What an incredible feeling it was on 1 September to realise that winter is over (not that it’s been really bad, it’s actually been relatively mild compared to what I’m used to in Melbourne!) … what I’m excited about is that the days are getting longer again and daylight is returning to my mornings (and my evenings too now that I’m leaving work at ‘normal’ hours). The above photo was taken in Melbourne about this time last year.
With that comes the idea of spring cleaning … well, those that know me well will know that any form of cleaning is a “dirty word” (no pun intended), but I have made a realisation today that I need to ‘let go of baggage’ and start afresh with a few things. With that in mind, I’ve also come to realise that every time I open up my newsfeed reader to catch up on blogs I feel incredibly depressed and overwhelmed. This feeling builds up more every time I see this pop up on my screen:
This is after I’d managed to clean out 700+ unread feeds over the last two weeks, but I’m so so far behind and there are still over 1000 left to read … I don’t want to do it, but I think for my sanity’s sake I’m going to have to mark all as read and start again afresh. At least that way part of the blogging pressure is removed and I can hopefully keep on top of new posts on a more regular basis again.
Still no stitching to share yet … I almost completed Just Nan’s Evening Star on Saturday, and decided not to bother with a WIP piccie seeing as it’s so close to completion … um, 5 days on and it’s still no further on … perhaps this weekend I’ll see it finished, then I’m going to pull my finger out and probably try to get my In the Dark Needleroll finished off … and get some gifts made up that I’ve been wanting to do for a while now. Although I’m heading down to Woollongong for a SAL with friends on Sunday, so perhaps it won’t be as productive as I hope haha.
In fact, I’m home early tonight, so maybe I should pull my finger out earlier and drag out the needle and thread tonight instead of sitting staring at the screen playing computer games for the evening (such as I have done for the last 3 nights running). Maybe a happy dance will follow before the weekend … maybe 😉
Feather Stitching 
Hit the panic button, woman! That’s what it’s for! 😉 Life’s too short to be stressed out over these things.
Happy Spring! 😀
Oh I’ve been there a few times myself. Miss a day or two and it can get impossible to catch up. I’ve used the panic button a few times, but recently I ‘cleaned’ out my blogroll too. There are just so many stitching bloggers around now, it really is totally impossible to keep up with everyone. Don’t get yourself stressed about it. It’s a hobby and if you don’t want to do it or need to start afresh, then thats totally up to you.
((((((hugs))))))))
Winter will be here for me in about 2 months so I will enjoy reading your summer when I am in winter. If I don’t catch up on my Blogs in 1 wek then I click on read them all and start over. keeps me sane.
I’m so jealous of your weather as we are complete opposites…shorter days and less stitching time outside!!!
Life is definitely too short to be stressing about unread blogs! Clear them all, and start again! But, if you find that it’s becoming too burdensome, don’t worry about it – blogs are for fun, they should never be a drudge!
My Google Reader doesn’t come with a panic button, but it probably should. I could use one. Since I have 1000+ posts to read (it quits counting at 1000, I think), yikes! I may follow your lead and just hit “mark as read”!