No Strings Attached

Posted By Kathleen David on July 17, 2011

Measure twice and cut once. You can save a heck of a lot of materials that way.

When you are old enough to eat and drink anything you want, you figure out that if you do so you are going to screw up your body big time. All things in moderation.

As a parent I have found that a number of things I told my parents I wouldn’t do to my kids is precisely what I am doing to my kids because it now makes sense to me.

Exercise is not evil.

All complicated sew projects desire blood at some point.

You always find something the last place you look because you have found it and don’t need to look for it anymore.

When you are an adult, things tend to stay on the floor until you pick them up. Even more so when you have kids.

Bathes and Showers are good things.

No one owes you a living. Just because you reach adulthood doesn’t mean that you automatically get to have the life that you want. You have to work for things which makes them that much more precious when you succeed.

Emo is so 2000 and Goth is so 1990 therefore Punk is so 1980.

Baseball goes with peanuts as football goes with chips and dip. That’s the way I was raised.

Learning to cook is a good thing to do. Especially if you have certain foods that your mom makes best. Learn to make them from her so you can occasionally create your own comfort food.

Laundry can take over your life but it only does it for a finite amount of time.

Learning how to tie different kinds of knots has a million and one practical uses in the real world.

Maintain your tools. They will work longer for you and you will have fewer problems with them. Also the right tool for the right job but also learn how you can use other tools to cheat if you don’t want to spend an absurd amount of money on a tool you might use for a day or so.

What you do to your body at a young age really does affect your quality of life down the road.

Good friends are in for the long haul not just when things are going well.

Yes, fandom has always had mean people in it. Sorry. It is just that the internet has focused that to a rather loud group.

If someone finds a fandom through a modern telling of your fandom, don’t belittle them that they don’t know the whole canon. We all had to start in fandom somewhere. And some of these fandoms have a heck of a lot to absorb.

Going from fan to professional can be tricky but once that happens you have to be careful because you aren’t just a fan anymore especially if you want to keep your pro cred.

Try to do one creative thing a day. Keeps the brain going.

You can stop learning when you stop moving. There is always something out there that you don’t know.

Take a moment to just enjoy the act of breathing. It is amazing that our bodies to this for us without us having to think about it.

This too shall pass is my mantra on certain days. Nothing is really forever but sometimes it seems like it is.

I am grateful for all the life lessons I have had even the ones that hurt.

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