self,

Dear Self,

I know, I know.

You are terrible at staying with one project at a time.

See, you just got yarn to make that thing for your brother (Edward and Alphonse Elric) for which he's paying you for, too, by the way.

But all you really wanna do is make that new Emmaline pattern in the new Knitty, right?

I know, I know.

You're even looking up the yarn to make it with.

And you're right- Comfy bulky KnitPicks yarn is probably perfect, seeing as it's cotton and acrylic and it's a summer shirt and it's a pretty good price for yarn.

BUT SELF, PLEASE.

THINK ABOUT THIS.

If you make those two amis for your brother- you will then have the money to buy the yarn! Good God, girl. Please. Do the damn cute things and then make the friggin' shirt.

And yes, be excited, it's your first garment. :D

So, please. Be patient. Make Edward and Alphonse, get money, buy yarn. Make the shirt.

--Love,

SELF.

really frigging bored

It is cold enough for long sleeves and sweatervests. I like sweatervests. Mhmm, warm.
Today after school I walked down to St. Vinnie's. Bought a book by Al Franken on how evil Republicans are. Yay. And at Jo-Ann's I bought some natural-colord Paton's wool COS IT IS DYEING TIME. I HAVE RESISTED THE URGE FOR TOO LONG. And I bought some lime-green soft acrylic stuff that was on SALE and some size 7 dpns because a) i has no size 7 dpns b) i think I will make some armwarmers so I need some dpns and c) i had a coupon I needed to use so, yah, dpns. Instead of saying, dee-pee-enns, I have taken to pronouncing the letters, so it sounds like 'duhpins.' Yeah so I'm bored. And at teh grocery store I bought Grape KoolAid, for dyeing, at the ridiculous high price of 3/1.00. srsly. and some chicken strips, for Secret Dinner. Hello Secret Dinner. MWAHAH.

I keep getting distracted..I need to start by Doctor Who scarf what yarn cost sooo much, and then get to work on the little Beatles amigurumi I want to do. Using this pattern to make the bodies, then embellishing and whatnot afterwards. And I haven't decided what costumes yet. Like Ed Sullivan suits, all boring and grey and hair cuts, or Sgt. Pepper with the colors and the telling-them-apart and facial hair? I look forward, not, to stitching all that hair.Ah well. Mhm. Anyway..

the army navy store carries body bags

I know, right. Is weird.
BUT my father DID buy me boots from the Army Navy Surplus store. They are combat boots. Or, ah, Rothco Jungle Boots and they were the cheapest boots there but STIIILL. I has boots. They are badass. I love them. They need good insoles.

School in two days. ;( SAD FACE AJ.

I got my yarn for DW scarf in the mail, did I mention this? It is gorgeous. Unfortunetly, it is all in hanks and I have no ball-winder so I will have to do it all by hand. It's like 8 skeins. Grr. And my needles from Knitpicks haven't come yet. But my belts and Bowie button did. Haven't tried belts on yet (cos they're at mom's). Little Bowie button is adorab. Ooh it's little David Bowie, I said when I got it. Look at little Bowie. Belts are thinner then I expected. Hmm, thinner, I mean in width, not in like fabric-wise. If they fit well I'll order more from the site, they're quite neat. Skinnier, is what I mean.

Gah, and I ordered that 80gb iPod from the other night. Say I tell someone. 'Oh btw Mom i ordered an iPod.' 'oh really?' 'yeah it's 80gb.' 'WHAT EIGHTY?' 'yeah but see here it's actually a bit cheaper then the 8gb nano I was eyeing, seee?' 'oh alright.' So I've got that in the mail and, ah, shirt from unetee and teextile and shirt.woot. Too many shirts? NO SUCH A THING. BLASPHEMY. If Shirt.woot has randoms anytime soon I will be buying 3. Or if Teefury, too. I have not enough Teefury shirts.

What the hell Hulu. I am loading an epi of Buffy and one of Psych and they're not LOADING.

So I am going to knit socks, y'know, got a book and everything. I need uhm. Needles. For socks. Yeahh. I have yarn. Got to get needles. I'll be doing the easiest thing imaginable- Doctor Who scarf, aka garter stitch and color changing, to the hardest (or I think it is, my skill level-wise) - SOCKS.

I am bored and it seems like it should be later in the evening, prolly cos of sleeping schedule is off but I give no damns at all. hnn.

