With the long days in between the shifts I am getting at work, I have found myself becoming more lethargic and on the brink of mini depression. I decided that I need a definite hobby if I am going to survive this summer without school.
A few years ago, when I moved from Windsor to Mississauga, a friend at work gave me a small scrapbook as a going away present. In a couple of months I managed to fill it up, and create a scrapbook that was dedicated to Paul's and my first year together as a couple. I was quite impressed with it, and still am to this day. What is not so impressing is that I have since to scrapbook anything significant, yet all the while I've been buying scrapbook materials at the dollar store with good intentions of someday completing another book.
Well, yesterday I managed to muster up the energy to take out all of my scrapbook/crafting materials (which remain scattered all over the dining room table) and I turned out 3 pages of our vacation last summer. It didn't really take me long, and the results are pretty satisfying. Since closing the book yesterday, I've gone back twice to admire my work. I've decided that I rather like to create scrapbook pages, and I think will this be a satisfying hobby; it's something that will make me feel like I've been productive with my time. Another bonus to this new venture, is that it will motivate me to take the hundreds of pictures that have accumulated on my computer, and actually get them printed. I keep reminding myself how important it is to get this done, since it would be heartbreaking to loose them all should my computer up and die. The only problem with this, and with scrapbooking, is the inevitable cost that comes along with it. Many dollar stores, luckily, carry some pretty nice materials, but I tend to get a little carried away when everything is a dollar. My mind goes into cheap crap overload and I can't control myself. Pictures also, run about $.18 a print (the cheapest I can find). I suppose I just have to keep reminding myself how precious something like this will be in the future, and also that for the price of my sanity, it's not really that expensive.
So that's really all that's going on with me at the moment. The crappy weather lately has driven me to afternoons filled with Oprah and Dr. Phil re-runs, something which really bothers me, so hopefully this new project will keep me occupied until the summer sun finally gets here, and I can read and tan again.
Till then, "spring has sprung" and I need some lovin'.