Snow, Snow and more snow

One week, two snow storms. The first one was named Euclid, on Thursday. Euclid gave us about a foot of snow and closed the library early. When I went to work that morning there was snow on the road and the roads weren't plowed in my town, by the afternoon the roads were plowed but people had started to have accidents  There was one in the center of my town, no one was hurt apparently  but the car was upside down in the ditch. On Friday we had some time so Dad had me clear the deck with the electric snow blower, I prefer the shovel and the giant snow mountain that results.

Freyr was the second storm, there has been at least another foot of snow from it. The major part of the snow came down in the night so beyond waking up and realizing that there is tons of snow again life is good.

In knitting, I have decided what pattern to use for Dad's birthday present and just have to wind the yarn to start it. Pictures of the yarn and project will be coming soon.

Grandma is enjoying her xmas present that I made her.

I watched the Christmas special for Doctor Who, and that was so not fair is all I have to say about it. Well and Strax is hilarious with his grenades. I had been attempting to get into watching Supernatural, but have given it up as I find it rather blah.
My cat decided one day as I was making tiramisu that she interested in the espresso.

On another note, Star Trek:

Bus Rides, Broken Heating, and Maine

Yesterday I took a series of buses home. I started the bus rides at 11:50 and reached where my Dad picked me up a little after 21:00, didn't actually reach home until about 22:00. I hate riding on buses, I always end up sitting next to people, and there are never any good movies. My highlights of the trip are as follows: the first bus being late, sitting next to people, sitting next to the guy with spikes in the shoulders of his shirt, sitting next to the guy wearing suspenders and a T-shirt, having a coughing fit on a bus, having to listen to others cell phone conversation. So much fun, really not worth it.

Currently my house is a bit chilly as the heating isn't working properly, my room is down right cold at times. Also I have the internet working for me, for now at least.

First thing I do when I am at home is go to the library, I now have lots of pleasure reading books. Borrowed on spinning book and one book of tea cozy patterns. 

In good news, I have more yarn for the fish hat. Merlin came home and my cat still likes me(mostly). Did a burn test on some of my yarn in the driveway, rather fun, the results were that one yarn was wool, the other was acrylic.

Also tea is yummy, currently drinking Ginger Peach which is a nice black tea. 

Maine: land of darkness in the fall, it isn't even 16:30 as I type this and it is getting dark already. Beyond that the weather today was nice and so was sleep.

November Day 7 or Winter is Coming

SNOW, ok, just had to get that out of my system. Yes it is snowing, and then the weather people say that it is going to rain which will not be so fun. Mostly just sitting in my room watching the snow fall, enjoying the heating, not so much the view because that is grey.

There's snow there, I promise

In really good news, Obama won! And Maine has marriage equality (hopefully to stay).

Apparently instead of stress eating I now stress spin since I got Merlin. I ended up making 3 small skeins of yarn while listening to election results and learned to Andean ply. Andean plying is kind of amusing to do, I do need to work on my technique a little bit so that I have better control of my yarn.

Drying 

Hanks sitting on my bed

Much work has been done on Grandma's hat, more to go.

It will be a hat, I swear it will be.

I won a $25 gift certificate to Amazon for completing a survey, buying fiber with it. We shall see how this goes.

Just because I can, and I am banned from xmas carols before Thanksgiving.

Beyond that, nothing interesting at all.

November Day 6 or Election Day

For all of my readers in the US if you have not voted already go do so ASAP. Personally I voted a while ago, absentee ballot, just because this is when I get a say in who run things in the national level and the local level. Also why are human rights up for the vote, just legalize same-gender marriage already Maine. Seriously you would think that this would be legal, it was for a while but there was a citizens veto. I am probably stay up way to late tonight due to watching the results come in. On a more amusing election note, my college has lots of geeks.

Sorry, can't vote for him, wrong side of the ocean.

Me and my Star Wars shirt

My parents sent me my fiber stuff so Merlin is actually spinning things now! Also included in the package was tea, chocolate and other assorted goodies.

Goodies, and backpack

In other news, I hate humanity less right now. The weather looks really nice out but it is cold outside.  Also there have been some sightings of the fighter jets flying overhead. In some really good news, my heat is on and working, my room no longer requires layers to function in! Don't know why it took so long.

