Just in Time for Halloween

Is this sweet orange and brown square..this makes my count 7..8..??

I left a comment on Ann's entry about her new fancy-smancy shoes, and it reminded me of my own new shoes..
They're not the least bit girly..They look like old man shoes, but they're really comfortable. And they look pretty cute with jeans. Which is all that counts, really. Of course, girly heely shoes look cute with jeans too...that's next on my shoe wish list!

Linkage

I got all computer savvy and figured out how to do the link thing on the sidebar all by myself. This is a big thing for me, I am very proud of myself right now!

It's raining! Ahh..and this morning, I walked outside, realized all three of my umbrellas were in my car, went to the WRONG parking lot, had to go to the other one to get to my car..and then still had to walk half a mile in the pouring down rain. I really hope it stops before tonight and doesn't rain out my old high school's football game that I've been planning to go to since, I dunno, July. And the band comp. tomorrow..sigh..

I'm in the computer lab now, but later when I'm in my room I'll post pictures of the sweet garter stitch scarf I made last night to console myself for the not-so-good one.

Wonky

That's what the scarf I knit is..kinda wonky. Well, there's no kinda about it. I'm choosing to think of it as a design feature..yeah, it's supposed to do that..and everyone who's seen it thinks it's cute. I'm giving it to my sister..early Christmas/birthday present. Can you believe Christmas is less than two months away??!! Yay!

Up close with the fringe...

Now it's all wrapped up and ready to be given to my sister tonight when I see her at piano lessons..I think she'll like it..The tissue paper and yarn from the project being a bow is basically how I wrap all handknit projects I'm giving as gifts..it's pretty much standard wrapping procedure around here..

This is rather dull I'm afraid but my brain is pretty much fried from two tests today and one yesterday..I think I'm going to take a nap..

P.S. Obviously the gimp arm from yesterday did not hold me back any..

My Arm is Rather Limp Today

I got a flu shot today..so my upper arm is sore. (It is really hard to take a picture of your right arm when you are right-handed!)
I took an anthropology test--wrote nonstop for an hour--so my wrist is sore.
Which stinks, because I really want to work on this:

It's a scarf I want to wear this weekend when I go to the football game and the band competition. It looks all ruffly cause it's bunched up on the circular needle. I think it's gonna be narrowish, so I just want to finish this color-pattern-repeat thing (basically, three more rows of yellow, purple, and blue each). Which doesn't sound like much unless you consider that each row takes 15-20 minutes..yeah..And I have two test tomorrow, but after that, I'm chillin'..can't wait!

Good things that happened today:

1. The sky was so beautiful this morning when I walked outside! The clouds were all pink and purple. It was glorious. I didn't have my camera.

2. I caught the class bus. The class bus reminds me of the Knight Bus in Harry Potter. I think there's like a special hand signal you're supposed to give to make it stop. And it flies around really fast. But it's very nice to save that twenty minute walk..especially when it's cold outside.

3. I went to Subway to eat lunch with my parents, and when I got back, I got a parking place in Heaven. Heaven is what we call the good parking lot, there aren't that many spaces. The lot next to Heaven is Purgatory. The name of the bad one? I think you get the idea. It was pretty much amazing. I think a lot of people drove because it was so cold out. To me, it just seems easier to walk than to wait for the car to defrost, drive down, find a parking spot, and then walk to class. It's quicker, too.

No. 6

The initial inspiration for this square was a sunflower. It has since been described as Belle, a rotten banana (you can google that image on your own), and Mayfield's Ice Cream. I think I like the Mayfield's comparison the best.

Tonight, me and Hannah have planned a run to Michael's followed by knitting, scrapbooking, and a movie (probably Narnia). We were going to go see Marie Antoinette, but it's not in theaters here yet. We're going to try to catch it in two weeks when I go home with her. Excitement. Okay, funny story. Our friend went to go see "The Prestige" last night, and he said it was really sad all the way through. Hannah was like, well, we're going to see "Marie Antoinette", and it won't be as sad. To which I replied 'do you know what happened to Marie Antoinette??' It was pretty funny. You probably had to be there.

Everyone have an amazing weekend, I'm going to study!

Lurvely Day

That was me being sarcastic...it's rainy and cold, and it has been all week...I tried to take a picture of the gloominess, but it photographed too not cold and rainy.

I absolutely love Kenny Chesney's new song, "You Save Me". (How long has it been since he sang a song not about the beach??) It came on the radio after I drove up here about an hour ago and I just sat in my car and listened to it...ahh...

When I'm a bullet shot out of a gun
When I'm a firecracker coming undone
When I'm a fugitive ready to run
All wild-eyed and crazy
Baby you save me

LOVE IT!

