Argosy, Bikini Edition?

So, I know Vyvyan said she was quitting after the baby blanket version, but I'm with Alan Jackson: "Too Much of a Good Thing is a Good Thing".

Ha, ha..Kidding! This is a washcloth. My Mother it looked like underwear at this point, but I assured her that it was not. I needed a little knitting mixed in with all that seaming, which is almost done, by the way. I decided to nix the "miter posed on the bedspread" pic in this post, but just wait. Soon there will be no end of the blanket pictures. You'll be wishing I'd go back to knitting my undies.

I wanna talk about me...

MeMeMeMeMeee-ee: A lot of the ones I left plain I haven't heard of. If you know of one I haven't read that you think I should, leave a comment.

Look at the list of (100) books below.
Bold the ones you’ve read.
Italicize the ones you want to read.
Leave blank the ones that you aren’t interested in.
Movies don’t count.

1. The Da Vinci Code (Dan Brown)
2. Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
3. To Kill A Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
4. Gone With The Wind (Margaret Mitchell)
5. The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (Tolkien)
6. The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (Tolkien)
7. The Lord of the Rings: Two Towers (Tolkien)
8. Anne of Green Gables (L.M. Montgomery)
9. Outlander (Diana Gabaldon)
10. A Fine Balance (Rohinton Mistry)
11. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Rowling)
12. Angels and Demons (Dan Brown)
13. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Rowling)
14. A Prayer for Owen Meany (John Irving)
15. Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden)
16. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (Rowling)
17. Fall on Your Knees (Ann-Marie MacDonald)
18. The Stand (Stephen King)
19. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban(Rowling)
20. Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte) (I'm reading this right now, so I just bolded it a little bit)
21. The Hobbit (Tolkien)
22. The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
23. Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)
24. The Lovely Bones (Alice Sebold)
25 . Life of Pi (Yann Martel)
26. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
27. Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte)
28. The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe (C. S. Lewis)
29. East of Eden (John Steinbeck)
30. Tuesdays with Morrie(Mitch Albom)
31. Dune (Frank Herbert)
32. The Notebook (Nicholas Sparks)
33. Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand)
34. 1984 (Orwell)
35. The Mists of Avalon (Marion Zimmer Bradley)
36. The Pillars of the Earth (Ken Follett)
37. The Power of One (Bryce Courtenay)
38. I Know This Much is True (Wally Lamb)
39. The Red Tent (Anita Diamant) (I think I might want to read this one, but I'm not sure)
40. The Alchemist (Paulo Coelho)
41. The Clan of the Cave Bear (Jean M. Auel)
42. The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini) (I started this one, but hated it, so quit partway through)
43. Confessions of a Shopaholic (Sophie Kinsella)
44. The Five People You Meet In Heaven (Mitch Albom)
45. Bible
46. Anna Karenina (Tolstoy)
47. The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)
48. Angela’s Ashes (Frank McCourt)
49. The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
50. She’s Come Undone (Wally Lamb)
51. The Poisonwood Bible (Barbara Kingsolver)
52. A Tale of Two Cities (Dickens)
53. Ender’s Game (Orson Scott Card)
54. Great Expectations (Dickens)
55. The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald)
56. The Stone Angel (Margaret Laurence)
57. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Rowling)
58. The Thorn Birds (Colleen McCullough)
59. The Handmaid’s Tale (Margaret Atwood) (maybe)
60. The Time Traveller’s Wife (Audrey Niffenegger) (another maybe)
61. Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
62. The Fountainhead (Ayn Rand)
63. War and Peace (Tolstoy)
64. Interview With The Vampire (Anne Rice)
65. Fifth Business (Robertson Davis)
66. One Hundred Years Of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
67. The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants (Ann Brashares)
68. Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
69. Les Miserables (Hugo)
70. The Little Prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)
71. Bridget Jones’ Diary (Fielding)
72. Love in the Time of Cholera (Marquez)
73. Shogun (James Clavell)
74. The English Patient (Michael Ondaatje)
75. The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett)
76. The Summer Tree (Guy Gavriel Kay)
77. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Betty Smith)
78. The World According To Garp (John Irving)
79. The Diviners (Margaret Laurence)
80. Charlotte’s Web (E.B. White)
81. Not Wanted On The Voyage (Timothy Findley)
82. Of Mice And Men (Steinbeck)
83. Rebecca (Daphne DuMaurier)
84. Wizard’s First Rule (Terry Goodkind)
85. Emma (Jane Austen)
86. Watership Down(Richard Adams)
87. Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
88. The Stone Diaries (Carol Shields)
89. Blindness (Jose Saramago)
90. Kane and Abel (Jeffrey Archer)
91. In The Skin Of A Lion (Ondaatje)
92. Lord of the Flies (Golding)
93. The Good Earth (Pearl S. Buck)
94. The Secret Life of Bees (Sue Monk Kidd)
95. The Bourne Identity (Robert Ludlum)
96. The Outsiders (S.E. Hinton)
97. White Oleander (Janet Fitch)
98. A Woman of Substance (Barbara Taylor Bradford)
99. The Celestine Prophecy (James Redfield)
100. Ulysses (James Joyce)

If You Give a Knitter a Spring Break...

