Happy New Year! Know what I'm going to do? I'm going to make some resolutions, and I'm really going to try and keep them. I feel like this is a big year coming up, and there's some crap I need to take care of. It's going to be great! I'm going to be great! 2006 is going to be great!
1. A lot of what I need to take care of has to do with the shop. I have decided to fill the shop only with things that I really love and would want to buy myself. I have felt this funny pressure to carry novelty yarns that I really don't like (and which have very little integrity) and I just don't want them around anymore. I would much rather give my money to people making beautiful yarn, that will turn into beautiful and long-lasting projects. Another decision about the shop has to do with the hours we are open. We have struggled through the last year with having very long hours. I've decided to cut the hours to 10/day - which is PLENTY FOR A YARN SHOP, and which makes so much sense to me. Some customers will be upset by this change, but I know in my gut that it's the right thing to do. Yay for guts!
2. Okay, okay. I know we all say this, but shit...I need to start taking care of myself. I need to get better sleep, drink fluids not containing caffeine or alcohol, and walk further than across the street to Wild Oats. Also? NO MORE DINNERS OF HASH BROWNS FROM TRADER JOE'S. That's not a meal - it's a disgusting habit, akin to eating a stick of butter for supper once a week. Which I will also stop doing.
3. This is a tough one. I am not going to BUY (so be it if I happen upon one on the street) any of the following magazines:
US Weekly, People or In Touch.
4. More new music. I'm so out of touch these days (which happens when you never leave the block you live on and own a yarn shop) and I want to get into new stuff again. Portland has some fun music venues, and it's silly that I've spent the last 2 years buying magazines (see above) instead of seeing music.
5. Since moving to Portland (away from a city and a whole side of the country that I LOVE) I have really struggled with being happy. Along with that has come a crippling inability to be creative in any real way. This year I vow to give Portland a chance, and hope that that means a little part of me will come back. I want to challenge myself in some of my creative pursuits, and maybe step outside if (but not away from!) my normal outlets. I think it's time again.
That's enough for one year. Next year I will totally kick the Diet Coke habit.
1. A lot of what I need to take care of has to do with the shop. I have decided to fill the shop only with things that I really love and would want to buy myself. I have felt this funny pressure to carry novelty yarns that I really don't like (and which have very little integrity) and I just don't want them around anymore. I would much rather give my money to people making beautiful yarn, that will turn into beautiful and long-lasting projects. Another decision about the shop has to do with the hours we are open. We have struggled through the last year with having very long hours. I've decided to cut the hours to 10/day - which is PLENTY FOR A YARN SHOP, and which makes so much sense to me. Some customers will be upset by this change, but I know in my gut that it's the right thing to do. Yay for guts!
2. Okay, okay. I know we all say this, but shit...I need to start taking care of myself. I need to get better sleep, drink fluids not containing caffeine or alcohol, and walk further than across the street to Wild Oats. Also? NO MORE DINNERS OF HASH BROWNS FROM TRADER JOE'S. That's not a meal - it's a disgusting habit, akin to eating a stick of butter for supper once a week. Which I will also stop doing.
3. This is a tough one. I am not going to BUY (so be it if I happen upon one on the street) any of the following magazines:
US Weekly, People or In Touch.
4. More new music. I'm so out of touch these days (which happens when you never leave the block you live on and own a yarn shop) and I want to get into new stuff again. Portland has some fun music venues, and it's silly that I've spent the last 2 years buying magazines (see above) instead of seeing music.
5. Since moving to Portland (away from a city and a whole side of the country that I LOVE) I have really struggled with being happy. Along with that has come a crippling inability to be creative in any real way. This year I vow to give Portland a chance, and hope that that means a little part of me will come back. I want to challenge myself in some of my creative pursuits, and maybe step outside if (but not away from!) my normal outlets. I think it's time again.
That's enough for one year. Next year I will totally kick the Diet Coke habit.
posted by Caitlin @ 1/03/2006 06:18:00 PM
2 Comments:
At 1/04/2006 01:57:00 PM,
penguindevil said…
Aww... Couldn't we kick Diet Coke this year and the Hash browns next year?
At 1/06/2006 02:13:00 PM,
Tricia said…
have you tried zero? no aspartame.
hey, and congratulations on the store! i am so excite to see it (and you) when i am out in portland for a thus-unplanned visit with some peeps out that way!
Tricia The Ice Expert
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