sooo….

yeah i’ve  got nothing.

i found out that apparently u.s. airways is terrible.  should they, oh say, cancel your flight due to weather they won’t put you up in a hotel or do anything for you.  even if it’s sunday afternoon and the next available flight isn’t until tuesday morning.

going with this theory let us assume that i subsequently rented a car and drove 3.5 hours to my final destination.  the weekend was more eventful than i intended it to be.

i finished another baby hat

and started another dish cloth

also i think i hate my monkeys.  i like the colours, but i hate how they’re combining.  i think i’ll finish the sock and see what i think.

if anyone has any thoughts on this let me know.

other than that i need to get some yarn so i can start a pair of cigar gloves for a friend.

hope everyone else is having a good time.

moving

i used to hate moving.  it made me nervous.  what was to come?  would i find a place i would enjoy just existing as much as i did in that special place here?  would it be hot in the summer and cold in the winter?  was there a gas stove? did i get a window with sun?

as i move more and more i find that i’m looking for different things.  and that there are certain things that i need to make a place feel as though i’m living there.  now i hope for a microwave and a fridge.  a good size bathtub.  a wireless internet connection.  a cloths rack and a dresser.

what makes it home? the lappy, the mobile/cell/handy, my nalgene bottle, the book i’m currently reading, my wallet, a real mug, and real cup.

there are some comfort things too. my ds; some mash, simpsons, monty python; knitting; digital camera, nice undies; shoes.

strange that so few things are all i really need, but i go around with a car filled to the brim with stuff.  i guess some of it comes from stuff i actually need, but don’t want.  cloths and gear for work.  a horrible printer, stuff i feel bad throwing away, but don’t want.  i wish i was less attached to things.

but then i wonder, if i’m not attached to anything, then what am i doing? i’m attached to the boy, some friends, the world’s best cat.  yet, i’m near none of them.  if i don’t have people i care about and i don’t have things, then what am i doing.  i’m just existing in a void.  it’s rather isolating.  and metaphysically confusing.

but then, perhaps it’s just late and i’m tired and spending yet another night alone.  i’m glad i’ve been doing this for almost a year, and will continue to do so for probably several more.

at least i’ve acomplished some things.

-i found a picture that uses an imac in a cisco course

- i’ve been getting 90’s on my tests.

-i haven’t had to study

-several baby hats

and now.  pics of the baby hats.  people keep having kids.  who knows.

i think that’s all for now.

yea.

why

you really start to question your image of america/the place you live when people use the term ‘yankee dollar’ in general conversation. and then complain that there’s russian on their coke can.

it makes me nervous. and i don’t feel so safe anymore.

i’m floored

so today brought 2 things to the forefront. one good and one less so. bad first cause who doens’t like to end on a good note.

heard on the radio today. “an out of the closet homosexual flamer” in reference to some of the production crew of <<sex and the city movie>> now, overall i’m pretty liberal. (hell, i worked in theatre and the arts for years.) but i figure people are entitled to feel as they do. however, i thought we were beyond the retarded/pointless/bashing stage. i don’t know. hearing this on national media made me feel lost in a country where i’m no longer sure i belong. (there’s more adding to this, but that’s a longer more complicated post that i don’t want to get into right now) so there’s that.

secondly is the good thing. this awesome video. i love that people made this.

Tricot machine_Les peaux de lièvres from David Valiquette on Vimeo.

new things!

so i’ve moved yet again and am now living in a microtel. has anyone even heard of this hotel chain before? it’s not bad, but my impression upon hearing the name was less than good. oh well, it’s not terrible, it could be worse, and i’m not paying. all key points.

i also started knitting new things and finished others.

new things first.

pillow of Sei Shonagon

yeah. i’m not very far.

secondly is some monkey socks. i couldn’t be the only one. well i could. but i went to a real yarn store for the first time pretty much ever, and they had trekking xxl and i had to get some as that i had no sock yarn with me and i wanted to knit things. but the colour was only loud and crazy vs my preference of black or gray so i needed a pattern that wouldn’t look stupid. so thusly monkey. i went with it. and like most people, i’m finding it pretty fun to knit. the pattern repeat is short and i’m really moving along quickly. this is good. i need to find some tangible form of progress/completion/achievement in my life right now.

