Thursday, December 28, 2017

New Rules


I saw this on a fellow writer's FB wall and thought, my gawd, I should have it painted, large, in black caps, in my walls. Seriously.

I can't believe how one simple task on my to do list today can expand to 4 hours, as I wander the corridors of the interwebz, slamming up against online Walmart, then into Ravelry for the perfect wool for an infant aran sweater, then pick up a piece of knitting for a friend and mull the shortage of yarn in the expensive wool she bought for this "slouch" hat she commissioned. There wouldn't be too much slouch so I dove into my wool stash for a kinda match and eureka, found it and test drove it a few rows. Then there was this picture needed framing so I played hunt the hammer for a while, studied the picture (I had several knitting pics enlarged and printed and oh my, are they gorgeous) to see where trimming could happen, abandoned that, picked up a marvelous book, a gift and I don't know from whom as s/didn't sign it and made notes for expansion on an existing novel.

Exhausted from all the activity, I had to go back to my list to see what the original task was:"send off self-potrait and short biography to Writers' Alliance.

Still not done.

But hey, look at my knitting, a gift of a lovely picture and my book bag, another gift.


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    1. I can't believe how my days get chock full of activities.

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  2. Fuck new rules...Do as ye can...

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  3. I did that just the other day..wandered the house and found umpteen and 3/4 things to do, and did and finally got back to what I started on ...only because I had left the light on in the room where I intended to do the thing. :)

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    1. I know. It's almost scary. But lovely in its own way.

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  4. Try this WWW: https://watch.cbc.ca/movies/-/episode-31/38e815a-00d7992a4dd

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    1. You really want to open that link. Promise you will be delighted.

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  5. Maybe you could try a meditation I discovered online:
    Breathing in, fuck it.
    Breathing out, let that shit go.

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  6. Feckin' Rules!! Let's feckin' do what comes naturally!
    (Can you tell we've been watching "Father Ted"?)
    Happy Feckin' New Year WWW! x0x0x

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  7. Best wishes for a Happy New Year and a wonderful 2018 in your new home!

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  8. Wishing you a wonderful New Year and much happiness!

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  9. "Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion".

    ~ Parkinson's Law (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_law)

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  10. I am going to print this out and hang it on my fridge. I will add "forgive your fucking self if you don't follow any of these fucking rules!"
    Happy 2018!

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  11. Love the comments my people, fucking love them!

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  12. Ha! I saw the same fucking rules on FB yesterday, and grabbed them with screen capture. Got to be some value in that. LOL

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