Snarls.
I've been spending more time unsnarling yarn and thread in the last week than actually crocheting.
The brown one above is the Mobius strip bottom/sides/strap for the quilter's tote. I made the silly mistake of leaving one ball of bamboo thread attached and adding another one to do a a couple of short stretches across the width before returning to continue along the outer edge where I left off..
not so brilliant
The pink one isn't a project yet. It's just a ball of bamboo thread that was rolling around in a drawer dropping loops.
The purple is one of my new bamboo yarns. I tried to find the inner string as I prefer to pull from the center as then I can have it in a smaller project bag or even a pocket. Pulling from the outside string requires room for the skein to roll and flip.
Well, before I found the inner string I'd pulled out a lot of loops and when i pulled on the inner string it yanked out a clump of loops it was snarled with. I decided to stuff them all back inside and wind the skein into a ball on my winder from the outside string.
But the skein rolled and flipped in the tray out of my line of sight as I operated the winder and the clump I stuffed inside came out and tangled with loops falling off the outside.
A serious mess.
All three are lace weight..
Its a good thing unsnarling is one of my favorite things to do. Dont ask me why but I find it relaxing.
But I don't really have time for such fun now. It's too close to Christmas. And I hate having the winder out of action.
Plus NaNo is in session and I'm falling behind. 11111 words at the end of day 8. 8x1667=13336. Which leaves me 2225 words behind. More than a days quota.
Plus my life itself just developed a snarl of similar proportions to that of the purple above. Drama! Why is it that every November some kind of drama heats up in either my personal life or that of someone close to me who's part of my daily life and whose drama sticks to me like peanut butter to the roof of your mouth?
I was way more seriously behind as we entered the weekend--sitting around 5555 on Friday afternoon when Mom left for her weekend with my brother's family.
How did I double that in two days? By adding the real life drama to my story. Or rather adding a second story that I'll try to work into a relationship with the other one which is probably a long short story rather than a novel anyway.
I'd been generating a lot of words in emails and texts over the drama and by transferring those words--all written since Tuesday--into my NaNo file I nearly caught up. I might have done so if I hadn't decided to write a blog post instead.
I'm still a bit hit and miss on my ROW80 goals:
Storydreaming with note-taking tools at hand. 15min Daily -- 2 or 3 days in a week. Not good enuf. Especially since they are seldom contiguous.
Read/Study Craft 15min Daily Average -- Again sadly under par. A couple days each week. My reading has become consumed by the autism spectrum theme since my diagnosis in September.
7.5 hours of sleep daily -- the last two years have taught me the importance of this for keeping my anxiety low and energy high, weight down and creativity sustainable -- Doing better than I used to but in the last month I've averaged two 24 hour plus days each week. The other nights tho I do tend to get more than 7 and often more than 8. It is a huge improvement not having frequent 6 hours and under nights. And yes, they are nights and not days. Another improvement. I seldom sleep beyond 9am.
Move/Breathe/Meditate 15min Daily -- I know it is crucial to health. Both physical and mental. And most especially creativity. Yet I struggle to make it happen. It is one of my Asperger traits to hate change and that includes switching from one activity to another. I spend way too many of my waking hours sitting in my desk chair either at the computer or the craft table. Switching between those is a matter of scooting a foot and swiveling about 80 degrees. Swiveling another 45, standing up and taking two steps puts me on the mini-tramp. Yet I've been on it maybe twice in the last ten days.
Personal Journaling 15min Daily -- has not become a daily habit yet. After not touching it since February I did start to dabble again but average twice a week. Still feel serious resistance to it which probably means I need to be doing it. Especially to help me assimilate the autism spectrum diagnoses and how it affects my writing goals. Not to mention the drama mentioned above.
Read Fiction 30min Daily Average -- this waa a solid habit before my Asperger dianosis but the autism spectrum has taken over my reading list. There is one novel in the mix with several memoirs and a few other NF featuring info, advice, and speculation.
Social network activities 30min Daily (writing Joystory posts doesn't count only social reaching out like reading/commenting on other blogs, guest posts and posting to fb, twitter, pinterest etc) -- another thing I've a strong resistance to. The autism diagnosis helps explain this but doesn't let me off the hook. If anything it makes it more important -- I guess there is one place where I shine after all. I haven't been time tracking it but I'm sure I've more than fulfilled this. Possibly even overdone it. Since like everything else, once I get started it is hard to stop.
Engage with the Blow Me a Candy Kiss structural rewrite file 30 min Daily* -- except for November when I'll be working on the companion story from husband Greg's POV called To Embrace a Funny Bunny. These two likely belong to the same novel but I'll be pretending they don't for the duration of NaNo. -- Another fairly well met goal.
All of this in service to the overarching goal for 2015: Regain the joy in writing that I lost sometime last year. The Joy/joy meter hovers around 5 out of 10 this week. Joy in the writing maybe a tad higher. I do seem to be gravitating toward the writing as a means of desnarling my life. Afterall i have generated over 5000 words in the last five days in emails and text messages
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