I've come to the conclusion that I pretty much suck at blogging!  Look how long it's been since my last entry.  That's appalling!  Other folks are adding entries weekly - some even daily.  And here I am, lucky to get one in every few months.  Granted, it's not like I'm using my blog to keep my family informed of what's going on in my life from day to day, but I do want my online friends to see what's up.   And that's not happening with this blog schedule.

I think I need to just set myself up on some sort of schedule for a while and see if that gets me more in the habit of adding entries on a more regular basis.  And I have to change my approach too.  Instead of letting any planning go into it, I just need to do it.  The problem with "planning" is that I'll plan all these things in my head that I want to write about - basically "writing" them in my head, so that I feel like I've already written them and the words just don't flow when I sit down.  It's as if I've already made the entry and I'm bored with it once I finally sit down to write.  Instead, maybe when I think of things that might be worthy of writing about, I jot them down in a note pad, without actually crafting what I'm going to say, and let the actual writing part take place later when I'm making the entry, simply using my notes as a reference.  Might work - we'll see.  I'd love to hear what others have to say about their blogging "process" - maybe I can gain some insight into what makes regular blogging actually happen!

The other thing that hinders my success is my wariness of vulnerability.  I'm pretty private when it comes to some things.  Add that to my fear that nobody really wants to read what I'm up to anyway and I've got two strikes against me.  There are two psychological issues going on here, both of which I've been taking strides to remedy.  And who knows, Blogging might actually help both of these issues!  I will admit however, that I'm pretty shocked at some of the private things people will post in their very public blog.  It's reaching that middle ground though that I'm working on, and being comfortable being there.

Well, now that I've bored you with my commentary on my poor blogging habits, I'll update you briefly on what's going on with me.

First of all, I'm really excited to have recently joined a fabulous group of spinners for a twice a month "Spin-In" here in the East King County area.  The Eastside Spinners meet two Saturdays a month at a HUGE Starbucks in Issaquah.  I'm really comfortable with this friendly group of crafters - they've made me feel very welcome.  Up until now, I have not been exposed to many other spinners on a regular basis, so I'm looking forward to learning by being exposed to these mostly more experienced spinners. 

I've not been doing a huge amount of knitting lately.  I'm just plugging away on a few projects, but not anything of real substance.  And I don't have any new finished projects to share.  We're leaving on vacation in a few days, so right now I'm more focused on work and making sure I'm caught up before I go.

VACATION - that leads me to this topic.  On November 6th we're heading off to Buenos Aires for a week!  We won the trip at a Seattle Theatre Group fund raiser dinner.  We received one raffle ticket just for showing up and were given the option of buying more at $25 each.  Since it wasn't anywhere I'd really thought about going before, instead of buying more tickets, I focused on bidding on some of the fabulous items in their silent auction.  And the second prize in the raffle was actually something that I really wouldn't have even wanted if I'd won it (some Seattle Sonics box seat party or something).  Anyway, another couple at our table really wanted this trip and dropped a bunch of money on several extra raffle tickets.  I joked with them that it was always someone with just one ticket who one these things. I'd barely gotten that comment out of my mouth before a little girl drew my number out of the hat!  WooHoo!  Talk about dropping my inhibitions, I actually squealed when they called my number!  Anyway, the time is drawing near and I'm getting excited. 

We fly to NYC first, and actually have a several hour layover there - enough time to take a train into Manhattan and visit a museum and have lunch - maybe even get in a bit of big city shopping.  The downside is that we have two red-eyes in a row.  First we fly to NYC on an overnight flight, and the next night we fly to Argentina on one.  Hope we can get some shut-eye on the plane!

Look for lots of pictures here when we get back.  I might even try to do some blogging while we're traveling if I have the opportunity to do so.  Don't forget to check back and see (although with my track record, I'm not going to make any promises...)