School is finally winding down and I'm already getting ready for my next semester in the fall.
I've been looking into what classes I want to take at school and I've been looking for dorm stuff. Apparently I picked very unpopular colors for my dorm as my mom and I can't seem to find them. I choose orange and black for my bathroom because of the orange washcloths I've been knitting in my philosophy class and purple for my bedroom because of the purple, black and yellow blanket I've finally started and plan on having finished by the time I get to school.
In classes now everything is getting close to the finish. We're reading Hamlet in English, doing a unit of the philosophy of logic, truth, and science in Philosophy, and reading Billy Budd by Herman Melville in Lit. I still really don't like Melville - Billy Budd is at leas short, but the story isn't even really good. I thought I might like it because it's something of an exploration of opposite personalities, but instead it just makes me angry like Moby-Dick did (and yes the hyphen is supposed to be there).
On a happier note, I got accepted to the Freshman Research Scholars program at OSU and I'm very excited! The class I take for this program is taught by the dean of the arts and sciences college and there's only 16 people in it! I think I'll really enjoy doing a research project next year and hopefully I'll have the opportunity to do another one my sophomore year.
While I'm making plans for the fall semester I'm also making summer plans. The only big event I have is the National Lutheran Youth Gathering in New Orleans. It should be great fun. The rest of the summer I plan to spend buying stuff for my dorm, knitting my blanket, and reading classic novels.
When I got accepted to the FRS program I realized the only classic novels I've really read are Jane Austen novels and I think I should expand my horizons a bit. I've been making a list and every time I go to borders now I spend time lingering in both the knitting section and the required reading for schools aisles.
Despite being so busy I have gotten quite a bit of knitting done lately because I temper my homework schedule with knitting breaks. I knit an entire wrap - Emma - in two weeks because I wanted to wear it on Easter. I was up at one in the morning before Easter watching The Ten Commandments on TV sewing on the buttons and weaving in the ends!
I've also started my black hand towels for college and I've finally collected all the yarn and started my dorm blanket!! It's really soft yarn that's knitting up really well, I'm very happy with it and I haven't even finished the first block of color yet. There will be pictures when there's something more to show!
That's the highlights for this semester (I really might blog more than once every few months after this)
Until next time!
"Why did I listen to that cad?"
Saturday, April 25, 2009
Thursday, January 29, 2009
In Which I Love School and Ice Days
So, last week I finally started school for my last high school semester. I'm taking three classes at Tarrant County College: English II, Philosophy, and Early American Lit and this semester should be fun. On my first day in class I was sitting there after knitting Kevin's tardis all through the Obama inauguration which we watched in Philosophy, and my teacher began to explain what we were going to be learning this semester. While he was talking I began to realize how much I like college.
I'm not necessarily talking about living in a dorm and meeting new people and all that fun stuff I'll do next year, I'm talking about the classes themselves. I plan on majoring in Psychology but I want to take so many other classes that have nothing to do with that while I'm there. I just have this sensation that there is so much knowledge out there and so much of it interests me that I want to take as many of those courses that I can while I'm at OSU.
I am in the honors college at OSU so I went on their website to see what honors classes they offered that I might be interested in. It was so cool! They had a logic course, an ethics course, some lit courses, and even a Jane Austen seminar. Doesn't that sound cool? When I first got the information about being in the honors college it said that my first two years(four semesters) I would have to take two honors courses a semester. Since I've finished most of my core classes already I was pretty sure I would have to contract a lot of those classes, but now I think I'd rather like to take these classes that will teach me something interesting as well as my regular psychology courses.
So I may be one of those few people who just likes learning for the sake of it, but I've got four years ahead of me to do all the in class learning I can - after that I'll just have to go on teaching myself things like I've done recently with poetry and even the more complicated knitting techniques I've learned recently. (such as knitting socks! I still love knitting socks!)
With that lovely segway into knitting I do want to mention one of my favorite days in the past few weeks was on Tuesday when school was cancelled due to non-existant ice. I stayed in my pjs all day and knitted on my pretty purple slippers that are so far without a name. As much as I love school, it was nice to have one more lazy day before I really get busy, now when I look at my new slippers I can remember that those lazy days do come every now and then.
