The Canadians are a curious bunch.
Mike asked a bunch of questions regarding my employment and now Jamie asks:
I need to know about crafts. What sorts of craft type things do you do? Knit, crochet? scrapbook? Podging the cats? Do tell!
I don’t knit - yet. Learning to knit is on my list of things to do. It was a New Year’s resolution two years in a row and still, I’m not getting anywhere. I think part of the problem is that I don’t know anyone locally (you know, in real life) who knows how to knit, so I can’t get hands-on help. My mother and grandmother crochet and make lovely blankets. Recently, my mother crocheted a poncho for my daughter and my grandmother keeps herself busy making lap throws from scrap yarn for chemo patients at the local cancer center. Afghans are pretty and warm and when they’re made of scrap yarn, we all fight over them.
I can’t scrapbook because I don’t have the ability to keep myself organized and I’m terrible at making decisions. If I were able to decide I wanted to use X, Y, & Z for a layout, I wouldn’t be able to find all the pieces. The bigger problem for me when it comes to crafts? I don’t like having works in progress. It nags at me and drives me insane. If I can start and finish something at one sitting, I’m all for it. Otherwise. GAH! Can’t stand it.
What is podging the cats? Huh? Is this a crafter’s inside joke? I’m allergic to cats, if that helps.
And I would like to know more about cloth diapers! What kind do you use? Is the toddler in daycare? How does that work?? There really is something about a clean load of cloth diapers, isn’t there?
This deserves its own post for an answer, so I will try to be brief today. I use prefolds and flats and Snappi fitteds. Boring, basic, non-fancy pants. I’ve had two different daycare providers since we switched to cloth. Both sitters were happy to use cloth. Folding clean diapers is relaxing for me. Looking at a clothesline full of diapers is ridiculously pleasing. Because I’m a nerd!
This doesn’t mean I’m not still open to questions. I’ll entertain more if there’s something you’re itchin’ to know.
