Tutorials!

Although Blogger still shrugs its shoulders and says, THAT blog address? No, that doesn`t exist - I will just carry on for a while, chatting patiently with myself, getting some sense into my always rather entangled thoughts. It helps writing them down, the advisers say. And though I distrust any kind of "Advisers" or even "Influencers", this is a piece of wisdom which I find true. What I, however, really like on the internet are all the wonderful tutorials they offer, even for free (or for data, possibly). And TED talks too. What a great invention! You can lern the most amazing things! Today when I came home I was looking at the two pieces of flowery material, fabric, what do you call it? (My English is torn between British and American, and on top of that even old-fashioned. I learned it in the sixties). The things that I bought from the odds-and-ends-table, which I can seldom resist. Today in the sunshine I felt like sewing me some nice new summer skirts, that`s how it began. I have done that before, and I am even wearing them, BUT!! Today, for the first time, I watched a few of the wonderful skirt-sewing tutorials, and did I get a fright! So far I must have done everything wrong, haha! The ladies were so savvy and making it look so easy, even the complicated parts, like the Abnäher, whatever that is in English. Even them! Now I hardly dare to begin, for fear they might jump out of my computer and slap me on the hands if I failed to draw the curved line properly! This leads me to the other mistakes I made in my entire life! You know, those that haunt you in the middle of the night and make you get up, look out at the moon (did you know in German is male? DER Mond)(The sun is female, DIE Sonne), drink a glass of water and finally check facebook? Because suddenly you remember how you once asked that nice woman sitting beside you when her baby was due, and she stared at you... no baby, just a belly! Or how you once insisted on some TRUTH that you knew for sure, and later you had to admit your husband was right. All the things that you messed up, and there are multitudes. Shame! But then, we all begin young and stupid, don`t we? The main lesson we have to learn in our lives is to stay humble and accept that all we can do is try. And fall on our noses and eat dirt and then hope someone will help us up. And finally to understand that we ALL need a helping hand and so next time stretch ours out. Oh my, do I sound like preaching - I am far from it. I abhor preaching. All I am doing here, and probably end up doing so in every one of my letters, is share my own faults, funny experiences, and what I (personally) learned. Chuckle. Not too much so far, apparently (still not making plans before I begin). There was just a heap of things that I did not know when I was young, and there is no use in blaming me, or anyone, for that. Right? Must remind me of that next time I wake up at three a.m. and look at Mr. Moon. There are some beautiful old German songs about the moon, very soothing. That is the good thing about getting old. You have the CHANCE to get wise!