Adding to the madness...

Not much new knitting content from me today..but I taught my roommate how to knit last Thursday! It was sorta her birthday present. She is, and I quote, "pretty much obsessed". She's made a coaster (the first project--aww!), a washcloth, and she's got some good progress on a scarf. No kidding, she's a natural. Look, here she is glowing with pride after casting off and weaving in the ends of the coaster.
Well, I would show you a picture, but blogger is not cooperating today...oh well, maybe tomorrow.
Anyway, I've taught probably about 5 other people how to knit, but Hannah's easily the best. I mean, seriously. Okay.
So..this weekend was fall break, I just got back last night, thus the long lapse in entries..And one would think that I could have gotten a lot of knitting done, but I didn't, because pretty much the whole weekend was spent cleaning my room at home...It was quite the ordeal. I threw away/gave away two or three times what I kept...I mean, for real. It was pretty bad. Not like, messy, just cluttered with STUFF I've accumulated over the past 5 years. So much STUFF! I gave away two garbage bags of just shoes. Pretty much amazing. I would have taken before-and-after pictures, but I would be too embarrassed to post pictures of it.
Anyway...it was a nice, rainy weekend. Monday was the perfect weather to do nothing except lay on the couch, eat ice cream, and watch figure skating on t.v. Of course, there was no figure skating on t.v. I did eat some ice cream...Sigh...freshmen fifteen, anybody?

She's Still Got It!

Why is my picture all sideways-y? It's done that before, but not recently..weird..Anyway, this is proof that I haven't completely abandoned knitting (along with proof that the scrapbooking is still going strong, although it is winding down). Two squares completely completed and another cast on for, what-what! Most of the green and orange one was knit while watching "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure" with my roommate and two of our other friends. Good times, good times..I was told that this movie would change my life, and it pretty much did..Ha,ha.

So, school has been happening, too. I made a 104 on my music appreciation test!!! YAY!! I was SO excited!
Also, this past weekend was Mountain Day Weekend, which is a really big celebration of Martha Berry's birthday (Martha Berry founded Berry College many moons ago..1902, to be exactish). Part of Mountain Day is the Grand March on Saturday, where all the students walk up and down this big hill holding hands, linking up in twos, fours, eights, and sixteens..It's hard to explain, but really cool in person.

This is the front of the line...being a freshman, I was near the end. The way it works is, the girls and guys are suppoze to be holding hands, but the guy-to-girl ratio is so skewed here that the only the senior girls and especially fortunate junior girls get to hold guys' hands..then the boys run out..lol..but it was ok, it was really fun..

There's me going up the hill on the left, in the khaki capris..

I'd explain more about the most excellent traditions, but it's time for handbell choir practice..

Things to Do...

What I should be doing:

What I want to be doing:

What I have been doing:

Yes, my friends....that is what it looks like...a scrapbook...

I may already be more addicted to it than I am to knitting and reading put together. But I love being all crafty, and I'm really good at collages and stuff. I tried scrapbooking a few years ago, but it was really bad and I swore off it. It was more like crapbooking (which is what I accidentally typed a few words ago. My roommate scrapbooks with a passion. And I've been watching her and seeing how fun it is...and I was looking at all these pictures and momentos I have from high school...and then I was at the Wal-Mart (uh-oh)..and $40 later, this is what I've got...I think this might be more expensive than knitting..yeah, for sure. But it's SO much fun! But it's SO bad for my reading that I'm SO behind on.. Oh well, I guess I deserved one afternoon for a break...I really really want to go to Michael's right now...I need more pages, and some stickers for Thanksgiving and Christmas and....

so..okay

Here's the thing I'm not liking about the no-(well, low)-sew mitered square blanket. There are more rows on the first section of the new block than there are on the first block. (Also not liking the way that is not the way the color looks in real life...kinda wish it was; I think I like this way better..) I think I know why this is happening. First, picking up the stitches for the orange block adds a row, and at the same time it's covering up a row of the tan color. I don't like it! I think I'd rather have to sew all the blocks together than try to figure this one out. And I'm not going to be able to live with it, I'm just too much of a perfectionist. Seriously, ya'll have no idea how much effort went into that first orange section there. It was pretty insane. But I'd rather frog it than be unhapppy with it later. Rip, rip. Plus, trying to plan out these color combinations is taking a lot of the fun out of it. I think it'd be easier to be able to match the squares up later. Much less stress.

Something else I'm not liking: this headache that I've had for three days. Thinking it might be the contacts. But I hope not, cause we were supposed to be getting a good deal and bought 4 boxes!!

One Down...

47 to go!