去年，我决定为自己的心理健康进行交叉缝线，因为我的思想总是以十亿个想法进行比赛。I’m not good at meditation or yoga, I don’t find solace in cooking because that’s my job, and I’m no longer allowed to go into my yard and whale on a trash can with a baseball bat because it “upsets the neighbors.” I’d never thought about trying cross-stitch or embroidery because it seemed like one of those twee, dainty hobbies meant for people who don’t think beating something with a bat sounds like a good time. But then I got to thinking about Sansa Stark, and how表面上刺绣使她的理智保持通过恐怖，她被迫忍受，然后成为北方女王。我跑去我当地的创意重用商店，在补给品上掉了五美元，给自己一个图案因此，我可以为House Stark举起横幅。恐怖分子没有什么twee或精致的。
我的第一个横幅不是完美的，但是对于新的神灵和新的旗帜，这是我附加添加的大脑的完美爱好。交叉缝合需要重点和重复运动，这实际上会催眠您。It let me watch television in peace, following along with the storylines instead of getting sidetracked by Googling all the dumb things that pop into my head like the origins of cancan dancing or whether it’s possible to form an all-moose cavalry for reasons none of you have to worry about. And after a few days of serenity, I realized that my calmness wasn’t just from the soothing motions of cross-stitching: when I had a needle in my right hand and an embroidery hoop in my left, there were zero hands with which to hold my phone. I could not continually refresh Twitter, could not keep up with whatever breaking news was unfolding, could not subject myself to the ranting of my friends’ racist uncles on Facebook.
这个周末，在忽略了缝纫盒的几周后，我再次拿起了针头和线。我用一些旧衬衫和弹性带手工缝制了家人的口罩。我正在订购新模式，以便我可以为我的一个真正的女王每当我在前方的艰难时期接受测试时，请记住要呼吁她的力量。
你们在做什么以保持双手忙？