In other news, I breifly mentioned Kevin's tardis earlier. I made up a pattern for his birthday and finished it in just about a week and I must say I'm very proud of it. I even learned how to duplicate knit and embroider words in order to be able to do it. I'm probably going to make one for myself with the leftover yarn soon.
Speaking of yarn I have ordered the first color for my blanket I plan on finishing before college. It will be dark purple, pale yellow, and blue black. Hopefully soon I'lll be able to save enough money to buy the yellow and black and I can actually start knitting it.
Well that's all for now. I really should get to sleep, I have one more busy day this week.
"Finally facing my Waterloo"
I'm not necessarily talking about living in a dorm and meeting new people and all that fun stuff I'll do next year, I'm talking about the classes themselves. I plan on majoring in Psychology but I want to take so many other classes that have nothing to do with that while I'm there. I just have this sensation that there is so much knowledge out there and so much of it interests me that I want to take as many of those courses that I can while I'm at OSU.
I am in the honors college at OSU so I went on their website to see what honors classes they offered that I might be interested in. It was so cool! They had a logic course, an ethics course, some lit courses, and even a Jane Austen seminar. Doesn't that sound cool? When I first got the information about being in the honors college it said that my first two years(four semesters) I would have to take two honors courses a semester. Since I've finished most of my core classes already I was pretty sure I would have to contract a lot of those classes, but now I think I'd rather like to take these classes that will teach me something interesting as well as my regular psychology courses.
So I may be one of those few people who just likes learning for the sake of it, but I've got four years ahead of me to do all the in class learning I can - after that I'll just have to go on teaching myself things like I've done recently with poetry and even the more complicated knitting techniques I've learned recently. (such as knitting socks! I still love knitting socks!)
With that lovely segway into knitting I do want to mention one of my favorite days in the past few weeks was on Tuesday when school was cancelled due to non-existant ice. I stayed in my pjs all day and knitted on my pretty purple slippers that are so far without a name. As much as I love school, it was nice to have one more lazy day before I really get busy, now when I look at my new slippers I can remember that those lazy days do come every now and then.
In other news, I breifly mentioned Kevin's tardis earlier. I made up a pattern for his birthday and finished it in just about a week and I must say I'm very proud of it. I even learned how to duplicate knit and embroider words in order to be able to do it. I'm probably going to make one for myself with the leftover yarn soon.
Speaking of yarn I have ordered the first color for my blanket I plan on finishing before college. It will be dark purple, pale yellow, and blue black. Hopefully soon I'lll be able to save enough money to buy the yellow and black and I can actually start knitting it.
Well that's all for now. I really should get to sleep, I have one more busy day this week.
"Finally facing my Waterloo"
Sunday, January 11, 2009
In Which I Knit Socks
So here I am again.
My last post to this blog was in November and a lot has happened then. So much has happened that I actually did not pay attention to any of my emails, ravelry, or any blogs that I follow for almost the whole month of December. Now that I've caught up with everything and gotten through the crazy that has been these past two months I felt it was time for an update.
Apart from my grandmother getting the stomach flu on Thanksgiving day and passing it on to my dad who then passed it on to me (this was the begining of the crazy), then finally starting to work three days a week, and all the other stuff that goes along with Christmas including spending 7 hours at church on Christmas eve. I have actually gotten a lot of knitting done. I have had my first ever Christmas knitting, been knitting to get rid of my stash, and am now working on my knitting new years resolutions.
Chirstmas knitting always has a good story with it. I've heard of many from other knitters which include such fun things as sleep depravation and finishing hats to go in stocings in the wee hours of Christmas morning. My story is this - I was only making Christmas gifts for two people, my Mom and my Brother. For my brother I choose to make a Jayne hat and a set of juggling balls. For mom I was making a wrap she picked out. I started both of these projects very early on so I was sure that I would have plenty of time. Due to this feeling of not needing to rush I worked on my Christmas projects sporadically and worked on other projects in between.
The week before Christmas I suddenly realized how little time I had left and how little yarn I had left for mom's wrap. I ordered more online, hoped it would show up soon, and set to work on finishing Kevin's gifts. A long doctors visit that was mostly waiting gave me time to finish the Jayne hat and start sewing up one of the juggling balls. A few nights later I was up at midnight watching Legaly Blond and finally filling the juggling balls, they went under the tree the next day.
