I'm not unemployed anymore - I actually have a very fabulous job as a preschool teacher with the University of Michigan child care centers. But I'm still posting, albeit a little more irregularly, and I don't want to ignore the personal progress I've made since starting this blog by renaming it.

Blog inspiration: I read 48 States in 48 Days by Paul Jury in the summer of 2011. It was fabulous...although he planned way less for his roadtrip than I would have. And at the same time, my lovely Anna was constantly reminding me that our lives were awesome, despite the fact that we didn't have job prospects, new cars, boyfriends/husbands, houses, etc., like so many people we knew. So, in an effort to appreciate my life and the crazy uncertainty that it is, I started writing this blog about the little adventures I have. (And by "writing a blog," I mean "making a list" because I make lists, not narratives.) Even if there isn't a BIG adventure that happens every day, I try to find at least one thing to list :)

Sunday, October 9, 2011

One Foot On The Path

  • Today was just a day of sewing and enjoying the sunshine. OH and I got the BEST dress at Plato's Closet the other day and I got to wear it today. And now Cara and I are watching How I Met Your Mother, which is pretty great.
My new favorite outfit!
And most of it was already mine :)
  • As I was working on my quilt today, I was drawing parallels between the seams I was sewing and my life. On the fabric of this quilt, there are all sizes of squares and rectangles that fit together to make a pattern, so I decided to do real quilting and go around the edges of all the shapes. As I work, I'm constantly deciding which path I should take with the next seam to maximize the duration of the seam and minimize how many times I go over seams I've already put in. There are literally a million different ways I could go. The most effective and successful way to do it seems to be to just make a decision about where to start and then make turns based on that choice, rather than trying to plan out the whole path before I start. And no matter which way I go, it's still going to be a pretty great quilt.
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