Oh woe is me. For the last week or so, Lily cries pretty much everytime she looks at me. This doesn't bode well for Jill. How can I be the go-to babysitter if I make the baby cry just by showing up? I'm trying really hard not to take it personally but I have to admit it's challenging the new softer kinder me.
I invoked this softer kinder me when Lily was born. (There's a good chance a lot of you probably haven't noticed this paradigm shift in my personality) Her entry into our family brought actual tears to my eyes that I was unable to squelch or explain! I know that Nescafe commericals and cars honking in the tunnel can reduce me to tears for reasons I can't really get into in this forum, but actual life events don't usually reduce me to a blubbering tearful idiot. So now we have a situation where the very person responsible for bringing about this softer kinder me is the same person challenging its' very existence. What are we going to do about that? Well, it just so happens I have a solution to help take my mind of the self pity that is beginning to create a sad cloud over my head.
A NEW PROJECT!
It's perhaps not so much a new project, as it is closure on a large number of ongoing projects. I arbitrarily pick Bob's birthday as the day all my UFO'S (UnFinished ObjectS) will be finished. Included in that list are going to be some as yet unstarted projects that have to be done in the interim. What better solution is there for bolstering the drooping self confidence of a failing grammy than sewing and knitting all winter? Yes, let us be clear. This is JUST my knitting and sewing projects. And before you start getting all up in my business about this not being a challenging enough project, come visit my loft. I have a sufficient number of unfinished objects to keep a medium sized sweat shop in work for several months. Never mind that most of them ground to a halt because I was stuck. I don't know who writes those f**k*** knitting patterns but they're clearly not left handed or visual learners. More on this later. I'm sure it's going to be much much more.
Every worthwhile project needs a plan in order to succeed so I guess the first step is for me to make a list of said UFO's. Then I'll need to priortize and set reasonable goals for each with the ultimate goal of 100% completion prior to my deadline of April 22th. (Ha, I didn't even have to look that up all you people who think I don't know when Bob's birthday is!) That said, my first dealine is going to be getting the list put together by noon tomorrow. Actually, let's make that 6pm because I have to go to a thing tomorrow morning. Can't be failing before we even start now can we?
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