I'm Too Old For Frustration!!

   I'm old people!! I have nights where I barely get any sleep. Days where all I want to do is sleep. {Naps are a MUST on those days.}! And then there are all those in between times when I'm just trying to keep my world devoid of frustration!! And.....that didn't work yesterday!
   I spent LITERALLY all day trying to figure out how to work the pattern to make those cute crochet slippers I've been talking about! I worked it...Un-did it. Worked it again...Un-did it. Re-worked it a different way....Un-did it. Went to the website to look for a tutorial on it to see if I was missing something.....There was none...I tried again, and again,....and again! {Because I really don't like to give up on things...REALLY, I don't!}
   But when I came to a part of their website where they talked about how easy they make their patterns....I almost blew a gasket!!! And then I knew....I am too old for this kind of frustration anymore!! It's time to 'throw in the towel', 'give it up', 'let it go', 'kick it to the curb', and any other euphemism you want to use for I WAS SICK OF IT!!!! LOL
    I took all 4 PAGES of that pattern and ripped them into a million little pieces....Well, maybe not a million, but enough so that if I even THOUGHT about going back and trying to crochet those slippers one more time I'd have to explain to the psychiatrist why I spent 7 days trying to put those little pieces of paper back together!! ^_^ ..............................I was never so happy to be saying MOVING ON!!!
   So, now I had about an hour and a half left of this wasted day to try to recover some of my dignity. I mean, how could I answer my hubby's usual question when he comes in the door: "Hi bay! {Nickname for me, short for baby} What you been doing all day?!" So what did I do?! I got INSPIRED by that disastrous slipper incident....to make some usable and beautiful slippers!....Hide Away Slipper Necklaces, that is! :-) I haven't totally finished them yet. But I did enough to answer hubby's question without a blink!! See.....
     I crocheted all of the fronts and backs. I just have to sew them together and add buttons and chains! I made a blue and white one....

      ....I'm going to put this heart-shaped vintage button on it.

      ...A purple, beige and white one...

      .....with this button awaiting it.

     ...An orange, yellow and white one...

     ...that I think will look nice with this on it...

     ...And last, this multi-colored greenish one...

    ...that will be sporting this little vintage baby.

     What do you think?!...See how much you can get done when you have the PROPER inspiration!! ^_^ I even had some time left over...after my fingers got tired from all of this crocheting...to flip through my latest Jessica London magazine! The header photo is a pair of the shoes from there. GORGEOUS!!! Not frustration inducing AT ALL!!! :-) {I'll share some more of those goodies tomorrow!!}

Too Old For Frustration

I am too old for this frustration!
Too old to change this heart.
Too old to patch up anger,
when I can just keep it all apart!

I am too old to let it get me!
Too old to waste all day.
Too old for words unspoken.
Too old to let it lay.

I am too old to get involved.
Too old to take a side;
Especially when it don't matter.
I'd just as soon let it slide!

I am too old to do it for you!
I can barely do it for me!
Too old for needless frustration.
For most things I just let it be.

I am Too old to tell a lie.
Way too long in the tooth.
Don't have time to fix it later.
That's why I deal now with the truth!