Argh we are 1/4 through 2025!
I missed the end of Feb blog, so its approximately the end of March. Yesterday was my birthday. Didn't want to do much but G came up and we had a nice day, quite leisurely, which is what I wanted. A slow day. A late start. Late pilates class. Lunch. A rest. Reading in the park. Walk dog with R. Dinner at tre viet. Watched TV. And a good nights sleep! I felt very rested which is rare.
So some creativity from the last 2 months.
I've been playing the piano before work most days, and I have memorised Liz on top of the world, and most of Dawn, from P&P 2005. That movie is TWENTY YEARS OLD. Bucket list goal of being able to sit down anywhere there is a piano and play dreamy Austen soundtrack music from memory ACHIEVED.
I picked a lot of tomatos and made 4 jars of green tomato relish! Remarkable crop and didn't lose many to caterpillars. I did used tomato dust, this wasn't an organic miracle. I've got a good number of lemons on my potted tree, too. It has rained a lot!
A friend invited me to walk mereweather to newy, really appreciated how beautiful the whole coast is here, and it was good to break my usual saturday routine of pilates and housework. Routine is good, but forgettable. This was tiring, delightful, memorable.
I've done some sewing. Made 2 pants and a dress so far. The pants are very useful. The dress I am moving the pockets. Trying to not always do a sewing marathon, and practice doing a bit and then stopping and coming back later.
I've been doing more housework after work, to free up weekend time for pottery and pastels. I bought a bag of clay on a day off and I've decided to just make vases, with coils mostly. I had some ideas for decorating, but didn't like them, and went back to carving. I just love carving.
I have an idea to colour the carving too. I don't have any glaze yet though.
And these are my pastels so far. I put them on the wall and gave one to someone in my home group when we were meeting at my house.
So reflecting on my original goals for the year, slow down, keep up spiritual habits, change my schedule to allow more creativity, read some more books... going OK. Every day isn't perfect and there isn't enough time to do it all but I'm overall doing the things. I have no big stressors this year which is nice too.
