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well i got together with the girls tonight. we had a great time knitting. it was good to see everybody. and, wonder of wonders i actually made progress tonight. got the soles of the ballet slippers done and started up te body of one! woo hoo. i might actually get these done before christmas! and even better, i finally got to see string. (and try as i might i can't find a wesite for this store. go figure) i absolutely love that shop! i can't believe i never went there! and i even picked up some yarn to make this . i've been trying to decide what to make it from and i found the perfect solution! that will be my travel knitting. i'll also take a pair of socks to work on, if i can find my sock yarn. oh and dave's hat...long car trip what can i say?

oh, so i just watched must love dogs. (which i do, especially the big stupid ones) and as a person recently subjected to the personal ad hell thing (by myself of course) i have to say if i ever and i mean ever answered my own father's personal ad i think i would have issues for the rest of my LIFE! hell, some the guys i did out with should qualify me for couch time... but tell me, how come john cusack didn't come along ans sweep me off my feet? huh. oh well.

sorry, but really i thought it would never be done! imen it looks like one hat but really its two... and i think it turned out ok. it was my first try at double knitting. i figured if he wanted it to be warm it would be this way. but not too warm since its acrylic. yes, i know, but he lives in houston! what am i supposed to do? give the kid heat stroke by using wool? its caron simply soft, and as far as acrylic goes i could do worse i guess, and it is stash yarn so. anyway, i'm yeah. i'll shut up! oh, and if you're wondering, "he" is my nephew, 15 (i think) geez am i terrible or what??? so here it is finished. hope he likes it. and another thing, so that i don't have to knit full sized stuff for the rest of the family, don't have time but relaly want to make a little sweater for my other nephew, he's 3, wouldn't something 3 year old sized be cute??? wow, i'm getting wierd...anyway, as for everybody who you haven't seen presents knttie...

oops i can't believe i forgot my sis in law's...i think they're married...long sotry anyway...her slipper socks! super soft and warm must go to mail these and my brother's hat tomorrow...

hey heres an updated photo of my entrelac bag i'm loving this, or i will once i get back to it...see below. and as promised i finished up through the hood on rogue. i cast on and did the cuffs of the sleeves, but i may need the needles so they are probably going onto holders! and i never did show you mom's socks... with a close up of the cables...i got bored... and finally its been sooo cold lately i had to dip into the stash to make me a new hat! i have enough left over of the thaki shannon to stripe the cuffs of mittens to match. i plan to use brown sheep for the hands since i don't have enough of the loft leftover from dave's first hat (total disaster) after using it to stripe my hat :)

so it started with this suri merino from the bargain bin... and i had promised to make dave a hat... (yeah i know he thought the last one was too big but its ok. he likes the way my brother's turned out so if i can duplicate the result...anyway. and i have to make 2 pair of the fiber trends felted ballet slippers... and the icing on the cake michaels had a secret sale on novelty and i've been eyeing this ticker tape ribbon yarn for a year... so there we have it my no buying yarn promise out the window...but $2.79??? how could i resist? and in my defense this hat for my nephew (his christmas hat shhhh don't tell) is entirely made of stash yarn. so i've moved 2 balls from stash to leftovers after i finish this so i'm not completely fired...the question is can i finish it? that and the slippers. well just one pair, but both before christmas??? no i'mnot crazy, i'm not talking about the real christmas the one thats a few days after the real christmas. the o...

so i promised to post about mom's sweater! everybody at work loved it. she wore it last week when it was sooooo cold. and it didn't fall to pieces on her so i'll assume its done :) geez that project was an exercise in procrastination, one full year from cast on to first wear i think!

and if you're wondering why its so cold outside...hell froze over. just so ya know.

yippeee! woooo hoooo, hell yeah i am a rock star and all that! ASTR-3520 - 010 OBSERV/INSTRUMENT II B+ PHYS-4150 - 001 PLASMA PHYSICS B PHYS-4510 - 001 OPTICS B+ see the killer is that last one, i thought i flunked the final. i guess everybody else did too. hhahahhahahhah wheee! k. i'm done flipping out now. this means i'm just 6 more hours away from graduating!

so i finally got around to looking at some of the photos i took this summer and this fall...had some friends who wanted to see so here goes

