Willpower or pleasure?
1) A 12 mile training run up hill and down dale – thankfully rain-free as the predicted torrential downpour was over. Several hundred metres climb and several hundred descent. Slow and steady and accompanied by Mr Motorbike (who outdid himself) for part of the way. Hot and tiring, but nothing actually hurts and it’s lovely in the woods….and I did come home and have a little nap!
2) Knitting a second Giotto sock, which is oh so fiddly and on oh so teeny tiny needles, when I’m raring to get going on Soay…in purple….and try out i-cord in the flesh….
3) A bar of Cadbury’s Dairy Milk is sitting in the fridge and I’m rationing myself to a row a day to make it last (at least until the children come home, when anything remaining will disappear, as if by magic!).
I’m not sure if I’m quite normal putting myself through all this. I guess there is method in all the madness and there is something in each of them that I really enjoy.
So…willpower or pleasure? Or really a little bit of both?
Helen
August 7th, 2011 at 6:27 pm
I love that shot – beautiful colours!
August 8th, 2011 at 12:32 am
Both? Sometimes I find the more willpower used the more pleasure in the end… although that might be a little be counter intuitive. The sock looks wonderful sitting on your meadowsweet quilt, they both so bright and cheery.
August 8th, 2011 at 3:32 pm
You should definitely eat the chocolate before the kids come home. I am addicted to dark chocolate with nuts so I keep a bar stashed away in a secret place in the kitchen and have one square a day. (They’re big French squares, not little English tiny ones!) Can’t wait till my sock knitting kit arrives, shouldn’t be long. In the meantime, I need to rustle up a witch’s hat for a toy dog. Long story …