Have a couple of more things to make before I can cross them off my list!

Today went by bloody fast, even with my cell dying before noon. Got in a little knitting at my break, even. Also, I have to say that Kythryne over at Wyrding Studios is SUCH A FRIGGING YARN PIMP, that she's got me considering a $65 skein of laceweight silk. The colors, people, THE COLORS! And the SOFT. Argh. Argh argh argh. She spent many convincing messages on flickr about this particular brand (Sundara Yarn) and lord help me...I'm considering putting aside money in order to pay for the exorbinately, freakishly, selfishly lavish yarn. *sigh*


Snagged meme from my aoibhe
day 01 | a song
day 02 | a picture
day 03 | a book/ebook/fanfic
day 04 | a site>
day 05 | a youtube clip
day 06 | a quote
day 07 | whatever tickles your fancy

17 Things I Made and the follow-up The Beckoning Of Lovely - be warned, I cry like a baby during the second one (I dunno either, dude, I just do. It's one of those things.) AMAZING IDEA. <333

Stomach still hates me, but to be fair, I ate a hamburger today. I know, it was my WTF WREN?! moment. Hey, I never claimed any of you loved me because I was smart or nuthin'. =P Also, apparently Hope Springs Eternal, because after frogging* a knitting project last night, and nearly flinging yarn across my room fueled by bad, bad, bad language of the salty variety, I found a variation of the same pattern, and thought to myself, "Hey! Instead of just the two or three I was going to knit BEFORE CHRISTMAS, I'll be able to knit FIVE! No six, I can make one for myself!" Oh. Oh self. You can see how deluded I was this morning, with the adding of one for me. *shakes head* Like I said before, I never claimed to be Reid-like in my intelligence level. =P

* to "frog" something is to "rip-it" apart. Yanno. Rip-it, rip-it? Like Ribbit? Honestly, guys, it's not like I can just make this up all on my own. =P

Snagging this meme from my darling wifey, aoibhe (baaaaah!)
day 01 | a song
day 02 | a picture
day 03 | a book/ebook/fanfic
day 04 | a site
day 05 | a youtube clip
day 06 | a quote
day 07 | whatever tickles your fancy

George Harrison - My Sweet Lord (This song is just one of those that everytime I hear it on the radio, I have to turn it up and sing along. It's just so...I dunno. Zen. Plus, I ♥ George.)

( I really wanna see you lord )

So on Friday, my father, true to form, was a complete and utter asshole. Yanno, I'm not entirely sure what I did - or, rather, what I've DONE my entire life - to deserve his contempt, but I just grew to shovel it back. He spent the better part of 15 minutes yelling at me because I missed the turn off to Carynn's apartment building. Every single thing that came out of his mouth was basically to show just what a fuck-up and stupid person I was, and how he *gasp* had to find a place to turn around one whole half a block in order to get back to the driveway. Jesus on a pogo stick. I cannot stand this man. It's not even as if it was out of his way, they had to drive past it anyway to get to my uncle's anyway. I just...I just don't get him. -_-

Other than that, the weekend wasn't too shabby. Got co-worker S's polar bear all knit up, watched a lot of tv, ate some Thai food, and hardly slept. Didn't have internet all of Friday and part of Saturday due to the fact that I wasn't left a password to the net like I was suppose to, but she eventually texted it to me, so all was good.

Now, Ten For Ten. I'm back, bebe!

1) I got my first gift in the mail from the ravelry.com Random Acts of Kindness group! HEE! Not only was there the promised handmade Barbie clothes for my Pullip dolls (omg, KNITTED PANTIES! *gigglefit* SO FUN!), there was also a wee bit of some pretty wool, and teeeeny US1 sized knitting needles. <3 Sooo nice!

2) I found a yarn swift on my most favorite place to shop, etsy.com this morning! Handmade, and only $19.95 + $11 shipping. The swift I saw at the craft store last weekend? $80. I'm so psyched. I might just be able to pull of my Xmas gift knitting list after all!

3) Kitty snuggles from Quickdraw and Milo. <3

4) Coming home TO MY OWN BED. Oh, how I missed it.

5) Angel, Burn Notice, CSI:NY, AND Juno dvds, alllll waiting for me.

6) Twitter!spam with my ohana and darling friends all weekend long.