then i actually finished something too. some socks for my friend peggy. i made up the pattern and it went pretty fast. however some moving and schools and all sorts of other things slowed me down. (and my reluctance to kitcher the toes closed) well they’re done now. just have to finish the damn wavy scarf that is a bain to knit, but she likes so i’m making it, before i send them off to her. hopefully that’ll be soon.

hmmm…oh, i started to wonder what the cars my co-workers drive say about me. especially because they think such cars are incredibly cool/awesome/covetable

also me and the boy found this frog outside the hotel. i was amused. a tree frog that was big. and found in the wild. awesome.

sorry it’s taken me so long to post, but i’m hoping that i’ll be better in the coming weeks.

i leave you with an awesome thought.

socks. more socks…..

poo. it’s a funny word.

so i moved again and started a new bit of my job. i  seem to like this part even less and am dead tired all the time.  it seems in that doing less i need more sleep.  8 hours a night just isn’t cutting it.  not that i’m doing anything else so really, it’s kinda sad.

the place i’m at now is cold and doesn’t provide more blankets so rather than purchasing one myself, i’ve started knitting the ombre alpaca blanket.  it’s keeping me busy as i’m now on stripe 2. i’m pretty sure i’ll be moving again before this is finished making it completely unnecessary, but i’m still amused to some extent.

i also tried to copy my car key so the boy could have a copy.  that didn’t so much work.  the car would start then die after 45 secs or so.  i figured it was nothing to do with the key but i tried again today (3 weeks later or so) and they told me there’s a chip in the key.  who knew.  i bought the car used so it only came with a copied key. i had no idea that it could have a chip in it.  oh well.  maybe i’ll get off my bum and actually get a copy for the boy.

he’s done with his semester around the 19th of may so that’s cool.  i’ll get to see him again then.  really i just miss him tons.  well, him and the cats.  those bastards are crazy, but make things better overall.

not much else going on. still trying to loose weight.  down to the last 5-10 lbs i think so hopefully it’ll be off soon.

i also seem to have some sort of allergy issue down here because i start to run and my throat closes up.  it’s not so fun after 500m let alone 3 miles.  hopefully it’ll get better. who knows.

other than that i’ve got nothing.  well, yesterday i got remarkably punchy in that i worked 3am-midnight, but it was all in good fun. really.  well, not really, but it’s over now and i’m on my own til monday.  ‘get’ to sleep out thursday night, but i guess i’ll live.   we’ll see.

cover not cozy

so i managed to start and finish a project. a cover for my ipod nano.

now people. i fear i may have started down a slippery slope. i promised myself that i would never make a cover for anything of any sort. i mean, maybe it’s just me, but i have this mental image of an old spinster woman knitting away in her empty house that’s filled with cats and useless knitted objects. on goes into the kitchen and finds no appliances, just random knitted shapes. there’s a cozy for the blender, toaster, mixer, microwave, knife block, rice cooker, range hood, soap, dish dryer.

i can’t do that people. so no cozy’s for me.

(just covers)

um…not much else going on,  it’s been raining lots around here.  there’s a ton of pollen so things look strangely yellow.  it’s odd.

oh.  also i found this meme on wendy’s blog.  it seems like a good idea being that i’m a film major so here goes nothing.

The rules:

1. Pick 10 of your favorite movies.
2. Go to IMDb and find a quote from each movie.
3. Post them on your blog for everyone to guess.
4. Strike it out when someone guesses correctly, and put who guessed it and the movie.
5. Looking them up is cheating, please don’t.

1. “You could always get the truth from Tommy. That was one of his major weaknesses. He never told lies, he never took drugs, and he never cheated on anyone.”

2. “Abashed the Devil stood and felt how awful goodness is.”

3. “This isn’t a hospital. It’s an insane asylum. And it’s your fault.”

4. “His destructive programming is taking effect. He will be irresistibly drawn to large cities, where he will back up sewers, reverse street signs, and steal everyone’s left shoe.”

5. “Our recent unknown intruder penetrated using the superuser account, giving him access to our whole system.”

6. “I’ll kill you if you make that noise once the movie starts! Understand? And… I also don’t like watch alarms going off.”

7.”t had been a wonderful evening and what I needed now, to give it the perfect ending, was a little of the Ludwig Van.”

8. “I would like, if I may, to take you on a strange journey.”

