{"id":3478,"date":"2011-07-19T16:50:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-19T16:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jennytrout.wordpress.com\/2011\/07\/19\/and-every-two-years-you-take-up-knitting-for-a-week"},"modified":"2011-07-19T16:50:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-19T16:50:00","slug":"and-every-two-years-you-take-up-knitting-for-a-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/?p=3478","title":{"rendered":"“and every two years you take up knitting for… a week.”"},"content":{"rendered":"

In my fevered attempts to keep myself from working, but also to not bake super complicated and work intensive cupcakes every single day, I’ve also decided to treat my work addiction with cross-stitch.
Counted cross-stitch is probably one of the easiest hobbies on the planet, unless you’re my friend Bronwyn Green<\/a> and you spend ten years working on a Theresa Wentzler project until your husband tells you that you can’t cross-stitch anymore because he can’t take the stress. There is just something soothing about mindlessly counting and stitching, counting and stitching. Until, you know, you fuck it up and you have to take a bunch of stitches out.<\/p>\n

Keeping that last part in mind, I present my very simple first project of this whole “not working” experience:
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I plan to cross-stitch several pieces with my favorite 30 Rock<\/i> quotes on them, and then hang them in my office because my husband expressly forbids me from putting them up anywhere in the house, stating that, “Your nerdness must be contained to your own space. Don’t make your nerdness everyone else’s problem.”<\/p>\n

Sage advice. I hung it above the doors in my office, so that the view from my desk is something like this:<\/p>\n

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I have a lot of admiration for Liz Lemon, the fictionalized version of Tina Fey on the show. Although I always think of my friend Jill as being more Lemon-esque (and she has the coloring and glasses), I notice similarities between Liz and I. We’re both trying to “have it all” and are obsessive perfectionists.<\/div>\n

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Also, this.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In my fevered attempts to keep myself from working, but also to not bake super complicated and work intensive cupcakes every single day, I’ve also…<\/p>\n

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