7) Every passing day brings me one step closer to AZ. <3

8) Funny text messages from the twin, isolabela ♥

9) THAI FUD. Even if I shouldn't have eaten it due to the fact that my stomach is still completely stupid. OM nom nom nom!

10) The sun is shining outside, and I don't have the Sunday blues. ^_________^

I need a new LJ layout. Something bright and cheeky and possibly lots of pink and other lovely sorts of colors. I adore my beautiful SPN boys, but all the dark...I need a change. Blah.

Knitting, knitting, knitting. Stress knitting is good, if only because it makes you pick up all the projects you've been neglecting/procrastinating on. Of course, I still have three unfinished stuffed toys, a Polar Bear to start in on for my co-worker, a ton and a half of Christmas gifts, a pair of socks, nearly completed fingerless mitts, and my Noro 1x1 rib striped scarf - which I actually managed to pick up and knit on while deep in the middle of s5 of CSI:NY (I *love* instant Netflix on my computer.) 1x1 rib is easy when you need something to keep your hands busy, and when you want to watch something on the computer instead of watching your hands be busy. And busy they have to be. I have got some seriously idle hands atm, and it's doing me no favors at all.

Also, learned about a possible source for the months of waking up randomly bruised, and also...um...just the waking up. Several times a night. Every. Single. G'damn. Night. My anti-d's may be the cuplrit. Fanfuckingtastic. Guh. It causes bruising and sleeplessness (I was warned not to take them after 3pm as they would keep me awake, but c'mon...GUH!) It's on the side effects list in the pamphlet they hand me every time I fill my prescript. But me? I don't read it. Mostly because I'm stupid. Hey, I never claimed any of you liked me for my brains. My mother was the one who read it a couple of days ago and put 2 and 2 together. I wake up covered in bruises, guys. All the way down my legs, my arms, even the tops of my feet. I'm clumsy, this has been witnessed by several people - in fact, I'm KNOWN for it. There's a reason my sister gave me my awkward-girl.net domain, just sayin' - but this is ridiculous. I'm about ready to chuck the whole thing and just tell my doc to put me on effin' Prozac. This is me. Totally fed up. With like...everything. -_-;; I don't think I'd be nearly so depressed if I could just find the freaking right things to make me feel better. My bad hip from the car accident is acting up too. Think it's the weather, going from cool to BLAZING HOT back to the low 60's. So, along with stress knitting, I've been stress EATING, and OH GODS NO I AM NOT GOING BACK TO THAT. Uh uh, not a chance. I am going to continue LOSING weight, not gain it all back. I will not let the one good thing that happened from getting so godawful sick go. Not to a handful of candy bars all week. Nuh.

Hey, but the one good thing about, well, the past three weeks? Is that I am totally gonna figure out this crochet thing once and for all tomorrow. C.'s mom and C. and I are all getting together for a craft day. I'll help mom with knitting patterns, she's gonna help me with crochet, and C. is gonna make her felt critters, and it shall be made of win.

But for the moment, I've had the same headache since last Friday, and I am going to bed.

Dear Long-tail Cast On,

Honestly, you are my favorite cast on, even if I'm not all that fond of cast ons in general. And yet, YET, you thwart me at every turn, causing me to cast on the same stitches over and over and over again until I don't have half a skein of yarn left ove on the wrong end of things. Really. Shape up, L-TCO, or I'm leaving you for that sexy Twisted German cast on. He's FOREIGN.

Yeah, just think about that.

Ripping out yet another set of stitches,
Wren

So today was pretty "meh" too, although slightly less "meh" than yesterday. Mom proceeded to scream at me for not jumping to attention and offering my laptop to her last night, and then proceeded to bitch about it this morning, to which I had to reply (twice), "Stop acting like such a damn martyr." She's pissed at my brother and my dad, and then takes it out on ME, who is ALWAYS ON HER FUCKING SIDE. I am just saying. Maybe is not good to act like a menstrual 14 year old girl to your best ally? -_-

I did, however, get a coffee smoothie from my manager, the coveted Denise Interchangable Circular Knitting Needles (the sexiest phrase ever, let me just tell you =P) with dollie money, and sushi. Also managed to race upstairs with minimal contact with my mother. Score. I am exhausted though. This week (month? MONTHS?) have just been...hard. There is very little keeping me going. I think JUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUNE and my mini-trips to my twin and Olivia are the only things that are keeping me semi-sane. *sigh*

