Let's Get Knotty!

 This week has been a very eventful week for my occupation. We all got sick (again), so we had a lot of time at home. I used this time to rest and crochet. It was a really fun time, actually. I decided to get going on Christmas presents for my loved ones. I wanted to make something for each person in my family that was special for them. I started with my husband. I guess when he was in elementary school, he would draw a cartoon panda all the time. For Christmastime, he would draw the panda with a Santa hat on. I decided to make him a panda, maybe with a Santa hat. I haven't decided on the hat yet. I have actually gotten most of the way done with it. He just needs legs and ears. I love him already. He is made out of a fuzzy yarn and is so soft. I feel as though this occupation has greatly affected my well-being. I think since starting crochet, I have become a much less stressed person. I have noticed that when I am stressed is when I tend to reach for crochet. I believe that my well...

My occupation, once again, has been put on the back burner. My hat got destroyed by my little minion, so I have had to start over on it. I don't have a picture of it today since it is just a little one inch circle. The yarn is all stretched out and fraying since I have had to redo this hat more than once. Then my daughter got sick, so we have been resting.   I feel like as I continue with my occupation, I am giving myself a new identity constantly. I feel like as I crochet, I become closer to my grandmother and best friend. I feel like I relate more to them when I crochet. I also now prefer to tell people that I crochet. Before, it was almost embarrassing because I didn't feel like I was any good at it. Beyond that, in the beginning, it was just an assignment. I had no personal attachment to the act of crochet, so I did not feel like it was a part of my identity at all. Then, as I became more comfortable and confident with crochet, I was more willing to tell people that I was...

 This week, I have been continuing on with making the Jack-O'-lantern hat for my daughter. I think I have made a mistake somewhere. I don't know why else it would look all ruffly like that. Oh well! It'll make it look more pumpkin-like. I hope to finish it this week. This week was a bit harder for me, considering the amount of assignments we had.  This week, when thinking of the transactional relationship between the self and occupation, I found a few ways in which this applies to myself and my occupation. The article mentioned that the way we participate in our occupations creates a transaction with the self and time, as well as our context. I have noticed that for myself, especially when considering time, I either let time dictate when I do everything, or I dictate how I spend my time to ensure I can do what I would like to do. This to me is a transactional relationship.  I think that when choosing my occupation, I took my self-knowledge into account. I know that I pref...

     This week has been one of the less eventful weeks again. I mostly just practiced crochet while I watched the new Hocus Pocus movie with my husband. I have been working on the blanket for my daughter still. It has gotten quite long! The only new thing is that I am now comfortable enough with crochet that I can mostly  watch a movie while crocheting, without the crochet being distracting.  My cute little pink blanket     When thinking of "flow," I realized that I had never felt it with crochet. The only time I ever felt flow was when I was running for high school track. As far as I know, I have never felt flow for anything other than running. It would only occur when racing. I never experienced flow while practicing, I only experienced it at meets. I found this strange because most of the locations in which I ran, were just spaces to me. I had no prior experience there, as well as no connection to these particular tracks. I did, however, have great ...