Right at this moment, it's very hard for me to believe the days are now growing longer.
12.28.2015
Fresh start(s)
My life seems to be a series of beginnings.
Lots of beginnings - some very unwelcomed ones. Lots of very unexpected ones. Many sought after and hard won. Some longed for but lost, and others despised and egregious. But all of them was a fresh start - for the most part. Not surprisingly, those beginnings came with a price, more often than not. On occasion they were anticipated costs - even precipitated by something I purposefully set in action - but a good number of the endings were shocks and disappointments.
Unfortunate as they were, even some of the worst endings brought about some great beginnings. Those are the ones I would prefer to think about. However, this is all a matter for another discussion at another time.
Currently, I am headed for two beginnings in 2016, and I couldn't be more pleased. Although, it feels a very tempered excitement, I am eager to begin. The first is quite obviously the beginning of the new year, but of course, you probably went there straight away, you clever reader. The second is a new job - IN AN OFFICE - at long last. There will be more on this development in the coming weeks, but for now, I must get busy if I am to make a dent in what needs doing over the course of the next week.
So, if you will excuse me, I need to slip away to the sewing area to start another new thing or two - a skirt and a pair of trousers. There's also a top I've cut out and need to assemble, so I may as well get started. It'll be nice to have some fresh clothes to wear on my first day.
By the way, I wrestled with the phrase "new beginnings", but realized a 'beginning' is actually something new, so why the need to qualify it as a 'new beginning'?
Lots of beginnings - some very unwelcomed ones. Lots of very unexpected ones. Many sought after and hard won. Some longed for but lost, and others despised and egregious. But all of them was a fresh start - for the most part. Not surprisingly, those beginnings came with a price, more often than not. On occasion they were anticipated costs - even precipitated by something I purposefully set in action - but a good number of the endings were shocks and disappointments.
Unfortunate as they were, even some of the worst endings brought about some great beginnings. Those are the ones I would prefer to think about. However, this is all a matter for another discussion at another time.
Currently, I am headed for two beginnings in 2016, and I couldn't be more pleased. Although, it feels a very tempered excitement, I am eager to begin. The first is quite obviously the beginning of the new year, but of course, you probably went there straight away, you clever reader. The second is a new job - IN AN OFFICE - at long last. There will be more on this development in the coming weeks, but for now, I must get busy if I am to make a dent in what needs doing over the course of the next week.
So, if you will excuse me, I need to slip away to the sewing area to start another new thing or two - a skirt and a pair of trousers. There's also a top I've cut out and need to assemble, so I may as well get started. It'll be nice to have some fresh clothes to wear on my first day.
By the way, I wrestled with the phrase "new beginnings", but realized a 'beginning' is actually something new, so why the need to qualify it as a 'new beginning'?
12.22.2015
Decisions
Gee, we humans make an awful lot of decisions in a day, don't we? Some of us have to make decisions minute by minute, and when you are driving, well.... it's goes without saying. Suffice to say, life is a decision-making roulette wheel.
Just over a year ago I decided to go into blogging hibernation with this blog. I have two others that I regularly write in, and since there was/is no readership on this blog I figured, "why not." This was the first of my forays into blogging, and I hated the thought of eliminating all of the work and words that had been committed to e-paper, so I simply walked away for a while.
I hoped the time away would have helped me keep from sharing the absolute bitterness I was feeling in nearly all aspects of my life at the time. And so it did.
Am I any less bitter? Oh, probably not.
However, I am feeling more akin to the description I originally posted for the blog so many years ago.
I am feeling more in control and less frazzled than I have for a long time - and that's a good thing.
I feel more likely to share and (hopefully) less likely to 'vent' than I would have a year ago.
I posted once or twice from around June, and then again back in October, and realized there was still an overriding element of anger in what it was that compelled me to pen an entry.... so I stopped and took another step back. Life had become a nemesis.
Deep breath.
So here's me, blogging once more. It most likely won't be lots of stuff, and most definitely won't be every day, but it will be something. If you have a curiosity about the sewing/quilting activities, you can make your way to one or both of these bloggy-type addresses:
1) for Crazy Quilting only - www.bethsmadasahatter.blogspot.com and
2) for traditional block quilting updates - www.truenorthquilter.blogspot.com
I carry on at those two sites about quilting simply because anyone who loves quilting will want to be there, and some folks who have read here in the past had been critical of "quilting stuff" showing up in my everyday life/words. Well, hey! Gee I am so sorry my interests got in the way of you reading about my life, but....thpbt! Pardon me while I snicker at your idiocracy.
'nuff said.
Those other two blogs are full of happiness and accomplishment from the last year (and more), but if you can't handle that sort of happiness, by all means stay here. [laughing at your folly, you grumpy person out there] This year was full enough of things to catch up on, and over time, some of it will be revealed - but much of it will fall by the wayside, and that is OK, too. At least, it's OK with me. I lived through it, and I know what happened. The automotive world has their 'big three', and so do I. Mine are work, family, and other stuff. I guess that's enough to look forward to, eh?
Anyhow, lots of stuff needs doing, and I haven't a moment to spare, so let's not dawdle here. I will be back in a day or two to begin the recap, and if you're good, Santa will leave you a cookie or two for the new year.
Glad we're all back - this feels like a good decision. Enjoy your day :v)
Just over a year ago I decided to go into blogging hibernation with this blog. I have two others that I regularly write in, and since there was/is no readership on this blog I figured, "why not." This was the first of my forays into blogging, and I hated the thought of eliminating all of the work and words that had been committed to e-paper, so I simply walked away for a while.
I hoped the time away would have helped me keep from sharing the absolute bitterness I was feeling in nearly all aspects of my life at the time. And so it did.
Am I any less bitter? Oh, probably not.
However, I am feeling more akin to the description I originally posted for the blog so many years ago.
I am feeling more in control and less frazzled than I have for a long time - and that's a good thing.
I feel more likely to share and (hopefully) less likely to 'vent' than I would have a year ago.
I posted once or twice from around June, and then again back in October, and realized there was still an overriding element of anger in what it was that compelled me to pen an entry.... so I stopped and took another step back. Life had become a nemesis.
Deep breath.
So here's me, blogging once more. It most likely won't be lots of stuff, and most definitely won't be every day, but it will be something. If you have a curiosity about the sewing/quilting activities, you can make your way to one or both of these bloggy-type addresses:
1) for Crazy Quilting only - www.bethsmadasahatter.blogspot.com and
2) for traditional block quilting updates - www.truenorthquilter.blogspot.com
I carry on at those two sites about quilting simply because anyone who loves quilting will want to be there, and some folks who have read here in the past had been critical of "quilting stuff" showing up in my everyday life/words. Well, hey! Gee I am so sorry my interests got in the way of you reading about my life, but....thpbt! Pardon me while I snicker at your idiocracy.
'nuff said.
Those other two blogs are full of happiness and accomplishment from the last year (and more), but if you can't handle that sort of happiness, by all means stay here. [laughing at your folly, you grumpy person out there] This year was full enough of things to catch up on, and over time, some of it will be revealed - but much of it will fall by the wayside, and that is OK, too. At least, it's OK with me. I lived through it, and I know what happened. The automotive world has their 'big three', and so do I. Mine are work, family, and other stuff. I guess that's enough to look forward to, eh?
Anyhow, lots of stuff needs doing, and I haven't a moment to spare, so let's not dawdle here. I will be back in a day or two to begin the recap, and if you're good, Santa will leave you a cookie or two for the new year.
Glad we're all back - this feels like a good decision. Enjoy your day :v)
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