Am I having a midlife OS crisis?

betterlife

oh this did make me laugh! i think there's just less hours in the day than there use to be x

Funky_Bold_Ribena

Fruball wrote: »

I once had the fantastic idea of making sloe gin... Went out immediately and collected a whole carrier bag of sloes (I didn't know how many I needed!) and then they sat in the freezer for a year!!!

By the time I got around to making it, I was pregnant so it sat for almost another year before being drunk!!!

Freezing bursts the skins, and it's supposed to hang around about a year so no harm done.

I have to say I do make alot of wine; this year so far it's 2 gal of rhubarb, 10 gal of mixed fruit, 1 gal of gooseberry and a gal of blackcurrant. I am taste testing the mixed fruit tonight and it's a stonker. Can't wait for elderberry time...:D

elsien

I planned to make elderflower cordial and spend so long looking for the recipe and bottles that I left it too long and the elderflowers were no more.
New motto - "well I was going to, but....."

dandy-candy wrote: »

I have become my mother..

Scary how quickly this can happen without us noticing.:eek:

meritaten

I think you are trying to do everything at once and getting overwhelmed! sort of like a city dweller trying to become a dairy farmer with no previous experience!
this way isn't for you. a gradual approach may be better!

SailorSam

Probably at age 40 work takes to many hours to have time to do all the things you like, maybe you should say during the Spring & Summer concentrate on your love of the garden and then during the darker colder months try to make your own clothes and bread.

7roland8

Judi wrote: »

You love the idea.... you just be @rsed with it.

My hubby had the same idea about the greenhouse. It was a great idea but when push came to shove he couldn't be bothered with it. This year is the first year we haven't grown anything in it.

Your lucky - my hubby's greenhouse is still in the box under the bed - after about 5 years!!

-taff

Probably a crisis...I think I had one of those.

I gardened, I sewed, i made jam, I foraged, I scrumped, I made bread [ it was awful].

I'm still doing all those things, except the bread, but not so much and not so gung ho.

I've turned into a bit of a jack of all trades master of none type thing, so at least I know I can turn my hand to anything. It's concentrating on the one thing i have a problem with.....

You're doing ok because you're still thinking about it

[Deleted User]

I think the thing to do is to prioritise.Take one project ,even a small one and spend around half an hour a day on it until you get it right then move on to another.If for example you want to make bread then practice and practise until you get it right then if you can, you have cracked it, if you decide making bread wasn't a great idea (depends how much bread you eat I suppose. I have an electric bread maker on top of my unit in the kitchen thats never been out of the box .)I realised there was only me to make bread for and I rarely eat the stuff:):)so I just don't waste my precious time doing something thats not needed.I do bake biscuits and cakes ,but as I am dieting at the moment I have stopped doing that (defeats the object )
Knitting I do because I enjoy it and it keeps my joints moving and if I didn't watching t.v. would mean ten minutes tv watching then I'd be zzzzfast asleep But I knit a lot of blankets for a charity so it does have a good cause at the end for my efforts.I would love to garden but osteo-arthritis means my gardening days are over ,but I do have a gardener come once a fortnight and he does all that I need doing The same with jam making How much jam do you eat, no point making jars of the stuff if you don't actually eat it, life is far too short as it is to waste time doing things because you think you 'ought to' Do things that YOU want to that make you happy, and with things you don't need, give away Its quite liberating

I retired almost 19 years ago and decided that I would only do what interested me and what I wanted to do not what friends, relations and family thought I OUGHT to do.I had lots of advice about how I must keep myself 'amused' as though I hadn't been pretty amused about life before hand.Well I ignored all the advice and did what I felt like doing, and in this time I learned to swim (never could before)took up craft card making,did 4 GCSE's and progressed in adult education to Uni level
Concentrated on Genealogy my hobby,Read books that I now had time to read, I go to 8 different clubs and look after four of my grandsons before and after school and during school holidays.I found things to do that I would never have thought of trying not nessecerily particularly OS but things I had always wanted to have a go at .I lead a busy life with my clubs,fundraising for McMillans looking after the boys knitting, sewing(mostly mending said boys trousers )and enjoying every day.I don't have time to procrastinate and could do with a 36 hour day to get everything done
Right I'm off as I am just about to go on my holidays with my family of DD ,son-in-law,three of my DGS, two dogs, three hampsters and my car carried all the luggage.
So don't worry about what you haven't done just do what makes you happy if it doesn't then get shot of it and try something else.Don't waste a minute of things that bore you life is for living and enjoying and I live my life to the limit and enjoy every day of it.

ragz_2

Fruball wrote: »

You sound just like me!!! Full of marvellous ideas and get started but never finish!!!

No advice but if you find the answer, do let me know! :rotfl:

Ditto! I go through phases, then fall back again. I probably read too much and do too little!

ragz_2

dandy-candy wrote: »

You are absolutely right. Flakiness runs in my family, I have become my mother. I love a new idea, throw myself into it for five mins then get bored and move on to something else! I am going to try and finish something completely first this time.

I have had one living room curtain 6 inches longer than the other for over 6 months... I desperately 'needed' that sewing machine