I feel like I still have many of my list of 2011 resolutions in my sights. I haven't given up on anything yet, and I feel good about embracing more of my leisure time and taking life a little more slowly. I think I've been most successful in that, in continuing my knitting, in adding to this blog almost daily, and in watching less TV.
I've been knitting a little every day, but this project is so time-consuming and frustrating that I often put it down shortly after I pick it up. I think I need to be working on something else concurrently. Otherwise, I find that I put down the sweater, pick up my laptop, and noodle around for an hour, just wasting time. I'll find another knitting project to start on or get my cross-stitching going, so that I can go back and forth between the two.
I'm doing a lot more reading, now that the TV is off more. That's fantastic, but I'm ruining myself for nights like this. I already mentioned it before, but once you start watching less TV, when you do watch it you realize how many, many commercial breaks there are, and how much really bad programming there is out there. Tonight, being a Monday, I really just wanted to veg out and watch some mindless TV for an hour or two. I could only find two or three programs I even felt like watching, and it turned out that I'd seen all of them before. Plus, it felt like I was bombarded by ads every 5 minutes. So, off it went again. I did another 6 rows on the painful sweater, paged through a knitting book and a cookbook I picked up from the library today, and now I'm sipping wine and noodling again. And it feels pretty good.
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