So I've barley been on my computer in the past month, much less had time to write a blog.
I went to Fredricksburg TX with a couple of friends, after looking at Texas State University first. I'm not going to Texas State, I've offically decided and started telling people that next year I'm going to Oklahoma State University. Whoo Hoo, now I'm looking for orange yarn to knit things with.
Fredricksburg was very fun relaxing couple of days and I began to develop a new hobby there. One Friday at the library I decided to take up poetry reading. I found this fantastic book called the Poetry Reader's Toolkit and a couple good poetry anthologies and spent almost all my time in Fredricksburg reading poetry. It turns out that I like a lot of depressing poetry. At least that's what everyone else said when I made them read poems I thought were cool. I found I really like Langston Hughes and Emily Dickinson and will be asking for poetry books for Christmas since I can't afford anything right now.
Knitting-wise, I finished Marianne - my emerald green shawl, it will look great this winter. I also sold a pair of gloves like the ones I made for Simone's birthday and continue to make more gifts. I've now made a start on Christmas knitting to go along with finishing up birthday knitting. I am knitting an OSU orange shawl/wrap for mom for Christmas that she will look great in and I've recieved the yarn for Kevin's Christmas gift, but as I know he reads this blog and I want to be a surprise, I'm not saying what it is - just that he'll love it.
The biggest news in the world of my knitting is that I finished a sweater. And it fits. The sleeves are the same length, the neck hole is not too small, the waist shaping even turned out the way I wanted it to, which I was worried about. Now I want to knit another sweater, but I can't possibly afford the yarn till probably December.
I find every day that I am longing for it to get cold enough for me to wear some of the handknits I have especially all of my gloves. I have cast on a new pair of gloves Dragon Wings which are in a lovely deep green yarn. I'm finishing more and getting so I have less stuff on my needles which is the way I like it. If I have too many projects going at once, I feel like it's chaos and I have enough chaos in my life as it is.
I'm taking 9 hours of college credit this semester and three of those hours are spanish 3 with a hard teacher. I'm making it, but I have to work at it. A lot. I've also found that getting a good nights sleep does wonders, so I'm signing off now. I promise to post sooner next time!
"Here, hold my monkey."
