I'm Baaaaack!

Hey team!

So... it's been over a month since I've blogged. Oops.

It all started when my dear friend Jillian visited. She's doing a residency at a pottery studio a couple of hours outside Seattle, so she came a few days early to visit.

Gum wall!

While she was here, Halloween happened.

Black and white movie star

Then, I was busy with a bunch of social obligations. No excuse for not blogging, really, but it's what happened.

After that, I visited Philadelphia for a weekend. I saw a bunch of old friends and also went to see First Date on Broadway!

Philly's City Hall

In early November, I found out that Star Wars was hosting open auditions for the lead roles in their upcoming trilogy, so my brother and I decided that we HAD to go. Star Wars is a very important part of our close friendship, our childhood, and how we perceive ourselves (an absurd amount of weight for a fictional universe to carry in our lives, I know), so there wasn't a thing you could do to keep us from there.

So we flew to London. For a weekend. For Star Wars auditions.

Westminster Abbey

Buckingham Palace

Big Ben

Then it was Thanksgiving, which I spent with extended family in Portland. And now I'm finally back at home, gathering my wits from the most insane November I think I've ever had, and trying to find my footing with my personal projects going forward.

On the bright side, all this travel means that I had a lot of plane time for crocheting! Stay tuned for updates on what I've made!

Bruin Games

My high school mascot was the Bruin. A mighty creature, often mistakenly understood to be a pregnant bear, it is just a Dutch way of saying "brown bear." (Wikipedia says so)

While I was in high school, a few of the sports teams fell into the habit of losing. But not just losing outright; we would be in the lead for the first 2/3 of the game, then lose our lead and the game by the time the game was over.

It was really rough on morale.

Well, I've fallen into a sort of Bruin game habit in my life. I'll come up with an idea for a project and get super-excited about it, do a little research, maybe even buy supplies. But then I'll suddenly lose steam and I end up with a stack of Ikea clocks on my desk and balls and balls of yarn just laying around.

Bruin games of life are why I wanted to start blogging. I wanted a reason to finish projects, because the satisfaction of finishing a project was clearly not enough to make it happen. Maybe, optimistic Kath would think, maybe if I have a deadline, a schedule, maybe then I could actually accomplish things.

Now I have a blog with two posts since its creation in September and the same number of pending projects. Oops.

So I'm going to up the ante. I'm going to give myself even more structure. This is going to be a TWO POST PER WEEK BLOG!

But Kath, incredulous audiences protest, how could you possibly make two posts per week when you couldn't even handle one?!

Well, I'll tell you.

I'm going to have Monday posts and Saturday posts. Monday's posts are going to be me creating goals for the month (finish a project per week, get back on the Couch-to-5k bandwagon, etc) and Saturday's posts are going to be finished projects/tutorials/tips'n'tricks/etc.

Can y'all get behind that? I'm so excited about it that I already have Saturday's post written and scheduled to publish! I'm ahead of schedule! Can  you believe it?!

Anyway, once I get into the rhythm of this, I'll actually start working on spreading this blog to readers. But I want there to be some content before I do that. So here goes.

See you Saturday!