Method to the Madness

At this point its more about containing the madness and trying to put a method to it.

I think I've said before that Mrs. E. (the secretary at my school) is paying me to make a baby blanket, for her grandbaby. (I was going to explain why she is the most evil woman to walk the earth, but then I realized I was babbling on about something that y'all don't really care about, and even if you did isn't really important.) The only reason I'm making this 'stoopid baby blanket' is because the baby can't help that his grandma is evil and still deserves a hand knit baby balnket.

Its the Bamboozle Baby blanket, I'm having to double strand from two balls of blue and white striped yarn (I'll tell the name of the yarn in another post, but I'm lazy and there are things I should be doing instead of this right now...) The repeats aren't long enough to make actual stripes so I couldn't stand the pooling and so now I'm trying to match up the blue in one ball and the white in the other... its really a pain..















The plan: 10 rows a day (180 stitches per row! eek!) and I'll still be pushing it to have it finished by February...rats! stupid procrastination... gets me every time.. At least its good for sitting in front of the computer watching anime...

I'll do a New Years-ish post tomorrow or the next day, cause right now I have to go get ready to pick up Sara and Kaiti

'Till then, I leave you this.




Raindeer kitteh no want picshur!

(Bella, consider this payback for interfering with yarn pictures...)

The part of the show where I gush over Christmas presents

Sorry, but you knew this was coming right? So lets get started.


Kingdom Hearts 2 and DanceDance Revolution SuperNOVA 2

This means I need to get to work finishing KH1! (if anyone has played it before do you have any tips on getting past the 'stomach monster' in the Pinnochio whale thing?)
(excuse these little things..... just trying to get things to line up right....

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writing to try to make it work right...

Speaking of DDR... Look what one of the shirts I got says!
(Its not a great picture, but It says "I can only dance when there are Arrows.")
(just never mind these little random things)

Here are the others:

Kyo from Fruits Basket

Haruhi-ism

Colorful FMA!

and "I love anime"








Then a very cute Ipod case, and Twilight, the book all my friends can't belive I haven't already bought, and read.

I have to hurry and finish reading Inkheart so I can read this one!




And some patches for my "if it's not in here, I don't need it, I might not need it even if it is in here" bag.

I know you knitters want to hear about all the knitting stuff, well here it is!


Not Another Teen Knitting book!


Opal Feelings self striping sock yarn. And enough of it to make really awesome knee socks.

And this (bad picture) to make Mermaid Socks! ->

And look Nana & Da gave mom and I Harmony Wood needles. DPNs, interchangeable circulars, and sock sized DPNs (they don't photograph well)!

I also got a ball winder and swift (that is what you call and how you spell that cool wood thing right?) that I forgot to get a picture of.

Yays! A FMA 2008 calender!

OH YES! LOOK AT THESE AWESOME SHOES!

THEY ARE CLEAR CONVERSE ALL STARS!

No, not striped! CLEAR! They are C-L-E-A-R!

(can you tell I might be a bit excited about them?)

gosh what do I have to type to make it work here too???

What? Why are there pictures? You thought I lost my camera? Well you'd be right, but check this out my NEW, UNLOST, CAMERA!

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In truth it's exactly the same as my old one, but I can take pictures now! The world can finally continue turning now that I have a camera again. All is well.

3 days till Christmas!!!

I'm so excited I could die!

I saw the Alvin and the Chipmunks movie yesterday with my mom, her friend, and her triplet 10year old boys. They ARE Alvin and the chipmunks... Give them the color coordinated sweaters and we'd have it. The movie was great! (We would already have the sound track if everywhere wasn't sold out.) I don't know what was funnier, the movie or the little boy sitting in front of me that just HOWLED with laughter at the smallest joke. It was so fun to watch him! And he would dance and clap, and we thought "the movie needs to hurry up and end or this little guy is gonna wet himself!"

Next year I will be able to drive. So next year I can have dad hand me a credit card and go do mom's Christmas shopping without the clueless dad and before the weekend before Christmas.

This is totally ridiculous. Every year he waits till the last minute to drag me out into that mass of humanity, the weekend before Christmas. (I see absolutely no logic and/or common sense in that one.)

As a reward for being dragged into the overly crowed mall last night, (and again today because we didn't finish) even though we were shopping for mom, I allowed myself to get a Naruto poster, and some strawberry pocky (which is delicious by the way). But today we will have to go back to the mall, and to our LYS to get [censored for Christmas surprise].

