Lately, my brain has been working overtime trying to find more things to get interested in. I have many interests, but I like to take them in chunks…meaning that I don’t like to be drowned in things. When I get drowned in things, I start to pull back and I tend to get into a depression. I start thinking that I am not good at anything, making it to where I don’t finish something I start. In turn, that causes me to get even deeper into depression and then it all goes to hell.
What all do I have going on? I am getting closer and closer to half way through a blanket that I’m crocheting. It feels great and I love working on it. The only thing is that I wasn’t sure just how large it was going to be. It’s going to be large! I have about ten more rows of the second color. There are two colors and it’s cream/green/cream/green/cream in a corner-to-corner pattern. Every time I look at it, my brain reminds me of how much more I have to go.
I love to read and I am a little over half way through Dan Rather’s Rather Outspoken: My Life in the News. It’s such a great book from the guy I picture when I think news. He was the face of the CBS Evening News every weekday in my parents’ home. He has a way of speaking and writing that I dearly love. I also have started other books at the same time that I’d love to finish. And, not to be squashed, my brain also started reading the third volume of Green Lantern. I am currently on issue 21. There are 181 issues.
*** heart loudly pounding as a take a sip of coffee **
Speaking of coffee, I have also become more interested in coffee. WTF, Wes?! I know, yet one more thing that my brain has attached to. I have become interested in espresso. The f**ked up thing? I can’t handle heavy caffeine in my drinks. As I type this, I am enjoying a cup of decaf espresso with milk froth and whipped cream topping. The espresso was made in my mocha pot (pictured above with my fabulous coffee mug). I have my eyes set on an espresso maker but I want to make sure I have my ducks in a row before making the jump. Que confuso!
Ugh, there’s the last thing I’ve thrown myself into. Learning Spanish! I have wanted to learn to speak Spanish in more of a conversational way. I can read it somewhat fine, but being able to speak it is another story in itself. I took two years in high school and two quarters in college. That was quite a while ago. Now that I live where there are many Spanish speakers, I have the people to talk to. When I was in high school and in college, the problem was that there were no Spanish speakers that could be easily reached. The only people I knew were the workers from Mexico who were in Alabama replanting in clear-cuts after timber companies had demolished the forests. They only came out of the woods on weekends when they went grocery shopping. You never saw them again through the week. Que lastima! It could have really helped.
Oh well, I will eventually get to a point where I don’t feel overwhelmed. The blanket and the book are half done. Coffee is café and Spanish will be around forever for me to learn.