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[sakon76]

On the drive up to Fanime this weekend, racerxmachina taught me to crochet. I've already finished two scarves and am working on a third. This has led me to question what kind of person I am. I feel more comfortable and at ease with some kind of work in my hands. What my ancestresses would have deemed leisure work (embroidery, crochet, and the like) I adore. I find it soothing. I'm trying to find the roots of this, and have come up with the plastic cross-stitch kits done with yarn that were around when I was a kid. There were also cardboard paper dolls I embroidered with yarn. I loved those. I also remember my late grandmother having my sister and I cut out stuffed toys (very carefully with scissors and I remember it took forever and the scissors were heavy and hurt my hands) so that she could sew and stuff them for us. My other grandmother... well, she made afghans. My mother has one, my uncle has one, my sister and I each have one, and we found a chest of them last year and I suggested that one be given to each of my cousins, who hadn't received any yet. She's also the source of my quilting, as the pink-and-white quilt on my bed, which I think is the only one she ever actually finished, was mostly done by her and then finished by me. I have several of her quilt tops somewhere that I'll get to someday. This goes under evidence that I may've been born in the wrong era, though I certainly do appreciate modern convenience. But I think at the same time that modern life has lost us rather a lot. Connection to the land, for one thing, and a sane pace of life, for another.

I've also been thinking about DDR and what it says about me that I actually don't care for it that much. I can take it or leave it, but my best friend and my husband love it. Is it because they're gamers and I'm not or something? Because, sadly, while I much much much more enjoy dancing with him, I think my husband prefers DDR to social dance. Certainly he spends more time dancing with the dance pad than with me. Not jealous. Much.

Fanime report to come at some future point.

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Re: DDR

[hoshikage.livejournal.com]

To be honest, I was not expecting to like DDR. For one thing, I don't like dancing, social or otherwise. The thing about DDR as opposed to social dance is that it's really an entirely different animal. The music is totally different, and it's honestly not so much dance as an aerobics workout. ;P And it might possibly have something to do with the gamer in us, since the challenge of it is something we already understand. But most of why I like it is because I have *finally* found a form of cardio exercise that's actually fun for me. Since I hated everything else I tried, I became an instant convert just because of the blinding revelation of "OMG. I can actually stick with this!" *shrug* Not saying this necessarily applies to Douglas, just explaining my POV...