Incoherent Scribblings

Apparently, once when my mother-in-law came to visit A. while he was still living in the States, she heard the chorus to The Steve Miller Band’s “Fly like an Eagle” on the radio.

I want to fly like an eagle
To the sea
Fly like an eagle
Let my spirit carry me
I want to fly like an eagle
Till I’m free
Oh, Lord, through the revolution

Since my mother-in-law doesn’t speak much English, from all of the words in the chorus she didn’t really understand much more than “fly,” though she thought she understood “eagle.”

However, she considered a flying “eagle” so strange that she mentioned it to A., who had to clarify that an eagle is ein Adler and not ein Igel (or in other words… a hedgehog)!

Today I am not a very happy stitcher. I wonder if it is getting too hot in our apartment to stitch…

Currently, our apartment is sitting at a nice and balmy 24 degrees Celsius (about 75 degrees Fahrenheit). Now I will be the first to admit that 75 degrees isn’t really that hot (I used to live in Texas for pete’s sake!), but the humidity in the apartment is hovering around 80% and that definitely makes things uncomfortable!

Like the majority of northern Europeans, we don’t have air conditioning to help lower the humidity level in here, so the simple act of sitting in my stitching chair (which is made of leather) for longer than a few minutes at a time isn’t very appealing right now. For the past two days I have tried to stitch according to my 90 minute per day goal, but since I can’t sit still for very long I am not getting much stitching done.

In addition to that, once I finished Maggie’s head/hat the other day I thought I should try and work on something else before tackling her skirt. So yesterday I tried to do “Little Stitch Devils,” but I couldn’t concentrate on it and put it away after 45 minutes.

I began today by thinking about the Blogger’s Round Robin. I thought I knew what I was going to do for it, but when I looked at the plans I had made, I decided maybe it wasn’t really what I wanted to do after all. Then I spent some time looking through my patterns hoping something would call to me, but so far nothing has. It’s a good thing our post date isn’t until September 1; I may need that time to make a decision!

After I gave up on my round robin pursuits, I decided to stitch. I wasn’t in the mood for the “Little Stitch Devils” OR “Passing Admirers,” so I thought I might whip up a small pattern. I had worked on it for about an hour when I realized that I had gotten off a row at the beginning of that pattern! Grr… Since the heat has made me a bit edgy anyway, I decided it would probably be best to put everything away for the day.

Tomorrow (or maybe later tonight when it is cooler) I will try to stitch again but this time I will go back to “Passing Admirers,” because I think part of the problem is even though I thought I needed a break from “Passing Admirers,” that maybe I really didn’t. I kept thinking about it when I was stitching even though I was stitching something else!

I sure hope that is the case and that it isn’t getting too hot to stitch in here! Whatever will I do for the rest of the summer if it is?!