I'm Going Home..

..To the place where I belong...

Merry Christmas everybody!!!

Love ya!

And Happy New Year..If I don't see you before then..

Be back January 15th!

Bored out of my Gourd

This is The. Longest. Week. Ever.!!!!
Oh my goodness, will it ever be over?
I am going crazy from studying and taking study breaks where I have nothing to do because for some reason this week, I cannot find any new blogs to read or books to look up on amazon.com...
Is it Friday at 10:00 yet??

So Darn Productive...

...I just don't know what to do with myself..

Two finals down, three to go, and one of those is a take-home final I've finished typing, just hafta proofread and print!!

Here's that little house I was telling you about..I was more than halfway through with it, and it was definitely cross-stitch, not embroidery, if that gives you any idea of how long it's been since I worked on it..

Red on white cross-stitch just makes me crazy! Love it! Not sure what I'm going to do with this yet..Doubt I can find a frame to fit it right..Christmas tree ornament, maybe??

Also crazy is this weather..Tomorrow it's going to be 80 degrees! Christmas in Dixie, lemme tell ya..I'm wearing a t-shirt and flip-flops on my trip to C-ville and Target..On my list of things to make right along with Lucia is another Posie-inspired project: Red puff paint on white candle..I'm all about all things Scandinavian-ish right now..

I miss making stuff

I miss knitting. I just really have no desire or drive to knit anything right now. I taught myself how to knit 4 years ago this Christmas, but this semester I've been going through a dry spell. i month or so ago I started a ballband washcloth just to show that I still could knit, but I got through 2 repeats and I was over. it. A year ago I was popping off miters and warshrags and procrastinating myself to death, but this year. Nada. Part of it is that I seem to have no money to spend on yarn..If I was going to knit anything, I would want to make a bigger mitered square blanket or maybe a log cabin blanket with a bunch of squares I could mattress-stitch together. I do so love to mattress stitch.

I haven't crocheted in the longest, either. I made squares and crocheted them together for my own little Babette (and by little, I mean Really Little), but I didn't like the way they were joined, and I didn't have the heart to take them apart. That was last July.

I really want to make Santa Lucia dolls. That may be my first craft project when I go home next Friday. If I get a lot of stuff done today and tomorrow, I'm going to take a mini-road trip Tuesday to Tarjay (one of my favorite places)and the Hobby Lobby, too. It's about 45 minutes away..and I'm doubtful about finding the doll pins and head beads that would fit together in my Wal-mart..

I did embroider half a house from my Japanese magazines I got earlier this semester..It's now buried in a stack of about ten magazines beside my bed..Seriously, I think I might have a magazine problem..I haven't worked on the house much because I need really really good light, so it's really not conducive to watching movies, which is how we chillax around these parts..

So yeah..I'm sorta in a not-so-chipper mood this afternoon..I've been around a person or two far too much this weekend..but in a week, I'll be home for a month, and I can get reenergized and refreshed and hopefully I'll make something, because I miss my friend! (Come on, who knows that song?)

Seven

I have hit the proverbial brick wall.
I feel like I have hit the literal brick wall.

One week!

Time to start jumping over walls..

Note to Self

Betsy-Do not open until Thanksgiving Wednesday, 2005.

November 21, 2001

Betsy,

I just thought I'd write myself a little note. How are you? How's everyone?

Our house is coming along good. We hope to be in it by Christmas. I can't wait!

So how did the band's festival season go? Are you drum major? I hope so, or at least leadership! Keep flutie traditions running! I am a C-I am a C-H...

I'm trying out for District and All-State Band two Saturdays from now. Wish me luck!

Well, I need to go practice piano. Are you still in piano? I hope so. Is Sara?

Gotta go,

Love,

Betsy

Dear Betsy,

I just found your letter in the bottom of a box of snowman stationary. Seriously, did you really think you would find it four years later? I guess a little over six years is not so bad. You know, I was 13 when I wrote that note..Pretty obvious, huh? And I was 17 when I was supposed to find it..

You didn't get moved into the new house until Groundhog Day '02..Just a month or so after Christmas..It was so worth it, though, to have your own room after sharing with your brother and sister since you were 3..

The band season went pretty well..You didn't get drum major, but you didn't really want it by the time auditions came around..You did conduct from backfield for part of the show..And you were band captain your junior year..

Also, you totally bombed your district audition..you were shaking like a leaf!

I'm still taking piano..Sara quit a few months ago..She's taking baton lessons now..Maybe she'll be a majorette in a few years..

Well, I need to go practice piano (some things never change, huh?) Actually, I'm going to do some studying and get to bed..Did you know that you wanted to be a vet when you wrote that letter? You changed your mind about 15 times between then and now..Haha..

Love ya kiddo,

Betsy

Fab Four

the best of Summer Reading, '07 edition

1. Three Cups of Tea by G. Mortenson and D. O. Relin If you have not read this book, you must go out and get it..Trust me, it will change your life..Seriously, I do not think that there are that many books that I can say that about, and I do not say it lightly..Definitely one for the Christmas list.

2. I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith I absolutely adore this book; I reread it this semester..Every summer I take part in Barnes and Noble's buy two-get one free table, and this was one of the books I got this year..It's so good; definitely my favorite fiction pick for the summer..

3. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling Definitely the most anticipated book of my summer..I picked up my copy the morning it came out, but didn't really get started until after lunch..and finished at 6:00 that evening..I did absolutely nothing except devour that book and it was amazing..

4. All the Jane Austen books I read Mansfield Park and Persuasion for the first time this summer and loved them both, and I reread Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility, both also amazing..I think that you have be at a certain age to really appreciate Austen's books, and it's different for everyone, of course..I read some of them when I was a few years younger and I liked them, but I didn't really start to love them until summer before last, when I read Northanger Abbey..I need to read Emma again, I haven't read that one in a long time (by which I mean, three years..feels like a long time, though!)