The trafic alone will take hours, but I think I will be able to handle it. As long as I have my book, my iPod, my cellphone, and knitting. The Saturday before Christmas... wow.. this will be interesting... wish me luck.

The pros and Kons

I need an opinion on my binders. They were the brown recycled kind from Office Depot, But I have decided to redecorate for the new year. I've already painted them white (so whatever I do on then the colors will show up better.

I can't decide if I should tissue paper them (haha I can't remember what you call it...) like the squares on the wall in this picture. Only they would be smaller pieces and on a binder.

Pro: Easy I know it'd turn our pretty

Con: To easy, not much detail

(looks like every pro is also a con... that's odd)

Or maybe painting a picture on it (probably anime). If I do this I have to do one of Kon (the picture) because for some reason her really creeps Jesse out.
Pro: I can copy pictures well with pencils, so this gives me a chance to try with paint. Lots of detail, if I do it right, would look really pretty ('specialy with DNAngel pictures). If I mess up, just paint over with white again. and Chasing Jesse around with a Kon binder.
Con: It would be really hard, I don't know if I even can do this. a lot messier.

So what do y'all think? (I REALLY need an opinion.)

P.S. The Santa picture didn't happen Saturday. The stupid lady at the stupid place cut the line off RIGHT WHEN WE WERE NEXT because "Santa needs to go on break" (funny how the sign said he still had about an hour before he went on break isn't it?) so we took a picture or two in front of the tree and when Kaiti gets copies made I'll scan it in.

Yes! Only exams left!

Finally school is out, 'cept for exams! And those are only half days Monday through Wednesday! *happydances*

Ok this has SO not been my week.

Wednesday: My power point for computer class deleted itself. TWICE. The day I was supposed to turn it in. I just went back to bed.

Thursday: The turkey in my sandwich had apparently gone bad, and I got sick in 5th period.

Friday: Hit my head REALLY HARD on the car trying to get my stuff out. Then all but ripped my leg open on the bottom corner of the car door leaving school.

My friends are terribly worried about riding with me to the mall today, because I seem to be jinxed.

Jesse, Wendy, Kaiti, and I are all going to the mall today for 6 whole hours of mall time-girlfriend bonding time. And of course the only picture I'll be able to get will be the one with Santa *sigh*. I talked to Sara last night, and she is going to meet us there. It's my job to distract the others (probably just an "OMG HOW CUTE IS THIS!!!") so she can sneak up on them and go "HIIIII YYYY'AAALLLL!!!!" (They don't know she's coming).

And the reason I'm saying all this.... I really haven't done any knitting! *slaps back of head* I know! There is a LOT I need to do..... eeep!

A nice long post

Obviously I'm having writers block with post titles lately... *sweatdrops*

I...finished....my....jaywalkers....

Actually I finished them the same night of my last post.. But I wore them to school today. I got a big "OMG I CAN'T BELIVE YOUR WEARING THAT!" from Jesse... yeah.. I know my jaywalkers look stupid with my tennis shoes, but I was late.. and I just grabbed the first socks I found to put on in the car on the way... next time I'll be sure to wear my abby shoes..

Last night I casted on Phineas
Yes! I know that there are a million-and-a-half other things I need to do! To keep with my ignoring it and pretending they don't exist I'm not going to mention what they are.. but.. I'm making them with the yellow yarn I bought when Knit Wits closed. It goes from a dark yeallow, and fades into white. It;s so pretty! The diamonds on it are coming our so well! I also just love the one row stripes the yarn is making! They are knitting up amazingly fat! I knit the toe before I went to bed last night, and now they're almost ready for the heel! Oh lookie I'm a dummie.. I think I have an old picture of the yarn!


You can't fully appreciate the prettyness of the yarn from this picture. I never thought It would knit up quite this pretty! (Sorry peoplez, y'all will have to wait until I get a camera to see!)




In other news.... I finished watching Utawarerumono! The ending was very "huh?". Well, right until the end. Then it all made sense... sorta...kinda...still working it out a bit... But I'll be getting Azumanga Daioh volume 1 tomorow! Wow.. my netflix queue overfloweth... I see something, go to add it, then see all the "you might also like" and be all "Oh! I think I've heard of that one! *add* OOOH and that one! *add*" I think I will never finish.

