Knitting!

So on Thursday I learned how to knit. My friend Angie taught me, and it appears that I was a very quick learner. This is funny to me considering that my mom tried to teach me knitting many years ago, and I thought it was too complicated, and the thread kept slipping off my kneedles, and I felt like I had no control, and I quickly gave up frustratedly.

It was actually through doing the exercises in the Artist’s Way that I discovered my dormant desire to start knitting a couple of weeks ago. And this week I got Angie’s invitation to knit night. I love when things fall into place like that. And now I can knit! And I totally love it. It’s so fun and relaxing. Plus, I’m making shit. I can’t wait to make the second arm warmer.

My first knitting project
Originally uploaded by Verabug.

I can’t believe I did this but I’m pretty sure I did

Last night I ordered a Nikon D50. I took the quote Let the beauty you love be what you do to heart and am now able to take better quality–some might even say professional quality–pictures of beautiful things. I went from “I love taking pictures” to “I’m a photographer” with a single mouse click. I still can’t believe I am spending this much money on a camera, and it even felt like something outside of myself moved my hand to click the “Place your order” button. But I’m thrilled!

What I’m doing

These are some of the things I have been doing with my newly created freedom:

• make use of the BART station that is two blocks from my house and actually take BART somewhere
• visit a friend at her store just as she is arriving to open it ca. 10:20am
• have at least five brilliant ideas a day, like hosting a House and New Year Warming Party in January. Other ideas have included the concept for a children’s book and who I want to illustrate it, offering my boyfriend’s sister that I can now help her watch my favorite twins, like, ALL THE TIME, and finally buying the shoes I have been dreaming of for months even if they are slightly above my preferred price range for shoes that really look more like slippers than shoes. It’s amazing how much room there is for brilliant ideas when you’re not chained to a desk and computer.
• shop at Target for some new outfits for the above mentioned twins and take a luxurious ETERNITY to pick them out
• forget to eat all day long and lose weight without trying
• meditate AND do yoga every morning (thanks, Ariel!)
• pick a card a day from my new Trust Your Vibes card deck (thanks, Zandria!)
• fix the shoe rack hanging over my closet door so that I can now actually close the door
• put renewed effort into the residential parking permit petition project I started two months ago, after moving here
• discover a cute store near my house that is full of style and love
• redesign my other website ever so slightly
• go to the movie theater in the middle of the day to pick up movie tickets for a show later in the evening, just because I can
• go to the Union Square during Christmas time and have it be not quite as unbearably packed because it’s the middle of the week day!
• take a nap in the middle of the day
• masturbate in the middle of the day
• make an appointment for a facial a friend owes me for the middle of the day
• agree to meet another friend in the middle of the day
• arrange another meeting for the middle of the day sometime next week
• can’t stop marveling about this middle of the day thing. It’s so great to be running around in the middle of the day because the middle of the day is a great time to be running around!