During that time my yarn that I had ordered showed up I opened it on the Tuesday a week before Christmas and suddenly realized it was the wrong yarn. I had accidentally ordered the yarn I had used for the Jayne hat. I frantically ordered more and it didn't show up until the Saturday before Christmas. I frantically worked to finish the last sleeve and was up until 1 a.m. on the 23rd sewing it up it was wrapped on Christmas Eve.
For Christmas I was given among other nifty tools a yarn meter, so I immediately went to work measuring all my yarn and planning projects for it. I now have great plans for using up almost all of my yarn before I go to college in order to make it easier to travel and store (it's much easier to store nothing than a whole lot of something).
Then the new year came and I made some resolutions. I read the Knitting Daily and one might notice the banner on the side of my blog saying that I was a Fearless Knitter for 2008. I believe I lived up to that name too, I made my first sweater and it fits, and I tackled my first Christmas knitting as well as other things. Now I also have a banner proclaiming myself to be a Fearless Knitter in 2009 and I began to wonder how I would live up to that name. I came up with three ideas. I decided that in the course of this year I would conquer my fears of socks, lace, and colorwork.
I began eagerly last week with socks. I can now proudly say I have knitted a sock and am knitting it's mate and have plans for more!! The rest of the resolutions will hopefully come to fruition in the course of this year.
That's all I have for now, I'm off to finish my second sock!
My last post to this blog was in November and a lot has happened then. So much has happened that I actually did not pay attention to any of my emails, ravelry, or any blogs that I follow for almost the whole month of December. Now that I've caught up with everything and gotten through the crazy that has been these past two months I felt it was time for an update.
Apart from my grandmother getting the stomach flu on Thanksgiving day and passing it on to my dad who then passed it on to me (this was the begining of the crazy), then finally starting to work three days a week, and all the other stuff that goes along with Christmas including spending 7 hours at church on Christmas eve. I have actually gotten a lot of knitting done. I have had my first ever Christmas knitting, been knitting to get rid of my stash, and am now working on my knitting new years resolutions.
Chirstmas knitting always has a good story with it. I've heard of many from other knitters which include such fun things as sleep depravation and finishing hats to go in stocings in the wee hours of Christmas morning. My story is this - I was only making Christmas gifts for two people, my Mom and my Brother. For my brother I choose to make a Jayne hat and a set of juggling balls. For mom I was making a wrap she picked out. I started both of these projects very early on so I was sure that I would have plenty of time. Due to this feeling of not needing to rush I worked on my Christmas projects sporadically and worked on other projects in between.
The week before Christmas I suddenly realized how little time I had left and how little yarn I had left for mom's wrap. I ordered more online, hoped it would show up soon, and set to work on finishing Kevin's gifts. A long doctors visit that was mostly waiting gave me time to finish the Jayne hat and start sewing up one of the juggling balls. A few nights later I was up at midnight watching Legaly Blond and finally filling the juggling balls, they went under the tree the next day.
During that time my yarn that I had ordered showed up I opened it on the Tuesday a week before Christmas and suddenly realized it was the wrong yarn. I had accidentally ordered the yarn I had used for the Jayne hat. I frantically ordered more and it didn't show up until the Saturday before Christmas. I frantically worked to finish the last sleeve and was up until 1 a.m. on the 23rd sewing it up it was wrapped on Christmas Eve.
For Christmas I was given among other nifty tools a yarn meter, so I immediately went to work measuring all my yarn and planning projects for it. I now have great plans for using up almost all of my yarn before I go to college in order to make it easier to travel and store (it's much easier to store nothing than a whole lot of something).
Then the new year came and I made some resolutions. I read the Knitting Daily and one might notice the banner on the side of my blog saying that I was a Fearless Knitter for 2008. I believe I lived up to that name too, I made my first sweater and it fits, and I tackled my first Christmas knitting as well as other things. Now I also have a banner proclaiming myself to be a Fearless Knitter in 2009 and I began to wonder how I would live up to that name. I came up with three ideas. I decided that in the course of this year I would conquer my fears of socks, lace, and colorwork.
I began eagerly last week with socks. I can now proudly say I have knitted a sock and am knitting it's mate and have plans for more!! The rest of the resolutions will hopefully come to fruition in the course of this year.
That's all I have for now, I'm off to finish my second sock!
