Posts Tagged ‘lists’

Quick Status Update

Monday, September 13th, 2010

Blah.

Yes, that about sums it up. I had this major head cold/sinus infection/plague thing going on, and everything in my life is now behind a week. I’m still not quite up to snuff, but at least I can function. Here is a quick status update (in no particular order):

  • The next Crafty Detour pattern will be one week late, and so will appear on the last Monday of the month (instead of the second to last).
  • I did start my CHALLENGE project, but I probably should not have, as it put me behind on other things.
  • My status at work is in flux (I cannot say anything more about that now, other than it is causing me quite a bit of stress).
  • My promises to work on things for friends have slipped which makes me very sad. However, I have excellent friends that are more than understanding and I heart them.
  • In addition to pattern development I have signed up to teach two classes at my LYS this fall. Double Knitting, where we will start to make the “Prettiest Hot Pad EVER!” and Support Spindling, where we will learn how to make super fine yarns with a supported spindle.
  • I am now getting super nervous about some pattern submissions that should come to judgment soon.
  • I have another pattern that I am thinking of submitting to Knitty, but not sure I can stomach the wait.

An Amazing Decade

Thursday, December 31st, 2009

All over the internet articles and postings are popping up with decade wrap-ups. I thought I would add my personal list to the masses. (Even though there is still controversy on the way time is counted for such things; take for example the millennium. At least a decade is defined as any arbitrary set of 10 years.)

I have accomplished some amazing things:

  • Graduated from high school
  • Learned to knit
  • Joined a dace company
  • Danced in the Nutcracker (a childhood dream)
  • Graduated from college
  • Attended graduate school (if only for a month or two)
  • Attended art school
  • Learned to spin
  • Learned to crochet
  • Married
  • Traveled out west
  • Started an Etsy shop
  • Learned to tat
  • Built a house
  • Self published a knitting pattern

I have had quite a few job titles:

  • Baby sitter
  • Ballet instructor
  • Faculty and Lab Support Technician
  • A/V Multimedia Technician
  • Technical Operator
  • Office Assistant
  • Sales Associate, shoes
  • Grader
  • Application Developer
  • Product Automation Specialist
  • Teller
  • Software Developer
  • Sr. Web Developer

Of course there are many such lists I could make. Seen tons of  movies, read a library full of books, made a host of friends, started a lot of projects that I never finished, etc.

What are my personal goals for the next decade? Of course there are things like, get published, write a novel, win the lottery; but really I am just taking things as they come. I found that usually works best. That, and as Brenda Dayne says:

Start as you mean to go on.