Not in any particular order this are the hobby's and interests right that are floating my boat.
- Sewing. Yep, I really love it. I love to get fabric and pick out patterns and I love to sit at the machine and go. I swear like Hell almost the entire time I'm sewing but when I'm done, I really feel good. Feeling good isn't one of my strong points so when it happens man! It's like suddenly losing 20 pounds, finding a fifty dollar note and your favorite shoe store has a buy 1 get 2 free pair sale. Sooooo, not that often. But the feeling I get when I've made something, it works for me.
- Hair Bow. I can make hair bows for the girls. Not the simple single loop with a tie in the middle but good super spiffy cheerleader sorority girls in beauty pagent bows. It's an awesome task and again I swear a lot during the process but when it's done it's a great feeling. Sadly, these bows aren't all that popular here in Australia. The phrase bow heads means nothing here. I think Aussies get a little put off sometimes when you try to bring in something from your homeland. But I will keep trying.
- Woodworking. I started following this blog: www.ana-white.com last year and love it. I've built a bookcase shelf thing for my bathroom and some storage stuff. I desperately need a new bed for Ted and I and I have the plans to build a fantastic one. A bed with storage and a solid headboard that isn't wiggling and wobbling all over the place. Plus I have an idea for a kitchen table that has built in storage. When I'm out in the shed I feel like I'm accomplishing something real. Something tangible that will be around. Not like when I'm cooking dinner that I know everyone will hate and 60% of the table won't eat at all.
- Computers. Not the IT web design and coding. That's insane tech crap to me. Reading 100's of lines of code to see where a T should have been capitalized? Whatever. Glad that there are folk who can do that (my husband Ted by the way-a little too awesome, it's scary sometimes what he knows) but I'm even more grateful that I'm not one of the ones doing it. No my computing interest is in the gadgets and seeing what will work and how it works. I love using the computer to download music, movies and such. All legal of course. I love having a question about something and then diving onto the Net and traveling through time and space to find the answer. Yes, I have a smart phone. Yes, I'll kill anyone who gets between it and me.
Now of course these are not all interests that go together. Well, maybe the sewing and bows but there rest are right in the middle of left field. Also Enjoying this things is NOT simpatico with ferrying kids to school, cricket, piano and gymnastics. It is the polar opposite of doing laundry, grocery shopping, cooking dinner, gardening, paying bills, planning events with school and friends and well...general every other aspect of my life.
Today I need to take down 3 loads of hanging laundry. Put up another 2 at least, plan dinner, clean up the kitchen, finish cleaning out pantry, put laundry away, go to school, pick up one child - other 2 are going to friends house, drive home,feed child snack drive back out and pick up other 2, go to piano lesson, during lesson drive over to basketball place and see if there is an opening for Tessi, drive back to piano lesson, pick up Connor and drive home. Then make dinner. Argue at kids for not eating dinner. I will collapse on couch and Saint Ted will get girls to bed, then Teddy will pout and go to bed and then I will either sit and chat with Ted or just go upstairs and pass out.
See why the playing on the computer is soooooooooo appealing? Yea, I know. I'm going, I'm going. Maybe I can start working on the bed tomorrow.
