Tatting

I'm glad is Friday. As I have more teaching hours I also work longer hours at home preparing the classes and finding interesting bits of news or podcast that I can use with my students. So, at the end of the week I do feel tired.
This weekend is longish that usual due to the fact that this year Worker's day, 1st of May, falls on a Tuesday next week, so most people here do what they call puente (bridge) and they take Monday off to neatly create a longer weekend. Nice concept, isn't it?

Today my bottom hurts! It's not only getting bigger and bigger but now all this sedentary life is taking its toll and now it literally hurts. It's not only the driving everywhere and the time spent in the classroom, but the preparations and even the relaxing time mean that my bottom in on a chair. After cooking dinner (since the chicken head affair we've been more or less vegetarians around here) there's nothing more relaxing than sitting down in our lovely oversize sofa and tat while watching mindless tv or listen to music or radio.
I should be doing something. "The husband" suggested that we go to a club to play whatever the days we take P. to rugby, Tuesdays and Saturdays. But on Tuesday I leave P. at the club entrance and rush off to the Bank to give a class until 8:30pm and by the time I go back to the club, his rugby practice is almost over. I should go to Yoga classes (don't let me start on that again!!) or join a club or take dancing lessons or something!! I can feel my bottom melting downwards and I'm going to end up like the guy at Dali's paint, The enigma of William Tell, using a stick to hold and stop my big buttocks from falling down.
Dali's museum in Figueras, the town were he was born, is in Cataluyna, just a few km away from here. He's also buried there with Gala, his wife and the most painted woman in history. I've been there ages ago and I plan to take P. to visit it sometime in the summer.

My friend Barbara brought and gave me a whole bunch of lovely white cotton thread that I'm slowly turning into a tablecloth. I'm tatting 6 points snowflakes-like motif and then I join them together. The idea is to use all the yarn that she gave me in this one unique piece.
It's my most ambitious project ever as I'm planning to make it big enough to cover my dinner table. I think is coming up nicely and it looks quite beautiful. If I ever finish it I'd have to place a glass on top of it so it wont get dirty.

Tatting help me to relax, and I love to see that I've done something while I was mindlessly watching some silly sitcom on tv. It's like my time is not wasted.