Self-knowledge is a life long process.
That was my Facebook fortune for today. I've have an issue with the fortunes on Facebook. They are lame... lame... and more lame! Most of the time my fortune is a statement and not a fortune at all. Like what's that all about... and then this morning I get this one. Well, thanks for that! I'm sure that's going to make a big difference. So I'll know myself at the moment I die. Great! As it is, I look in the mirror and wonder who the heck it is that's looking back at me.
Last night the Daughters and I watched Forrest Gump... they had never seen it before and it was quite a few years since I had seen it. The line that I like.... "Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you are going to get." I can't figure out how some people know exactly what they want from life right from the get go and go after it with a steadiness that is inspiring. Then there are people like me... I'm the feather blowing on the wind... and actually I'm ok with that... Still, I think that the more you know what you want and where you are going the more successful you probably will be... but I'm not sure about that.... that's the feather in me. I'm quite happy to drift along through life being blown willy nilly. It makes for some interesting life experiences and sometimes they say that being flexible is good for your health... I'm not sure about that but maybe they are right.
So yes another Birthday has passed and I can scratch another notch in my canoe. The day was pleasant.... not outstanding... not horrid... nothing strange or weird... nothing fantastic.... but it was pleasant. That was good with me. New camera.... new video... house cleaned by the Daughters.... flowers.... a little money... yup a nice pleasant day.
I went to FSJ on Saturday and did a demo on how to make shoelaces on a Maru dai. It went well and then I came home and spent yesterday watching movies and braiding. I now have a Tencel set of boot laces just about finished. The gallery show that I am preparing for in the fall is called Scarves, Shawls, Socks, and Shoelaces. I will need lots for the show so I thought I'd work on that a little in the next while... though today I'm back at level 4. Worsted and Woollen samples all the way.
I'm back at level 4 because I've pretty much made up my mind to carry on with the next level in the Master Spinner Program. So that means lots of work, work, work. Teapot has been encouraging me... RG has been encouraging me, even the Daughters have been encouraging me. So that is what I will do.
See?!... Willy nilly... that's me.
"Know thyself" was the maxim of Plato.... but I think the "getting" part is the best.
Monday, April 18, 2011
Saturday, April 16, 2011
Friday, April 15, 2011
Prospective Son-In-Laws
Teapot has a penchant for giving people nicknames.... thus Frankie, which has been my nickname since almost the first day I met him. I have been looking for years for a nickname for him that would stick and then last year I came up with Teapot... it was perfect. It was with nicknames in our minds that the following occurrence happened.
Tonight the dear boy (that would be Teapot) took me and the Daughters in the truck and we dropped the Daughters off at the school's Coffee House as agreed, and we then proceeded on to a local food joint for some supper. As the Daughters were leaving us it became almost poignant that I could see a day when they would leave us for good. They carried on into the school to meet up with their chums and Teapot and I began to talk about them as we drove off for our dinner out. Daughter #1 is now 15 years old and is about 8 months from getting her driver's license. Daughter #2 is just 17 months behind. It is getting more and more apparent to us that there will come a time when it will no longer just be Mom, Dad, and the two Daughters. Teapot has been threatening the Daughters for years, with forcing their boyfriends (when they get them) into digging holes in the garden to tire them out before there can be any dating. I think this has something to do with the fact that Teapot knows how the teenaged boy thinks (probably about sex and nothing else). Tonight I decided to ask Teapot if he would give any future prospective son-in-laws nicknames and he said he would if I wanted him to. I said absolutely.
We discussed the nicknames of his best buds in University. They were dickie (with a small d), Pube, and Ralph. Perhaps you are beginning to see where this is going. By the time we got home we had come up with really good nick names for all prospective son-in-laws....
Booger and Skid Mark
I wonder what the Daughters will think....
Of course we mean it with the utmost respect, you understand.... ; }!!!
Tonight the dear boy (that would be Teapot) took me and the Daughters in the truck and we dropped the Daughters off at the school's Coffee House as agreed, and we then proceeded on to a local food joint for some supper. As the Daughters were leaving us it became almost poignant that I could see a day when they would leave us for good. They carried on into the school to meet up with their chums and Teapot and I began to talk about them as we drove off for our dinner out. Daughter #1 is now 15 years old and is about 8 months from getting her driver's license. Daughter #2 is just 17 months behind. It is getting more and more apparent to us that there will come a time when it will no longer just be Mom, Dad, and the two Daughters. Teapot has been threatening the Daughters for years, with forcing their boyfriends (when they get them) into digging holes in the garden to tire them out before there can be any dating. I think this has something to do with the fact that Teapot knows how the teenaged boy thinks (probably about sex and nothing else). Tonight I decided to ask Teapot if he would give any future prospective son-in-laws nicknames and he said he would if I wanted him to. I said absolutely.
We discussed the nicknames of his best buds in University. They were dickie (with a small d), Pube, and Ralph. Perhaps you are beginning to see where this is going. By the time we got home we had come up with really good nick names for all prospective son-in-laws....
Booger and Skid Mark
I wonder what the Daughters will think....
Of course we mean it with the utmost respect, you understand.... ; }!!!
Rats
Stomach ills and a migraine yesterday. The day before?... was a day to demo spinning to school students at our local school. All went well except my voice gave out again... hmm.
Will write later today when I'm feeling better. For now I will go and brood about snow... which once again is falling.
Will write later today when I'm feeling better. For now I will go and brood about snow... which once again is falling.
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Juried Art Show
I've entered this painting... (mixed media.. acrylic and silk on wood) in the Peace Liard Regional Art show...
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
~?~
I left to take Mom this morning to an appointment in DC...
After I finished poking out my eyes with forks they put me in a straight jacket. I'm typing with my toes.
