These days I am slightly blurry. I think the events of the past month have caused me to slip from my path and I've been struggling mightily to get back up to the road.
Before I left for Ireland my sink was shiny, my house was in order and my eating habits were getting better. I felt good about everything.
Then it all fell apart. The sink was not shiny when I returned home. I had fallen into bad eating habits (lots of Guinness and potatoes?). I went south from there, unable to help myself.
And that's my take on why I screwed up Mermaid. When I don't eat right I don't sleep right and won't go walking for exercise. This causes my brain to be more dull than usual, foggy and soft. I didn't/couldn't focus on "reverse the shaping" from the first half, and so I forgot to decrease toward the underarm gusset on the second half. This means I have some frogging to do.
I think I'll stay home from now on-- no more out of town trips that might only take a week but cause a couple of months' worth of damage. (I'd make an exception for Ireland, but I'd stay there for a month.) If I take a look at my pile of unfinished projects I can point to a lot of them and say "that was interrupted when I went to [fill in the blank] and I never got back to it."
I need routine and continuity and lots of good vegetables and the company of my animals. I need regular coffee days with my friends; quilting days with the broads, lacemaking days with the Friday Morning Lacers and something to show for it all after a time.
It gets harder and harder to spring back.
Posted by Sheila at August 12, 2005 07:04 AM Posted to Introspection | Mermaid | TrackBackOh, I think the noyse might have helped foggen and soften too.
Posted by: Gwen on August 12, 2005 10:10 AMI guess I'm whining, huh? I guess I should stop it and grow up. OK. I'll try. I'm working on putting Mermaid instructions in Excel so that I can knit mindlessly while the chart keeps me straight. As I'm doing this I wonder how I understood the directions in the first place!
Posted by: Sheila on August 12, 2005 10:56 AMHang in there, Sheila, the mind will de-fog after a bit!
Posted by: Christina on August 12, 2005 12:00 PMI know exactly what you mean. Its hard to get back into good habits, but so easy to get into bad ones. Take it one step at a time and things should fall back into place. Baby steps!
Posted by: Linda on August 12, 2005 04:35 PMNo..no...no!! One needs the stimulation of travel and adventure as well! Blame it on the 'noyse'...then just quietly slip back into your routines until it's time for the next adventure.
Posted by: Valerie on August 13, 2005 06:16 AMWhat Linda said. The babysteps, they work. When I first read your post about shining your sink I went immediately to Flylady's website and got on the bandwagon. The first week I was all aglow with the possibility of it and I shined my sink, created an elaborate routine and it was fantastic. Weeks down the road, the sink isn't as shiny, but there are never dishes in it any more. The dishwasher gets run every night, the bed made every morning. I am focusing on just getting the basic routines down. And I don't expect any miracles. Little by little, though, the house is getting cleaner and a little less cluttered. Every babystep helps.
Posted by: Nathania on August 15, 2005 12:34 PM