What the bobbin!

Well I was going to show you my cute new camera strap cover today but... I can't. I can't get my sewing machine to work. For some reason I can never get my stupid bobbin thingy to pick up. After working on it for the past HOUR I decided it was best to give up before I was to the point of throwing the whole thing out the window. I read the manual, youtubed videos, googled advice, and went to the singer website but no... no help. I know I am doing it right. All I need is that one little thread to cooperate, but it won't. I am mad. I really wanted to finish that project today. Oh well. The worst part is that no one that I know here sews so I have no one to ask for help.

The funniest part of this is how heated I am over sewing right now.. I find it to be one of the more frustrating things I have ever done. Mainly because of the stupid bobbin. I kinda thought this would be a relaxing, "let's have fun" kind of thing... but it is not. If you don't sew then don't start. Sometimes when I am doing things like sewing or cooking I have to step back and say "Morgan, You don't have to do this... you are choosing to. Chill!" But the thing is I want to. I want to be able to cook and I want to be able to make, I want to sew, I want to craft. I love the feeling of "yes, I made that". I might not be the best, but you never get better without trying.

Around here I hear the word "someday" a lot. People are always saying well someday, when I have a family or a husband, then I will learn how to cook. Or when I am older then I would love to sew. But today is the today. I have more free time in my life right now than I probably ever will. Yes, I go to class and study but I have plenty of time. I only care for myself. If I want to nap then I nap and if I want to color then I color. There are no kids, no bills, no full-time job, no husband. I have time to make cute pancakes and figure out what works and what doesn't. I can burn the chicken and nobody knows but me. I can experiment and make things that are really good but I can make things that are really gross too and end up eating ice cream for dinner instead. I can work for an hour trying to thread a stupid bobbin. I have time to learn all the things I want to be able to do when someday comes around.

So why do I love it here? Because here I am learning more than just Psychology. I am frying chickens and painting bird houses. I am learning to be Me before I have to learn to be an employee, a wife, a mom, etc, etc, etc. I am gaining skills that they don't teach you in class. I want to be well-rounded. I want to do it all even if that isn't possible. That is why I am cooking and sewing and blogging and painting and traveling to Europe for a month. Because I want to be different and I don't want to wait for someday.

After that rant, I believe I will go back to that stupid, dumb, frustrating bobbin now.... maybe I will have a cute camera strap soon!