Friday, November 14, 2008
In Which I barely write about knitting
Woah, I haven't updated this since September.
Let's blame it on schoolwork shall we?
Let's see, what have I been doing since September? Hmm...
Well for the headlines: Due to my Government class I hate politics more than ever; Due to the people in my History class I worry for Humanity; I'm passing Spanish; I barely work anymore so I don't have any money to spend on yarn, books, or other things; My youth director moved to Longview, TX and at her goodbye ceremony I cried in front of most of the people I know at church; When I do read a book nowadays I devour it and am done in a day or less; And I finally found some bright orange cotton so I've begun making washcloths and I plan to knit a black linen hand towel or too go to along with them.
So that's the basic Idea of the past two months.
Latley, life has been fairly routine. I knit as much as I can and for some reason two girls in my history class whose names I don't even know seem to think that because I knit before my history class I want to talk to them for some reason. Mostly I make polite responses and hurry into class as soon as Professor Rye shows up. This is the first semester that perfect strangers in school talk to me because of my knitting, it's kind of weird. People talk to me about it in government and spanish too, but I actually don't find them annoying so it's pretty cool.
In other news, I'm still really enjoying reading poetry and I have begun writing a poetry journal in which I copy out some of my favorite poems and then write a couple of lines about what they mean to me or why I like them. I've also written a couple of poems, but they're a long way away from being able to be seen by anybody. I also have read a few new good books lately. As I mentioned earlier I devour books when I get a chance to read them. For instance, earlier today I read not one but two new books I got from the library at 1pm. While I admit that neither of these books were very long, I still am surprised that I finished the second one.
In talking about books I would like to make an observation about book trends of the last few months. We all know that the final Harry Potter has been out for awhile and those people who don't really read outside of that series were looking for new books to create a fandom for. For many of those people they picked the Twilight Series which are vampire romance stories. Now I am very happy that people my age are reading, in comparing my life and education experiences to those who don't read much I think my love of books has really been an advantage, but I don't get all the hype with vampire romances. To me it seems like trying to mix two very different genres. I like both science fiction and chick-lit books, just not squished together. I think that's just weird.
My mom recently read a different vampire romance and did enjoy it, and I am by no means shunning all those who love twilight, but I occasionally begin to feel how I'm pretty sure Mom feels whenever someone tells her that if she would just give Jane Austen a try she would really like it. People in my youth group have read Twilight, people in the tap class I barely belong to have read Twilight, my neighbor was one of the first people to read and recommend Twilight to me. But I still haven't read it and I have no intention of reading it or even of seeing the movie unless someone else pays me to go see it, and even then I'm bringing my knitting. So just to let anyone who reads my blog and wants to know, I will probably never read a vampire romance because I just really don't like vampires.
So that is my rant about books for the time being, I'm going to go start another book and try to figure out the measurments that I want my new felted gray beret to be. (More on that in another post.)
I'll write again soon!
"Tell the folks at home what you're doing, Roger"
Let's blame it on schoolwork shall we?
Let's see, what have I been doing since September? Hmm...
Well for the headlines: Due to my Government class I hate politics more than ever; Due to the people in my History class I worry for Humanity; I'm passing Spanish; I barely work anymore so I don't have any money to spend on yarn, books, or other things; My youth director moved to Longview, TX and at her goodbye ceremony I cried in front of most of the people I know at church; When I do read a book nowadays I devour it and am done in a day or less; And I finally found some bright orange cotton so I've begun making washcloths and I plan to knit a black linen hand towel or too go to along with them.
So that's the basic Idea of the past two months.
Latley, life has been fairly routine. I knit as much as I can and for some reason two girls in my history class whose names I don't even know seem to think that because I knit before my history class I want to talk to them for some reason. Mostly I make polite responses and hurry into class as soon as Professor Rye shows up. This is the first semester that perfect strangers in school talk to me because of my knitting, it's kind of weird. People talk to me about it in government and spanish too, but I actually don't find them annoying so it's pretty cool.
In other news, I'm still really enjoying reading poetry and I have begun writing a poetry journal in which I copy out some of my favorite poems and then write a couple of lines about what they mean to me or why I like them. I've also written a couple of poems, but they're a long way away from being able to be seen by anybody. I also have read a few new good books lately. As I mentioned earlier I devour books when I get a chance to read them. For instance, earlier today I read not one but two new books I got from the library at 1pm. While I admit that neither of these books were very long, I still am surprised that I finished the second one.
