I’m really lucky. I know this. I feel grateful for it. I work really hard, and I do my best at most things, and I try to be good and kind and fair (but sometimes I fail), so I deserve some of the things I have. But I am also lucky. I am lucky enough to have a fantastic job, and a lovely partner, and an amazing dog, and a farm and a pair of beautiful person-made (I was going to say hand-made, but she used a machine, so I don’t know if that’s appropriate. I’m not a quilter. We’ve been over this before. Anyways, they were made by a person, and I know her name, and she doesn’t live super ridiculously far away, even if she lives in Alaska) from vintage fabric oven mitts. I know – who cares about the job and farm and dog and partner if you can have beautiful oven mitts. And I don’t really know how I got them. I saw them on facebook, and then found out they were made by this woman who’s coming to my little island to teach a quilting class, and then I asked her for some, but then she told me that she was doing a trade with my amazing neighbour… who then proceeded to give them to me. See? Lucky.
A friend of mine came over for dinner the other night and said that she’d made 2 resolutions for the year. 1 was to fix everything. I don’t know why one would need a second resolution if the first was to fix everything, but one may need more than a year. I’ve tried to keep my resolutions more simple (and achievable, but I’m not pooping on anyone’s parades).
1) 15 minutes of cleaning per day. Putting away laundry and dishes and general tidying doesn’t count. Washing the stairs, clearing out old boxes and scrubbing (half) of the tub count. So far I’ve done it every day. If I last another 30 days or so I’ll have reached the whole house. Maybe. I’m trying.
2) I want to knit a marathon. I don’t need to buy a marathon of yarn (although the thought of it kind of makes me want to try, but then I start to feel dirty and consumer-y and I don’t like it, but I like the pretty yarn, so we’ll see). Some super inspiring ladies I know ran a marathon last year, but I don’t like running and it doesn’t feel good on my knee, and I like to knit, so I’m going to knit a marathon instead. So far I’ve knit about 300 yards. Only about 45 825 yards to go. Uh oh. Maybe this goal isn’t so realistic. Drat. Well, I’m going to try?
I had to go to work today. I like going to work. I don’t like waking up at 6 am when it’s dark out. I also don’t like going to work when there are exciting things happening at home, like the tapping of the maple trees. If only there were more daylight hours in the day… although today there was almost 12 minutes more daylight than there was on the solstice, so that’s nice. I wish I had enjoyed those 12 minutes a little more…