I finally finished knitting all the squares for the latest addition of the Mystery Baby Blanket. I've been knitting these squares all summer long. It has been the summer of squares for me. Square knitting is the only kind of knitting that has been going on. While I didn't have any help with the knitting of the squares when I so obviously could have used some, you can see that I had lots of help laying them out. This is just a teaser about the knitting as I have something else planned for my entry today. Tune in soon for more knitting content.
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While hopping from club to club recently, one of my friends lost her footing and balance and took a bit of a nose dive onto the grassy area right next to the street, her head narrowly missing the curb. It was one of those funny, slow motion, everyone sees it, but no one can prevent it from happening kind of falls. And while we were far from intoxicated, we had been drinking a little and were slightly buzzed.
Now, when I fall in public it probably appears that my ass and legs are made of rubber or a spring as I usually bounce right back up as quickly as I fall. On my way back up, I dust myself off and look around to see who noticed my horrific fall. Once I've fully righted myself on the surface from which I fell then, and only then, do I check to see if I am injured.
So when my friend proceeded to lie on the grass while laughing her head off the entire time, I went into spring legged spaz mode grabbing her arm and attempting to lift her back up. The third friend, upon witnessing these events doubled over with laughter and began proclaiming that she was going to wet her pants, which did not help the situation.
Our friend continued to lie on the ground, giving in to fits of giggles until the friendly authorities happened by. They helped her up and checked to see that she was not injured and that we were not intoxicated. Everything was fine and we were getting ready to continue on our way when one of the officers broke into a stern speech about how my friend was making a fool of herself, yadda yadda yadda. I guess he wanted to make sure that we were aware of the seriousness of the "incident" and that we were fully aware that he had the power to slap us with public intox if he so chose.
I just thought he was being unnecessarily nasty to my friend without due cause and I expressed my feelings as such to him. His stern speech did not seem to be constructive criticism. It was an accident after all. Everyone falls at some time and in some manner. It's not a big deal, you just get back up and move on. Can any of us say with certainty that we will NEVER fall down again? I don't think so. And I don't care how many stern speeches he wanted to give my friend; I know with certainty that I WILL fall many more times as long as I continue to live.
The friend who fell, quickly grabbed my arm to silence me and told the officer that she understood where he was coming from and all was well. We went on our way and now we have another funny story for our "remember when..." time, but the incident has stuck with me a little because I think I kind of fell down a little with my last entry here on this blog.
I fell down in that I failed to mention that those incidents had occurred here and there around the blogosphere during the course of the last six months or so. They didn't happen all at once in one place and time.
I also fell down with my focus of the piece. The focus is not that the incidents happened it's more how those types of things affect me and my inability to dismiss some of the things I read. Sometimes it's like those things get trapped inside my mind, formed into my own opinion of the incidents, and woven into my life experiences when maybe they really shouldn't. Those are not my experiences, but rather the opinions and experiences of others.
That's the thing. The incidents I summarized in the last entry happened all over the place on mainstream blogs over the span of the last six months. I'm sure many of you really did read these entries and really do read these blogs, but maybe the negativity doesn't have the same affect as it has on me. The negativity really gets me down. I haven't figured out how to not let it bother me when it happens, but I think recognizing that it's a problem for me is probably the first step in the right direction.
Now I just need to learn how to get up and move on the next time I read something that gets me down.
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