In talking about books I would like to make an observation about book trends of the last few months. We all know that the final Harry Potter has been out for awhile and those people who don't really read outside of that series were looking for new books to create a fandom for. For many of those people they picked the Twilight Series which are vampire romance stories. Now I am very happy that people my age are reading, in comparing my life and education experiences to those who don't read much I think my love of books has really been an advantage, but I don't get all the hype with vampire romances. To me it seems like trying to mix two very different genres. I like both science fiction and chick-lit books, just not squished together. I think that's just weird.
My mom recently read a different vampire romance and did enjoy it, and I am by no means shunning all those who love twilight, but I occasionally begin to feel how I'm pretty sure Mom feels whenever someone tells her that if she would just give Jane Austen a try she would really like it. People in my youth group have read Twilight, people in the tap class I barely belong to have read Twilight, my neighbor was one of the first people to read and recommend Twilight to me. But I still haven't read it and I have no intention of reading it or even of seeing the movie unless someone else pays me to go see it, and even then I'm bringing my knitting. So just to let anyone who reads my blog and wants to know, I will probably never read a vampire romance because I just really don't like vampires.
So that is my rant about books for the time being, I'm going to go start another book and try to figure out the measurments that I want my new felted gray beret to be. (More on that in another post.)
I'll write again soon!
"Tell the folks at home what you're doing, Roger"
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
In Which I Have a Great Achievement
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."
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."
Friday, August 1, 2008
In Which I knit around an incredibly busy schedule
So I said that I was going to post some pictures about my knitting and my trip to D.C.
Obviously that hasn't happened.
I've not posted since I was in Tulsa a couple of weeks ago because I keep saying I'm going to put my pictures on my computer, edit them, and then make a picture post. So far I've gotten my pictures on the computer. I have over 700 from D.C., it's crazy. I was excited when on the last day I used up my 2 gig card with pictures from prom to D.C., but I don't think I realized exactly how many pictures will fit on a 2 gig sd card. I'm going to try to finish editing the good ones and deleting the bad ones this weekend and then I really will put up pictures.
Until then I'll talk about my knitting and whatnot.
There's been a lot of knitting. Possibly miles of it.
So in Tulsa I cast on mom's birthday present The Spy. A lovely black bag the same pattern as D.C. my bag. I got a lot of work done in Tulsa and on the way home, but the day after I got home my life got crazy busy again. Almost too busy for knitting.
On Sunday I had to set up the church for day camp and then go to a birthday party, but I did manage to knit a rose for my friends gift. That day I also got the crazy notion to knit a birthday gift for all of my friends, most of whom hadn't had a birthday party yet this year. I was already halfway done with Simone's gift and just needed her to try it on for size and other than that I hadn't even thought of anything. I asked everyone there what they would like for their presents giving them a set of choices that I could knit quickly. Throughout the next week in my meager free time I started scouting out patterns for everyone and looking through my yarn to see what I had that I could use and what I needed to buy. In looking through my yarn I've decided that I'm never buying yarn without a specific and near project in mind for it or else my stash will one day smother me.
Of course, while I was making all these grand plans I barley had any time to do anything because that week I was working at day camp. Day camp was fun but crazy and exhausting. By the time Thursday rolled around I was amazed at how much energy the middle school girls I was working with had for their lock-in after the normal day of camp. I just sat quietly on a couch in the youth room, read a book, and knitted a bit. It was a great weekend and my knitting absolutely amazed the girls. Especially when I was knitting the next morning when they were all finally wiped out.
This last week, other than 5 hours of work, I've been totally free. I've been knitting almost non-stop. I finished and felted the base of The Spy and worked most of the panel in a day before realizing I was going to run out of yarn. I finished Simone's rockin' gloves, I started Dark Lady, a scarf for Addy, and bought yarn for Sophie and Jen's presents.
I am now almost in debt because of yarn purchases and have way too many projects on the needles.
Till next time, when I promise pictures!
"You have some nacho shmutz on your face there."
Obviously that hasn't happened.
