Need to move at my own pace on a Slow Sunday...

 Hello - did you have a nice Thanksgiving?  As I talked about last week we had ours on Friday... and it was delicious... but I'm even more discombobulated about what day of the week it is... so glad I have a clock next to my bed that tells me what day it is when I wake up... 

And as I talked about last week I do not have much craftyness  to show for my time... some of my normal activities didn't happen but other things did ... my Tuesday which I thought would be wide open because I wasn't watching Elliott ended up packed full of stuff... it started Monday evening when the place that I use to detail my car texted and said can we move your 9 am appointment to 1pm because the forecast was for rain in the morning. OK that's fine with me, I didn't have to get up so early and their regular method is to come and clean the car in my driveway... then Tuesday morning they texted again and asked if they  could  come at 10:45am  and get the car and take it to their garage and do the work there. Now I have to say that was great. A very nice young man came and got the car and returned it spic and span a couple of later.

Since the appointment had gotten moved I was still in my pajamas at 10am thinking I could lounge a bit... but then the doorbell rang. The appointment for the guy to come and winterize the sprinkler system was for between 11am and 1pm... but he showed up at 10:05... I scrambled to throw on some sweats and let him into the basement to turn off the outside water and he was done outside in about 30 minutes.

And then a friend came over to visit and look at some of my Christmas cross stitch charts... that was nice and she left with a couple she'd like to stitch this season... I on the other hand am taking a different path which I'll talk about in a bit. 

I don't remember what happened Wednesday but it disappeared and I spent Thursday doing prep for the meal on Friday... and now it is Saturday... Nick and I went out to lunch, got gas in my car, hit the grocery for some fruit... and then came home and we brought in the Fall/Thanksgiving outdoor decor and decorated the window boxes.  I should have gotten to them earlier. The dirt in the boxes is frozen. I attach the greenery/garlands I put in the boxes with large lawn staples so they don't blow out of the boxes. The wind can blow something fierce around my  little house on the corner as it is exposed on both the west and the south side where the boxes are located. We had to use a hammer to get the nailed down...literally. I added some large wooden snowflakes from Hobby Lobby, and I want to put some lights in the boxes. I think I'm going to go with some battery operated white lights. I think that will be pretty and I would like it even in January and February. 

As for inside my plan today is to get the Fall/Thanksgiving stuff put away and to start to get out the Christmas stuff... but I need to move at my own pace. My knees are still giving me problems and I need to keep reminding myself Rome wasn't built in a day and I don't have to have all my stuff up immediately. 

And these thoughts are the result of a lot of thinking lately... and how I should move at my own pace and not be egged on by how much other people are getting done. They aren't 72 and they don't have my knees and does it make any difference what I do or when I do it?  I've been thinking about my cross stitch and quilting and knitting and crocheting and I want to do what I want to do when I want to do it. Right now nothing Christmas-y is calling my name as far as cross stitch is concerned. In fact, I didn't put in a single stitch on any cross stitch project last week. 

I did what I wanted to do and I knitted ... I finished this pair... the yarn is by Opal and was called Australia.

And I started a new pair of socks... I'm using 2 different Opal yarns that are highly patterned and alternating every round... I have NO clue what it is going to look like... it reminds me of Stack n Whack as you aren't sure what it will look like until you whack it and sew it back together... I like that mystery... here's where I am so far...

lots of stripeyness and then that chunk of green ... oh I LOVE that chunk of green!  I hope it will repeat itself somewhere on this sock or on its mate.  

And this is the pace I want to move at. Realistically nothing for this Christmas would get stitched and finished in time... I might do a little Prairie Schooler Santa for completion next year. I got the floss for the Chilly Cardinal Sampler to do in January... need to dye some linen for it.  And I'll see how far I get on the Bent Creek Soapbox Winter... and then I want to move onto the patriotic stuff ... I want to go all out for the 250th birthday of the United States... got a bunch of  great cross stitch charts and there are 2 quilts I want to make. But I don't want to be rushing with myself.  Eons ago when the dinosaurs roamed the earth as a 15 year old child I was in a high school version of the play The Pajama Game and one of the songs I can't forget was "Racing with the Clock" .... the final refrain was "It's a losing race when you're racing with the clock."  So I need to move at my own pace... and what gets done, gets done... and on that note I'm going to sit here a while and knit  a bit more...

I'll link up with Kathy's Quilts... hopefully by next week I will have some Christmas stuff out... I know that once I get started I am more motivated...mostly because I want the boxes out of my living room.  Not sure what the weather is going to be next week. It is definitely going to be cold and the "snow" word has entered the forecast... as I recall, meteorological winter starts December 1...which is tomorrow... right on schedule...

Hope your week ahead is a good one... perhaps you work a little on the Christmas stuff, perhaps not... move at your own pace!

happy stitching-

carol fun