Those are those little fortune tellers we used to have in elementary school. The ones that went on your fingers and you spelled words or counted numbers until your fortune was revealed. Well, I made some. A lot of them actually. I have a stack of colored not-sticky sticky notes on my desk that I use to take notes or make to-do lists or doodle with my multicolored Sharpies. I vowed a really long time ago that if I was going to have to act and dress like an adult 40 hours a week, then I would use colored sticky notes in funky shapes and ink pens that are anything but blue or black. When I need something to write on, I choose which color is least represented on my desk at the time.
Well I had about 11 things on my to-do list as of 8:30 yesterday morning. And at about 2:30 that afternoon, I still had about 10. I was looking up random facts on Outdoor Power Equipment and, being a tad bit stressed out I started subconsciously folding my paper. Just to see if I could still do it, I made a tiny little finger fortune teller. Sometime between 2:30 and 3:30 I had made about 15 more in various colors and still managed to get the research done for snow blowers. All of my coworkers now have a mini finger fortune teller somewhere on their desks.
Fortune tellers are easy. It's the same fold over and over again. Since I'm checking things off of lists today, I decided to check one off my bucket list, too.
Thanks to technology, it took me maybe 30 seconds to find an Origami design I wanted to try. It was a simple butterfly but maybe too simple because I failed miserably and had to start over twice. The colorful striped paper is as close as I got and it looks more like a paper football than a graceful, Japanese butterfly. I switched to a star shape which required me to make 8 different "units" then work them all together. The units posed no problem. 25 minutes later and it started to look like I star but the only way I could make it lock together was to make a tiny little tear in one of the pink pieces so I could make a blue one fit into it. Then, naturally, I made a crane. That one just seemed...appropriate?
In honor of the Olympics, I'm giving myself a 8.5 on the Origami. The star turned out kinda cool, the crane had a low level of difficulty, and I'll take an A for effort on the butterfly. Props to the Japanese and their mad paper folding skills. I'm going to attempt something a little harder this weekend and may even go out and actually buy some origami paper and see if that helps (doubt it). Regardless, I'm going to cross it off my bucket list, but not take it off. Thanks to the butterfly, I don't quite see it as "complete" yet.
I have ALWAYS wanted to be able to do origami and I have always failed by the time I got to the fourth or fifth fold. After having an under-productive day myself, I think an hour of origami would be a nice addition to my afternoon. And I would give you a 10 on the Crane. Easily. That looks awesome.
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