Turning the heel.

Last night, while I was waiting to go to sleep (yes, waiting, but more on that at a later date) I was thinking about my anti-socialness, and I decided that I want to go to homecoming this year. Not for the game, put for the principle of the thing. We just got slaughtered at sixty-something to two, and the two points were the other team scoring in our endzone. And I don't even care for football anyway. Really, I'd just like someone to ask me to the game/dance. And maybe even give me my own little mum that I can walk around with :) "I'm just a simple girl, wanting a simple life." LOL?
But there is really only two people that I'd like to go with. They shall not be named here, but one of them is Entrelac Boy: The first thing he said to me was "Are you knitting an entrelac scarf?" and I said 'You know what that is?!" and he said "yeah, my mom's knitting one right now. i was watching her and it's crazy how she has to purl into the back of the loops." (insert handmotion of purling here) and I was sputtering and then I said "Well, no I'm just doing a simple moss stitch because the yarn is so colorful." and then I ask if his mom is on Ravelry and he says "Yeah, have you seem that viking hat?" and this is where I commence my SQUEEEEEEEEEE!

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:

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!

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

yarnivore today!

on rav, i'm in the HPKCHC and during august there's no lessons to attend to. there's a casual KAL that's been oraganized, and the pattern is Ice Queen, off knitty. my mom said it'd be fine to go get some supplies specifically for this project, and i wanted to go to a LYS so i could ask a few questions and also because i have't been to yarnivore yet. either way, both stores are not very close so it's pretty rare i get to go to a yarn store :D
anywho, i'm hoping for that to be a big success of august, and if i need any help, there is a nice yarn store a few blocks from the house. oh - did i mention? - i'm going to boston on Friday! finally! she called to ask me if i wanted to learn to surf. can you picture that? learning to surf in new hampshire! that's where she said the lesson was, and she and her friend were trying to go last week but it was full so she invited me to come next week. ha! crazy stuff. well, i'll be working on my nice new project - my first knitty pattern, and my first lace pattern, and my first time using a cable needle - for the hour drive up there.
as far as the four hour plane ride (which will be much longer i expect, with all the rain in the flight path) and the ride back, i think i'm only going to take two other projects with me. some brown simply soft for the double skinny scarves i've been working on, and the stuff for Kary's Chevron scarf as well. can't link to my project page, rav's down atm. but i will be taking pictures and posting while i'm up there.

my mom's back and it's time to get on over to yarnivore. out!