I've not posted since I was in Tulsa a couple of weeks ago because I keep saying I'm going to put my pictures on my computer, edit them, and then make a picture post. So far I've gotten my pictures on the computer. I have over 700 from D.C., it's crazy. I was excited when on the last day I used up my 2 gig card with pictures from prom to D.C., but I don't think I realized exactly how many pictures will fit on a 2 gig sd card. I'm going to try to finish editing the good ones and deleting the bad ones this weekend and then I really will put up pictures.
Until then I'll talk about my knitting and whatnot.
There's been a lot of knitting. Possibly miles of it.
So in Tulsa I cast on mom's birthday present The Spy. A lovely black bag the same pattern as D.C. my bag. I got a lot of work done in Tulsa and on the way home, but the day after I got home my life got crazy busy again. Almost too busy for knitting.
On Sunday I had to set up the church for day camp and then go to a birthday party, but I did manage to knit a rose for my friends gift. That day I also got the crazy notion to knit a birthday gift for all of my friends, most of whom hadn't had a birthday party yet this year. I was already halfway done with Simone's gift and just needed her to try it on for size and other than that I hadn't even thought of anything. I asked everyone there what they would like for their presents giving them a set of choices that I could knit quickly. Throughout the next week in my meager free time I started scouting out patterns for everyone and looking through my yarn to see what I had that I could use and what I needed to buy. In looking through my yarn I've decided that I'm never buying yarn without a specific and near project in mind for it or else my stash will one day smother me.
Of course, while I was making all these grand plans I barley had any time to do anything because that week I was working at day camp. Day camp was fun but crazy and exhausting. By the time Thursday rolled around I was amazed at how much energy the middle school girls I was working with had for their lock-in after the normal day of camp. I just sat quietly on a couch in the youth room, read a book, and knitted a bit. It was a great weekend and my knitting absolutely amazed the girls. Especially when I was knitting the next morning when they were all finally wiped out.
This last week, other than 5 hours of work, I've been totally free. I've been knitting almost non-stop. I finished and felted the base of The Spy and worked most of the panel in a day before realizing I was going to run out of yarn. I finished Simone's rockin' gloves, I started Dark Lady, a scarf for Addy, and bought yarn for Sophie and Jen's presents.
I am now almost in debt because of yarn purchases and have way too many projects on the needles.
Till next time, when I promise pictures!
"You have some nacho shmutz on your face there."
Thursday, July 17, 2008
In Which I find how dependent on knitting I really am.
It has been just under a month since I last blogged.... My life is crazy.
So last update I was about to leave for D.C. I have been there and come back and it was great. I met a lot of really fun people, bought books and knitting magazines, got rained on, learned how to make oragami, and walked about 50 miles.
While I was in D.C. I learned something about myself. When I don't knit for a couple of days I get very angry and a little violent. Really. I nearly punched out a guy I'd barley met because I thought he was talking too much. Instead I went and asked a guy I did know if I could punch him because it would make me feel better. I did and I did feel better.
I also got to lead my group a few times and I remembered how much I like being in charge of a bunch of people. We had a simulation in which we were solving the kidnapping of a 9 week old baby, and we had to interview all the people involved in the case. We could only have 3 people do each interview, and in order to give everyone who wanted to a chance to interview I had do draw out a fun little scheudle and make sure we got where we were supposed to when we were supposed to and had our interview questions ready. It was crazy and hectic and I loved every minute of it.
We presented our case at the end of the confrence and my group got 2nd place which I think is pretty good considering we didn't even have the right guy and a group that did didn't even place.
We spent a lot of time out over that weekend and I got oodles of fantastic and funny pictures. I also got quite a few rather strange ones. It was all great and I had just over a 50 pound suitcase when I was done.
I've also been getting ready for the day camp I'm helping put on next week so I've been busy with that for the past few days. I've decorated a jumpsuit to be a racing uniform (it's awesome) and I've gone over all our Bible studys and made more age appropriate ones for the middle schoolers that I'm teaching (they were all for little kids), and I've also learned how to work the sound board in our church so I can run sound for our assemblies. (like I said, my life is getting crazier by the week)
I've done quite a lot of knitting latley considering how busy I've been with other stuff. I have just finished the sweater front of Nebulous, I'm well on my way with Marianne, and I have bought the yarn for my mom's birthday present which I will start tomorrow on her birthday. I am making her a bag with the same pattern as D.C. but it will be black with a tweedy black and gray front panel. When mom told me that this was what she wanted for her birthday I made her spend an hour on the computer picking out her colors. She just wanted to say a color and be done with it, but there are far too many variations in colors in yarns to not look and pick out exactly what you want.
