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About two years ago, I decided to learn how to knit. I bought a kit at a big-box chain store and a book off the internet. After several frustrating evenings, I almost gave up. I happened to mention to a friend that I wanted to learn and she offered to teach me. Surprise, surprise! She knit in addition to making jewelry, running a business, and still working full time. She taught me and here I am.
Except that the journey from there to here hasn’t been that simple. I remember reading knitting blogs and getting frustrated because I didn’t understand the terminology. I remember going to a chain craft store and getting frustrated because I didn’t understand the difference between different widths of yarn, much less different fiber content. I remember thinking that certain patterns were so hard and I would never be able to do that.
Little by little, I had light-bulb moments. I still have those moments with knitting and even more so with spinning now that I do [a little bit of] that too.
Now it is an odd day when I don’t pick up the needles (or spindle). My world feels out of balance if I don’t.
Husband feels that way about going to the gym.
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I reached back out to a CFP referred to me by a friend. We talked about eight months ago and laid the groundwork for some goals that husband and I have been working on. We are tentatively scheduled for a call next week and I am looking forward to hearing what he has to say.
It is amazing to me that we are even at the point where conversations with professionals make sense. Whenever I run the numbers on our assets versus liabilities, I am dumbfounded (especially when I take out the mortgage liability).
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If you know me in RL, you know that one of my weaknesses is shoes. I love shoes!! I have two shoe racks in our tiny one-bedroom condo and I still have a pile in the floor. I also keep trying to follow the “One pair in = one pair out” rule; I fail regularly with that one.
As much as I love shoes, I’m still cheap. While we were in New Orleans in September 2006, we hit a shoe store and I bought five pair because they were having an awesome sale. One of those pairs has been discarded because I wore them out. Another pair…
…I started wearing regularly when I started this job with the union. They were a bit uncomfortable, but I kept wearing them because they are brown (and I own very few pieces of clothing that require brown shoes). I grabbed the extra pair of heel liners when I walked out the door this morning and put them in my shoes when I got to work.
Damn!! They are so much more comfortable now. I can walk around without feeling like an awkward thirteen year old trying to wear her first pair of heels.
Why do I always forget things like this until I’m ready to pitch a pair?
