Tomorrow Teapot and the girls go back to school.... and my work begins again. I will be back and hard at my homework for my Master's Spinning with Olds College. This is the time of the year when I really get down to it and work like a Trojan. (I'm not sure if that is the soldier, the horse, or the condom...) I have been looking at the two spools of Bison that I spun before the Christmas season hit me full in the face and now I'm thinking that a three ply yarn for that would be nice so I will start there with the third single for a 3 ply Bison yarn. That's in the day, by night I will be back at my level 3 homework. And I begin with cotton there. I will put down my knitting needles and take up cards, spinning wheel, charkha, and niddy noddy, and then I will try to get on top of what needs to be done for this June. If I don't see really good progress I may decide to put off doing level 5. This is the first that this idea has actually crossed my lips, but it has been in the back of my mind. I may wait a year and do level 5 in 2012 instead of 2011. Because I want to enjoy this and not feel so much pressure that I begin to lose my desire to finish at all. I did that with Philosophy... I should have taken another semester to finish and didn't. In the end I was so burnt out that I didn't want to do anything with it again at all period. I know that burning out with me comes easily if I lose sight of my goals. It's not that I don't finish... I've never finished the race yet... but I don't want to finish and then hate it so much that I never want to look at it again. I've been on the Olds Website and there is nothing up yet anyway. Perhaps there will be such a spectacular instructor this year that I will want to do courses with that person and not do my level 5.
In the meantime, I have one last Christmas gift to finish... I am knitting a tote bag for a friend who surprised me and gave me an unexpected gift this year. That needs to be finished today... but since I am almost finished that will not be a problem.
At the end of the week is old Christmas day. It is the beginning of the Epiphany season.It is the day when all the Orthadox religions celebrate the birth of Christ (the Ukranians etc..) It is the day when our celebrations come to an end. We hang our Victorian style stockings and go to bed and wait for the magic to happen one last time. Then the next day we cook a turkey and open stockings (after school) and take down the tree while the last of the carols play... when the last decoration goes in the box and the last box is put away we turn off the music and put the Christmas CDs away for another year.... we sweep and clean and try to get rid of Murphy and his dust bunnies that are still hiding under the china cabinet and that's that.
With a look to the future, we put all thoughts of the old year away and begin thinking about exams and end of semester for the Daughters, report cards for Teapot and I just tick along doing my thing. When the Daughters stopped believing in Santa we decided that there was something bereft about the end of Christmas and so we decided to enjoy the end of the Christmas season with a celebration too. Meanwhile the daylight gets longer and the long haul of winter begins.
Last year, I had the big j.c. to focus on after Christmas... I had my level 3 homework with all the positive possibilities of that... now I'm worried. Once burned twice shy. This will be a difficult haul over the next four months... I will have to get down to my work and work hard.... and many long hours.
But for today... the puzzle is finished... and glued so I can take that off the table... knitting to be done.... and life starts to get back to normal.
Are you planning new things for a new year?
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