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

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*

Things I need to do over Thanksgiving break

Lets see...

I started Snowflake Fingerless gloves I want to keep working on them...

I need to cast on the baby blanket Mrs. Ethridge is paying me to knit...

I ought to work on Twee and the jaywalkers and the other unfinished/barely started projects.

I have been meaning to draw a nerdy anime girl for my profile pic. Not that I don't like her, I just want one of my own...

I also should work up some sort of idea about how I'm gonna tutor Lindsey, where to start, and things like that...

and read on Inkheart.

I know for sure that isn't it, but I really can't think of anything else..... and probably all I'll get done is knit. And probably just on the snowflakes too.... *sigh* Mom gets to help remind me to do things besides that this week! *nodnod*

Knitting

Jaywalkers




I finished one of my Jaywalkers. I was worried that I wouldn't have enough yarn, because my Mississippi yarn only has 460 yards (both skeins together), and the patern calls for 465. But I finished one with yarn to spare so I will have enough! Yays! Unfortunatly I have come down with a sever case of SSS. I think I'm just momentarily bored with the pattern.




Twee






I finally casted Twee on! I LOVE it! It's so cute!
I think my yarn might be to fuzzy to really show off the patern though. But it's SO soft!







Anastasia Socks




Yeah... haven't started them yet... I did decide to go with the purple for them. Everyone I asked voted purple... I think they'll be pretty.

Well... I balled the yarn at least...








Mom's Prayer Shawl




She is making it for one of her patiants at work. I think she is almost done!
Its pretty. And really (0.o) REALLY soft.









Shorties



Did I ever post pictures of my shorties? No? Well, her it is!

(HA! Just try and laugh at that pwnsome hand modeling Jesse! HAH!)

Only Slightly.... Sick?

Yes, I was (and still have the cough to prove it). That is why there have been no new posts, Mom even told the doctor Friday "You know they're sick when the teenagers goes to bed at 7:30 and doesn't touch the computer for 3 days!" but I have done so much knitting while I have been sick that I actually have a callous on my finger! Not even exaggerating. Its there, I'm just to lazy to take a picture right now. So, because of the "Cold from Hell" this post will be extra long to make up for having done absolutely nothing for days (and it may be days before I post what I am typing now because I'm doing this while working on the 10,000 lbs of make-up work I'm doing).

First up! Knitting!

Well the sock was giving me problems

Even after I saved it from Bella!

but when I got sick and knitting was all I had to do it decided to behave.. (I think it was attention deprived)

And here we go, now that its behaving (and why do I no have any pictures of all of what I have done so far?)

Anime!! *whoot!*




I gots a BLEACH poster! (yes my wall is green!) This is a huge deal for me cause I don't have a chance to buy a lot of stuff....


I have been watching The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, but disk 3 seems to be "back ordered" on netflix.... (IF YOU HAVE IT HURRY AND FINISH!!) and I found out that even though Utawarerumono disk 3 is doing that weird "save" thing... You can watch it on your computer... so I did and should be getting disk 4 on Wednesday... (yay maybe I can finally finish it! yay for ElluluXHakuro!! ahem...sorry... couldn't help it...) And I have started watching Death Note since it comes on Adult Swim now... I know I always said I didn't want to watch it (the opening creeps me out) but, I give in... it rock.... and Oh! what I would give for a Death Note of my very own!



Family Fest! *gag*






What was my mother thinking? She knows I don't like little kids. She has already even accepted the fact that it is very likely she will never have grandchildren! Why, oh why, did she sign me up to work the space jump at the Church's hopefully-never-to-be-annual Family Fest?

(Blogger got me again I accidentally deleted the picture of the little boy at the Fest and it wont let me reload it... so imagine a cute little boy next to a space jump here is the text that went with it that now goes with that mental image)

This little dude? Yeah, he is one of the many reasons I avoid contact with people under 10 years of age (except of course for "OMG YOUR SO CUTE!!" to a little baby) This little guy had an unhealthy crush on me.... He kept bringing me "gifts". Some pine straw, an empty coke can, a leaf, a shoe.... (no joke) and he didn't want to go in the space jump. He wanted to crawl in, and slide out. Also he enjoyed jumping on the inflated entrance to the space jump and hopping down it. As much as I...dislike kids I couldn't let him jump off and kill himself, so I had to catch him... once he figured that out, he did it again... and again... "bounce, bounce, CATCH ME!" course he didn't say that, he never said anything.... but *shudders* NEVER having kids!




School

is evil. nuff said.


Ok well I have been sick and all the teachers (except Coach Kelly! luv ya man!) kept saying things like (nastily by the way) "Well if you don't have it today you better have it tomorrow!"
*coughcough* even tough it clearly states in the handbook that all students have the same number of days missed to turn in make up work.*coughcough* (I should wait till Wednesday to turn it in just on principle! I'm just sayin is all....)

But THANK YOU COACH KELLY! He is the only teacher that said something like "I know you have a lot of makeup work, just get it to me sometime this week." and that was with a test too! He got a lot of teacher-of-the-year points for that one! and yes... right now I am avoiding that makeup work...

Also.... Great Expectations....we happen to be reading this...And I happen to speak English....This is like...the best way I can put it.. like, My Fair Lady time period, ghetto British... I am not getting a word of it...I did ok with Pride and Prejudice, but this is just weird... I am a good student, so I have only one question....

Can I rent the movie?!


One last thing. YAY KAITI GOT A NEW COMPUTER!!!! I missed IMing you girl!

I've Got A Lovely Bunch Of Coconuts....

Yes well, heh, about that... Over the past 3 days I have gotten maybe three hours of sleep. By the end of today, the third day, I was silly with tiredness. Walking out of school I start randomly singing the "I've got a lovely bunch of coconuts...." song. Now there are several people who swear they have no idea who I am.

*sigh*
Before I can go to sleep I need to finish this lab report. Obviously my telekenetic powers need some work, because it doesn't seem to be writing itself. It's my own daggum fault. I knew about this lab report weeks ago. Its due tomorrow. I have coversheet, and one paragraph. And today in science when everyone went to the library and worked on it, being the genius I am I decided that no, I did not want to do a lab report. No, I want to make oragami. Maybe if I had had sleep, and was not being supported by coffee, then I might have though "oh crap, I really should work on this." But no, folding paper cranes is much more important, dont cha think?

Idiot.

So all I am doing not is the same thing. Avoiding work. This is why I identify so much with Shikamaru Nara. We are both very smart, just lazy and unmotivated.

So in the spirit of avoiding work, I will tell you all about what has * been happening.

*between those two words I went to help my mother get started on a prayer shall for a cancer patient of hers. The yarn is extremely fuzzy and is giving her fits. She hates me cause it didnt give me problems when I helped. She must have forgotten that I learned to knit with fuzzy yarn similar to that. (I will post pictures)

hmmm... about anime.... Let's see... Well I started watching The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya It is halarious. Normally I am not a fan of constantly funny slightly perverted shows (ex. Nerima Daikon Brothers, Ninja Nonsense, Excel Saga ect.) but this was great! Also it wasn't stupid funny like those shows I mentioned. With the first episode I started going "WTF?!" but once I realized what was happening, I nearly died! Oh! I just can't wait to get the next disk! But my next Netflix is going to be Full Metal Alchemist vol. 1 I am going to get my mother to watch some anime if it kills me! (and it just might!)

I started a Jaywalker sock. I little while into it I decided it was too big and I needed to rip it out and start tighter, which I havent done yet.

And I am still tired, now I'm hungry, and no closer to finishing my lab report.

Crudballs!