Some knitting and thoughts on sharing thoughts

I finished this little hat for Lily! I actually finished it last week, but then I couldn't find my pompom maker so I could put on the finishing touch. I know I don't NEED the maker, but I really think they come out better when I use it. (I have this one.)

Also, here are some baby socks I’ve been working on. It has been a long time since I knitted a sock with a real gusset-heel, it was fun to do again! (I just want to say it took extreme willpower not to insert the nerdy glasses emoji here.)

I struggled to get a good picture of the socks, which reminded me about cameras. I’ve been playing around with my 14 year old DSLR camera and it still works, but it’s so old that it can’t connect to my computer anymore. I’m trying to decide if it’s worth it to buy a new camera when my iPhone has such a great camera built in! My old camera has a 10 megapixel sensor and my iPhone 11 has 12. But I look back on all the photos of my kids that took with a real camera, before I had an iPhone, and I love how they look. I never knew much about cameras, but I feel like I know even less now. My photography professor told me to get the one that I have. I feel like I did not appreciate how great it was to have experts to advise me on these kinds of decisions back in the day. Hm… Any camera advice would be much appreciated.

I was thinking when I started this blog that I would just share whatever I would normally put on Instagram or Facebook. I guess that’s still kind of the plan, but as I’ve been away from social media for a little bit, I’ve started to realize that most of my thoughts and opinions are either irrelevant, redundant, or too poorly fleshed-out to be worth sharing. This isn’t a beg for validation, just a personal observation. My tendency is to say whatever I’m thinking as soon as I think it. (Yes, I have ADHD, it’s fine.) I think I’m getting a little better at controlling that impulse, but maybe not having social media will help even more? I would like to develop a practice of sitting with my thoughts and really thinking them through before sharing them.