Ready to hear a secret? Here goes...
I come from a pretty lazy family.
Because of this, the idea of filling up my time productively and making the most of every day was foreign to me. That is until I met a girl named Suzanne in the spring of 2000. Suzanne was a free spirit, artsy chic born to two former hippies who still burned patchouli in the house at night. She was one of those girls who constantly dreamed, thought outside the box, set goals and wanted to change the world. She had a fire in her that I was not familiar with at all. But I liked it.
Suzanne hated wasting time and she'd repeatedly tell you that. She couldn't stand it. Yes, every once in a while she'd just lounge around in pjs with her family watching a movie but even in her world that wasn't lazy, it was spending time with family. The rest of her time was working on art projects, taking classes to learn new things, coordinating bible studies (hippie style as I called it), writing songs, playing gigs, meeting new people, traveling, networking, joining organizations, creating ideas, reading, writing, or doing things for others. It blew my mind.
And as much as I'd like to be like Suzanne, I'm not. I find that I am a lot like what was modeled for me growing up. I work, I come home, I eat, and either spend the rest of the evening on the computer or watching tv, with the occasional get together with friends one night a week. Weekends are a bit different though. I try to keep my weekends packed and do stuff because I do hate to waste my weekends.
There is a point to all of this...I promise. :)
I'm sick of being lazy! No, I'm not the type that can be too terribly busy because I can't stay sane that way. I do need my down time. However, I'm sick of wasting my time, just like Suzanne always said.
When I'm at home on week nights, there is no excuse why I couldn't be pulling out my sewing machine and trying to learn how to sew. It's something I've always wanted to do. So why have I not been doing it? I'm wasting precious time. (I believe I've posted about this sewing dilemma before.)
I see so many blogs of people who are always working on something and spend a good portion of their day dedicated to that thing. Every time I see someones handmade purse, jewelry, stationary, curtains, scrapbooks and even clothes I think to myself "Why am I not doing this?". Most of these people even have a job, a spouse and children to take care of and yet they still make time to do these things. What's my excuse?
I hate looking back on my life even now and thinking that there is this one thing I always wanted to do and had all the time in the world a few years ago and never did it. And now I have even less time than before, and as life goes on my free time will get less and less and less. So why am I procrastinating?
It's time to change!
No, I don't want to be so busy that I'm overwhelmed and can't handle everything I've put on my plate, because I can't operate that way and it will just drive me crazy. But I can start small and set 1 goal for now and see how I do. I admit I've never been good at setting goals and acheiving them, but every day is a day to start over, right? If I want to be different, then I have to do something different, it doesn't just happen on it's own.
So here it is folks...goal no. 1 - Sew!
I'm a huge perfectionist and making mistakes is going to aggrevate the hell out of me and make me want to give up, but I am going to have to keep at it. Because only practice makes perfect. (Not that 'perfect' even exist, but you get the idea.)
Thankfully I have a ton of blogs out there to help me with inspiration:
...just to name a few.
If you have any suggestions, tips, advice, links or words of encouragement I'd love to hear it! I'm going to need all the help I can get to stay on task.
Once I get my s**t together, the ultimate goal is to make my own clothes. It's always been hard trying to find clothes for a 6'1 girl with a 36 inseam and other abnormally large porportions. :)
2 comments:
You can do this! It really isn't that hard. Start with something small and work up. And don't expect yourself to finish a ton of things right at first - you need to play around with it to figure out what you like to do.
Wait a minute. Did I write this? I've been trying to learn to sew for years. I grew up in a "lazy" family, too. I say that because no one was ever learning new things or having a hobby. But we were really just scraping by, and I've learned since being an adult that I learned a lot about being frugal and getting by that a lot of my friends from not-lazy families never learned.
Anyway, I haven't learned to sew yet. I have a sewing machine, a serger!, loads of patterns, and boxes of fabric from sales. Its all becoming a strange pathetic collection and will probably become a very sad local museum someday. I'm so excited for you!
By the way, I'm 6'2'' and feel your pain. That's a big reason I want to learn to sew. I learned a little from my husband's grandmother before she died. She was one of those women who was head nurse at a huge hospital, sewed her own clothes (and clothes for others), cooked 10 awesome things a day, and still found time to watch her soaps.
Wow, this is about as long as your blog post. Good luck.
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