Stuff and Knitting

Stuff

I haven't actually posted anything to this or twitter for a year or so... I think I tend to post more when something is happening, like a vacation, or when something bad happens, but I haven't had any bad stuff for the most part.

I started hanging out with a guy, and he ended up asking me out, and we've been happily dating for nearly a year. That's all I feel like saying. Oh, and he's awesome. <3

What was I gonna say...? I got lost in lala land. Oh. Right. School sucks, still. I was originally gonna take Spanish I, a math class, yoga, and a computer class. My mom was planning on taking all but the computer one with me, but there wasn't enough money for all of them, so no math class. Then, my mom got a knee injury going up the stairs to our Spanish class, and tried to go to yoga once. The teacher had originally said just do what you can, and don't worry about it. My mom talks to her about her knee, and suddenly the teacher is telling her that she has to do certain things, or else it'll count against her. We dropped it. I felt like it was hurting my joints more than it was helping, and not worth my time anyway. My computer teacher isn't very good at being a teacher. His syllabus just lists the dates with 'lecture/classwork' all the way down, and doesn't say much beyond the required things, and he pretty much just reads from his slides and tells us to do activities from what we have of the book. The publisher just got the hard copies out for sale within the last week. We got the first four chapters in paper form, and the first eight chapters in pdf form, but it still seems stupid to spend a hundred dollars on a book we'll only be using for half the semester.

I play Vindictus now. Yay. :D It is awesome. You should play it too. And the game it's a prequel to, Mabinogi. (Dungeon Fighter Online is pretty nifty too.) </video game plugs>

I think my aversion to putting personal things on my personal blog makes it boring, sorry. :|

What should I talk about...?

Knitting

I finally finished my scarf at 24.5", just long enough to get around the neck and overlap a bit. I apparently have been purling the wrong way, so all of my purl stitches are twisted. At least I was consistent throughout the entire thing. I wasn't sure what to do with it when I was done, because I don't like the colors, and they don't match anything my boyfriend wears (black, white, and red, that's it), but my mom looked at it yesterday and adores it.

I got the yarn for my Chiyo-chichi that I'm going to make for mike eventually from the shop near me. I kinda feel like the lady purposely steered me towards the stuff with acrylic, and she told me 'that's wool, you can't wash it' when I went over to look at the cascade 220, like I couldn't possibly want to felt it on purpose or figure out how to wash wool. I decided to get the superwash version anyway though, it was a better color and I don't plan on felting him. Besides the steering and useless advice, she and the other ladies there seemed friendly. Maybe I just came off like I didn't know anything because I was nervous and asked her opinion on which kind to get.

Afterwards I went to Joannes and got four balls of acrylic (does this make me sound weird after saying I didn't want acrylic the last time...?) for some unknown project and duplicating my purse.

I started to make a triforce wristband, also for Mike, but I think I might frog it because of my twisted purls. It might be part of why it was curling so much, but it could just be the stockinette, and I'm just not used to it.

Also frogged my sisakat doll. She's based off of my character from Mabinogi. I was crocheting it in such a way that I ended up finding it really ugly and went from mostly done, to not done at all. I think I'll work on this next, it seemed to go quickly before. Then I can start making her itty-bitty bolero & jumper suit. And broad-brimmed feather hat. I still have to find the right yarn...

I had to get rid of tags on my post. :| Meanies.

Of Mabinogi and Plying Yarn

Mabinogi is having an event where you post this somewhere and tell 'em then hope you win.  So here's my random plug:

I've thought about posting what I'm doing in mabi, but I either forget, don't feel like posting, or think 'no one wants to read about that'.  Am I right or would that actually be interesting?  Probably not, running ciar beginner over and over is rather boring.

I finally finished spinning all but two ounces of my white wool.  I decided to ply it yesterday.  Plying is where after you spin it into a string (it doesn't like this at all) you take multiple spun strings or each end of the one you spun (I did the later) and spin them the opposite direction so they wrap around each other and don't keep trying to undo them selves.  To get at the beginning of it I wound it onto something else, part of a cardboard tube, then slid it off. (I almost couldn't)  I was told that it'd be bad if I let implode, so I used my thumb to stop it. It tried to take off my thumb by cutting off my circulation in return.  ._.  Kinda scary, I tried using something else (a sharpie) to stop it, but that fell out.  ><  It turned out not to mean total -doom- but I did end up with a lot of knots to figure out, with it trying to twist on itself the whole time.  I was refering to it with various phrases that tended to include 'gordian knot' (I heard this somewhere and it stuck with me) and 'snarled mass'.

Hmm... anything else... School is actually going well this semester.  I still need to come up with two topics for the web site project for Intro to Web Systems.  I already have an idea of what I could/probably will use, but I kinda wanted to come up with something I haven't done before, but that would still be possible.  Oh well, whatever.

Woo!  I get to go to a fiber store tomorrow! (Today)   I need to go to sleep... Maybe after an episode of Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann...  (Squee~ <3)