a day of sewing and flashcards...

[qilora]

i sewed a couple of hours before i cam to a point in the picture that i flubbed up last week (and i am just seeing it now).... after some sweating and re-thinking, i realized that the stitches i have to snip out aren't really so bad.... i wonder if it is possible to cross-stitch an entire picture and NEVER make a gazillion mistakes...

the only saving grace, is that we are our worst critics and there is no way in Hades that they can see our mess...

on the good news, today my index cards arrived :) ... i ordered 2 card-holders in order to get the blue ones (they were forcing me to get black box if i only ordered 1, how rude).... Tony snapped them together for me, even though i am SURE i could have done it myself (but this would have taken away his little temporary toy, so i acquiesced haha)

this afternoon i didn't study Irish, i took the time to fill out the new cards with Irish words i have already been taught... so far i only filled out 35 cards and you can *barely* see them in the box: 

 i don't understand why doing things physically is the only way that i can get things to come into my head and STAY there... i have been this way my entire life and it is a toss-up between just being wired this way, but also might have something to do with the brain tumor... so writing down the words, makes sense.... as compared to only seeing them already written by someone else....

tonight i am going to skip reading a bit from "Griechische Mythen und Sagen" (a kid's book) and instead i am going to read from "Charlie und die Schokoladefabrik"! another new toy that arrived for me today haha :


nothing new to kvetch about as of now, but i might be back later tonight after i slip into sleepy-time mode...

– us.
 

Comments

[ljgeoff]

I began nursing school when I was fifty-four years old, and I'd had a TIA in my late 40s. There's a lot of memorization necessary to pass the courses and what I found most helpful was to write things down. The action of writing helped me to cement the information. So I'm on the same page with you there!

[qilora]

wow, i felt so lost to begin studying this language even though i am a bit "older" myself (i am about to turn 51!)... thank G-d you are on my side! haha

i am thinking about buying these same things for my mother (she is fighting dementia)...
- me.

[buttonsbeadslace]

Learning is the same way for me. I used to practice Spanish by writing out my list of Spanish words in a column, then writing the English words next to each one, then folding over the paper to cover the first column and translating them back to Spanish again. But typing works almost as well as hand-writing for me. I just need the words to pass through my hands somehow, I guess.

[qilora]

what you say makes total sense to me.. the typing of German is working for me like it did for you (with Spanish)... but i have to admit that i am so new to Irish that i have to WRITE these words like a kindergartener haha