I’m Back in the Saddle Again…
Out where a friend is a friend.
Where the longhorn cattle feed
On the lowly gypsum weed.
Back in the saddle again.
Nothing like a little Gene Autry first thing in the morning to put a spring in your step. And since this song has been constantly going through my mind as I contemplate typing, I figured I ought to let it out.
Truthfully, I’ve been ready to jump back into the blogging saddle for more than a few weeks now, but everytime I sit down to write I keep facing this huge void that is the last 3+ months. I’ve been worrying that it will disrupt the narrative flow of my my blog (Yeah, I know, what narrative flow?) if I don’t account for that time. This is, of course, where I get stuck and close out my browser window and retreat back to (somewhat) more manageable tasks. Like my Freeform 365 project or my job search (Hooray for unemployment!) or my spinning for the 100-mile suit project or spending time with my local pals or planning my upcoming trip to San Francisco where Kaizerin (you all remember my knitting olympics guest co-blogger and dear, dear friend) will be flying down to help me cut a swath across the fiber landscape of the city by the bay…
See? Big gaping narrative holes!
Oh, yeah, right and what about that whole “I am sad, life is misery thing” that was going on? How are you feeling woman?!
The answer to this (and many other questions) is a long story with lots of dull details and a fairly anticlimactic, but happy outcome. I know better than to refer to it as an “ending,” because we all know life doesn’t fit neatly into such categories, and just because things have improved doesn’t mean that each day is sunshine and roses. It is that kind of black and white thinking that tends to get me in the kind of trouble I found myself in this past year. So, in the interest of just “getting on with things,” I thought I would make this simple.
I’m back.
Not only am I back, but a lot is happening. Especially on the fiber front (as you may have gathered). So, stay tuned for further details!
January 29th, 2007 at 8:43 am
I’m glad you’re back!
Is your brain liking freeforming? Mine can’t decide. One day, I love it, and the next it makes me have terrible flashbacks to the 70s. Maybe I need it to be monochromatic or something . . .
January 29th, 2007 at 9:52 am
It’s great to have you back!
January 29th, 2007 at 10:04 am
I was thrilled to see your blog pop up in my bloglines! I was just thinking about you the other day too! I’m glad to hear things are better and I can’t wait to see what sort of knitting and spinning you’ve been up to.
January 29th, 2007 at 12:16 pm
I’m reading down the list in Newsgator and my brain slid right past you - because it looked so natural to see you there - and then popped back up with wide and happy eyes.
Yes, my brain has anthropomorphized eyes, why do you ask?
Don’t worry about the gap, woman. Welcome back.
January 29th, 2007 at 1:38 pm
Well, hot damn. I’ve missed you, a LOT. Welcome back!
January 29th, 2007 at 3:18 pm
So glad you’re back! Had just found your blog and then you were gone…sigh
Kudos for the 365 FF project!! WOW what an undertaking!
January 29th, 2007 at 5:35 pm
I’m glad you’re back. And if you are feeling good now, then I don’t think it matters what has happened in the interim. Looking forward to the next post about what is happening now.
January 29th, 2007 at 10:11 pm
Just want to hear how those fleeces are coming. Welcome back!
January 31st, 2007 at 1:53 pm
Wow, Rachel! I just took a couple of minutes to watch the slideshow of your FF365 project, and it is so brilliant! It felt like snorkeling through a tropical reef–I saw anemones, and starfish, and jellyfish, and a cute little school of stripey fish, and all sorts of neato things! (Uh…not to use your art project as a Rorschach test, or anything. Hee!)
February 1st, 2007 at 8:37 pm
Welcome back! I was so happy to see not one but two new posts today when I looked on your blog! I’ve missed your posts and news about this and that. Good luck with everything, and happy knitting/spinning/visiting/adventuring/unemploymenting!