"I'm not dead yet!"

Hello! Sorry for the lack of posts, I've been crazy busy.

Allow me to explain: I'm taking a night-school course, so my week is occupied by assignments. I haven't posted for so long that I got freaked out by Blogger's new look - it took me a minute to find the 'new post' button. Clearly I need to post a little more often.

I haven't gotten much knitting done, but I hope to start something for the Ravelympics in July. I'm thinking of making a pair of socks, since I've never made socks before (and thus it would be a good challenge), and they're easy to store in a bag. Also, I could use an extra pair. My feet eat socks. I wish I were kidding.

On the reading front, I started reading The Hunger Games a month or two ago after much insistence from my friend. However, I'm not adding it to my Goodreads reading list, because I don't want to get caught up in keeping track of my page number and getting bogged down because I haven't been reading it very quickly. I think I read faster if I'm keeping track of my page number. As of today, I've read the first two chapters (yes, I read slowly :p), and I'm loving it so far.

That's all for now. Hope to be able to post again soon :)

edited to fix an error

I should be working in my GED book.

But instead, I'm blogging. I know Mom's gonna yell at me to work in my GED book soon, but I don't care. I can work on my GED in the evening if I want.

I didn't finish for the Ravelympics, which was a bummer. But hey, you can't win 'em all.

I've been trying to come up with a project for the Potions assignment for HPKCHC, and I think I've got one in mind: a headband. The assignment is to make something that protects you against evil, so a headband would protect against the evil of flyaway locks... right?

I watched Ghost yesterday. It's a really good movie. Patrick Swayze was really handsome ;) I was a little sad when he died, though not as heartbroken as a lot of people because I didn't know his work that well.

I might do some writing later. I'm itching to finish my ghost hunters story, and now I want to finish my Labyrinth fanfiction. I think I'll work on the fanfiction today...

What's new

Not a lot is new in my life, actually. I printed off a couple of patterns that I intend to use for Herbology and Ancient Runes. I didn't print of the pattern I want to use for Charms yet, because I don't have the right yarn. That, and I haven't decided whether I'm using that pattern or making something else. I might even sign up for this month's Defense Against the Dark Arts, if I can fit it in.

So, I frogged the opera glove. At first I felt sad, but now I feel kinda relieved, because it was such a pain. I was using Red Heart Super Saver in Light Sage. As much as I love Red Heart Super Saver, I didn't like making the opera glove. Super Saver and eyelets don't seem to mix well. That, and the yarn was kinda bumpy and uneven, and I managed to get loose spots in the glove. The yarn will be used for my Herbology assignment instead. And my size 8 straight needles are free now! :D

HPKCHC has been a lot of fun thus far. I love hanging out in the Ravenclaw common room and looking through the class threads. What makes it even more neat if that I know a few people in the House Cup from other groups.

I came across a cute anime show Friday morning called Pretty Cure. I had been up really early because Mom had to go have bloodwork done at the lab, so I had to get up and look after the dogs. I didn't feel much like watching the morning news, so I flipped through the program guide and saw that Naruto was on YTV. I put it on and realised that it was pretty far into the series, so I did more guide-surfing until I decided to watch Naruto. Then on the other YTV channel, I saw Pretty Cure, and decided to see what it was. Like I said above, it's pretty cute. I didn't catch the end of the episode because Mom and Dad came home, so I flipped it back to the morning news, just in case Mom would tut-tut about me watching kids' shows :p The library doesn't have Pretty Cure, and I looked it up on Wikipedia and clicked on the YTV link to see the episode list. Turns out the season is almost done, so I'm hoping they'll replay it.

Other than that, not a lot has been going on.

Totally forgot to talk about the sorting!

Yup, yesterday us HPKCHC-ers got sorted. I was placed in....

Wait for it...

RAVENCLAW!!!!!