Mhm, something a bit weird happened to me today. So I wandered into St. Vinnie's, which is nextdoor to the Goodwill (across the river, anyway) and I went in to look for pants for Blake (for job interview) but I ended up buying Spider-Man shoelaces (which is a weird thing, really, because my freshman year of high school I wore Cons with Spider-Man shoelaces). Anyway. They said '80 cents' on it but they guy (cute cashier boy) only charged me 68 cents. And, he complimented my shirt. Huh. I'm checking the reciept and it says '20 % discount'. There might have been some sort of sale..

i ought to collect buttons

Random. But I really do. Think that'd be fun.
You know what sucks? going to school, like, all day. Usually I fall asleep in 2nd or 3rd hour, if I do show up more or less on time. I've been trying to come more or less on time, lately. Then the school won't call my mom with the recorded message. "Your son or daughter has been absent for one or more classes today..."
Bought some yarn. For a hat. I've been aching for a hat. It's blue with leftover bits I can do the blue bits on Optimus Prime. I've got the red, white, grey, and black. Now all I have to do is get around to doing it...
That, and Bender. And I wanna get the Creepy Cute Crochet book for the Cthulu pattern, easily made into a Zoidberg.

Angry last night about Prez Obama pre-empting A.Idol.

oww

My shawl type thing is going well, it's actually looking like a shawl,'cept it's a shrug/capulet thing. Cold Shoulders from the Happy Hooker book. No, it's looking good, hope I have enough for the collar and pompoms (bah, pompoms...)
Oy, I got milk yarn from Mary today. It's super pretty blue and soft, kinda feels like cotton. MIIILK. It's made of MILK. Well, milk proteins, actually. I'm gonna make some sort of cowl/miniscarf/neckwarmer out of it.
Sometimes I verb things that shouldn't be verbed
and all of sudden i am in excruciating pain as i write this ohdeargod whatthehhell is happening to me..my jaw my back my ribs holy shitt gah..
alright it's fading but i'm gonna go lay down and finish the shawl and wind the milk yarn...
night.

here we go

Yay, Saturday. (subyay: at my mom's.)
Grades came in the mail yesterday, but I hid them, and they shall remain hidden until Monday. I don't want an F in history ruining my weekend. I'm trying to convince Mom we should go to Moscow (not Russia, but a little college town nearby), because Mom has a Bed Bath and Beyond gift card and also, Moscow has a Micheal's and I wanna look at yarrrn. I didn't tell her that bit, though. Bah. Wait, I wonder if Micheal's is still there, even. Huh. I don't think she's going for it, though,'cuz tomorrow's the Super Bowl and she's going to a party maybe. Man, fricking super bowl...
Blake thinks the USA Network has a thing for the Miami Dolphins (his football team; weird because we're in Washington and Florida is aaaall the way over there). I'm agreeing with him, some of it. Anyway, here's the evidence: Burn Notice, Thursday Night: Sam Axe says something to Micheal Weston about "getting tickets to the Dolphins game". Monk, Friday Night: one of the fake teams is called the "Wildcats" and the Wildcat is a popular Dolphins play or move or something (he tried to explain this to me but I'm no good with sports) (suddenly, my wrists are in a fuck of a lot of pain, but I'll try to finish this.) And Psych, Friday Night: Juliet says she once dated a Miami Dolphin.
Ack, I better go.

wooer

nothing eventful happened today 'cept my best librarian buddy mary came back to work (yayy!) and we chatted and she was gone 'cuz her dad got hurt (her 85 year old father who had an ipods and 438 podcasts and gets a new computer everyear. bad. ass.) and then we shopped online for yarn, looking at all the weird ones like corn yarn, milk yarn, yarn with silver in it, yarn with jadeite in it, banana yarn, yak yarn, bufallo yarn. anyway, she bought me some milk yarn! which looks crazy soft and pretty. maybe i'll make myself a scarf, even though my distaste for making scarves in widely known throughout the land. and we organized a crochet/knit group for the library- hooks and sticks. unlike the lewiston city library's 'sit and knit'. very passive, we agreed, not as cool as hooks and sticks. whoot.
school was...well, i was on time. and i still didn't do those questions. and margo, who sits in front of me in history and sometimes gives me candy (margoooo i love youuu) wasn't here today so i couldn't hide behind her and read all hour. mr. hoffmann saw me reading and just stood next to me for about a minute before i was all, hey what up? and he peer-pressured me into putting the book away.
one of my former teachers, mrs frazier, who's on my facebook, saw that i had put 'aj is crocheting socks' onto my facebook and said if she were me she wouldn't admit that. grr, mrs. frazier.
working on my shawl/stole thing, looks nicey but weird shape right now and...gonna try some mittens tomarrow, and retry socks with dif. yarn and hook.

