Release

Today, I did some releasing. I released my fears about losing weight into the universe. I released myself from being upset when my son brings home a slightly less than wonderful report from school. And I released myself from two responsibilities (digital scrapbooking creative teams) that were causing me to give myself guilt over not paying as much attention to them as I should have. My husband once told me, once a hobby starts stressing you out, it's time to find a new hobby. Well, scrapping was stressing me out. So I am now only on one creative team, and that one is a very low-pressure gig for a designer who I consider a long-time friend. And I will give her 100% of my time and energy and mojo, and I will be proud of the work I do instead of finishing a layout and saying, "Okay, now I need to go do something for So-N-So's team so they don't get the short end of the stick." Too much pressure, and not any fun! Release is good. I am currently (and of my own volition, not from any sense of obligation) knitting my husband a pair of socks. And they are so soft, and so pretty, and coming along so nicely, that they give me joy just to look at them. Now THAT is what a hobby should be! For those who were asking about a gallery of my knitting projects, I have everything stored over at a site called Ravelry which is not yet open to the general public. But I think I can share my Flickr page link and you should be able to see them all there as well: http://www.flickr.com/photos/15920154@N07/ Feel free to ignore all the photos of yarn, lol. One of the features of Ravelry is being able to upload photos of your yarn stash and keep track of what you have. As a newer knitter, I figured now was a good time to get that going before I have more than I can photograph.