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June 21, 2008
distracted
Writing on the weblog is like e-mail correspondence, like exercising, like showering, like writing a paper: if you put it off it's harder to make yourself do it and then suddenly you're hopelessly behind and don't even know where to start. I have been busy and I have been doing nothing. Being at home is good. I'm trying to bring some sort of structure into my now mostly structureless life, with middling success thus far. I'm working on some exciting new things for the shop but can't seem to bring any of them to completion. I printed up a bunch of fabric this week though, so that's a start. And I have some lovely vintage aprons I'll be putting up in the shop on Monday to tide me over until I get some work done. And I promise, really truly promise, that on Monday I will have a new wee baby sock pattern for y'all, hastily scrawled down this morning off an existing pair of socks that will go home with the mama-to-be this afternoon.
Today we're heading up to beautiful Exeter, Ontario for a picnic in the park to celebrate the 40th anniversary of my family's arrival in Canada. Last night I baked scones for the first time in my life. With raisins, just like the ones we had when I was a kid (my very English grandma called them "flies", trying to get us to believe that's what was in there).
And finally, thank you all for the red hot love on my new tattoo post. Sorry I didn't reply to anyone but now that my comments are being moderated they're not showing up in my e-mail anymore. That'll be fixed soon, but not just yet. Anyway, I'm glad you all love the map; I'm pretty happy with it myself. It wasn't an original idea, though: I caught a glimpse of a shoulder tattoo of the Great Lakes, in silhouette, once in a photo of Joni from The Whoreshoes and it's nagged at me ever since, the only time I've even seen a tattoo on someone else that I would want for my own. When the time came to journey home and I wanted a way to commemorate that, it was the perfect time. I'm still not sure what, if anything, I'll add, but for now I'm happy with it the way it is.
Posted by jodi at June 21, 2008 07:28 AM | categories: self-absorbtion
Comments
Enjoy Exeter, we are 'in town' for the weekend too. Sounds like it is going to be good and wet for the duration. (but green, luscious, and still totally more desirable than the Big Smoke)
Posted by: Heather G. at June 21, 2008 08:47 AM
Those scones look amazing...I am at work (I should be working...I am reading blogs instead) and I am hungry for something good.
Posted by: raina at June 24, 2008 02:51 PM