As of late, Shelly has been calling me a bad blogger, which is not something that I particularly appreciate, and therefore intend to rectify in this post.

The past couple of weeks have been crazy busy.  Last week was my orientation for Dream School.  And can I just say that I already loooooove this school?  I really feel like I made the right choice in coming here, even though other schools were cheaper, or gave me scholarships, or what have you.  I’m really happy to be here.

Plus I’m in the city, which is exciting in itself, albeit a little frightening.  Granted, it’s not a bad city, and I’m in a particularly nice area of it (let’s just say that this is the only time in my existence that I’ll be able to afford to live on this street!).  It’s just that in any city, there’s a bunch of weirdos that are hard to avoid no matter where you are.  The second day we were here, my roommate (whose code name will hereby be Roommate) and I went for a walk, just to see what was around, and I was looking at the pigeons that couldn’t care less about the people who are almost stepping on them.  These two guys on a bench were saying, “Hey!  Come here!  Come over here!”   I thought they were talking to the pigeons, which I thought was really kind of cute, but when I turned to smile at them, I realized that they were talking to us, and we walked faster from then on out.

Now we travel with two of our other new friends, who as of yet do not have code names.  Please stay tuned.

But orientation was full of stuff to do, including valuable friend making time, and therefore my blogging time suffered severely.  Now that classes have started, though, I’m all caught up on homework for the moment, so I had the time to sit down and blog a little bit.

Because…

 

Done!  The sweater from hell is done!  It was damn hard, but I finished it.

 

It’s a little tight on Shelly, so I think that I might have to block it again when I go home for Thanksgiving break.  Also, I’d like to do something about the shoulders, which are too puffy for my liking.  If I were to make this sweater again (which is a moot point, as that sooo will not be happening), I’d use a lighter weight year, as this is supposed to be a Summer sweater, and the aran weight yarn is a little much.

Other than that, I really like how this sweater turned out, especially the diamond pattern on top, which got seriously prettier after blocking.  Shelly likes it too, which is nice, as she’s the one who’ll be wearing it.

I bought some lace weight yarn to work on Adia, and I have started that damn scarf at least fifteen times.  I don’t know what it is, but something about the lace knitting is just killing me.  Maybe it has to do with the bamboo needles that I’m trying out for the first time, or maybe it just requires a kind of attention that I’m currently unable to give it.  Either way, I put it aside for a little while to work on a baby sweater to give to my (former, *sob*) manager at the party store, who’s having a girl in a few months. 

If all else fails, I’ll save the lace scarf for May, once school’s over, and I’ll have the kind of attention span necessary to finishing it.  It’s so light weight that it’ll make the perfect summer knit anyway.  It’s starting to get cool enough here that pretty soon I’ll want to start working on big wool projects.

Song of the Day:
“If I could take you away, pretend I was queen, what would you say?  Would you think I’m unreal?.  ‘Cause everybody’s got their way I should feel.” – Rachel Yamagata, “Be Be Your Love“