morning

6::15 am

                Here’s a new idea  - write MP’s right here in bed immediately on waking up. I am trying, while here, to go with the cosmic flow –wake up and go to bed with the sun. well, sort of except that the sun rises pretty darn early right now. I went to bed last night without turning on any lights. I sat on the porch flick carding some dirty wool through Fresh Air (which was about superman), then I sat on the front porch for a while just vegging which was lovely, then once it was getting pretty dusky I just went to bed. And I slept pretty well, so I’m thinking that idea of vegging before bed is a good one. So often I am busy with something, whether it is reading, or doing something on line, or seeing a movie, until just before I go to bed and then I have trouble getting to sleep. Whatever I was doing runs round and round through my brain and I can’t relax. This was far better.

                Ok, I confess, it is kind of lonely here, but I don’t mind. There is plenty to be busy with, and I have the radio and cds to listen to.

                Carding, as usually happens on my fiber retreats, is kind of frustrating. I did the pale pink stuff blended with the pale pink lichen dyed angora. That went fine, just card, then split and card again, and repeat. It is pretty good now. Next I want to blend in the darker purple and some gray angora. Trouble is that the darker purple, which is a lovely color, is the stuff that is dirty. Lots of VM. I started picking it out and realized that was too time consuming and I couldn’t get it all so then I started in with flicking it. Also very time consuming, though it will make the carding go much much faster. I think the final blending will not take long. Then I can move on to something else. Well, I will still need to do that 2 ounce blended bit for D. In fact, maybe I will just card all the lichen stuff up. I don’t really want to blend it with anything, as I prefer to be able to say that it is all “natural” with no commercial dye.

                Am I bored with blending stuff and even with spinning? Well, no, I wouldn’t say that. It is frustrating to work on it all with the uncertainty that anyone will buy any of it. Marketing. Gotta work on that and it is the hard part. Some of it is fun and creative, but some of it feels very tedious. And gets discouraging.

Other less fun ToDos: get a fair exec committee meeting together. Plan out my class (oh dear, that is starting to make me anxious. I should really find some older kid that could help me out). Those feel  like work, but I will do them in between carding so maybe they’ll be more like a break. Carding is kind of tedious but it doesn’t feel like work. Btw, speaking of tedious work like things, I spent a long time yesterday morning reading all those posts about how to fix the jumping cursor, I even saved a document with lots of them, and then I uploaded that program, seemed like there would be a problem, but when I restarted the computer everything seems fine and it is NO LONGER JUMPING!!!!!  Yay! I still thing I should upload McKafee to this computer.

                Reading: I brought You Are Not Your Brain which I started yesterday (already listened to the beginning on tape, but I figured I ought to review). Also brought Ambassadors and the book about it, but I have not opened them. I did listen to more of Martin Chuzzelwit which I adore. Almost reading. Not really. And I am still listening to The Time Traveler’s Wife which is kind of interesting. And I listened to Joe Donahue on the radio because his voice is so cheerful and soothing. Now I think I will meditate and make oat bran but not burn it today. I still need to clean that pot!

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