Catch up

Lazy blogger, originally uploaded by Wileycomma.

Here's what I've been up to.

Mini Mitten Ornaments for gifts. And a crocheted sock yarn blanket.

I think I've gone crazy. Crochet is helping with my dexterity now. I can knit Continental now, too.

In other words, I have one more week of classes and two more days of finals and then I get to go home again. My first semester of college went by really fast. Is it always like this? Probably not, right? I've had a great time. I haven't made too many new friends, but I get along really well with my roommate and her boyfriend, and I've got several people from high school here. I am happy to say that I've gotten a bit better at talking to new people though. I've always been a shy person and I'm still shy. I sometimes struggle with being around new people and old friends at the same time. For example, when my best friend's friends visit, and I don't know them very well or at all, then I'd just rather leave. I'm really working on becoming more adult about it, but as with most things, it's going to take some time. End of semester wrap up? It's been nice.

Lou.

Lou., originally uploaded by Wileycomma.

You will be missed Fluffy Bun. I hope you're romping around in a field of yummy grasses. I'm glad you were with really good people for the last couple weeks.

More to come!

My dorm, originally uploaded by Wileycomma.

Left, me. Right, Roomie. Camera is back and working.

Hum drum

Here I am at school just waiting for my camera to arrive. When that will be, who knows...I have lots of stuff to show and tell you.

Coming soon

A WIP post in which I recount and make excuses for my knitting basket. Also you get to see the yarn that I've accumulated in the past month.

Oh, and I have a new interest -- Dyeing.

Summer Schedule

June 23-30: Colorado
June 31: Fly to Florida
July 1-5: Florida with Cameron's family
July 6-18: Home
July 19-26: Up by Manistee, Michigan with Cameron's family
July 27-August 21: Fit in two week England trip with my grandma and time to pack for college.
August 22: Leave for Michigan Tech (ten hour drive)
August 23: Move-in day
August 26: My eighteenth birthday
September 2: Classes start

Holy smokes. Busy.

Oops

Senioritis + Prom + AP Tests + Boyfriend + Tennis = Lack of knitting and posting

Just thought you should know

All the knitting is finished on my Tangled Yoke. I'm going to bed now. I have school in the morning.

Dark at five thirty

Crappy lighting at five. I can't ever find the time right after school to take photos of my knitting! My Lady E is half way finished and I've started the Juno Regina from the most recent Knitty Surprise. That is being knit out of some of my own handspun. Once I can get decent photos, I'll give more details.

I get to go to the Trans Siberian Orchestra this Saturday in Grand Rapids. Oh, boy! I can't wait, but I need to buy some dress pants by tomorrow. Then, the next Saturday, is my Spinner's Flock meeting, which I will finally be able to go to, and that evening is my high school's winter formal, Snowball. I've already got my dress, so that's one less thing I need to do.

Chippy

I sit here and spin while watching Casper. It's such a nice day. I woke up to snow on the trees, which has since melted, and it is a wonderful day for lounging about. Today almost seems like a day when I might actually want to clean my room. I am in a wonderful mood. Yesterday was great. I got to spend nearly a whole day with Shannon and Emily. It's great to be able to talk knitty and spinny in person.

Yay, bloggy friends!

They're there, I promise.

They're there., originally uploaded by Fletch Knits.

Sea-monkeys, I mean. They're fun.

I'm such a dork.

I've been spinning. Wow, it feels great.

October is almost over.

I finished the baby socks, but I didn't get a picture of the finished pair. Just imagine the single sock times two. I haven't knit on the sweater in over a week, I think. I haven't spun anything. I haven't done much really, with school and Cameron. I've also been really lazy about taking and uploading pictures to flickr.

Tonight is my town's Halloween Parade, and Cameron is in that. Maybe I'll get a couple pictures. All the band members will be in a costume, which is always fun to watch. And one of my best friends, Danny, always makes his own costumes; last year, he was Bender from Futurama. I don't have a costume yet. Maybe I'll just hand out candy with Cameron at his house, since fewer than ten people ever come down my street.

Tangled Yoke!

I bought yarn for a Tangled Yoke Cardigan from the latest Interweave Knits (Fall '07). I've already swatched and cast on for it, and I love the garter rib like I never thought I could. Just a quick update, I should have pictures tomorrow when it's light out. Right now, my rose quartz coloured yarn looks like taffy purple in the artificial light.

100 things

It's taken me a while to actually get in the mood to write one of these, but I like to read them on other peoples' blogs, so here you are.


