I think I am one of those people who stresses out about everything. I stress out about my job, my house, my weight, my school work, about my kids, about other people, about the weather, about my car, about my cat...everything. My sister is like that as well. We both happily blame our parents...eastern European imports.
Eastern European parents have certain mantras they recite to their children...go to school, save your money, open RRSPs, don't do anything weird because what will people think of us, get a job with a pension plan, plus a thousand other things that most north American people never make chants out of. Us children of eastern European parents like to put these drones in the back of our minds - unfortunately these things come and haunt us in our sleep. Our parents can't help it...they came to a new country with nothing and rebuild their lives and the only thing that no one had taken away from them in their old country is their education and their ability to be frugal...well, except for my dad...he is not frugal...he likes kitchen appliances too much, and computers, and his sailboat, and his power tools. I must say though, that it is this propensity to stress and feel guilty about everything that directly contributes to my doing well in life. I have a good job, a great house, decent kids...you know - I have a small life but a meaningful life, I feel lucky.
Knitting is supposed to be my zen...my escape from all that is necessary, but slowly my type A personality is starting to creep in. I have FOUR projects on the go right now and it is stressing me out. I have decided that I am one of these people who can only have one sweater and one pair of socks on the go. Right now I have one sweetpea sock, one toe up sock, one endpaper mitt and a small portion of Mr. Greenjeans completed. I can't handle it. It is keeping me up at night. So, once I finish off on the socks, I am NOT starting anything new until I get everything done.
You know, I am minimalist...I don't like junk and too many projects to me is mind clutter. Of course one needs to knit and get into knitting to discover this side of herself. I know there are knitters out there who have many projects on the go...I can't be one of those people. I know that now.
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hey raina, I know, it's sad. I do love trivia though! That's really why I watch it, I also like Cash Cab :) TV is MY escape from the incredible stress in life (I understand!) instead of knitting or doing paper crafts because having projects lined up also stresses me out. Ah well. Maybe when I move to Philadelphia and work from home, instead of commuting 2+ hours per day, I'll have more time for relaxing...
by the way, I noticed that you are on ravelry, I am too, though I don't have anything really up yet. My name is Bluesky161!
Oh, I am so with you on that! Too many projects keeps me awake at night. I freak when I see my WIP's on Ravelry so I move some of them to 'hibernating' so they'll be at the bottom in an attempt to soothe my mind. Sad, huh?
That whole import thing? I get it. My parents moved from India and they were exactly the same. I stress about the same things. :)
Although, saying that, I was a rebel and my rebellion this time round is having multiple projects OTN's. We'll see how long that lasts! :D
i am a furiously whirling bundle of stress! and yes, i'm the child of immigrants too although none of us are too frugal ;) .
just recently, i strayed from my one-project-at-a-time rule and i must say, i do like having 3 things going at once. ok, it's really 4 but i have to finish the bunny for an easter basket this weekend so it doesn't entirely count...right?
ha ha! sometimes i wish i had typepad, just so i could email from comments. wouldn't it be easier? i'm asta_pup at yahoo dot com if you do want to email.
yes, tom! i've loved him since the '80s, been lucky enough to see him twice. there's a tom waits group on ravelry that started up fairly recently.
I can so relate to stressing over too many projects! That has happened to me before and I also had to realize that knitting was the LAST think I should be stressing about. This was a great post - I could relate all to well!
i don't think i am a type A but i fully agree with you about the mind clutter! i an no neat freak but hate general mess clogging up my life. good luck with the socks. :)
Knitting should definitely not add to the stresses of life but it is easy to add it to the list of things to fret over!
I would so like to be minimalist but am just not - have to have a ton of things on the go so that I have the right thing to knit on to suit my mood or to rescue me when something has to go into time out :o)
Here's to a good sock week this week!
I've recently come to the same conclusion...one big project plus one pair of socks on the needles at one time!
It doesn't help of course that my DH keeps asking when I'm going to finish my CPH or my throw!
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