After I finished poking out my eyes with forks they put me in a straight jacket. I'm typing with my toes.
Sunday, April 10, 2011
Debating
Well, I guess I'm going to fess up and tell you about something that I'm not sure about....something that seems to be plaguing my mind lately. For a while now I've been debating... I've been thinking about not going to Olds College this year. It is for several reasons and no I'm not quitting on the Master Spinner's program... for that matter, this is only in the thinking stages yet. For a while I have been feeling burnt out. Fibred out... and everything in my life is suffering for it. More and more I've been looking at my wheel and thinking I really want to spin on my old wheel. I really want to spin something for a project and not just another sample. I really want to write a poem... You'll notice on Feathermist that I have not put a poem there since last autumn and that one sucked! I really want to do that online writing course that looks so interesting. I really want to sew my quilt.... I really want to work on rug hooking. I really want to paint a painting. I really want to take the dogs for a walk... But I can't because I have another question to tackle. I'll be honest getting a meagre mark on my Level 3 contributed to this. I feel that I'm not satisfied to get a low mark and keep going as if I'm some awesome student. I'm not and I need to back up a bit. I went into this so that I could be the best spinner that I could be and that failed abysmally in level 3 when I passed but barely. So if I want to walk away from the MSP program having graduated with pride I think I need to take a year to complete my second version of Level 3 and finish my Level 4, and, most importantly, do it well. Every time I think about trying to complete three levels in two years my stomach does flip flops. And I get stressed and then I start looking at my wheel as the enemy and not as my best buddy. I'll also be honest... money is part of it too. Recessions are not for the faint of heart... and while Teapot and I do OK... paying for hay at sky rocketing prices, and veterinarian bills for sick dogs, and gelding alpacas among a whole bunch of other stuff, has taken it's tole. The Daughters too have required this year, some fairly huge expenses and so I'm at the middle of April with my head in my hands going, "What do I do about Olds?!"
Still, I have a little time to decide on whether or not I will go. I've been thinking about trying to get a short job with the election process which would help with the money.... and yet I look at my wheel and can't help feeling a little resentful that my time is not my own.... The MSP was supposed to be fun... and somehow along the way I have lost the fun-ness of it and now it is well... a struggle. I'm sick of worsted and woolen and the flax just made me want to throw up. (We all have our likes and dislikes and flax is one of my most definite dislikes and guess what.. some of us can know it right from the get go... sorry R.G. that's the truth of it)! I'm still plugging away (note the description... plugging is not how I should be tackling it) at my level 4 homework but I really want to get to the 150 hour project because I am looking forward to that. I really want it to be awesome and beautiful and simply divine.... I am excited about that at least. But I want to do it justice. I want everyone else to look at it and say, "Wow, you made that?!" I don't want to do it because I'm on a deadline and I need to get it done before the next level. I want to do it because I love it.
So MSP or not to MSP this year.... I'm not really sure. Besides I'm supposed to submit my in depth study topic this year and I have about five and can't choose and I don't have time to think about it. Basically I just don't feel ready for level 5 and I really just want to carry on at my own pace. Perhaps I've taken too big a bight out of the apple right now.
There is one slight boomerang in all this. All along I have been going to Olds with two friends and so far we have kept pace with each other which has had it's good points and it's bad points. I love going through the class with them but I hate the feeling that I have to keep up with them. I'm tired and keeping up with two really awesome ladies who outstretch me in spinning experience far and away, is making me more tired... but I will miss terribly their input into my work and the ability to discuss things when we run into problems if I don't do level 5 with them this year.
So you see I am in a terrible dilemma... and there is no reprieve in sight...
Ah if only there were someone who could tell me what to do... but that's ridiculous, I realize...
So I will wait for a while and keep thinking about it all... sooner or later I will be able to decide or the decision will be made for me... especially if the class fills up and I can't get in...
We'll see...
Still, I have a little time to decide on whether or not I will go. I've been thinking about trying to get a short job with the election process which would help with the money.... and yet I look at my wheel and can't help feeling a little resentful that my time is not my own.... The MSP was supposed to be fun... and somehow along the way I have lost the fun-ness of it and now it is well... a struggle. I'm sick of worsted and woolen and the flax just made me want to throw up. (We all have our likes and dislikes and flax is one of my most definite dislikes and guess what.. some of us can know it right from the get go... sorry R.G. that's the truth of it)! I'm still plugging away (note the description... plugging is not how I should be tackling it) at my level 4 homework but I really want to get to the 150 hour project because I am looking forward to that. I really want it to be awesome and beautiful and simply divine.... I am excited about that at least. But I want to do it justice. I want everyone else to look at it and say, "Wow, you made that?!" I don't want to do it because I'm on a deadline and I need to get it done before the next level. I want to do it because I love it.
So MSP or not to MSP this year.... I'm not really sure. Besides I'm supposed to submit my in depth study topic this year and I have about five and can't choose and I don't have time to think about it. Basically I just don't feel ready for level 5 and I really just want to carry on at my own pace. Perhaps I've taken too big a bight out of the apple right now.
There is one slight boomerang in all this. All along I have been going to Olds with two friends and so far we have kept pace with each other which has had it's good points and it's bad points. I love going through the class with them but I hate the feeling that I have to keep up with them. I'm tired and keeping up with two really awesome ladies who outstretch me in spinning experience far and away, is making me more tired... but I will miss terribly their input into my work and the ability to discuss things when we run into problems if I don't do level 5 with them this year.
So you see I am in a terrible dilemma... and there is no reprieve in sight...
Ah if only there were someone who could tell me what to do... but that's ridiculous, I realize...
So I will wait for a while and keep thinking about it all... sooner or later I will be able to decide or the decision will be made for me... especially if the class fills up and I can't get in...
We'll see...
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