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BEWARE! as you know its been a realllllly long time since i had time to post (and i mean really post) so... here goes. school is out finals are over. i wouldn't say the semester was a smashing success, unless you mean the kind like when theres a bull in a china shop. with lots of crashing. but anyway. the grades are not in yet, i cannot be too pessimistic. lets just say i couldn't answer but one of the question son my saturday exam...d'oh but the one last night went pretty well in comparison. i answered 3 of 6!!! woo hoo! so anyway, last night before the final shirley told me that i had to wait for her if i finished before her. so i waited and she came out and she gave me...wait i need to give a little background. so, we're all familiar with the holiday taboo, of regifting. its supposed to be terrible its supposed to be wrong and evil. cause you're just giving someone something that you got that you never wanted right? well what if the person gives you something the...

so my step mom/monster (you just pick one for yourself k?) requested felted slippers for christmas. i'm not gonna felt them til i can make her stand on a towel next to the washing machine to try on soggy wool...aren't i evil? i mean i want them to fit well right? i can't stand the colors (pink? eeewww!) but she's gonna love 'em! and these were so easy to make i have to make a pair for my mom. she wants navy..how boring is that???

soooo, current projects anyone? i decided to join jenifer's knit along and make the bag i've been dreaming of since the first time i walked into the seconds shop at brown sheep. so what does it take to make my dream bag? well theres the basics. the pattern doesn't exist so i had to get creative and it took a lot of graph paper and oclored pencils but i finally came up with the perfect layout. and i already had the yarn so all i had to do was learn to knit entrelac. i camped out at the lys all afternoon and cursed my way along but i'm getting there i almost can do it without screwing up every 5th stitch. i can do it i can do it! and i'll have a knitting toting bag! woo hoo i've been dying to cast on for this!

so i just wanted to do a quick turkey day update, mostly cause my mom set out his gorgeous centerpiece thingy and i just had to share. she made me take the picture. isn't that cute! we were all at dinner and for some reasonmy mom remembered that she used to volunteer at my school (when i was in kindergarten mind you) and they used to screen kinds for motor skills (i'm sure i failed miserably) and hearing and all that. and she told us a story at dinner after turkey about a little girl she screened. she had asked the ittle girl what her name was ad the girl wouldn't talk and wouldn't talk and wouldn't and my mom was tryin gto make her laugh and all kinds of stuff but she wouldn't even crack a smile. my mom was starting to think there was somehting wrong with the kid, and finally mom asked her what her mommy calls her and she said "puuuuuunkinnnnn" and this being in texas all those extra vowels were totally expected.

so my astronomy class went on this great trip to new mexico back in october. thats the trip i knit my moms socks on...12 hour sin the car one way.. ugh. anyway we got to see these nifty telescopes that i would kill to ge tto observe on on a regular basis. and i mean literally. i'd kill myself, cause to get to i'd have to go to grad school. and i just can't do that. no more school! anyway then we went and saw some bigger telescopes remember contact? yeah but get this! jodie foster never got to do this! hardly anybody gets to climb up into the dishes. oh by the way thats my classmates, or some of em and my ta who thinks he's really old or something. put him in his place. he's got like a year on me or something....and he holds his liquor better than i do so i have to give him props...we broke the rules for the trip and a handful of us stayed up all night and drank a bottle of vodka while playing cards. do astronomers know how to have fun or what? oh don't tell anyo...

pencils no more books no more teachers dirty looks !!! wooo hooo!

so i know school isn't out yet but i had to share because serious disaster has been averted. the other day i was at school and i reached for my backpack for my ipod because the library was particularly loud and i was trying to finish my homework. (which isn't done yet but almost. i'm just trying to plot a sinc function in a dispersion relation for a double slit fraunhofer thingy. honestly i can't remember the rest of the problem off the top of my head. its early. anyway...silly mathematica doesn't want to divide by zero...d'oh. for you non geeks out there this means the pretty picture that comes with a function won't draw itself on the magic screen :) but otherwise i've done the rest of the assignment. algebra hell and all. but i did it and almost all by myself. except for having to ask tara (one of my classmates) if tangent is cosine over sine or vice versa. i always forget that stuff. i have no idea why. myabe my brain is full...anyway) so ...

to post. i've been trying to sate myself with reading up on all my girls progress. promising myself i'd just post when i finished up the semester but i have to brag about all the beautiful things i'm seeing on their blogs. i know there must be people who knit more but i don't see many people often who have this much going on! and omg this sweater is gorgeous! not to mention this . love that turtle thingy! and the yarn oh gods the yarn! you're making me drool. i mean i've sworn off the stuff. must use stash. no new yarn! i had to since i told the evil ones to shove it! i mean who schedules a student to work while they're in class!!! so i don't make coffee any more, and it means i have a little more free time i'm planning to intentionally throw myself off a couple of mountains this season! of course thats after finals. i'll be free this time next monday! woo hoo. and then i swear ill photograph all my finished and not so finish...