That's what I say when people ask me why I knit, or express disbelief at the fact that I do. Wikipedia (because I've done the research people) tells me that A Type personalities are ambitious, aggressive, business-like, controlling, highly competitive, impatient, preoccupied with status, time-conscious and tightly-wound. A Type personalities are often high-achieving "workaholics" who multi-task, push themselves with deadlines, and hate both delays and ambivalence.
Wikipedia is right. Not particularly polite about it, but right.
And knitting is pretty much the only thing I do that is categorically un-A Type, and everyone who knows I knit is surprised and confused by the knowledge. Until they see me do it, they can't imagine that I'm perfectly happy to sit for hours making something VERY SLOWLY. What they don't see is that I can't sit still without knitting, and that it allows me to make something absolutely perfect. Ambition and control can creep into anything!
Anyway, I'm clearly new to this blogging game. Who knows if anyone will even read this blog? I'd love people to enjoy it, but realistically I'm doing this for me, and not for anyone else. Maybe blogging is therapy for A Type personalities? This blog will be about knitting, cooking, maybe sewing if I ever get around to learning, as well as my real life - lawyer, wife, daughter, sister and friend, sometimes all at once!
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