yesterday i was reading someone's knitting blog which coincidentally was on a blogging site i used to blog on. i hadn't read my old blog i ages, so i logged in and found it. i hadn't written on in since january '07. reading through my old thoughts, i couldn't help but think, boy was i one pissy bitch. my posts were angry and nasty. not only my usual piss and vinegar, but snake venom and battery acid and bile. wow.
i started that blog 4 years ago, during a really bad time in my life. my family had a rather nasty crisis, and i blogged my way through the grief, anger and fear. there was over a year of anger towards the person who hurt my family, frustration towards family, even a ill-targeted hatred for a certain celebrity "chef" (which was another reason i was on this site). it was during this time that i started knitting and while there is some mention of my knitting and projects, but not near what i write about now.
i guess i can safely say that knitting saved my sanity. i can only imagine what a bitter cynical person i would be without it (cynical i'll always be, bitter i hope i never am again).
the group i used to belong to that ragged on that certain celeb? deleted. the person who started it years ago ceased its operation earlier this year, stating that it was time to move on, that there were bigger things in this world to worry about instead of harping on this celeb's ineptitude. change the channel. that's what i did back then too. i simply changed the channel and decided to live a life where i controlled who and what i wanted to watch and read about. i stopped obsessing about someone who obviously was not worth my ATP. they were gone from my life, hopefully for good, so why waste words on them? i stopped talking to people who made me feel down and found people who shared common interests with me (ravelry). i changed and became the voracious knitter i am today. i focused on my family. i am living, and i am much happier becos of it.
six months after i quit my old blog, i started this one. i loved reading the blogs of vickie howell, the yarn harlot, and the mason dixon ladies, and i wanted my blog to emulate theirs. i wanted a place where i talked about my craft, my joys and frustrations with knitting and my family, talk about things that interest me and hopefully others, and even vent now and then. i love my blog. i hope others like it too.
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