1. I am the oldest of three.
2. My sister is nearly two years younger than me.
3. And my brother is nearly five years younger.
4. I'm a senior in high school.
5. I don't know what I want to do with my life.
6. And that scares me.
7. Actually, that doesn't scare me.
8. Not being finacially stable scares me.
9. I have the most wonderful boyfriend.
10. If things don't get messed up when college starts, I'm sure we'll be married.
11. I have a lot of books.
12. I haven't read at least a quarter of them, and that makes me sad.
13. Ever since I started knittng, reading has taken a back seat.
14. Knitting makes me feel better.
15. I'm definately a process knitter.
16. I hardly finish anything I start.
17. So, when I do, I feel pretty good, even though all I care about is having the yarn and needles in my hands.
18. I have a lilac French Angora rabbit named Louis.
19. I mostly call him Lou.
20. I also have a green and yellow parakeet.
21. His name is Kirk.
22. After Kirk, a character in Gilmore Girls, who Bird Kirk acts just like.
23. I started really knitting in September 2005.
24. I learned how to knit when I was eleven.
25. But put it away because I was eleven.
26. I'm so glad I found it when I was fifteen.
27. Thanks to knitting blogs, I was introduced to spinning.
28. I bought a spindle after I had been knitting for about a year.
29. It was from ebay.
30. About five months after that, I took three hundred dollars out of my bank account to help pay for half of my Louet Victoria.
31. I love it.
32. It was a good investment.
33. This is what I'm afraid of.
34. Not having enough money to pay for my hobby.
35. I like going to see plays on stage.
36. My parents took me to see The Music Man, Fiddler on the Roof, Les Miserables, and a few other plays before I was ten years old.
37. For my tenth birthday, I asked to go to Toronto, Cananda, to watch The Phantom of the Opera.
28. We went.
29. I still remember a lot of that trip.
30. I've been to Toronto once since then.
31. It was with my school band and choir.
32. I play trumpet.
33. I'm not very good.
34. I don't practice at home, even though I have a second trumpet to practice with.
35. When we went on the band trip, about half of us saw Wicked.
36. It didn't appeal to me, so I didn't spend the extra seventy five dollars to see it.
37. I don't regret it.
38. Because last April, on my last band trip, I got to see Les Miserables on Broadway in New York City.
39. That was amazing.
40. I've been hiking in Alaska.
41. I went with a group from school.
42. There were about sixty people who went.
43. Every one got along very well.
44. We hiked Crow Pass, and I can't wait to go back.
45. I've also been to Yellowstone with the same group.
46. I've had such a fantastic life.
47. Which is why I feel so badly when I complain about life at home.
48. My parents have let a twenty one year old wash up live with us for this last year.
49. I don't like her, but I tolerate her.
50. My brother hates her.
51. Yet, my parents don't realize that it's another thing to tear our family apart.
52. I asked my parents to have her out before my birthday (didn't happen) so I could have my senior year.
53. This is going to be hard.
54. To me, it seems like my parents don't care what this situation is doing to my brother and me.
55. But I've got my best friend to help me get through it.
56. I have no idea what's going to happen to us once we go to college.
57. You see, she's amazing at volleyball.
58. All schools want her. She's very smart too.
59. She's been accepted at West Point already.
60. I'll probably stay in Michigan.
61. Shoot, a couple of those weren't about me.
62. I haven't even applied to a college yet.
63. I'm thinking about Central Michigan University.
64. Mostly because it's closer to Michigan Tech.
65. Which is where my boyfriend has applied.
66. He's also applied to University of Oklahoma, which is where a lot of his family is from.
67. My decision will probably be determinded by where he or Kristy (the best friend) goes.
68. It won't matter.
69. I don't know what I want to major in either.
70. Most likely, I'll stay in-state because it's less expensive.
71. And then I will feel guilty because my grandmother expects more of me.
72. Growing up is hard.
73. How do you do it?
74. I collect coffee mugs from places I've been to.
75. I didn't get one from my Alaska trip.
76. I didn't have any spending money.
77. I only took food money, which was dumb because food is way more expensive up there.
78. I like to people watch.
79. Listening to peoples' conversations makes me think.
80. I hardly like to take part, though.
81. I used to like to listen to my parents and their friends talk late at night, but I'd always get sent to bed.
82. I hated that.
83. Now, I guess I'm old enough to listen to them.
84. Their conversations aren't as stimulating anymore.
85. I prefer to listen to my friends parents talk.
86. I don't intend to be mean, but my parents didn't go to college, and my friends' parents have.
87. I don't know if that has anything to do with their conversations, but it might.
88. My father owns a wrecker service.
89. Some might know that as a towing service.
90. My grandpa started it; he went to school for business.
91. My dad wasn't one for school.
92. My mom works at our hospital.
93. She answers phones and prints out charts. She's done it for about as long as I've been alive.
94. I'm very insecure.
95. A little about my body, but mostly about my intelligence and abilities.
96. I never think I'm good enough in school.
97. That is because I don't try.
98. I hate that I'm lazy and procrastinate.
99. Yet, I haven't been able to change it since fourth grade.
100. I appear a lot more together than I really am.

Clean room!

Clean room!, originally uploaded by Fletch Knits.

