{"id":424,"date":"2010-10-17T17:08:16","date_gmt":"2010-10-17T19:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/?p=424"},"modified":"2010-10-19T12:14:12","modified_gmt":"2010-10-19T14:44:12","slug":"worlds-of-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/2010\/10\/17\/worlds-of-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Worlds of Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/wpid-2010-10-17_17-03-45_291.jpg\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve written before about my parents&#8217; summer home, but it&#8217;s not something you can cover once in just a few lines.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re here again on the weekend and you can feel the weather changing. It&#8217;s not as warm as it was a few weeks ago and the wind has a dampness that hints of the approaching winter months. It&#8217;s even quieter down by the water because the weather isn&#8217;t ideal for the noisy boats and disruptive SeaDos that dominate summer weekends.<\/p>\n<p>But when swimming and sun do not matter and you just want to get away and go somewhere to relax, then here is where you want to be.<\/p>\n<p>Yeasterday, <a href=\"http:\/\/matthewmiddleton.ca\">Matt<\/a> and I went to a wedding where the groom is someone I know from high school. He&#8217;s a professional photographer and in the highest level of Murphy&#8217;s Law, his own wedding&#8217;s photographer cancelled at the last minute. As a Plan B, he asked myself and another friend if we would take photos while using his camera gear and following his guidance and instructions. It was an interesting experience, but I&#8217;m definitely not planning a career move any time soon (read: EVER).<\/p>\n<p>Today, it&#8217;s all about me and a need to relax. While I don&#8217;t mind spreading lime or digging holes to build on the landscaping of our second home, I&#8217;ve decided to take it easy after a busy week at work and a very full day yesterday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Question: can you tell when enough is enough and you&#8217;re in need of some &#8220;me&#8221; time?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Since last night, I&#8217;ve accomplished a lot. I managed to finish off (including sewing in the ends) the green basket weave baby blanket I started a few months ago. Two friends have already tried to claim dibs on it and we&#8217;ve all agreed it goes to the first baby. On Friday I started a lovely seed stitch cowl (there was a debate amongst friends on whether it was really a &#8220;neck tube&#8221; or a dickie instead of a cowl) and finished it off last night. And today I started another cowl that was from some local yarn made up of multiple fashion yarns.<\/p>\n<p>Yarn for both cowls were bought on Friday from <a href=\"http:\/\/agoodyarn.ca\">A Good Yarn<\/a>, a local knitting store in downtown St. John&#8217;s that&#8217;s simply fabulous!\u00a0 More about that later though as I&#8217;m long overdue a decent knitting update here.<\/p>\n<p>For the first time ever, I find myself somewhere and I&#8217;ve run out of yarn\/projects in the near vicinity&#8230; how shall I ever cope????By reading more pages of The Beach Street Knitting Society and Yarn Club by Gil McNeil. I&#8217;m only 80 pages out of 404 in, but love it so far.<\/p>\n<p><strong>When life starts to feel ragged at the edges or you just need to recharge your batteries, what&#8217;s your strategy?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve written before about my parents&#8217; summer home, but it&#8217;s not something you can cover once in just a few lines. We&#8217;re here again on the weekend and you can feel the weather changing. 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