9. “How could anyone act so macho with a pair of tits like that?”

10.  “We came to wreck everything, and ruin your life. God sent us.”

ok.  there’s a couple hard ones in there.  imdb had a choice of only 1 or 2 for a couple of them.  we’ll see if anyone gets anything.  i hope someone does.  it’d be nice to find out other people like my movies.

good luck!

you know it’s bad when you hate your knitting

so i picked up my knitting again.   i started knitting on wavy from knitty and god.  i hate knitting it.  it’s beyond painful to knit.  but. it’s for a friend and she likes it so i’m doing it.  i just can’t wait to get it finished.  i’m in the middle of repeat 3 right now.  how many do i have to do.  hopefully just 8 or so.  end.  now.  arg.

(taken before i started re-knitting)

i also have 2 fo’s to show you all.  dish cloths so they’re not that thrilling, but i’m happy to finish something.

oh also i finished the other bmp socks so there’s a pair now.  sadly i don’t have them both with me to give you a pic of the pair.  but i promise you there are 2.  and they are different.

 

also you start to question where you live when this is what you see out your window.

this is in a courtyard of a 7 story building.  about 40 rooms per floor.  about 4 of those floors are double occupancy.  there may be 20 women total in the building. why the hell would 2 of them do this?  it hurts my brain.

i have also become totally obsessed with ravelry.  why would someone make this website?  it’s evil.  it sucks all my time and thoughts.

the boy came down to visit for a week.  it was great to see him and the time was over all too soon.  so that’s a big plus for spring breaks and a big downer for being a geographical bachelor(ette).

we went to the atlanta aquarium.  sadly no working camera though.  it was ok.  we got to touch lots of things, but i longed for a more scientific approach.  lots of tanks with a ton of different animals.  this went for more of the world’s largest tank with some animals. now admittedly 4 of those are whale sharks, but i still wanted more.   i did get some awesome dippin’ dots though.

also why is this a stupid windows world?  why can’t sharepoint or pureedge work happy with macs.  why?

happy foot

so.  a while back i sprained my foot.  bad.   story:

i went to see the doctor.  she was impressed by my foot.  she brought in her supervisor.  he was impressed by my foot.  he brought in his supervisor.  so doctor number three is looking at my foot and puts his tumbs on my ankle bones, his fingers on my heel and pushes up.  amazingly enough he managed to dislocate my entire foot from my leg.  it looked horrendous.  then doctor three decided that doctors number one and two should practice dislocating my foot so they would know what it felt like it the future.  that was less fun.  they took several tries before they could do it easily.  until then it felt less than good.  then i got a cookie.  that was better.

at any rate this means that for several months now i’ve been running and such with an ankle brace on.  yesterday i ran two miles with no brace on and it was ok.  today when swimming i could do flip turns and it didn’t hurt.  yea!  good foot.

that’s all.

finally

hey all so i finally have a free moment. here we go. in the time since i’ve written a real post several things have happened. i moved back to the states from germay, started a new job, and have moved several more times. also on a down note, i had one grandparent pass away and another get placed in a nursing home. he has alzheimer’s quite bad and it’s frustrating that he has no clue as to whom i am. but moving on to happier thoughts.

i finished the evening stockings for a young lady. however my picture is not on the computer so you’ll have to wait for it. my pal let me know she got the package but never posted a picture so that’s not going to work either. there is a link on alison’s blog, but i’ll just link to it rather than steal band width.

oh i lied. i actually put it on my photobucket thingy so here we go. it’s not a great show, but it’s done.

and a single finished sock

yes, they’re knee highs.

i also finished my jaywalkers a long time ago.

i really love this photo. think it just reminds me of happy things. mm…i miss those days.

i started working on the bmp socks again. i’m now on the foot of the second sock.

finally here’s a pic of what i’ve been doing lately and why i couldn’t post in forever. probably the one and only pic you people will get of me at work. i’m on the left. enjoy.

also i’ve gotten on ralvery so hopefully i’ll get to spend more time making that work. i really like the idea so it’s exciting.

i’m setting up a new computer lab at work. it’s 20 iMac’s so i like it. i don’t like making it work on a system where the other 2 billion computers are pc’s, but hey. it’s interesting to say the least.

i guess that’s all for now.  let me know what you peple are up to, and what exciting things are going on. til next time.