A Year in One Post

Wow... well, I've managed not to write anything for well over a year. I feel like I've accomplished a lot so I feel alright about procrastinating blog-wise for so long. This lovely beast is Chy, a friend we met while spending a week in Texas visiting relatives. They have the slimiest tongues. I love it!

I've graduated from college (a semester early) magna cum laude, celebrated more than one year of marriage (two in June), and gotten a new job. I'm currently ecstatic about moving into a real house soon... although the house is yet to be found. I've also applied to grad school, so fingers crossed!

Progress has been made in the lovely and crazy world of knitting too. Although knitting has definitely had less devoted time this year, I'm very proud of some of the things I've made. I'm also on a bit of a hat/shawl/scarf kick that I feel is going to continue for some time. There will be no promises about stash usage, but the amount of yarn purchased this year has also been significantly less and I've found some wonderful yarn hiding in the strangest places. Now I just have to figure out why I put it there!


The projects I'm most excited about are always the ones I haven't started yet, either from lack of time or fear that I'll ruin some absolutely fantastic yarn, but I'm trying to involve more color. My current job requires that I wear certain colors and before I realized it... they sort of ate my entire wardrobe. There wasn't really any thing bright, happy, or colorful at all. My answer? Scarves! I've actually been wearing them for the last two years now (yes... BEFORE they were a trend) and I plan on wearing them the rest of my life. But the possibilities! Colors, patterns, textures are all beckoning and I've never been good at resisting soft and pretty things, hence knitting. Anywho... yay blue and yellow yarn!



I have the feeling (call it a premonition) that the next, oh, five or so months are going to be absolutely crazy but I'm hoping to finally start to settle down and figure out how to make a career out of a field that barely exists yet. Surprise... the real world sucks. And no, not just the old reality show.

Psychology is taking over my brain!

Your Personality is Very Rare (INTP)

Your personality type is goofy, imaginative, relaxed, and brilliant. Only about 4% of all people have your personality, including 2% of all women and 6% of all men You are Introverted, Intuitive, Thinking, and Perceiving.

Sorry.... usually I don't like these quizzes but I thought this one was interesting. As a psych major, you have the opportunity to take numerous personality tests. And I never turned out to be a INTP. I'm usually an ISTP and my husband turns out to be an ISTJ (although he's really a borderline extrovert) and this test said he was an ESTP... valid? maybe. Reliable? I think not.

The trials and tribulations of yarn

Wow... time may not fly, per se, but it does have a way of deceiving you about how much there is. Sneaky. Aren't they adorable? It's the two most importance men in my life and my little girl. Awww... I just had to share!

Anywho, one more week of finals (ahhhh, studying!) and then onto the hectic Christmas/work/knitting/sleeping. Awful, hey?

I finally made it into Ravelery and let me tell you, it's almost as addicting as fluffly merino roving. Or something else similary soft. I can't tear myself off of it, not to study, spend time with hubby, sleep, eat... you know, all those unimportant things.

I've been entranced by homespun yarn lately (how can you not be?) and I decided that instead of spending oodles of money I don't have on it, I would teach myself. I must say, it's less frustrating than teaching myself how to knit. And it's so wonderful to play with the different fibers and colors. *sigh* Now if I only had more time. I would love to get my own lazy kate instead of using cardboard tubes and anything else available to hold my yarn, but it turns out that "real" spinning supplies are uber expensive after all. I can make do...


This is some of my first handspun. It's a beautiful blue corridale wool from Hello Yarn. I'm a little too in love with it though- I won't knit it because it looks better in a skein. Is that weird? I think that's a little weird. Hmm.... as for the next picture, this is some very coarse pencil roving that I found at the Yarn Hous... It's easy to spin because there's no predrafting but I don't really know what to make with it. It's rough enough to make shoes. Suggestions?



I'm also back in the conundrum of Christmas knitting projects. After attempting to overachieve the last two years, I've decided that I've been spending way too much time knitting for other people and not enough knitting for myself. Egocentric? Yes. Important? No.

However, I am going to make a hat for one of my fellow fiber-aficiando friends, although I don't think I should post about it on the offchance she decide to read this soon. Hey, it could happen. I just don't like making something that everyone else is making. I really enjoy experimenting and making up my own patterns, although I usually start with someone else's and just modify the heck out of it. But she saw the picture, said, "OOOOOOhhhh, I LOVE that," and so now I'm stuck. I think I'll use some yummy malabrigo. She'll appreciate that.

Anywho, I'm off to make myself loverly. It's date night, and my hubby and I are celebrating my almost done with school-ness. Mmmm, break....

The evitable inevitable

Well, I had to go and sprain my arm. The timing couldn't have been less perfect if I had tried. Tried really really hard. Anywho, it's in a splint for now. And unless I hear otherwise from the person who reads the x-rays tomorrow, it's just a bad sprain. Ow.

So no more knitting, very little typing, difficulty driving, eating, getting dressed, and basically everything that involves my right hand. Which is everything. Because I am right-handed. Spiffy, hey?

This doesn't explain, however, why I am here. Online. Typing. I can't rationalize it because my wrist hurts like yeah, my homework's not done, and my hubby is peacefully snoring away in our warm and cozy bed. I'd give anything to be able to go to bed at 10:30 every night. Lucky bastard. I keep planning on posting all these really fun pictures I have of everything, but alas, 'tis too much work and I seriously lack motivation. I just want to blather mindlessly on about my life right now.

I can't believe how frusterating it is to be in a situation where I feel isolated. I have absolutely no one that is also female, approximately my age, married, and still finishing up their undergrad degree. They are either preggers or gradumated. It's hard to bitch about married life to someone who's not married. They don't understand and trust me, they don't want to know. Alas.... a conundrum. How to make friends with people that don't exist? Hmmm...

For now, I'll survive. And the next post will bring fun pictures of random stuff. Yay, stuff!

To Make Up for Lost Time...

Here's what you missed: My new puppy, Nate's graduation, our wedding, our honeymoon, and the beginning of another crazy, stressful school year (for me, anywho). I'm even more knitting obsessed and completely and utterly happy with married life.

I ended up with 20 credits this semester through some strange and unplanned circumstances; needless to say, its wayyyy too much to handle. At the moment I'm supposed to be working on my exam that's due tomorrow, finishing my psych test write-up, and studying for the aforementioned psych test. Did I mention it's going to be a really hard psych test? I just want to be done with school, but I'm told that's how quite a few people feel. Not suprised.

I picked up another knitting book today, 101 Designer one-skein wonders, because I really need anything more knitting related. I really really do. Not. There are quite a few cute and quick projects, although some are cheesy and icky looking too.... you have to take the good with the bad, I guess. I'm really looking forward to making two of the hats. I love to knit hats.... I end up giving them away because, well..., I don't wear hats, but that's besides the point. They're so much fun to knit!

I've realized that I don't have the patience or the dedication to knit anything that takes longer than a week to finish.

I'd love to write more, but alas, the homework calls to me. More like screams, but you get the picture.

Overcoming the Present

So I'm still sitting here, doing nothing. Well, thinking.... but that doesn't accomplish much.

Wedding plans, school plans, travel, friends, birthdays, family, relationships, work, bills, paperwork, leases, loans, papers, tests, projects, insurance, food, pets....

Life sucks when you get older. Remember when insurance didn't mean anything? And you didn't really understand what taxes were, except as something that Mom and Dad liked to complain about?

Huh... You never really see it coming, either...