Today the UPS man brought me something I never in a million years thought I'd buy myself: a sewing machine. But because of my piss poor sewing experiences at a tender age, of course I bought one that was all tarted up.
The last months have been full of, well, life stuff. Dad's cancer seems to have been a blip on the radar (knock on wood), Papa D did have to go in for more major surgery than an appendectomy (but seems to be doing quite well), and Mr Sage is definitely diabetic but appears to be responding well to his daily insulin shots (which means I get to keep the love of my life for a bit longer, thank god).
I make a lot of promises to myself at the beginning of the year, which brings me back to the reason I got the sewing machine in the first place. Outside of forcing myself to be the one who answers the door when the pizza man comes, there are only two things left in the world that I've been avoiding because of previous bad experience or obsession burnout. One is photography, which I've been coming back around to since Bill gave me the D50. The other is sewing.
I've bulled through other things I've found daunting (see learning how to drive a stick, cooking on a gas stove, getting married, and launching my own business), so now that I'm no longer going to be terrified of breaking someone else's/borrowed machinery, maybe I'll get over myself. I don't plan to be Marcy Homemaker, I just want to sew some damned curtains.
Now if I could only start on that story I was talking about months ago, I'd be set. For now, I'll be happy if I get back to posting more often about less mundane things.
Hello Kitties!
Teller can make some curtains!! See, he's even raising his hand! "I can do it, Mom!"
Posted by: ren | January 11, 2007 at 03:58 PM
That sewing machine rocks so hard! It helps to be happy when sewing. Also, if you get to a place of total frustration and hatred with something you are sewing, it helps to put the fabric in the driveway and back the car over and over and over it. That's sage sewing advice from Momma Nina.
Posted by: lopesa | January 14, 2007 at 07:35 PM
Nina rocks! The way you wrote that was a bonus because I could imagine her doing that at your old LC home. Awesome.
I look forward to being a sewing sensei like Nina.
Posted by: tbtine | January 15, 2007 at 11:43 AM