Ten on Tuesday: Ten things I would like to learn/try

Practical?  Or pie in the sky? Coulda woulda shoulda? Learn vs try - a difference of intensity, commitment, passion?

Combining last week and this week:

1. Try to get back to the exercise habit. I fell through a hole in the floorboards of that wagon after the winter season ended.

2. Try and organize my stuff.  Yeah, perennial favorite, this one.  But this is an aspirational list, rather than a to-do list.

3.  Try to cook more new recipes.  That will include healthy, delicious lunches that substitute for the crap sold in the hospital cafeteria.  Their tuna tastes like metal.  Their sandwiches look like they were put together by Salvador Dali.  

4.  Try to keep better connection with my distant friends.  I come home from work tired, and the weekends are filled with shoulds/must dos.  Reordering of time is on the list.

5.  Learn to weave better stuff.  Or, as one famous spinner puts it, "suck less".

6.  Learn enough Spanish on top of what I know to become fluent.  I need to learn something other than the present tense.  Sikudi nopazmi! (Oops.  High Valyrian doesn't count.)

7.  Try to learn to knit faster.  (HA.  Both at once, try and learn.)  

8.  Learn to knit good sweaters.  Lynn says the only way to do this is to do this.  Crap.  I knew there was a catch.

9.  Try to clean up the garden before it reverts back to woodland.  Neck and neck on this one.

10.  Try to watch the Belmont Stakes if California Chrome is running.  He may be the first Triple Crown winner in 36 years.  Reminds me of Secretariat, when he would pull multiple lengths away from the rest of the field, and coast across the finish line.  (The camera has trouble keeping all the horses in one shot here. Understand that throughout Triple Crown history, 27 horses have won the Derby and the Preakness, but have failed at the extra length of the Belmont Stakes.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V18ui3Rtjz4 

11.  Try to blog more often.  I have so much knitting backlog to post.

 

Comments

[Bonny]

If you only had some "staff" you could easily accomplish many of these! Your staff could organize, cook, and clean, leaving you more time to try the rest. Sadly, my servants have yet to show up.

[Carole]

Please please please do #11. It would help with #4, too. And Lynn is right, unfortunately.

[Manise]

Agreeing with Carole!

[margene]

#4 is high on my list, too! And you're at the top of that list. As Carole said, #11 helps with connections.
There is no reason you can't knit a good sweater. First is picking a pattern that has the potential to fit well and is easy to make adjustments, too. Next is making sure of your gauge, and last is the knitting part. You CAN do it well.

[anne]

#9 for sure and #4 - but you suspected that. :) I've tackled #1 this month after a busted ankle in January, but whew, not easy to get kick-started into regular exercise again.

[Patti]

I love the variety of your list. I love to organize (#2) and always tell my friends that I'd do it for them for free. A couple of folks have taken me up on it, and I've had so much fun. I even pet & house-sat for a friend for 2 weeks a few summers ago and organized all of her closets (she asked me to) while I was there! I'm with you on #3.

[Caroline M]

I'd like to try pottery and stained glass and I keep thinking about learning an instrument so I can get my own back with the endless arpeggios. The question (for both me and you) is "what's stopping you?"

[Ruth]

How did I not know that you are a fellow Triple Crown watcher? My fingers are crossed for California Chrome ... the drought needs to be broken.

[gayle]

I keep hoping someone will invent a daystretcher. Because 24 hours just isn't enough...

[Judith]

#8 is simple, but not easy. I've gone to Stitches many many times, but still haven't found the class that explains the process by which good patterns, well executed in good yarn, are transformed into yucky sweaters. It may just be a matter of knitting enough that you've made all the mistakes once so you don't make them again.

[claudia]

You are so right about that cafeteria.

[Chris]

#9 is my constant try. If you do #11, I'd probably read more blogs more often.