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hmmm i can has cute voldy?

maybe there's one at my school AND he knits

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more on that later........

:D

i just ate waffles for dinner.

oh... okay. so. -- has anyone ever heard of that lady who totally reversed her diet?
on day, she couldn't sleep cause she was hungry but she didn't want to eat bad cause she was crazy fat. then she got up early and fried some fish, made a salad and ate that for breakfast.
then she'd eat a normal, picnic type lunch. at the end of the day (really like 6 pm ish) she ate cereal or something else very light.

isn't that just crazy? But I can truthfully say, that I have, more than once, wanted some grilled red fish dipped in lemon and butter sauce with some nice mixed spices sprinkled atop of it at 7 am. Yes, and it was very frustrating that I didn't know how to grill fish even if it was the proper time to the this meal.

so today, during first period, I took a quiz (ew) and when I was done, I pulled out my beautiful Plymouth Kudo yarn and started on my moss stitch scarf that I cast-on last night.

school

is tomorrow.........................................
i am a junior. whoops.
and then next monday is the new hpkchc term :D i'mabe a second year now.

so i really need to take some pictures of my car because i have grown rather attached to it in the last 7 days. i'm driving it part of the way to school tomorrow! anyway, i have some news on the knitting front:

i have some cool green-blue-white yarn (Peaches and Creme) that i'm going to make into a little ami Fish for my wonderful spoilee. and then i got the idea of a notions bag and a physical queue from other spoiers. so i'm going to take that old slytherin green fabric of my mom's and turn it into a little bag o' pockets. and I got a nice moss green folder today and i'm going to put the required pattern in there (the Mobius Scarf; on Rav.) and tie it off with some ribbon, and behind it i'll put some of her queue. and in the other pocket i'll put in a couple of patterns that I like but that she might like too. and i think i'm gonna get her some forest green malabrigo - i remember almost getting that color for my IQ cowl/scarf thing but i reeeeally wanted red - and thin i'ma stuff it into the bag o' pockets. sound nice? and speaking of the Ice Queen.... it hasn't been touched in two weeks. i think i'll get it out this weekend if there's not yet homework to do. i hope i have time to fit in knitting and all the other wonderful things in around my schedule of school, and the McNay.

well, other than that i should have some better news for you later (read: juicy gossip?) but for now i must say, Bonne nuit! A tout à l'heure!

I've met the most wonderful store in Boston and it is called A.C. Moore. I luvs it :D There are about five aisles dedicated to yarn-work, and one side of one is completely filled with Lion Brand Yarn - YUMMY! and they have a great selection of fabrics for quilters, and (rainbow order) threads for crochet, embroidery, that sort of bidnis. Beautiful :)

I am planning on finishing Ice Queen by the end of september, as it is most certainly not going to get done by the end of next week. and then - AND THEN - back to hogwarts, back to classes and i'm *considering* doing a OWL depending on how my next two weeks for but I'm pretty sure that my first OWL project is going to stay off the needles until the spring term.

speaking of which, only TWO more days until school starts......

more deets of my life later. and pictures too, i promise!

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"I want a boy blazer. . . .Or a blazer wearing boy. I wouldn't mind that either." - me to my sister, walking with my sister through the mall.

A cute one at that. I can haz FRANK DILLANE?

I licked the bottom of a pool today.

It was kind of like the feeling I got when my 3 year old neice saw the president on tv and she said Barack Obama? and I said, yep, that's our president. *shudder*

Suffice it to say that I do not approve (mostly) of our president's method.

Anywho - I'm still in love with this Ice Queen pattern. I'm almost to my first beads! I haven't done much today; I've caught a little bug and I have a stuffy nose and a sore throat that keeps coming back. (Just for the record, it is not swine flu.) My mom called and was all worried...

And my sister found this idea for bread stick snail over at Parents magazine and she couldn't find it (but i did) so we rolled up some bread stick dough. We split an end and worked it into two little antennas and brushed them with pesto sauce. The only thing different between the real recipe and our improvised recipe is that the antennas were just tiny carrot sticks, like on salads instead of being made of the dough. I like our version better.....I can faintly remember making these bread snakes in kinder or first, and they were red and green I think, and we sang 'boa constrictor' by Shel Silverstein. Ah, those were the days!

oh guess what I have now - a little support icon :D look on the sidebar and please, no hot-linking. Though I honestly wouldn't complain, I mean, someone actually supporting my ramblings? wow!! I really made it just for plugboards, but I can share :)

ETA: i never finished or posted this the other day. hmm. well, here you go.

the first pictures on here!

update on the last post: my car is home safe and in my dad's barn until I get back home. I can't wait to drive it!

My sister and I have been organizing like crazy. I've fixed up her pantry and the laundry closet. We did the play room today and it looks much better. She's currently doing Tanner and Jordan's room. A lot of stuff is ending up around the house, but we have a bag of trash and two bags of toys for charity. Tanner was really into the giving away to kids who don't have any toys thing; he went all around the house looking for things he wanted to give away.

Sis is really happy with her house all clean, but he keeps making her cry. He's such an arse, I swear, he doesn't even deserve to see me. And unless Jordan and Tanner start melting down because they want me to come with them, then I won't go. And Tanner really only cries because he misses his parents being together. I am still so mad that this is happening to them, too.

I knit so I do not kill people.

I knit so I do NOT kill people.