My best friend came over and we cleaned. For four and a half hours. Which meant I got my computer back. My mom had taken my laptop away because my room was an utter mess like it had been for months, but she was in a mood...Anyway, clean room equals computer returned. Yay! =]

Agri-Environmental Wilderness Expedition (AEWE)

Alaska was so much fun. We flew from Detroit to Atlanta then up to Anchorage (Wednesday). Airplane food is crap, but we got to watch Wild Hogs, which was funny. Once we got up to Anchorage at 2 AM Michigan time, 10 PM Alaska time, we got vans and went to Centennial Park and stayed the night. Woke up the next morning (Friday) to go to the bathroom and a fox crossed my path. When we were tearing down camp, we saw a black bear hanging out around the campground. There was also a young moose. We drove for about three and a half hours to Seward and we set up camp at the Seward Military Base. They have nice showers and bathroom facilities. We went on an amazing dinner cruise through the Kenai Fjords (pronounced Keen-eye). We had some really good salmon on board. I would totally suggest going on the cruise. Then on Friday, we went to the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge and saw a year old moose calf. We did something else, but I can't remember what. Then Saturday morning, the groups separated and found our trail heads. We hiked Crow Pass from the Girdwood side. The first three miles were all up. The whole trail was 27 miles of beautiful. There were a few spots where I didn't think I'd be able to go much farther but a couple of my leaders were awesome and helped me realized that, heck, I only get to do this once, might as well do it right and finish. So, I carried my pack the whole way this year, and it felt great. We spent two nights on the trail. We finished early and then hung around Anchorage for a day, went shopping, which sucked because I only brought food money. It was still fun hanging out with my group. Everyone got along so well. Everyone is freakin' hilarious too. One of my leaders is going to be my physics teacher next year. Can't wait. On the last day, when all anyone wanted to do was go home, we went on a tour of Elmendorf Airforce base. Oh, boy, was that exciting. "This is such and such building, the Airforce is awesome! This is yadda yadda plane. These are the benefits of the Airforce." The actual tour wasn't bad, but the lady just yelled the whole time. Then our flight out of Anchorage was delayed three hours, and everyone got split up between three different flights, but we all made it home safely. I think we're going to Colorado next year.

Hello!

Wow, I've been away for quite a while. School has been overwhelming, but it's almost over. Three more weeks! I have a job now, too. I work in a greenhouse. It's nice. Once summer is here, I'm sure I'll be able to post more often. Just letting everyone know that I haven't abandoned my blog. All three of you. Haha.

Hiatus

What does love feel like? Like, non-familial.

I've been in such a high state of elation that I can't stop saying it to everyone. I'm just so happy. I hope I can feel like this for a long time.

I've also noticed that everyone has been crocheting(!) granny squares. I have to admit, I've done it too, even though I don't like crochet that much. I would take a picture, but I'm pretty sure my lovely camera got accidentally thrown away. But, frankly, I don't care right now. I just don't.

I started Eunny's Entrelac socks from the most recent IK. I've only been working on them during TLC's show about giving kids cameras (can't remember the name) and Little People, Big World on Monday nights. It's pretty relaxing. Again, no picture because of the afore mentioned loss of camera.

G'Night, Internets.

And I think I'm only going to be blogging very seldom. I just don't have much to say and with no pictures, this is a very boring blog.

Absence.

Yeah, long absence, I know. I've been ill for the last few days. First it was a stuffy nose, then runny nose. Then my throat was sore. I was achy. My throat got worse. I've lost my voice. But all in all, I feel a whole heck of a lot better. Still not one hundred percent, but better.

In the Good News department, I've half way got a new Louet Victoria. I went to the Spinner's Flock meeting yesterday, and I convinced my mom to buy it for me. She didn't have her checkbook, so we're mailing a payment tomorrow. I have to pay for half, but I don't care. Especially because I'm getting it for almost one hundred dollars cheaper.

In the Bad News department, a very well known and very loved senior was killed in a car accident last Wednesday. Jeri Holt was on her way to school and the country roads were slippery. She was turning a corner at the same time as an empty school bus was going the opposite way. Her car somehow slid into the other lane and clipped the bus. She was pronounced dead on scene. One of the worst parts was that her mom happened upon the crash on her way to work and her dad is on the police force and he was a first responder to the accident.
Now, I didn't know Jeri very well, but she was in my math class and she was a very nice person every time I had the chance to talk to her.
I'm starting to think that something bad will continue to happen to people on the seventh day of every few months to people in my math class. A classmate's father died in a plane crash on December 7 last year.

I just want to let everyone know that I have not abandoned my blog, I've just had some more important things to deal with recently. And for the longest time, I couldn't knit. It was a horrible time.

I've got the blues.

I'm in a funk. I haven't knit a stitch for days. I really don't know why I'm not in the mood, other than boy troubles. I want to knit! I just can't. Also, I've had this blog for a year now. I'll be impressed if I make it to five.