Hey everyone!
It's been a little while since I've updated. Not too much has changed over the last week or so, but 'the same' is good - I am wonderfully happy right now. I've always been a very happy and very positive person. I have been through some tough times, I had a period of depression a few years back, and I have to say it feels so good that I've been back to my normal happy self for the last two years. I've been thinking about this a lot lately because I have to spend my days (mostly at work) with some people who are so constantly negative and pessimistic. How can anyone live like that? They act like something's wrong with me! I think their perception is that if I'm not being pessimistic, then I'm not being realistic and I don't take things seriously or I don't care - which is completely untrue! I realize life isn't perfect. Yes, of course, shit happens. Most things I am unable to control or change. Why should I constantly agonize over them? If things don't go "to plan", it's not the end of the world. In the grand scheme of things, there are only a few things that actually matter. Everything else, I'll deal with it as it comes up. Things have a funny way of working themselves out.
In any case - I must be certifiably insane. Guess what I'm doing in my free time these days? Studying Organic Chemistry. Oh, yes. (*woo...*) "For class?", you might ask. No, not really. I took one semester of orgo about 5 years ago and I'm going to be taking the second semester sometime in the near future. In the meantime, I have to remember everything from the first semester. So, yay, I am reading my old organic chemistry text book. It's so awesome. (I'm convinced you can just feel the enthusiasm radiating off of me.)
In other news, I FINALLY (after FOUR YEARS - !!!) finished the afghan I was knitting. So, to justify the length of time, I should explain that I began working on this while I was in college. I would get it out for a few days when I felt like knitting, then grow tired of it and put it away in a box for several months. Eventually I'd drag it back out again, it was a cycle. That's how I am with all my long projects. I'm rather proud of the fact that I even finished it. I'm not really an experienced knitter (I can do the basic stitches pretty well, but I've never done anything complicated) and an afghan is a huge project. It's kinda wonky - my tension wasn't consistent throughout, but now that it's all put together I don't think it looks half bad. (Just don't measure the edges, plz, kthx!) I have a hard time trusting the things I make to hold together. Nothing I've ever knitted/sewn/constructed/made has ever just fallen apart or come undone, really, and yet I'm always convinced it will.
Anywho - here's a picture of the final product (complete with cat 
):
I had another photo challenge with my boss, which I won by default because he ended up not having time to get any shots! The theme was "No longer working". I went out under this dock and was climbing around on wet slippery rocks covered in sea critters which I was trying not to step on. I never quite got 'the shot' - I couldn't get to the right spot for it - then I had a hell of a time trying to pick my final submission. In the end it came down to these two:
And last but certainly not least! It's just under two weeks until my set "Just Fucked" arrives in Member Review! I'm very excited and anxious at the same time. I can't wait to hear what you all think of it! Till then, I plan to share with you a couple of shots that didn't make the final cut.
It's been a little while since I've updated. Not too much has changed over the last week or so, but 'the same' is good - I am wonderfully happy right now. I've always been a very happy and very positive person. I have been through some tough times, I had a period of depression a few years back, and I have to say it feels so good that I've been back to my normal happy self for the last two years. I've been thinking about this a lot lately because I have to spend my days (mostly at work) with some people who are so constantly negative and pessimistic. How can anyone live like that? They act like something's wrong with me! I think their perception is that if I'm not being pessimistic, then I'm not being realistic and I don't take things seriously or I don't care - which is completely untrue! I realize life isn't perfect. Yes, of course, shit happens. Most things I am unable to control or change. Why should I constantly agonize over them? If things don't go "to plan", it's not the end of the world. In the grand scheme of things, there are only a few things that actually matter. Everything else, I'll deal with it as it comes up. Things have a funny way of working themselves out.
In any case - I must be certifiably insane. Guess what I'm doing in my free time these days? Studying Organic Chemistry. Oh, yes. (*woo...*) "For class?", you might ask. No, not really. I took one semester of orgo about 5 years ago and I'm going to be taking the second semester sometime in the near future. In the meantime, I have to remember everything from the first semester. So, yay, I am reading my old organic chemistry text book. It's so awesome. (I'm convinced you can just feel the enthusiasm radiating off of me.)
In other news, I FINALLY (after FOUR YEARS - !!!) finished the afghan I was knitting. So, to justify the length of time, I should explain that I began working on this while I was in college. I would get it out for a few days when I felt like knitting, then grow tired of it and put it away in a box for several months. Eventually I'd drag it back out again, it was a cycle. That's how I am with all my long projects. I'm rather proud of the fact that I even finished it. I'm not really an experienced knitter (I can do the basic stitches pretty well, but I've never done anything complicated) and an afghan is a huge project. It's kinda wonky - my tension wasn't consistent throughout, but now that it's all put together I don't think it looks half bad. (Just don't measure the edges, plz, kthx!) I have a hard time trusting the things I make to hold together. Nothing I've ever knitted/sewn/constructed/made has ever just fallen apart or come undone, really, and yet I'm always convinced it will.
Anywho - here's a picture of the final product (complete with cat ):
I had another photo challenge with my boss, which I won by default because he ended up not having time to get any shots! The theme was "No longer working". I went out under this dock and was climbing around on wet slippery rocks covered in sea critters which I was trying not to step on. I never quite got 'the shot' - I couldn't get to the right spot for it - then I had a hell of a time trying to pick my final submission. In the end it came down to these two:
And last but certainly not least! It's just under two weeks until my set "Just Fucked" arrives in Member Review! I'm very excited and anxious at the same time. I can't wait to hear what you all think of it!
Till then, I plan to share with you a couple of shots that didn't make the final cut.
XOXO
Mere
Good luck in school.