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School Update
School is finally over and I'm just beginning to catch up on my usual laziness. The school website is down so I can't find out what grades I got, but I'm sure I did well enough. Well enough for me at least. My dad won't be thrilled because I didn't get all A's, but whatever. At least it's OVER! I'm actually taking an online course through the community college over the summer, but it shouldn't be too big a deal.

Fun finals week story. So, I had two finals scheduled for 7:30 AM, one Monday and one Friday. (7:30 AM is an ungodly hour for a final to begin by the way) And one of them got pushed back to 8 (thank god!) because it wouldn't take the full time anyway. So I study Sunday night for a few minutes and show up Monday morning at a couple minutes to 8 with nothing but my notes for that class (for some quick cramming before the tests were passed out). And for some reason there's another class in the room. Uhh, did I miss something? Yeah, I call Jaime to check my Palm calendar and I've mixed up my 7:30 finals. I'm supposed to be in the middle of the other one, which is an open note test. Did I mention I had nothing with me?? So I cried and I drove back home and emailed the teacher begging to take it another time. Fortunately he let me, but I was completely terrified for the rest of the day until he got back with me. Yeah, my mind was soo not on finals, obviously.

Mom Update
My mom is doing pretty well. She made it through surgery all right and has only made me crazy a few times. The pathology reports said it was a recurrence of the sarcoma she had last time and she'll be starting chemo Friday, assuming they ever confirm the appointment. More than her annoying me, although like I said there have been moments, I've mostly been annoyed at doctors. We've spent so much time waiting for calls back and for appointments to be confirmed. I do realize that the nurses and doctors are very busy, but it gets frustrating. We actually went to a "Cancer Action" center yesterday and she picked out some scarves and a wig for when she needs them. She seems to be taking things pretty well right now. I'm just trying to prepare myself for whatever I may need to do to help her. I'm generally a patient person but she just gets to me for no reason, so I've been trying to work on that. Ahh, personal growth here I come.

Knitting Update
There still hasn't been a whole lot going on. When I get a chance to veg out I don't even have the energy to knit. I did manage to knit my mom a really nice washcloth for Mother's Day. And I finished up a child sized hat for Dulaan. Nothing terribly exciting. Oh, and I knit a bit more on my spiral scarf. Enough to finally conclude that me and Addi's don't mix well. Every pair I've had now the finish eventually starts wearing off. I'm thinking maybe it's like those people who can't wear a watch cause their chemistry makes the watch stop working. Something in my chemistry just erodes Addi needles. Yes, I am a freak :)

This doesn't relate to my knitting, but I just wanted to say a public thanks to my new friend Erica and her mom for knitting up a bunch of great things for Dulaan. Before winter break I mentioned on a knitting list on Facebook that I was knitting for Dulaan and that I'd be happy to send along stuff from anyone else who wanted to help. I am so glad that I decided to get the word out, Erica and her mom were awesome and put my donations to shame.

Random Stuff
*I've actually been reading a lot more lately. Hmmm, escapism much?? I just finished a great book by Jane Green. She is now one of my favorite fun authors. No, she probably won't change your life, but that's just fine.

*I totally owe you guys some pictures! I have a whole series from Polski Day with my dad. It seems like it was AGES ago. And I have a couple cute ones of my mom and I. And I might even get around to taking some pictures of my knitting eventually...

*This weekend is Memorial Day and therefore party weekend at Aunt Cathy's. It sounds like it'll be packed with random relatives this year, so it should be interesting. My family (and when I say family I refer to my dad's side) is unique and wonderful and beyond description. Gotta love em :)

Springtime...ish

Ahh, spring break. Not so much spring-like, but I'm enjoying a bit of chill. Better than getting to nearly 80 again. 65-70 is ideal, but 80 is just too freaking hot. Especially when the pools aren't open... Anyway, it is sooo nice to do nothing. Of course it's nearly over, have to go back Tuesday. So what have I been doing with my time?



That pretty much sums it up. I started a new scarf, Ruffles from Scarf Style using some of the yarn my SP got me. I had to buy a couple extra skeins, but no biggy. And yes, I am a bit behind on the trends, but are you really surprised? Considering I put my clapotis to the side AGAIN to work on this... I've been listening to my podcasts while knitting, especially when Jaime's watching crappy tv. LOVE LOVE LOVE my podcasts. I added all the ones I listen to to my sidebar (except Knitcast which bloglines doesn't see...) so check them out.

I've also been reading a book from the library, Knit One, Kill Two by Maggie Sefton. It's not amazing literature, but I'm enjoying it.

And finally you'll note some spinning. After months and months of not spinning I finally got up the courage to pick it back up. It was one of those things where I got really frustrated with it so didn't want to do it, and then when I was ready to try again I figured I'd forgotten everything. So guess my surprise when I went back to it a day or two ago and it went really really well. I don't really know what the difference is, but it's coming much easier to me now. Ok, so admittedly I still can't let it spin and draft at the same time, I spin it then stick it between my feet and draft, but I'm still making progress. I'm even hoping I might be able to knit something from this eventually. Something kinda funky and uneven, like the yarn, but something none the less.

