Friday Fill-Ins # 113

1. I'm older than I once was, I'm younger than I will someday be, I think I have an age complex.
2. Why do I have a spare bedroom and not a person who lives in it?
3. How does this temp agency thing work, anyway?
4. Every morning, I put hot air on my hair. (With a blow dryer of course!)
5. I consider myself lucky because I have a wonderful, caring family.
6. One day we’ll see space travel accessable to everyone. (or so my father seems to think)
7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to finishing Eclispe and starting Breaking Dawn, tomorrow my plans include visiting mom as she babysits my nephew and Sunday, I want to keep reading Breaking Dawn.

I'm still alive!

Hello blogging world! Although it's been almost a month since I've posted anything, have no fear I am still alive and kicking. :)

Aside from this week it's been almost a month since I've knit anything. I just had no desire to knit. After some knitting with the SCC knitting group on Monday the desire has come back now. Monday I was able to almost finish my sweater. I just had the sleeves cuffs to do.

I also got together with 3 knitters on Tuesday, 2 of which are bloggers who each have a post with pictures of the event. Monica posted about it here and Ruth's post shows that I tried to work on my sweater that night but didn't get much done. (Well, I'm really just holding my sweater but that what you should read from it!) Marianne was the third knitter and it was nice to meet her for the first time.

I have been doing a fair bit of reading this past month. I read The Last Summer of You and Me by Ann Brashares, then I read the first 2 books in the Travelling Pants series. I enjoyed all of her books and was surprised at the difference in writting style between her young adult books and the adult book. I guess I've never read books from different genres by the same author. I was amazed at the flexiblity that an author can show by changing her style so much and still be a good writer.

I've also read New Moon by Stephenie Meyer and I'm working on The Constant Princess by Phillipa Gregory. I now understand the draw of the Twilight series. I'm half way through the series and plan on reading the rest. Every time I finish one of the books I want to start in on the next one right away (but can't because there is a waiting line for the library books), also whatever book I read afterwards always seems to take a long time (and seem not as good...). I feel bad for the books I read after the Twilight series books, because they are not bad books, they're just not Twilight.

Friday Fill-Ins #109

1. I'd really like to get rid of this cold right now.
2. Owww! is the word you'd most often hear me say if I stubbed my toe.
3. Possession is "nine tenth of the law"?.
4. There are 3 movies about Captain Jack Sparrow. (although I've only seen 1)
5. Marshmallows and fire go together like tents and sleeping bags.
6. So forth and so forth, on and on.
7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to watching The Ghost Whispers, tomorrow my plans include seeing my roommate move out and Sunday, I want to go to church!

Secret Swap Package

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This is a much delayed picture of the wonderful package I received from my swpa pal. The Malabrigo lace yarn is soooo soft! The coloured pencils are made from recycled paper. Pretty cool eh? I certainly think so. The book by Kathleen DeMarco was my first read of 2009. It was pretty good. Although it started lagging (or maybe just me?) about 3/4 of the way through. The note pad currently lives in my kitchen drawer awaiting use.

Thanks to "Jimmy" my swap pal!

FO report: Swiffer Cloth

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Here's the finished Swiffer Cloth. This was a gift for a long-time friend, and she was happy to receive it. Knitted with Lily, Sugar n' Cream, and finished sometime in the first week of January.

WIP picture of Green Gable

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I met up with Monica and Chelle yesterday for a knitting get together. Although I didn't get too much knitting done, Chelle was very kind in bringing her laptop so I could download some pictures. So here is the sweater I've been working on lately. I'm glad that the body is finished. I have not done any work on it for a week now. I'm planning on 3/4 length sleeves, but that's not in the written pattern so I'm a bit nervous on how it'll turn out. I think that fear is stopping/slowing me down on knitting the sleeves. I'm knitting 2 together every 3 rows and just hoping for the best. Has anyone knit sleeves in the round before? How did you do it? I think I have to try in on today and see if I can tell by the little bit I've done on the sleeve so far.

I'll try to have some more picturey posts this week for you!

FO Report

I finished the slippers and gave them to my sister on Tuesday. She seemed to like them even though they were abit big on her feet. The yarn that I complained about really isn't that bad once I got used to it. (It was a commercially made homespun type of yarn.)

I also finshed the No Holes Dishcloth, just because... well, why knit if you don't have a dishcloth on the needles! :P

(Still no computer in the house so you get no pics and just abit of sparatic posting.)