hullo

Hey.
Today I bought 11 oz of Sensations Rainbow Classic Yarn. It was on sale. They were out of Lion Brand Wool-Ease I need for Anarchy Irony Hat. Suuucks. Uh, eh...the yarn, yeah, I'm gonna make a sweater/jacket/cardigan thing? from the Happy Hooker book. So it's got a shell thing going and I hope I'm doing it right.
Eh...it's a lot of yarn. Like, small watermelon ---
OH! I think I've got a Local Yarn Store! Good lord. I was pretty sure we have/had a quilting store in downtown (quick note: small town. "downtown" is main street. about 3 blocks of downtown.) and for some reason I was thinking it might sell yarn -like those two things are, like, the same?- and we drove past a store that said- Patrick's Crafts! It has hope. I'm gonna check it out tomarrow. Honestly, I live like half a block away (HOW AWESOME WOULD THAT BE IF IT SOLD YARNS!??! I am freaking out with excitement. I am going to be crushed when they do not)...We used to have something like...Quilt Shoppe. Or we still might. Dunno? For some reason, we also just got TWO new dog grooming places. In the same span of three blocks. Uh huh. And the antique store moved to a different store, a block down. Yeah. Wacky town.
I'm shaking so I better sit down and decide whether to watch House or Big Bang Theory/How I Met Your Mother. I'm leaning toward the latter.

i forgot now

so today I started to finish these wristwarmers I was making and okay, they're a bit too big, but i finished one and then began on the Anarchy Irony Hat from Happy Hooker-I had the yarn- and I figure now I'm gonna run out of black Lion Brand Wool-Ease, if that's what it even is, so I better...get some...
and then I played around with different stiches and stuff and now my shoulders hurt.
still moving shit. still sucks.
veryy cold. need that hat and some crocheted socks.

knitdiot

I tried at least, title-wise.
Today mom went to get her hair colored and since there's nothing to do here (except, of course, finish that scarf I HATE FLIPPING SCARFS) I decided to go with her. Not like it's super far away or anything. Yeah. So, anyway, she's getting her hair colored and I'm all there's nothing to doooo when I remembered that a few stores down there was a Jo-Ann's and at Jo-Ann's there was fricking yarn. Because all I need is more yarn. I wandered over there and debated on whether to buy yarn or not then went back to Mom and got her to give me some money. Honestly, I don't know how I did that. She never gives me money.
So I walk back, deciding on the pound of Caron yarn on sale for 5 bucks...or the pound of Sensations Rainbow Dot yarn for 6 bucks, then I look at patterns and there are few-to-none crochet ones so I'm all, Shit I wish I could knit. And then I figure, well why can't I? So I pick out a pair of knitting needles. I know nothing about knitting. (And little on crochet but I pretend to know a lot if my friends ask me.) I find some Red Heart For Kids! size 5.5 needles. They're YELLOW. Son of a bitch. Where could I go wrong with yellow knitting needles? NOWHERE. I was sick of not-knitting. I wanna make cool stuff from anticraft.com and this book, DomiKNITrix at the library. I figured on not buying yarn since I already have some and I can never decide on what yarn to buy. Jo-Ann's has a limited selection of yarn. But, oh, there's this dark grey Wool-Ease stuff- just one skein of it- that's been there for WEEKS and I just want to make it into a hat or a Dalek or somethiiing. Maybe next time.
Using my wonderrrful powers of charm and wit (read: guilt-tripping) I convinced my mom to guys a pizza from Papa Murphy's, even though usually I am disdainful of Papa Murphy's but it's the yummy 5 meat stuffed pizza that makes me happyyy.
Oh man am I sad I watched all of Quantum Leap already because I love Quantum Leap. The second season finale made my cryy like the girly girl I am not usually. Well, crying over an episode of an old sci-fi show starring Scott Bakula isn't very girly-girl. It had little to none Bakula in it, as it were, mostly it was about Al. Who's the best. And Sam, I reiterate, is something of a dumbass. More on that some other time.
If I find something on TV I will crochet like crazy, finish le scarf and eat pizzaa.