Ack!!

Currently working on hats for my mom who wants them for charity, she had to buy me the yarn so it all works out. Other news, finished Cthulhu, the graduation list for Taylor and two hats for my mom.

Hat One

Hat Two

Taylor's Scarf

Taylor's Hat

Something to listen to that is rather amusing:

ZOMBIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Because every Halloween needs Zombies.

So today we had rain and snow, sometimes together. It was not very pleasant to walk to classes in the cold water from the sky. On a positive note: finished sewing my Halloween costume; just need to get some red hair dye and dye all of my hair red.

Have a cold and am currently at war with my nose, stop bleeding already will you. I feel so sorry for professors during cold season due to the random nose blowing and coughing that occurs during class. Quite enjoy my Religion and Science Fiction class, will be wearing Halloween costume to class, hopefully without it raining. Got to read a book not related to class at all, and it was an young adult book but, whatever.

Making a friend an orange hat a scarf set, so much fun, must remember to take pictures.

Science Fiction class is awsome

The why to tell that some one has gone over the edge of geekiness is when they take a religion and science fiction class at college. The class is seriously one of the neatest classes ever, where else would you be assigned a piece of reading called the "The Nine Billion Names of God" by Arthur C. Clarke, the universe ends at the end of the short story. Also this class has assigned movie watching, this includes Star Trek episodes. The fact that I can now say that I have discussed Star Trek, gender roles and religion all in the same class is for me a very good feeling, also I am now vindicated.

On the knitting from I am now crocheting a Cthulhu because I can and we read HP Lovecraft, also the other projects are coming along well. 

Naginata continues to progress well, we have some new members and two of our members have recently tested and passed to the next rank. 

For random stuff, there is a very good reason that I try to avoid spending large amounts of time on youtube is that I can find the weirdest things like Lovecraftian christmas carols and this:

Thats all for now.

Why weather is evil

Weather is evil, on the first 2 days of classes we had rain and then Friday and now today we have sunny warm weather. It is so much easier to do homework when the weather is crummy. Weather aside the homework objective for today has been met and now other business can be taken care of, like blogging and the other random things that need doing.

On the knitting front the gauntlets are continuing to progress and are for now my in class knitting which may change at a latter date to another project, also a Cthulu has been started on, he will be a kind of minty green in color.

In some very good news my bike is in full working trim after I had to bend the kickstand away from the wheel where it was rubbing and creating a horrible vibration. I now have my primary form of distance transportation back which will also help with getting to class faster, or meals.

On a random note the first official meeting of the naginata club is tonight and also I am having an enjoyable time playing with some figures and rubber ducks, the top of my printer was empty and looked lonely.

RIP Golddust

On September 5th Golddust (Goldy) my brothers cat passed away he was approximately 14 years old.

Goldy
1997(Date unknown)- September 5, 2011

College and Tea

I have returned to Mt. Holyoke College for the year and am living in a great single. Saw many of my friends, there were many hugs and plans made.  I finally finished decorating my room and now have posters on all of the walls, so now my room looks more like my room not a sterile place with nothing interesting going on. It is slightly odd to be living in a college dorm room without a roommate but the single has many perks, the only snoring will be yours, and you will not have to worry about what if your roommate(s) don't like your music.

One of my friends went to India and she brought me back some tea, which I am currently drinking. The tea is Nilgiris Orange Pekoe Leaf, this is a nice black tea that is slightly bitter but very good. Those who know me know that I am a bit of a tea addict, I have 13 different teas with me, some are only single servings of a tea. She also gave me 12 red bangles so now I jingle whenever my arm moves!

For the randomness, I now have a Gundam Wing sticker on my phone:

The Return of The Internet

The internet is finally back on at my house so now the joy of being able to contact people is mine again. In a post hurricane (tropical storm) update much knitting and reading was had also some movie watching took place. The knitting was the gloves and I started a pair of gauntlets inspired by the Ithilien Rangers and if you don't know who they are shame. Seriously if you haven't read/watched the Lord of the Rings and have basic knowledge it is kind of like not having seen Star Wars.

On a fairly random/stupid note I went to the beach to watch the surf during Irene and took some pictures, the waves were only a couple of feet high when I went down but there were people swimming in the surf, must have been cold. The worst part was how strong the wind was as at the beach there are no wind breaks to blunt the wind.

Pics:

And for the random: Top 100 Sci Fi Fantasy books

Hurricane and Kntting

As the rain from tropical storm Irene continues and the puddles grow, the knittng on my first pair of gloves progresses. The gloves are made out of sock yarn and are only supposed to take 1 skien of yarn. :) In other news while we still have power the internet has been nonfunctional since last night, so this post is written from my phone. The plans for the day include knitting, reading books, listening to music and books, cooking and watching movies.
Sorry that the update is so short but typing on my phone is kind of hard.

Pictures and Drivers License

Today I passed my drivers test (finally), I managed to parellel park perfectly on the main street of the town I was testing in. Then I got to drive around alone for a bit which was different.

On the knitting side of things; here finally are some pictures of the kimono sweater I am knitting:

This is the back and you can see how much is left on it

This is the front.










That is basically all that has been happening on the knitting front.
Other pictures are my cat (2),  and whatever else I can think of.

The Saito picture is from deviantart so if anybody knows who did it and want to credit/ tell them can do so.

Day off Work

So in a day without work I have worked on my knitting, made pickled ginger, and made a pizza dough.
The sweater is coming along pretty well, just wish the internet is faster, I am on the second front piece. The pickled ginger is an experiment and I hope it works properly because I ran out of rice vinegar and had to substitute.

Beware the invasion of the Cthulu.
And enjoy Lady Gaga as done by a violin.

Why internet translators are bad

I was looking for a sock pattern to knit and I found one, it has one problem; it is in Norwegian (maybe) and the translation from google translate is hilarious. Not all the word came through at all well, and that is why we don't use online translators to do our homework.
On the actual knitting front, almost up to where I will split for the sleeves on the sweater, a not so good thing I will probably run out of the yarn in the body color before I finish with it.

Random Notice

At least it isn't the Lady Gaga covers done by violins, must find those now.

Red kimono sweater

I am making a Kimono sweater, the design is based off of Knitty's Kumo but with some sizing differences and fairly major design changes. The sweater is knit in one piece with a piece of color work on the back which will be from Stargate.
Pictures will be forthcoming

First Post

So this blog will be filled mostly with yarn and random things that happen.
A little about me, my name is my own, I like science fiction & fantasy, I knit and read.
I do marital arts, work as a librarian in the summer, and am fairly random at times.