first scarf (and first anything for that matter), which was 2 or 3 skeins of straight garter stitch. I think I want to use yarn ball left overs (there's a lot after this round of x-mas knitting), with a sort of, from the middle-out, crazy-quilt style. Don't know exactly how I'm going to do this but I'm already calling it my "raggedy quilt" idea, so that helps...having a name... (Yay)
4. And last but only because I don't want to sound pretentious and I don't want to say it if I'm not going to do it, I want to try to make a hat a month for charity. That's all I'll say about that.
And here are my more personal goals for this year... some will sound familiar, maybe a bit redundant...
1. I'd like to be more organized. I think I've said that my apartment resembles a crash site before and I think it looks like it'll just get worse if I don't clean it up now. I'd also like a new apartment, which isn't going to happen if I don't start saving. So organizing my crap might keep me busy enough to not spend money I need to save...I dunno, sounds like a good idea in my head. :)
2. I'd like to be more careful about what I eat and when, and be more active. This is something a lot of people say, I know, but I'm a smoker and have a bad habit of continuing to eat after a meal until I smoke, usually late at night(we've gotta walk outside, about 1 1/2 blocks to smoke). At work I also don't eat much because I like to keep busy during the down-time (at least half the day) and you don't have a lot of room to eat when you're knitting, sweeping and washing windows, much less when you're helping customers during the big rushes (probably 4-6 customers a minute). I do live in an ideal place for exercise and activities and while I live here I should still take advantage of that.
3. I need to write more, and even if it's a daily/weekly log of crafti-ness, it's better than nothing. Once I used to think I was going to be a writer, but inspiration is a bit hard to come by these days. I'm going to do what a very old friend told me once and write every day. Maybe I'll start a separate blog for creative writing...
So that's it, and I think they're fairly realistic goals, and I shouldn't think they'll be too hard to keep up. As my favorite Doctor says, Allons-y!
...yeah, ok, that was uber geeky...
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