Knitting by Blind Faith

My friends tell me that I overthink and overanalyze everything. This comes up most often when I am knitting. They tell me that whenever I learn a new technique, instead of relaxing and just doing it, I turn it into a physics problem.

Well, I’ve been thinking about what they’ve said, and I’m just not sure they’re right. Take a nonknitting example that happened yesterday at work. (Well, actually, the baby bell bottoms were lying on my desk after lunch knitting, so does this actually fall into a knitting, rather than a nonknitting, example? Hmmm… Let me think about it…)

MY BOSS: “Faith, are you using your battery backup?”

ME: “What do you mean, ‘Am I using my battery backup?’”

MY BOSS: “The battery backup that your notebook is plugged into, are you using it?”

ME: [Raised eyebrows] “Well, my notebook’s plugged into it. What do you mean, am I using it?”

MY BOSS: “I’m not going to take it. I just want to know if you are using it.”

ME: “Well, I guess not at the moment. I mean, I have things plugged into the battery side so that when the power goes out, those things stay on, but I’m not on the battery…”

MY BOSS: “So, it’s still working? We have to order new batteries for them.”

ME: “Oh, yeah, it’s fine.”

MY BOSS: “Well, some people turn them off [and use the standard outlets in them that are not powered by the battery] when the batteries die and aren’t using them.”

ME: “Oh, no, mine’s on, and it’s fine. I guess I overanalyzed that one, huh?”

MY BOSS: “Yes, you did.”

Okay, so maybe my husband, and my family, AND my friends *sigh* are…*gulp*…right, but you’ll never hear me admit it again (until the next time).

Have a nice Wednesday, everyone. And on a serious note, please pray for RAM. He’s not feeling well. For RAM to admit that he’s not feeling well means that he’s really down for the count.