morning commute

I finally finished my scarf last week and I love it! Hubby liked it too and said it was good enough to sell, he's such a sweety. I know I'm not fast enough a knitter to do that yet though, nor do I know if anyone would like to buy anything I make. But ideally, that is how I would love to make a living - by making stuff and selling it. I'm such a dreamer :)

I have discovered I can't take care of plants! While house sitting, I was supposed to water them "every now and then". Apparently that means more than once a week.. Poor things! They've been recovering though and not as droopy since I started watering them daily.

lunch break

Hubby and I have been house sitting for his aunt's while she's on holidays with her family. It is so much fun, and a nice glimpse into the future (we currently live with my parents). We are so excited and eager for the day we have finally saved up enough to move out on our own.

In some ways it feels like we're doing things backwards. Most couples move out together then possibly get married and have kids (or kids then marriage), where as we dated for seven years before getting engaged and marrying three months after that. But I love our quirky relationship and I can't imagine life with anyone else. Hooray for highschool sweethearts!

I've got a few projects I hope to show in the future once we're back home and I have my camera handy. I've taken up knitting again since it's almost winter. I've really neglected my creative side for the last few months due to christmas and getting married, glad to be getting into it again.

maturity

Kind of like this blog I've started, there's a lot of things I want to achieve and get out of life. I want to be creative, be inspired as well as an inspiration, be comfortable with who I am but still growing. I'm deep at times yet forgetful. I jump from being intensely motivated to being stagnant and feeling blocked. I guess I'm just your average confused girl.

Now that I'm 23 years old and married, I realise that I'm no longer that extremely shy high school girl that hated pink. I'm older but still growing and maturing and learning how to be a woman. And I don't mean the kind that knows how to get what she wants whatever it takes despite the consequences to others. I want to be nurtured by faith, hope, love, kindness, patience, gentleness, truth - and I want to be all these to those around me.

flashback

I have a history of starting journals online and after a few entries forgetting all about them. I wrote this a while back on Tuesday, August 28, 2007:

Life is not worth living if you don't live out what you believe in. Say what you mean and mean what you say, don't be fake or a hypocrite. At the same time, everything in existence is here because it has a purpose. If you aren't fulfilling your purpose in life, what are you doing that is so much more important? Some may ask, what is my purpose in life? It is to make a difference in this world. Just as the simple wheel made a difference in the history of technology, the existence of you is meant to make an impact in the lives of those around you. Stop focusing on the disasters in your own life, start focusing on repairing the brokenness in the lives of the less fortunate around you. You are never so low that you can't help someone lower. Change the world, don't let the world change you.

That was the only entry I ever made in that blog but it's something I still feel strongly about it today and with the same determination, although maybe not with the same harshness. It's good to reflect on who and where I was a few years back, I find it helps to steer me towards the future.