If you give a knitter a spring break, she'll probably finish knitting the squares for her psycho blanket.



Then she'll probably want to block them. If you can even call what she does "blocking". She'll dunk each square in the bowl of water. She will feel like a Southern Baptist minister. She'll probably start to say things like "I baptize you in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit." Then, as if that's not sacriligious enough, the yarn fumes will really start to get to her, and she will make up some new ones, like "I baptize you in the name of Ann, Kay, and Stephanie Pearl-Mcphee", or "I baptize you in the name of knit-two-together, slip-slip-knit, and stockinette stitch."
While the squares are drying, she'll have to look online for directions for how to mattress stitch.

After she does that, she'll stack them up all nice and neat and admire the general splendor.

Then, being the devoted daughter that she is, she will probably make her dad a birthday cake. She still needs to practice the icing part, but she's getting better.

Once all the blocks are dry, she will spread out a sheet on the living room floor and figure out the arrangement. It will take her an hour because she was pretty random when she was making them. Then, she will discover the magic that is mattress stitch (oh mattress stitch, how I doth dote on thee!) and sew up 5/6 of the blocks before she goes back to school. By then, the spring break is over, and it will take her almost a week to sew up 1 more block. But that, dear friends, is what happens if you give a knitter a spring break.

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This week, I just don't know if I can do it. One day at a time, one day at a time...
Pictures and a real entry??? Well, I planned them out all last week when I was without access to real internet (dial-up is not real internet, fyi)..and now, I'm so completely swamped I dunno when it's gonna happen. Saturday, maybe. Sunday at the latest..
But I am NOT stressed. I am Not Going to Stress Out. I am going to write the two body paragraphs of my paper that are due tomorrow, and do my quiet time, and worry about the other 5 pages of the paper and the three tests three days in a row Later. Tomorrow..And I'm going to stop griping and get off of here and Get It Done. Period.
Have a great week!

i'm going home

i'm going home, i'm going home...i made it, i didn't get sick...i didn't skip class, because i'm just not that person and i don't think i'll ever be that person, but i went and i made it and i even took notes and now i'm going home and i'm just SO excited! and i may not post for a week, cause i'll be on stinky slow dial-up, but when i'm back, it'll be a block party..blocking party, rather, cause i've only got three squares left to do on my blanket!
see ya'll in a week!

Walking Time Bomb

So I'm thinking that Friday cannot come soon enough.
Here, imagine a picture of a half-completed mitered square. Really, I don't feel like boring ya'll with another picture of a miter. And I don't feel like getting up to take another picture of one.
It's terribly quiet and lonely here, because my roommate was sent home yesterday for the week..with mono, of all things! Ack! I called her earlier tonight and she seems to be doing ok, she's just really weak. So far, I'm not sick, although I'm awfully paranoid about getting sick, especially since there's also a nasty stomach virus making appearances around campus. At least one girl on my hall has been throwing up. There's another virus going around the school where I work.
Seriously, if I can just make it until Friday, it'll be spring break, and I can handle that. I really truly do not want to get sick. Today I made some great plans to meet up with a bunch of my high school friends for lunch Saturday. I haven't seen most (any?) of them since Thanksgiving, so I'm really excited. And with my luck, I will get horribly sick. And stay sick for all of spring break, but get well just in time to come back to school. Ahh..

Is It Spring Yet?

Because my plant thinks it is!















Last night we made Rice Krispie treats in the micro-go-round and watched Ella Enchanted..Which is a corny movie if there ever was one...Night before that we watched Grease...I hadn't seen it in a while; I'd forgotten how weird it was..Seriously, that ending..I remember the first time I watched it I thought that was the worst ending of a movie that I'd ever seen..haha..

All these movies are perfect for knitting..I only have 9 squares left!

Man, my desk is cluttered in that picture...

Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss!

Lemme just tell you, Dr. Seuss's birthday is a Big Deal at primary schools, especially the one where I volunteer in the library. We have been building up to this day for weeks...Every room in the school is a different page in the ABC Book, so you can read the whole book if you walk all the way around the school. Oh yes. Big times.

Real post (with pictures!) tomorrow...I just wanted to get the whole Dr. Seuss's birthday thing out there..I've been telling people for the past two days..He would have been, like, 104 years old. Dr. Seuss...we were pretty tight back in the day, just let me tell you. And my graduation speech started and ended with him.

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."

Great man, that Theo Giesel...