Ahh, because of school I don't live at home for most of the year, and I also don't have time to work on personal things, because any free time outside school goes to commissions and my Etsy shop, so sometimes I go for months and months without touching wire. Then when I pick up a pair of pliers again, I can't even make a simple circle/swirl smoothly - the wire ends up full of odd kinks, plier marks etc etc. Massively frustrating getting back in the groove 
oooh I see