The tutoring job is going good (can you say "yarn money"??). Lindsey is learning it pretty good. She keeps getting the prombles I give her right. She made an 88 on her test today (I have to keep reminding myself that I am above average, and that, 88s aren't good for me (at all), they are Bs and are good for most people). I bet she messed up a negative here and there, and she also said she noticed she copied some wrong when she transfered it form her work sheet to her answer sheet. I think she got kinda freaked out. She seems to be happy about it, but that her dad is one of those "its terrible unless its an A" types, and she simply isn't an A student. She's a solid B student. I think I'm gonna knit her something for Christmas too, because he told me something (I'm not going to post it here because some people form school read it) that just makes me want to hug her and squeeze her and name her George (what she told me was actually kinda sad)!

Sayonara!
Kat

And life goes on...

...even without a camera.....

Today some of us "Mississippi Knitters" got together at Knit Studio for a sit and knit time (the 2 hours FLEW by) We had an awesome time. unfortunately no pictures, but by the time we meet up again in January, hopefully I'll have a camera!

I never knew that I knit fast. But the ladies there commented (and so did this guy that knits at my church). Also apparently its uncommon that I can walk (as in through the mall) and knit at the same time. That got mentioned on Ravelry the other day on the "mother daughter" knitting forum, and the lady that started the topic said "I've heard tales of people like you! People who can actually walk around and knit. I can't imagine being able to do that. Well...maybe with a garter stitch scarf - maybe"

I bought some yarn to make Fetching The yarn is soft and blue and really pretty. It's Plymouth Yarn, Galway, color number 149. Its bright blue. I think It'll look really good as Fetching. I imagine that the Christmas post will be incredibly long, with Christmas pictures, and the catching up on all the yarn that has been missed.

And, (I'm probably a little too excited about this) I have learned some basic (and I mean BASIC) html coding!

lookie lookie what I can do!

This
and things like H₂O or like algebra with a³
AND THIS!!!

Knitting with no pictures!

I think I'm getting a bit bored with the blog. It's starting to feel more like a job than fun. Since this feeling of procrastination even toward the blog seemed to start when the camera "went on vacation" I think that might be why. I think that the blog just isn't as much fun when there are no yarn pictures to gush over. Yeah, I have mamma's horrible old camera, but even if I could get a few good pictures with it, I can't find the connector cable to hook it up to the computer... I'm considering putting the blog on hiatus until Christmas when I get a new camera (or possibly just before Christmas with a all text Christmas eve post?)

Any who, I'm still just considering that. (let me know what y'all think in the comments)

So knitting without pictures!

Last time I said something about the Jaywalkers being in time out... They are still there.. Did I mention that they got throw clear across the room on the way to time out?

I've done three mitered squares for Mrs. E's baby blanket. Why is it whenever I make mitered squares they turn out more.. trapezoid-ish? I just hope when I put them together that they turn out ok... I think I'll do four, sew then together, and wash 'em and see if they fix themselves (or are fixable) if not I'll regroup with the whole thing. I'm making the pattern up as I go along anyway, so it shouldn't be hard.

And again, I haven't touched anything else.

I know that music playing annoys some people, but I'm working on putting up Christmas music.
It's the Elmo and Patsy "Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer" CD.

Also since on some computer monitors the black background is hard to see, I'm testing some new color combos on the other blog. (I don't think I've mentioned before that I started a blog about a year ago, but didn't like the name and gave it up. I still have it, but its not viewable. I'm glad I kept it now, for testing things like this on it comes in handy!)

And one last thing. I got the final (I'm pretty sure its the final) volume of the Utawarerumono anime! *happy dance*

I actually forgot to tilte this one...

I haven't posted since Evil, and I really dont have much to say.

Since my camera is still missing, I've been using mom's old one. Its old and it's a peice of junk. (sorry mom but it is) Yeah, I did appreciate my good camera before it got lost. I had been using mom's and I loved the upgrade.. I just want my camera back! *pouts*

Also my Jaywalker is misbehaving, and I have tried to turn the heel a million times, and it still wont cooperate. So it's gonna go in time out for a little while.

I really haven't touched my other projects. I need to start the baby blanket for Mrs. Etherige, and I need to start the only knitted Christmas present I'm gonna give, Sara, because she wants to learn how to knit and will eventually understand the work (and I'm gonna sound like a granny now) love, that goes into hand knit gifts. (no more information than that though, because the Sara sometimes reads the blog, and we wouldn't want to ruin Christmas!)

And now I'm just avoiding the school work that I should be doing right now. I need to read Great Expectations, and put together an oral report on Cystic Fibrosis for health.