comedy / tragedy

[seventhe]

So today was really a good day, an almost-brilliant day. I had an amazing badass business-lady outfit, I had 8 meetings in a 9.5hr day, and I was incredibly productive and kicked ass all day long. I came home in a good/exhausted mood, had some wine, and am now sitting here trying to figure out how to sustain this mood for a weekend.

One of the things I think is critical when you're digging yourself out of the lonely-hole and also trying not to vanish into a work-shaped catastrophe in the ground, is: hobbies.

I have a lot of ongoing hobbies. Writing: I have plenty of projects in my head right now, and I sprout a dime a dozen during any given month of stress and sleep, so there's plenty to write. Knitting: I LOVE knitting; it's legit my soul-craft. On days I feel explicitly hollow and lost I knit something, like a hat or a pair of slippers. There's something satisfying about knitting because you watch something come into being and then have a physical item at the end of your efforts; at the end there's this warm intricate thing you can touch with your hands and wrap around yourself, and that's such a ridiculously fulfilling thing. Or even art: I am horrible at drawing things, but I continuously feel the urge to sketch and paint, such that at any given urge I can sit down and draw things on (electronic, real, etc) paper.

But those are all continuous hobbies, and sometimes when you are incredibly depressed, you need something new to break through some of those mental limits. So I am trying to make a list of new projects I can try to get myself involved and interested in when I feel blah and blah.

- Repaint upstairs library
- Reconstruct t-shirts
- sew interesting tops and skirts
- Decorate library
- Decorate dining room
- Purchase lamps
- Purchase chaise lounge
- Paint staircase
- hang basement pictures
- make jewelry
- uh







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Comments

[pict]

The Feymarch has a library?

[seventhe]

It does! With a daybed for cozy reading. :D

[pict]

MOVES IN

[seventhe]

HAVE SOME CATS

[lindorie]

I WANT

WHEN CAN I MOVE IN?

[p_cocincinus]

Mmm, knitting. I also recommend spinning, if you haven't tried it: it's both incredibly zen and has the making-a-thing qualities of knitting. I like weaving on my rigid-heddle loom. Before I got into knitting, I also did cross-stitch, which is also rhythmic motions that occupy the brain. (also subversive cross stitch exists)

Have a nice weekend.

[novel_machinist]

Wifey has this book about reconstructing t-shirts. We could loan it to you?

Also, you may like the idea of rainbowfic. It's a super friendly, supportive group of writers that use themes to just get words out. You don't have to post at a certain time or even with a certain project. There's also no word min to post. It's nice to just get some validation on something, even if it's small.

Also, we're going to start picking out painting colors ourselves. YAY PAINTING.

[lassarina]

Do embroidery with me :D

I also want to learn to make jewelry wow I used to have this rad-ass book with like two dozen jewelry patterns in it, I wonder what ever happened to that.

....I want to learn beading.

[seventhe]

I used to do embroidery actually - we could have a needle circle XD

I also used to do beadwork ....wow now I really want to get back into that too ugh

[lassarina]

I'm telling you, we'll use our weekly hangout sessions to Do A Thing regardless of what the thing is.

[seventhe]

Excellent plan! The more choices we have, the more likely we are to find a good fit to our respective moods!

[lassarina]

And we don't have to be doing the same thing, as long as we are doing a thing!

I'm really enthusiastic about this idea.

[seventhe]

I am too. I think we can rock it.

[lindorie]

I think I might have just the book for you! "The Knitting Sutra: Craft as a Spiritual Practice" by Susan Gordon Lydon. It's pretty short, something like 150-ish pages and printed in a tiny book. I think you'd like it. Unfortunately, it's only available in print. :p

I can send my copy of it over to the Feymarch with hella love if you're interested?