Spring has arrived

Spring is officially here in all of it crazy weather glory. The week of Spring break was like summer then the weather went back to normal, now the temperatures are starting to go back up to normal temperatures. The turtles in Lower Lake are coming out onto the partially submerged logs to sunbathe.

Turtles

Also my puppies came to visit me, with my parents. It was my first time meeting the younger Luna.

Luna, the puppy who can't stay still

After they visited me we all went to my brothers track meet, and watched him run. Luna especially liked it because everyone petted her.

The naginata club had some guests so we had lots of really good training, and much fun also. The knitting has changed to crocheting a shawl for myself for attending my brothers graduation. The gift shawl was finished over Spring Break.

Blocking on my bed

SPRING

Spring has officially arrived, the temperature has risen over 60 degrees on more than one occasion. Midterms have also started and the semester is half way done. Spring Break is next week and people are already sun-bathing.

The anual spring flower show at the green houses has started and there are lots of flowers.

So many flowers. The theme of the show is wine, they didn't have any actual wine though.

Crocheting a blanket because I can and it seems to be going faster than when I knit blankets. I need to learn how to do granny squares. Pictures will be coming.

In a fight is was voted that Spock will beat Sherlock Holmes (There was voting involved).

Drag Ball, Snow and Knitting

We finally had snow, at the end of February but we have snow now.

Otherwise the weather has be rather warm for winter, this is not at all comfortable as it keeps raining. The Campus is much prettier with snow that with rain. The snow canceled both of my morning classes yesterday, so I slept in and then did work until my afternoon class.

On February 18th we had Drag Ball, Drag Ball is a large dance that happens every spring. It has a large number of men and women who are dressed in drag, with varying degrees of success.

So not photogenic, but the dress is sparkly!

 

We have a Lucius Malfoy pimp cane!

The knitting is progressing, no new pictures as is is large enough that the shawl resembles a giant blob.

Other news, wrote an entire short story, and have managed to reference Stargate and confuse people who eat with me.

Rurouni Kenshin is getting a live action movie!

J-Term

Wow I suck at updating. This was supposed to be written during J-term but today is the first day of classes instead. 

J-Term is part of winter break at Mt. Holyoke College where we students can come back early and take fun classes and hangout with friends. This J-term I took no classes but did spend time with all of my friends who were here. This time included visiting every free bin on campus and getting clothing and other fun things, so much better then shopping. Some of my friends as a joke put 5 floor lamps into another friends room for her to find. 

In other interesting news, I am now the proud owner of a Nintendo DS that I bought second hand off  a friend; the DS has been wonderful to play with.

In naginata news, j-term was highly productive, two of the kohai went into bogu for the first time and learned some new kamae out of bogu as well as some happoburi. We also had a couple of practices that were preceded by vigorous sandings of all of the habu (blades) so that splinters could be removed and to check on how much damage has been done so that we can know what habu are more likely to break. Me and the captain got to practice the engi forms 6-8 which was very nice as I am extremely rusty on those.

On the knitting side, I crocheted a cowl for cold weather, worked on my sweater, started a cover from my DS, started a hat that is supposed to be for someone (I get paid) but due to not getting details on the hat am unable to finish the hat base before adding cat features, and my Dad's birthday present. I deconstructed a scarf I found in the free bin and have been using the yarn and the yarn knits and crochets up quite nicely.

Case for Nintendo DS

The weather right now is rather bipolar, we had approximately 6 inches of snow in total and most of it has disappeared from heat and rain. We have had more unseasonably warm days than normal weather which is really annoying.  The warmth is rather nice in the sense of I can go outside without a winter jacket on, of course this is offset by the fact that the windows in my room seem to be sucking all of the heat out.

Saw the second season of Sherlock (BBC) and  could they have made that scene any longer. It was painful enough but then we had to stretch it out for as long as possible to make the ending as horrible as possible, and what is with that cemetery scene, really you are going to do that to us and then end the season.

Sherlock Holmes and John Watson

The actor who plays Watson will be Bilbo Baggins in the Hobbit movie and the actor who plays Sherlock will be Smaug apparently

And because I get amusement in weird places:

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.

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.