Where Next Do I Go? What Next Do I Do?

Right... I'm ready for spring. It all looks so bare around here. Sometimes I wonder what all the hullaballoo is about when it comes to Christmas, and sometimes its a dread getting all the decorating done, but when the lights come down and the decorations are stowed for another year, there is simply a sense of loss. It's all rather anti-climatic... I look around me today and I feel rather directionless.
With all the decorations down, there just seems to be a lack lustre, non sparkly, drab kind of, pffsstt in the air! I mean, everyone likes a little sparkly in their lives, right? If your Hubby hands you a diamond ring you don't just look at it like it is mud! Well it's like that with Christmas lights... they bring a little cheer into our lives when sunsets and sunrises are drab at best and non existent at worst. Our house is getting back to normal... well as normal as it can be anyway (see annual family Christmas pic in previous post) and while that is nice... you do miss those shiny things dangling all over the place. We have wrapped and boxed the decorations
and we have shoved and pushed furniture here and there and this evening it looks like Santa never made his debut at all. I have one lonely wreath sitting on a wall with a cardinal which will come down tomorrow when Hubby stops off at the grocery store to rummage through their stock of boxes for one large enough to pack the wreath in and then that too will face the darkness of the storage closet for another year. This all means that I am ready for the snow to melt, the temperatures to turn balmy, and for my deck to start to produce pleasurable hours of vitamin D intake. Har! Not likely for another month yet and then only on a sporadic day when the sun forgets it is winter and shed rays in an effort to encourage the hibernators that something better is coming. That's me.... I'm a hibernator... I'm waiting for that sunshine to reach me and ripple my skin...

Meanwhile Hubby put the three Christmas trees out in the paddocks. Now the alpacas are proceeding to munch on them.... how they manage those sharp little pins is beyond me!

I have been spinning today. Not for the jacket commission but for my level 3.... I am working on a silk sample from a silk hanky.... 'argh' is how I would describe my progress. However, I shall persevere. I'm not sure I like silk hankies and what's more is they hurt! Drafting out the fibres rips into your skin because, of course, the fibre is one of the strongest protein fibres there is, and when it cuts into your skin as you draft the fibres it actually cuts... like bleeding cuts.... like, "oh d-mn that hurts," cuts! That's not a pleasurable thing you know... but I will get this done and by Wednesday too thank you very much!

So what does the void of Christmas leave me with??? Well here's my list..

Things I don't want to face on..
1. Losing my extra Christmas weight to the tune of 10 lbs... hmmm... : {
2. A jacket commission that I am down to the wire on.
3. Level 3 which should have been much farther along if I want to be honest.
4. A house that needs a good clean. (well that always seems the case)

Things I do want to face..
1. Learning Tai Chi
2. Level 3 homework which I'm actually excited about.
3. Courses to pay for and apartments to book for my week in Olds.
4. Teaching a friend to drop spindle.
5. A really good book to read that I am only allowing myself a half hour before bedtime.
6. Ever increasing daylight. That's a really happy one. Keep an eye to the right.... look at that we are up to 25 mins..... woo hoo!

To all of you who are old bears too..... here's to the sunshine... I'm off to drink some wine. So much for the weight loss. (sigh)



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