Speaking of knitting... After letting my Russian Queen hibernate for a couple days, its back into good shape and I've got the correct number of stitches. I'm back on the ball and I'm excited for it again.

My Russian Queen is still only on the 4th row, but the deep red Malbrigo lace yarn is a m a z i n g ! I can't wait to add the black beads :) I would have at least liked to have looked at the Rowan yarns. But the LYS owner said she didn't like fluffy or fuzzy yarns. But she had the famous Noro sock yarn, that wasn't so great when I dug through the basket she had. She did, however, has this yarn:

wow!

okay i have a couple wow! things to show you:

first is this great designer Lee Meredith who I found by accident on Ravelry. I stumbled along a path of links to CraftStylish, where a tutorial on a super easy skirt caught my eye. It's made out of tee shirts! So simple that maybe I can finally make something myself :)

...and this from Threadbanger - wedding dress, anyone?

wow! what amazing resourcefulness. I'm going to have to scour my room and fabric bins when I get home to see if I can manage that skirt. the wedding dress might have to wait... and i'd have to change up the details a little bit as well, the dress completely finished isn't very flattering. but maybe halfway through, and shorter, it would be a cute cocktail dress.

anywho, the other wow! - my moomie called today to check in and said they were getting me a car. she said it's not one-hundred percent going to happen yet, because it's with the government deal where you can trade in a icky car and get a nice shiny new car. it's supposed to be for enviorment and the penguins in the arctic or whatever, but i think it's just because the govs want us to think that money grows on the lawn of the white house, and they want to boost a little morale. cougbullshitcough. well, i'm taking advantage of it anyway. it's only (up to) $4500 towards the car thats priced at, oh, a measly 17-grand ish.

yeah, so I have to hold my permit until January 12th I think. then it's back to driver's ed and my official diver's license. i still need all seven hours of observation and five hours of my own driving. But I drove in Abeline last week and I'm feeling more confident. I might ask if sis will let me drive in the parking garage to work on my steering. But I'd feel a little nervous driving her big (expensive, fancy, leased) Volvo. Or maybe even to Walgreens, which is closer than the the subdivision entrance! I wonder if my permit is even honored here.

Well, it's a bit late - late, ha! it's nine TX time - and a chapter of In Cold Blood is begging to be read. sleep tight internet.

Dear swab5 spoiler / you

i am writing a letter you! i am such a silly thing, i hardly post much detail online and i wouldn't want you to send me something i hated because then you wasted your time, and i'd feel dreadful and i'd try to like it and in the end i'd suffer through or trash it and that is not the point of the the whole swap on a BUDGET thing. yeah.... so:

i am not a grandma ;) i am 17, soon to be a junior. i am not your typical teenager either, as you can tell by the fact that i'm involved in yarn art. i like rock music, and i love a good part of the labrynth of sub-genres out there today. i hate the current popular music - the stuff where icky little hollywood starletts sing above the noise of the computer when some guy is working on Garage Band. The program is just for looks; the program could be Paint, manned by a toddler, and the general public wouldn't know the difference! ugh!

...as you can tell, i have a leetul frustration with the lack of intellect in the world. I think that Animal Farm is turning into a symbolic history book in America and I hate watching it. I'm too young for anyone to care what I think because I'm too young to vote. What do I know?

...Well, I do know that I would like to learn to knit socks and also how to double knit. I would like to learn how to needlefelt and cross-stitch and how to thaw chicken and cook it properly. I would like to, one day, make a huge, patchwork quilt for the squishy bed that is long enough for my soulmate to fit, and for me to worm down and snuggle beside him, without undoing the neat sheet corners and letting in the cold air - or knocking my doggie off the end. (That is also known as "One day, I want to be perfect". If you find a book on how to do this, I could use all the advice I can get)

...Speaking of them, I love books! Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban is probably my favorite book of all time, but I have sub favorites that I like for specific reasons. I'm not religious though, but I've decided to do that on my own time. Maybe on one of those 'finding myself' events that hollywood says should happen right after I break off with a serious guy and I realize he is not the one and I live my perfect life after that. You know, just like the How To Be Perfect book said. Oh yeah. Harry Potter Is My LIFE!

:D -- polexia

P.S. - if you're my spoilee, OHMYGOODNESS i can't wait to get your nice little surprise to you :) i love this swap thing!

voldemort is the easiest character to make jokes about. read this post about death eater membership on fuckyeahvoldemoret :D

better yet, read the whole blog. it will make you LOL

Hooray August!

I can't wait to start two new things!

The first knit-a-long I've been involved with (ever!) using Ice Queen from Knitty is this month, and I just need a nice ball of yarn and I'll be on my merry way. I would love to use the Rowan Kidsilk Haze that is recommended but I think it's pretty expensive, and I would like to get more than is needed so that I don't have to bother frogging my swatch. I'm actually going to swatch...... ....... Then, Swap On A Budget 5 is underway. I was one of the first pinged on Rav, and I'm supposed to be getting my spoilee's info sometime tomorrow :) Hopefully I can get at it before we go to Sheep Skate, that way I can take a peek at my spoilee and get some ideas flowin around in my brain.

Oh, and then on the 24, school starts. Thats not new though, I'm just going back to canyon (my home school, you know, based on my address) and into my junior year. The hardest year .... but it won't be as hard as the other school would be, which is nice. phew I'm pooped! Two little monkeys are like energy suckers, plus I only ate popcorn and a coke for dinner. Which is better than nothing. Hmm off to scour the fridge for a late night snack :D