I'm Alright with the Unfinished AND a Big Announcement!

I was asked to be a "Room Parent" again so I had to .....

I found my long lost cousin and sent a long email and waited to hear back from...

At the end of my work day I started to learn the process of making...

I had to pick something up from school and chased people all around the...

I started a game of Words with Friends and never got the "U" I needed for the damn "Q" and...

I had plans for a night with the kids that was bumped for the oodles of homework so...


I started a whole bunch of these types of things today.  Started them all is the key part.  None were completed.  This new thing challenge typically hinges on the things I have DONE...not hope to finish. I looked over at the ball of yarn and knitting needles that have been taunting me for years in a felted bowl that sits by a comfy chair.   I opened the yarn and busted out all of the beginning stitches without so much as a reminding diagram.  I then realized I never used this particular chunky wool because I needed bit fat needles to with it.  So after throwing a few rows on my skinny needles...I abaondoned that project as well.

I started a wool scarf in the hopes of busting it all out in one night but...

So there you have it.  I felt sort of lost most of the day.  My heart was in the right place but life just seemed to get in the way.  I was also running in so many directions that I couldn't just focus on any one new thing at a time.  Or I was depending on someone or something else.  As I just wrote this I had an epiphany.  I have made it through almost an entire year of doing something new every single day.  Maybe some days it was exciting and others it was necessary and still others it was something simple that was in between huge things that I can't even blog about.  The point is I did them.  Daily.  It changes your mind not just your activities.  But like everything else I did not finish today I have been feeling a stirring about something else.  I don't think it's time to finish this quest and if I leave it now it will be in the same pile of old yarn and unfinished projects as the rest of the them.  Do I need to commit to a second year...YEP! I sure as hell have to.  I know me and the things I was fighting before are all waiting for me like germs that have built up an immunity to the antibiotics.  I need to get it ALL out of my system.

So I guess now in a round the corner and down the street sort of way...I am saying that my new thing of the day is to say YES to another year.  Sigh.  Groan.  Do what you must.  Block me as a Facebook pal or "follow" me on my blog...I understand either way. 

Oh and as a holiday gift this year I ask you all for something.  A message with a list of ten new things that you think would be a wonderful challenge to a girl that will have 365 new things to come up with!  Good ones...really good ones!  Thanks for the support and love and ideas!  I now must wrap this up because like everything else started yesterday this post was split into two days and left unfin...