Square Swap (For Crochet/Knitting)

[Arwen]

You are absolutely right, Christie. I am disrespectful. I keep telling myself I'm going to do this and then something comes up. I let things get in the way. I do have the squares out and will endeavor to still mail them. I appreciate your doing this.

I will also return everyone's squares to them when I mail them mine. It's only fair.

I appreciate your candor.

I will remove myself from this project and any future projects. No hard feelings on my part at all. I hope y'all can forgive me.

[christie]

Originally Posted by Arwen

You are absolutely right, Christie. I am disrespectful. I keep telling myself I'm going to do this and then something comes up. I let things get in the way. I do have the squares out and will endeavor to still mail them. I appreciate your doing this.

I will also return everyone's squares to them when I mail them mine. It's only fair.

I appreciate your candor.

I will remove myself from this project and any future projects. No hard feelings on my part at all. I hope y'all can forgive me.

Arwen -

I hope you know that I didn't post to be hurtful and that I don't like that the situation came down (for me) that I felt I needed to speak my feelings about it.

I know how easy it is to start a project, especially a crafty one, and for the enthusiasm to wane. Its one of the reasons I usually have a couple different things going at once and also why I read two or three books at a time. Its that immediate gratification thing for me.

Thank you for taking time to respond. You needn't return my square. I made it and sent it in the spirit of which we started this project. Perhaps hanging on to them will give you the "umph" one day to pick up your yarn and start crocheting away.

Best,
Christie

[Bit]

Originally Posted by Arwen

I will also return everyone's squares to them when I mail them mine. It's only fair.

I think that although you might be feeling badly right now, I would MUCH rather you stay in the project and keep my square. If you can find a way to mail me your raffleghan squares this week, I will add them to the raffleghan.

Yanno, sometimes in life we come up against something that is a "Do Not." It doesn't normally make sense, yanno? We start something with great enthusiasm and the best of intentions, but somewhere along the way we get a strong message that we need to stop... then every time we try to finish it, we find ourselves deflected away, either by other things immediately claiming our attention or by our own emotions suddenly making us too tired to cope.

When it's this consistent, I find it to be a big red flag that something is wrong which I haven't consciously acknowledged yet. In my own life, I have finally acknowledged that I have a huge "Do Not" about the psychic line; no matter how hard I tried, I could NOT make myself log in. I dunno why; it doesn't make any sense. I chose to be part of it, I wanted to do it, I said I would be available; this is, after all, what I do for my family and friends all the time..... yet after the first week, every time I logged in I had an anxiety attack or got completely exhausted; pretty soon there was every reason in the world to do other things and ignore the psychic line. (Quite often, the reason was, "but the dogs will bark." OY. Sooo irrational...)

Arwen, I'm wondering if you have a "Do Not" about going to the post office. You mentioned before that you're bad about it... is it more than that, honey? Is it impossible for you to go?

Can someone else mail them for you? Would someone be willing to go and spare you from the anxiety of a Do Not? If I lived near you, sweetheart, I would do it just to help you; maybe someone else will be willing to help you?

A Do Not might not be a full-blown phobia and it's certainly never rational, but there's always a reason for it somewhere... and hey, if we didn't each have our weird little quirks (like mine about the psychic line), we wouldn't be the interesting characters we are today.

Please don't give up on this, oh fellow Interesting Character. The raffleghan will be better for having your squares in it!

[christie]

Arwen -

I really took Bit's post to heart and if I was harsh in my post because its a "do not" for you, then I apologize.

There is an option thru the US Postal Service called click and ship. If I recall correctly, Ami used this service to ready her packages.

Here is the link for the FAQs:

http://faq.usps.com/eCustomer/iq/usp...%20Service$ALL

It looks pretty simple and if you are using any of the flat rate items, you can order packaging materials free of charge and your postal worker will deliver them to your home. Also, I am pretty sure if you use the click and ship feature, they will pick the packages up from your home too.

I agree with Bit in that I don't wish you to give up on this - I just wanted to ensure that the raffleghan was completed as we had promised.

C

[Bit]

Missed you in the multiquote! Ooops...

Originally Posted by christie0918

Arwen -

I really took Bit's post to heart and if I was harsh in my post because its a "do not" for you, then I apologize.

You had no way to know, especially since Teh Arwen didn't realize it herself. Truly, if I hadn't JUST had to write to the psychic line and confess my struggles, have them put me on inactive status, I might not have tumbled to it either.

[Arwen]

Originally Posted by Bit

Arwen, I'm wondering if you have a "Do Not" about going to the post office. You mentioned before that you're bad about it... is it more than that, honey? Is it impossible for you to go?

Can someone else mail them for you? Would someone be willing to go and spare you from the anxiety of a Do Not? If I lived near you, sweetheart, I would do it just to help you; maybe someone else will be willing to help you?

Interesting. I'll have to examine this. It feels true when I read it. In a past version of the current model of Teh Arwen, I suffered from agoraphobia. As in I would not leave my house unless it was to get in the car and go through a drive-through. I might go to the grocery store IF it was after midnight and only the store I knew.

I still have some issues around that. I won't go in a place by myself for the first time. I HAVE to go in with someone. The times I've had to overcome that ... I have dealt with it but the after-effects aren't pretty.

Sometimes, I get that way even if it is some place that I do know.

Hmm.

I'll see if I can enlist my stepson's help.

I'll check out the click and ship as well.

Thank you, bit. I adore you.

[amiyesiam]

I agree with the others, I don't want you to drop out
I want to you participate

also you are not the only one who needs to mail out something

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[Gemme]

I just wanted to comment on how beautifully the swapghan turned out for the reunion. There were TONS of us dropping tickets like mad guys 'n gals to nab it.