It's Official

I'm officially the laziest person ever. I've done like nothing at all since I got done with finals. I guess I'm allowed a little time to relax. I finished my first sock. I love it tons! It isn't perfect, and for my next pair I'm going to find a different pattern. The toe doesn't look great and I'm still a little upset by the heel hole. But there will be another pair :)

I actually haven't really knit much the past couple days. Not today at all :o I've been reading a lot, which I'm really enjoying. I'm getting into Persuasion, though it took a few pages. The writing style is sorta hard to get used to; the sentences are so long with so many commas that sometimes I have to read a sentence twice to get straight what it means. Yeah, alright. I'm no literary genius; I'm really more of a math person. But I love to read so who cares! Anyway... Babyville is still really good. It is a nice change of pace from my other reading. I've also spent some quality time catching up on about 3 months of ignored Creating Keepsakes magazines. And now I have a huge itch to scrapbook. It doesn't help that we're stuck in this shoebox of an apartment and I barely have room to breath. And, They're having a CKU in KC, on my birthday!!! I've wanted to go to CKU for probably 3 years. But I never have money and don't like going places alone and Jaime doesn't have much interest in a scrapbooking convention thingy. This is so perfect. Now I must beg my parents for a trip to CKU for my b-day (of course I'd have to pay and sign-up June, but we won't mention that). I MUST GO!!!!

Nothing Much

new here. I keep thinking about writing but I can't think of anything interesting to say. Hmmm. Haven't read much more. I started Persuasion. It's the book I read between classes. Unfortunately, my time between classes has been pretty full with school reading, so I haven't gotten very far in it. I love reading it though; the language and writing style is so great! My scarf is going well. It is getting much faster and I've gotten to where I can read it so I don't have to count to know where I am in the stitch pattern if I get lost. It's still working up pretty S..L..O..W..L..Y, but I still love it. I may finish it eventually. Then I'll have to weave in all those freaking ends though. There are 2 every 2 inches! ICK!

I've spent nearly all day watching movies on tv. First I watched Drive Me Crazy one of my favorite teen movies (yes I'm 20 and still love nearly every teen movie that comes out). Then I saw the end of Final Destination and then Resident Evil. Both of these are really good movies too. I love scary type movies! Then Bourne Identity was on. Man, that was great! I've never seen it before, but now I think we're gonna have to rent the next one. And I really wanna read the book, even though I'm not sure it's really my kind of book, the movie was so good I think I'll have to give it a shot. And now Princess Bride. I haven't seen this movie in like forever. Cary Elwes is soooo hot! And you have to see him in Saw. It's super good. Ok, enough movie reviews...

So Jaime and I are supposed to go to his boss' house next Thursday for dinner. I'm totally nervous. It's going to be the boss and his wife, another asst. manager and his wife who also works there, another asst. manager, Jaime and me. They all know each other already! And of course Jaime's told them everything about me (including the fact that I'm nervous which I'm so mad at him about). I'm soo shy around people that I don't know. I'm excited to meet them cause I've heard a lot about them all, but I'm still nervous. Hmmm, what to wear?

PS-My daddy's getting me a camera phone next weekend. Not a full camera, but enough to get some pictures up here. And enough to stop me from whining about not having a camera every couple posts :)

Reads

After owning the book for six years, trying to start it multiple times, and taking nearly 6 months to read it, I finished Anna Karenina!!! Once you're finished applauding you can read on... I've added a books section to my sidebar, and yes it was partly to flaunt my accomplishment. And I think reading might be cutting into my knitting time for a little while because of the awesome new book I'm reading, but I'll get into that later. So back to Anna. Some parts got pretty slow. Like chapter after chapter discussing farming and politics that I wouldn't have understood then and certainly don't now. But all in all I loved it. The last bit was great, I love Levin's discoveries. It has made the cut and will be a book that I'll keep to read again. I don't keep many books at all after I've read them, but I can tell I'll want to revisit this one to see what else I can discover about it (and if I can beat my 6 month best time).

So the new book is Babyville which is a really nice break from Anna. They are so different! This book is a much faster read for one thing. And it's pretty funny in that completely real way. I stayed up late last night reading it and will probably be going back to it after finishing this post.

This morning I got half way through the thumb on my mitten. They're saying snow (yay!) tomorrow so I'll need it! I just hope I can find an alternative to my chunky coat.

As I mentioned and you can probably see, I've spent some time changing my blog again. I'm finally beginning to know how to work this html stuff, when I started I had no clue. It took me forever (and it didn't help that Blogger wasn't cooperating for a time yesterday), but I like it much better. Now all I need is a stupid digital camera so I can finish my master plan for my blog. Darn January being so far away!