I also had to go to the dentist twice this last week. The thought of getting my teeth cleaned at the dentist actually makes me want to throw up. In order to combat this feeling while I was actually getting the work done I brought a swatch of knitting with me. I had practiced knitting with my eyes closed and I knit through my entire cleaning. I did pretty good too. Having found out that I had a cavity I went back once again armed with knitting and knit through the entire sandblasting experience. I didn't drop a single stitch the second time. Now I can go to the dentist without fear. But not for another 6 months, thank goodness!
My last bit of big news is that after I got back from D.C. I decided to clean out my closet. Having already done the entire rest of my room and bathroom I assumed that it would be easy. Then I started actually taking stuff out of my closet.
It didn't all fit in my room.
I do not know how I had so much stuff stuffed in there but after two weeks of battle in which I did not always have a sure place to sleep, I have conquered my closet and gotten rid of a room full of stuff. (pictures on the next post) I am very proud of myself for this accomplishment.
So last update I was about to leave for D.C. I have been there and come back and it was great. I met a lot of really fun people, bought books and knitting magazines, got rained on, learned how to make oragami, and walked about 50 miles.
While I was in D.C. I learned something about myself. When I don't knit for a couple of days I get very angry and a little violent. Really. I nearly punched out a guy I'd barley met because I thought he was talking too much. Instead I went and asked a guy I did know if I could punch him because it would make me feel better. I did and I did feel better.
I also got to lead my group a few times and I remembered how much I like being in charge of a bunch of people. We had a simulation in which we were solving the kidnapping of a 9 week old baby, and we had to interview all the people involved in the case. We could only have 3 people do each interview, and in order to give everyone who wanted to a chance to interview I had do draw out a fun little scheudle and make sure we got where we were supposed to when we were supposed to and had our interview questions ready. It was crazy and hectic and I loved every minute of it.
We presented our case at the end of the confrence and my group got 2nd place which I think is pretty good considering we didn't even have the right guy and a group that did didn't even place.
We spent a lot of time out over that weekend and I got oodles of fantastic and funny pictures. I also got quite a few rather strange ones. It was all great and I had just over a 50 pound suitcase when I was done.
I've also been getting ready for the day camp I'm helping put on next week so I've been busy with that for the past few days. I've decorated a jumpsuit to be a racing uniform (it's awesome) and I've gone over all our Bible studys and made more age appropriate ones for the middle schoolers that I'm teaching (they were all for little kids), and I've also learned how to work the sound board in our church so I can run sound for our assemblies. (like I said, my life is getting crazier by the week)
I've done quite a lot of knitting latley considering how busy I've been with other stuff. I have just finished the sweater front of Nebulous, I'm well on my way with Marianne, and I have bought the yarn for my mom's birthday present which I will start tomorrow on her birthday. I am making her a bag with the same pattern as D.C. but it will be black with a tweedy black and gray front panel. When mom told me that this was what she wanted for her birthday I made her spend an hour on the computer picking out her colors. She just wanted to say a color and be done with it, but there are far too many variations in colors in yarns to not look and pick out exactly what you want.
I also had to go to the dentist twice this last week. The thought of getting my teeth cleaned at the dentist actually makes me want to throw up. In order to combat this feeling while I was actually getting the work done I brought a swatch of knitting with me. I had practiced knitting with my eyes closed and I knit through my entire cleaning. I did pretty good too. Having found out that I had a cavity I went back once again armed with knitting and knit through the entire sandblasting experience. I didn't drop a single stitch the second time. Now I can go to the dentist without fear. But not for another 6 months, thank goodness!
My last bit of big news is that after I got back from D.C. I decided to clean out my closet. Having already done the entire rest of my room and bathroom I assumed that it would be easy. Then I started actually taking stuff out of my closet.
It didn't all fit in my room.
I do not know how I had so much stuff stuffed in there but after two weeks of battle in which I did not always have a sure place to sleep, I have conquered my closet and gotten rid of a room full of stuff. (pictures on the next post) I am very proud of myself for this accomplishment.
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