Am hoping my yarn for my Wrenna sweater comes tomorrow (it's the last one on the top row: Oregano. Many thanks to my ohana, secretchristine, for finalizing on a color. ♥) I am gonna be hiding this weekend in my room methinks, and need something to keep me busy. ^^;;

Mostly because I don't have anything of the slightest bit of interest to talk about -- I played office drone and did bitchwork in the lab, nothing very exciting. But it feels weird not to post, thanks to NaBloPoMo, so while I don't intend on doing it this month, I might just as well for all the good it's gonna do me. =P Also, since I have this domain laying dormant, I might move all my knitting/craft stuff there, but yanno...that requires a) techie people to help, b) ditto on graphics-y people, c) vastly more webspace, and d) slightly more gumption than I've got at this point. =P

So instead, I give you... MOEBIUS SCARF. Pee Ess: Who wants to be my sugar mama/daddy and get me these? *drools* Lordy, I looked at Addi Turbos at the store last weekend...well over $20 for a single circular needle? Not just no, HELL NO. *grin*

( Wren's photog skills leave much to the imagination... )

I HAVE SUCCEEDED WITH MOEBIUS KNITTING! Lost a couple of stitches in the process, but it's there now, and flowing nicely, and I can finally discharge one of my long-standing knitting debts (scarf for mi mama.) HA! Take THAT seemingly impossible knitting technique!

I feel somewhat accomplished this month, actually. Even if it's "only knitting", and hell, something I enjoy, I slogged through the Shawl of Doom, didn't immediately scrap the Scarf of Calamity when it got tough, have devious plots in the process of being carried out, pulled out my spindle for another go at hand spinning, and tackled the moebius knitting cast on. Life may be throwing bits of ennui my way, but by Gods, I FINISHED SOMETHING. *triumph*

Also? I miss my ohana. I really, really, REALLY do. *sniffle* Luckily, I have a couple of trips inbetween now and JUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUNE to take a bit of the edge off. My twin isolabela and I are planning a three day weekend of Zebra cakes, caffeine, anime, and knitting in April. I AM SO LOOKING FORWARD TO THIS. *is already packed* I've got another three day weekend in May with one of my closest friends, Liv, in Portland, OR. She and I always manage to have fun together, even if we're just sprawled around her living room, watching America's Next Top Model marathons in our pajamas, eating ice cream. And then, a week full of ohana, Sedona, tattoos, and complete and utter havoc (the GOOD kind of havoc, mind) in JUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUNE. I get melancholy from time to time, you guys, but I know I've got friends and family who love me. AND I LOVE YOU GUYS RIGHT BACK! *smooches* I must've done something really good in a previous life, to have you people in my life. <333

Went to craft store today with an increasingly whiney mother (honestly, when did she become a five year old? Can someone tell me this please?) and got more pink yarn, shorter knitting needles for my two scarf projects (10" as opposed to 14" lengths. It's just SO MUCH EASIER to knit when you don't have these huge ass needles to deal with, getting in the way of things like arms. =p Both projects have been successfully transferred to the new knitting needles), and memory wire/memory wire cutters to make beaded headbands for my dolls (okay, so I totally geeked out today. Sue me. =p) I also got phone calls from secretchristine and aoibhe. The rest of you, be jealous of my awesomeness. *giggle*

As for the pink yarn, I got it for my pink moebius shoulder bag. Now, I love YouTube. Not only does it bring me random clips of Dean Winchester being hot, and Sam losing his shoe, but it shows me the one knitting technique I was dying to learn, and couldn't for the life of me figure out. Cat Bordhi, you're my hero. *salutes*

( Moebius knitting IS SO COOL )

...I totally bought chocolate. FYI. Though one of the things I got had some coconut hidden in there. I think it's a testament to how very blah (it certainly wasn't that elusive maturity) I am today when I didn't even flip out and just continued to munch it until it was gone. =P I am, however, planning on eating the Cadbury bar in its entirety while slugging in bed in front of The West Wing. This is despite the fact that in order for Plotty Plots that are Plotty to occur, I have to actually finish up some projects before the end of March (okay...maybe the beginning of April.) I am just done for today. Peace out.

Speaking of which, I managed to not completely eff up an entire pattern repeat on the Scarf of Calamity. I almost did, I really really tried to eff up the very last lace row before the pattern repeat was finished, but I was totally zen and managed to unknit and reknit in the correct order the offending stitches. Oh yes. I shall prevail.