Hello my Internet friends, I know I haven't posted in a while. I have been very busy with AmeriCorps and just plain tired. I did join the Interpretive Trail program at the State Park. I am 111 hours from being done. It has been a journey. I have done a lot of hiking, some educating, and an extraordinary amount of nothing. I have started planning for Life After AmeriCorps, and it's looking complicated.
One of my goals is to move to the beach, but it doesn't seem like that is going to happen for a while. AmeriCorps has left me too poor to get my own place, and moving in with family would require me to leave Mr. Kitty until I can get my own place. It's looking like I'll have to move to the mountains with my parents.
Another goal is to become a writer. It's a job that doesn't require a certain location so I could do it in the mountains, and I like to write. I need to get more structured about it though. I have to write every day. I have to actually submit to websites and blogs and anywhere I can. I started to do that before I started the free sample job. I got published on a website. I can do this, I just need to actually do it. It's going to take a lot of work and I have to do it all by myself. I can't exactly expect my mom to make me write everyday.
I don't remember what I was knitting when I last posted. Right now I am mostly working on the So Faded sweater by Andrea Mowery, which I am color blocking rather than fading. I am on the last color. I just have to knit until I run out of yarn.
I am also solar dyeing yarn for a Flying Vee by Stephanie Earp. It will be orange and yellow, if it works. I'm doing natural dyes, the orange should come from Sassafras leaves, and the yellow should come from the Dandelion flowers. The Dandelion flowers weren't open; I could not find any that were open.
I started two at a time socks, but my tension is all wrong. I'm going to frog them and start over. They're for a friend so I want them to be nice. At the same time, I don't really want to knit socks right now. I just don't feel like knitting much.
I recently rearranged my room, so now Mr. Kitty's cat tree is by the window. He has not gotten on it once. He loves stretching out on my bed though. Sometimes he enjoys hiding in his carrier.
While the kitchen was madness from the moving prep, Mr. Kitty discovered that he could climb on top of the fridge and then get into the upper cabinets. He loved looking down on everyone.
Since Mr. Kitty doesn't use his scratching post, but seems to enjoy the cardboard odds and ends that are on the floor, I got him one of the cardboard scratchers. The first thing he did when I put it down was to claw up the rug next to it. After some gentle redirection, I think he understands he's supposed to claw at it.
Lately I've been feeling depressed. I had two job interviews for photography positions, but afterwards I heard nothing from either company. AmeriCorps has been feeling tedious. With 111 hours to serve and 14 days to do it, it's going to be unpleasant. It's frustrating because the park doesn't need me to serve that many hours. They have nothing for me to do all those hours. Two more weeks though, then I'll have a whole new set of issues.