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January 05, 2007
resolve
I don't much go in for making life-changing promises tied to an arbitrary mid-winter date; for me the year still begins in September and ends in April, tied to the school year. Having just returned to Athens to begin a new semester, however, puts me in mind of making a few fresh starts. I'm not making any big promises either here or to myself, but I'd like to make some positive changes in the areas of diet, exercise and, uh, tidiness and general stuff-reduction; I'd like to try to become the sort of person who doesn't cling to deadlines, who gets things done on time, or early, and does not give up or let things slide or do anything half-assed. I'd like to spend less money on food and eat better, and I'd like to do my yoga more regularly so maybe my shoulders will stop hurting. Changing one of these things would make me happy, changing all of them would be a miracle. I met a big deadline in November with completing my continuance exam, and it would be easy to slack off now and waste the next four months: I'm hoping that by focusing on making positive changes in my daily routine and attitude I'll be able to stay on a high with the art-making and have a productive semester.
I put some new stuff up in my etsy shop today, some buttons, including these ones:
and these pamphlet stitch journals that I made last year some time:
I also put up a few new shirts but not all of them, because my photos are very bad and I need to reshoot them all with the tripod; I didn't know my hands were that shaky.
Posted by jodi at January 5, 2007 02:22 PM | categories: projects
Comments
OOH! I gotta get over to your shop as soon as I get home (I'm blocked here at work -- stupid firewall!).
And yeah, I'll raise a glass to the fresh starts, too!
Posted by: chris at January 5, 2007 04:00 PM
Fresh is good!
Posted by: Sandy at January 5, 2007 04:28 PM
Re the etsy shop: mine mine mine mine mine
Re being back in Georgia: I didnt dare ask when you were heading back to school because you said you were sick to death of thinking about it, but...is it okay to sent out that box now?
Posted by: bonnie at January 5, 2007 04:40 PM
Hey Jodi,
I'd really like to buy some of your buttons - especially that one with the heart for knitting (i think, I'll get myself a tatoo very similar to that picture on the button). But as live in Germany I dunno if I can order that stuff via etsy regularly and i don't know about the shipping costs. Can you tell me if and how it works to buy your stuff from overseas?
By the way: Great blog; i read it very continuously. AND I just started to knit Mariah yesterday. So, enough backdoor admiration now ;)
Best wishes from Freiburg, Germany!
ella
Posted by: ella at January 6, 2007 06:40 AM
I think it's good to make goals for self improvement, no matter the time or season. Attaining them is the hard part.
Seeing those buttons reminded me: did you see one of your 'Knit" heart buttons is in the new Knit1 mag? I also saw one at a random yarn shop in Baltimore yesturday.
Posted by: Jenna at January 7, 2007 12:35 PM