Hump Day Poll: Hobbies
My mom had a ton of hobbies. She was a scrapbooker , cardmarker, diamond art maker, slot machine jockey, bingo player, cross stitcher , occasional sewing thrown in when I was a kid to save money. She loved being creative. I also love being creative but haven't done much on that front. I suppose you could say my Etsy shop is about as creative as I've gotten lately but hobbies that become something you depend on money for, it becomes less fun and more job. (Not that that's producing anything right now anyway since I've not done a single thing with it yet this year because of the house chaos but I digress.) I have this bad habit of going full force into ideas and pooping out on them. I still have a bin full of stuff to make risers for stuff like soap, tea kettles , etc waiting for me to do something with them. I have drawers full of stuff for craft projects that rarely get touched and then inherited a bunch of Mom's stamps and card m...
I wanted to get married on July 4th (a Saturday that year, easy to remember, and fireworks "just for us" right?) but the minister was busy that Saturday. And the next. So we just took the next available Saturday. I didn't worry too much about my cycle because when I was on the pill I knew that by Saturday I was either completely done or just had light spotting left. But... after seeing Sixteen Candles you better believe I did give it some thought and check the calendar and choose a Saturday date for more than just my guests' convenience.
ReplyDeleteMy husband and I had lived together a while before getting married so we were aiming for low key and convenient: Dad's house on a Saturday in July which was a slow month for hubby at work. But my now Father-in-law had committed to work a swim meet on the day we chose and wasn't going to come if we kept that day, even though we gave him several months notice and he had no ties to the meet beyond the fact that hubby's younger siblings used to swim in that meet. Used to. But he wasn't going to budge so we had to move it. A sign of things to come.
ReplyDeleteLet me say, though, over the years I've decided he isn't selfish, just inflexible. I think he's on the spectrum, which makes family gatherings interesting.
Mine was pretty simple. It's my husband's birthday. LOL I thought Sept would be a nice month in San Diego and he said how about my birthday and I said works for me. =o)
ReplyDeleteOk not sure you will see this but gonna put it out there. In our family we tend to pick holiday, My parents was April 1, My in-laws was Dec 26 my sister was Valentine, and we wanted a different not thought of one and we both love color so Colubus day it was. LOl
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