G is for Gemini. I'm an Aries, but apparently we are supposed to be much more confident and outgoing than I generally seem to be. I think this is because my moon rises/star ascends/car is parked in Gemini. Duality. Light and shade. That makes much more sense. But if I'd been born when I was due, I would have been a Pisces. Not me at all. I made myself three weeks late to get me right into Aries territory. My poor mother.
From the last issue of Glamour:
Get over it
Our star sign can determine the one thing we constantly beat ourselves up about. So next time you catch yourself doing it, stop - it's just your star sign messing with your head
- Aries - not doing enough
- Taurus - not earning enough
- Gemini - saying the wrong thing
- Cancer - feeling misunderstood
- Leo - lacking creativity
- Virgo - not being helpful enough
- Libra - being unpopular
- Scorpio - feeling powerless
- Sagittarius - lacking excitement in your life
- Capricorn - not being far enough up the career ladder
- Aquarius - feeling ordinary
- Pisces - not being glamorous enough
I don't take all this too seriously but I have to say that the Aries one is actually very appropriate for me. The best horoscopes are from Jonathan Cainer.
G is for Guilty. I'm feeling immensely guilty because my husband is the only one bringing money in at the moment. Freelance work is sparse but I'm reluctant to go back to a fulltime job and he's quite happy with me being here to sort the house out and work on various essential admin things, like our rental property, that he doesn't have time to do. I know that he is more than willing to provide, and I'm glad that he's just been given the promotion that he deserves, and relieved under the circumstances that it brings a large pay increase. But that doesn't make me feel any better about spending without earning. I've heard a lot of my friends who've given up work to have children say the same thing, as we were all brought up to have jobs, our own money, and to be independent. But I don't have kids...
G is for Gift. As part of keeping myself busy, I am trying to be a good housekeeper, as it were, and will be spending most of the day doing housework. I am time rich if cash poor/credit-reliant. I've set myself the challenge of making a quilt as a gift for a new baby girl. Here are some pics of the fabrics I'm going to use, the 'la petite jolie fleure' is intended for the backing. I haven't done any patchwork since I was nine. I'm intending to machine piece it, and I'm terrified. I can't decide whether to do random squares (in a Nine-Square pattern, probably) or make it more formal. I think I will be eliminating the blues as I think that might be too much, and the green may also be too strong. I'm slightly dubious about using the candy striped material as it's seersucker and I'm concerned that it won't lie flat after the quilt is washed but I love the colours and it brings it all together. If anyone can offer some email support, I'd gladly grab it...
And now I'm off to the other G - the gym. Like I said, time rich... so I have no excuses!
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