So this is me after the train & rain yesterday…
And today it was a little windy…I’m the one on the right of the pic, ok?
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Journal, day eight
Prompt 8
The snowman walked in the air! Nancy Sinatra wore boots that were made for walking. Your mission today, if you choose to accept it, is to write about the last time you walked in the rain.
‘All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking’
Friedrich Nietzsche
Today. That would be today.
I caught the train again today (it’s around fifteen minutes walk there, and ten on the other end) as I couldn’t be bothered to drive. Well & truly at work before I realised that I’d left my brolly behind, and then a couple of minutes later the tweets start.
Wind Warning. Thunder. Lightening (cue song in my head). Heavy Rain.
Brr. Got home before the worst of it, but I still had to pour the water out of my flats when I got home! But at least I don’t have to wash my face #panda
something for my english friends 🙂
Excellent news: all my blood tests came back in range, except one which I shan’t worry about. I still have a well functioning liver! Months to go before I have another scan tho. And…yesterday’s step count, which roughly equals 11.1km!
I haven’t rotated my stitching again this week – I need to go to Ribbon Rose and get some Kreinik and beads so I’ll plod along with Stargazer’s dress. I think she’s looking gorgeous.
Mase has been practicing his writing; there will be tears when he starts school next term and is told that he can’t write everything in block letters. At least he didn’t include New South Wales in his list of favourite teams, but where are my Bunnies?! Time for bed, little man.
journalling, days five & six
Playing Catch Up!
Prompt 5
Do you love to lose yourself in a good book? Drama? Detective? Maybe you would rather watch a good film or TV programme instead? Or maybe you just prefer to read the paper with your breakfast. Write about which you prefer.
WRITTEN ON JULY 7TH
Mostly I read, and mostly I’m a book slut. There are lines drawn; I won’t read 50 Shades for example (it won’t float my boat and the grammatical errors I saw in her fan fiction made me want to hurl the laptop at her head) and the Stephen King/Dean Koontz type horror (I like to sleep) but pretty much anything else is fair game. This week I’ve slogged thru The Princes in the Tower (Alison Weir), a couple of trash books (Kitty French, Toni Aleo) and lots of magazines. Now that I am trying to stitch each night I am reading less (and eating less, woo hoo!), but it is still part of my essential everyday routine. I have a couple of eReaders left over from Whitcoulls that awful place I use to work and one goes everywhere with me. Even my youngest knows not to try to take it away from me!
Having said that, there are a few programmes or movies I’ll put the book down for. If they are book-based, they have to be true to the book – I have to be able to visualise the book in my mind and there shouldn’t be any plot gaps (looking at you here, Nora Roberts’ adaptation crew). Current list is:
• Justified – Elmore Leonard. I could listen to Timothy Olivant all day.
• Banshee – not sure if this is book related, but the cast and script are top notch. NSFW so don’t search out on YouTube. You were warned.
• Game of Thrones – George RR Martin. I love how a lot of the detail in the books has translated visually.
• Nashville – pure escapism. Dallas for country music lovers?
• Anything Pixar.
• Anything by Peter Jackson.
• Anything with Mark Whalberg in it.
Prompt 6
Think hard about your day. Tell us about one thing that you do every day.
To paraphrase Fatboy Slim & Calvin Harris – Eat Sleep Read Repeat
Prompt 7
What can you do with an egg?
I can bake with an egg – ever since childhood an egg (by itself) is a reminder of illness. Today I’ll only eat eggs in baking or a quiche (very, very limited) and won’t touch Bacon & Egg pie. Apparently I do make a very good one, however.
I’m assuming we’re talking chicken + egg here – not the Cadbury type?
journalling, day 4
Bethells Tower at Sunset
Prompt 4
Let’s be real – no dreaming (well, not much!) What would be your perfect day?
WRITTEN ON JULY 6TH
If I had written this on Saturday, I would have said that it was close to my ideal day. Clear weather, kids sport & giggles, time with friends, tea in bed, reading, stitching…
I think I was only really missing the walk at Bethells Beach.
But Sunday was tense and a lot of it was not fun. Not enough sleep for Bran, which makes him loud and grumpy, and flows down thru the family (concussion related). I am angry about a range of things, the house is untidy with laundry piles and I feel that half the household isn’t pulling their weight, which leaves me even angrier. Headphones on & let’s download some books for the reader…
I have a little prompt in my journal which reminds me to Focus On Good Things, a little like Piglet might tell Eeyore. Shame I feel like Rabbit instead. Have another carrot, bitch…
Image taken from http://www.sumantwalter.com/2012/05/bethells-beach-auckland-new-zealand.html of the Surf Livesaving station at Bethells.
Journal, day 3
an update on yesterday – I HAVE learnt how to spell existential. Woo hoo.
Prompt 3
Make a fashion statement! What’s your style? Jeans? Jersey? Jacket? Tell us what makes you comfortable – or SMART!
I’ve reversed yesterday’s process in that this is a shot of my journal with the tags, stitches and textures, but the text is also below:
OK, so I read this and came to an abrupt halt. I’m not really a fashion person at all, I prefer individuality – hence today is a mix of purple chucks, skinny jeans, long black cardy and a beautiful blouse that was made in a little Hong Kong boutique (thanks much to my SIL, it’s one of my favs). Yay for casual Fridays 🙂
What got my brain storming was the word I took out of the prompt – FABRIC. I think stitching, embroidery (yes, they are different to me), LOTR costumes (I love the texture, layers & detail), glamour, warmth, comfort, aida, linens, evenweave…
I take a project along with me pretty much wherever I go, be it work or the car. I’m trying to embrace new things, like surface “free” embroidery – I went to a class earlier this year with Zeb, to the Stitchsmith and my head is overwhelmed with new ideas. I’m loving the creative buzz!
My samples? Aida (the white and blue square-like fabrics) – what new stitchers can learn on. Easy to work with & I’m currently stitching with Zac. A DMC wrapper – they make my fav threads. A pink ribbon – lots of focus on ribbons these days. Quiksilver tag – my new dress already for summer. And cream evenweave – reverse chainstitch, long/short fill & my most common stitch, the cross over 2 threads.
LINKS – Zeb’s blog : http://www.ixari.net/about/
– The Stitchsmith : http://www.thestitchsmith.co.nz/
– Write On, home to the prompts: http://fabrilicious.wordpress.com
READING: The Princes in the Tower by Alison Weir. Apparently my brain had enough trash inbetween the solid stuff to absorb more facts.
LISTENING: iPod is still on shuffle. I can’t settle on anything so it pops from Nickleback (don’t judge hastily, the early stuff is great and non-commercial) to Alanis to Toby Mac to Ministry of Sound to Seether. Ooh, Duran Duran – lets hit that fast forward, shall we?
CRAFTING: on week three of the Mirabilia pattern Stargazer. So pretty, she reminds me of Maria in Elizabeth Goudges’ Little White Horse.
MISSING: Still cut up the the MIL killed my red tailed shark.
journal, day two
Prompt 2
If all the world was chocolate – what would you miss?
I guess I might miss my couch – sitting in a melting pool of chocolate would be pants, if you’ll pardon the visual pun. What about wine, books, my stitching? Or do I get really existensial, and point out that I wouldn’t miss what I don’t know.
Popping off now to find out how to spell “existensial” – leaving you with this image 🙂 a chocolate pinata from http://www.gayleschocolates.com
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you do know the trick with pinatas, don't you? blindfold the adults, spin them around a few times and make sure your pinata is on a pulley system. yes, slightly cruel but very, very funny.
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