Bye bye old mac

Some days are just like that. where you have to say good bye to an old friend who has helped you along the way and been there for you through thick and thin. They've helped you when you were down and when life was good.

They have held you together and even given you information you did not want to know.

That is how it is for me today. Today my very first Macbook that was bought in 2007, finally quit. She was a good one though, she quit just after backing up a whole bunch of information somewhere on a cloud in the middle of the ocean and it is time for me to get a canoe and paddle out there and get it.

Off I go on a whole new adventure with a new macbook pro and a canoe. I am still a little bit lost with the whole clouds in the middle of the ocean thing. It really isn't like it use to be.

As many of you may know,  I love to knit. I have been knitting since I was 8 years old when I use to take the MacDonald bus up to my Grannies house from Carnarvon Elementary school up to 33rd and then walk to her house every Wednesday afternoon for at least a month. Knitting is something that has been done by the women and some of the men in my family for generations. Both my mother and father learned how to knit.

However, I also like to do minor house repairs and one of the things that I learned through doing house repairs is that often times, for both cleaning and maintaining, a knitting needle is extremely useful.

I have used my knitting needles for caulking a tub. I find it works better than most products on the market and I ALWAYS have a knitting needle that is not hard to find.

Today I cleaned out the lint screen from the dryer and that hard to reach spot that stops the lint screen from sitting properly in the dryer.

I have also been known to use knitting needles to make a row in the garden for carrot, beet and lettuce seeds.

They are great for untying knots, just wiggle the needle right in there and you can untie almost any knot.

The larger ones are handy for making a small hole a bit bigger in drywall.

Knitting needles are an incredibly versatile tool and between them and my swiss army knife, I can do just about anything...

I just hope that there are now some knitting needles that I can take on the plane, maybe bamboo ones?

Life, life, life. It seems that we all have our own ideas of what life is and what life should be and then life happens.

Yes, you can direct your life and yet at the same time, those around you are also directing their lives and sometimes the direction that they take is in direct conflict to the direction you took. That is when things can collide.

Sometimes things happen that weren't really what you were looking for and all of a sudden you are faced with a set of circumstances that you did not want.

We have so much information about how we can create the life we want. We have the Law of Attraction that tells us that we attract whatever we think about. We have our own ability to create whatever we want out of life by not allowing fear to stop us. We have positive thought.

We also have circumstances that occur even if we are not thinking about them. Why? Who knows. Some call it destiny, some call it coincidence, some call it an anomaly.

Sometimes I feel like we are spending so much time thinking about how we want our life to be that we forget how to get up and do things. Sometimes I also think that we have forgotten how to enjoy the little things. So today, I will knit a baby sweater for someone special who is scheduled to enter our lives in the coming year, knowing that who they are and who they will become has nothing to do with me and everything to do with me. We never know how much of an impact we have on those around us, but if we behave as if it could be huge, we might just be a little nicer, to ourselves and those around us.