Operation: Penguin

So lately I've been incredibly homesick. I miss mountains and my dog among other things. So to keep myself preoccupied, I've taken up quilting. It's a lot of fun! I wish I had learned earlier! I Started a bandana quilt that was supposed to be a rag quilt, but not doing my research or a pattern, I jacked it all up. So it's going to be a normal quilt. I got fabric for an actual rag quilt though and I'm super excited!

Here's a pretty ironic story though. I find it pretty funny. My step mom has been sewing a lot lately making a quilt and as she sews she just goes right over the pins. I had always heard that you shouldn't do that because "you'll break your needle and it will fly into your eye and blind you." She went on for hours and hours and I was amazed that the needle didn't break like I was told! So the next time I sewed, I decided that I was going to sew over the pins.  It was going great! I was laughing on the inside! Until the needle hit a pin and broke. JUST MY LUCK! At least the stabby bits didn't make it to my eye.

Moral of the story: Pins are evil little suckers.

Nothing to say but talking anyways.

So I haven't been on much at all. Why? Because I don't know what to write about. Shocker I know right? I talk enough in person that I should know what to say when I sit down and type it out. Alas, this is a false assumption. So what am I going to write about this time? I still don't know. Well, actually, that's a lie. I do know, I'm just not sure how I'm going to actually say it.

When I started blogging, I was pretty much in my own little world trying to survive on Nutella, tortellini, what little human interaction I had through out the day and with a broken heart. I felt like I didn't have a voice, that I was just kind of drifting in the background of everyone's lives. And so to make my voice be heard, I started writing. I soon became obsessed with how many hits I was getting, if I had avid readers and if they liked my stuff yada, yada, yada. I was writing to be popular in the blogging world, and not for myself. I soon became discouraged and by then I had people to talk to and be weird around and I didn't need this anymore. The truth is, I love writing. I love getting feedback and ideas.

So a New Years resolution on mine is to stop caring what everyone thinks and to do stuff for me instead of for others. Oh! And also to do at least one creative thing a week :). What are your New Years resolutions?

P.S. I'll be writing again soon and it will be full of humor and pictures. Promise. :)