Yep! I got into Ravenclaw! I've already signed up for two classes - Ancient Runes and Charms. I would have signed up for Herbology, but the thread is locked because the assignment isn't up yet. I'm going to start planning for the Ancient Runes assignment tonight :D

I might use a notebook to keep track of project ideas, actually. I'll have to look around my room for a mostly blank notebook :p Maybe I'll use the one with the Degas painting printed on it... I think it's 'Blue Dancers'. Degas sure liked his dancers!

Hah, I just realised that my Degas notebook contains one of Ravenclaw's colours :p

Or maybe I'll buy a cheap notebook at the independent dollar store near my house. They have some nice notebooks for, like, under $5. I got my Degas notebook there, actually.

In other news, I went to an orthodontist appointment today. They wound up taking another impression of my bottom teeth and making me a new bottom retainer. This time it's a retainer that covers all of my bottom teeth instead of the front four, like my old one did. And it's thicker, too, so I won't wear through it like I did with my very first bottom retainer (before the bottom-front-four-teeth retainer). The traffic on the way was horrendous - there was an accident near the hospital where Grandma's staying in now (they moved her back to the first hospital she was at before her 30-day physio at the second hospital). They had a good stretch of road blocked off with pylons, so it must've been pretty bad. That, and the first time I went down to the ortho office (I had to come back in the afternoon to pick up my new retainer), the parking was terrible. It usually is at that office, because the building the ortho office is in has such minimal parking. And when we tried parking in the spaces for the dance studio next door, some guy came up to us and told us that there was 'no parking here'. Jerk...

It's Friday! :D I'm probably going to the library tomorrow to take stuff back and pick stuff up. I might browse a little while I'm there, too.

I think I'm getting sick.

I've been drinking a lot of water today - at first I thought it was because I've been eating a lot of salt lately, but I feel tired too, and, well, let's just say that my nose is full of pretty colours. If this continues, I'm not going to youth group tonight, because not only will I get other people sick, I might fall asleep partway through the meeting.

I read my library book for a bit, then I knit, then I tried to sleep but couldn't so I came up here and fired up my computer. I watched InuYasha on Youtube, checked my e-mail, went on Ravelry, and now I'm writing this and I'm still on Ravelry. But I'm exhausted. Then again, I am a bit warm wearing this bathrobe...

I did do some schoolwork, but not much.

Here's one of the songs I listened to via YouTube today. Because my music collection is lacking, I've been listening to my favourite songs through YouTube.

I totally forgot to mention my RAK!

Yep. I got RAK-ed.

Someone was in the Teen RAK group as a guest and saw my list and PMed me, saying that they had some novelty yarn they could send. So I send the person my address, and yesterday I got the RAK! I don't have pictures yet, as I have only two USBs on my computer, but when I can, I'll take some photos, put them on my dad's computer and onto my Flickr. I might e-mail them to myself, too, so I can put the photos on Facebook. I recieved:

Three skeins of Bernat Boa in 'Cardinal'.
Three skeins of Lion Brand Fun Fur Stripes in 'Copacabana'.
Two skeins of Lion Brand Fun Fur Solid in 'Ivory'.

Take that, Combat Mom

My mother, well, she's in combat mode today. So I'm up here fuming with my music blaring. First it was the Rocky Horror soundtrack. Now it's Queen.

Man, I love being able to access the internet from the Spare Oom and blast music.

We got into a fight over school safety - I know, it's an odd subject to argue over, but we're a strange family. You see, we were watching Dr Phil at the time, and the episode was about violence in school. So I'm trying to get my point across, and she's cutting me off, and gets all offended when I tell her not to interrupt, because apparently I sound condescending. I probably did sound rude, but trust me, that was not what I was aiming for. So I hide up here, and scream that she always has to be right, and it's been that way since the day I was born. Dad calls me back down and calmly tells me that that was uncalled for and that the sun doesn't shine outta my, er, butt. I would use the alternative word, which is what he actually used, but I don't want to offend anyone. You have to feel sorry for my dad, really. He got caught in the middle of a catfight (again, I'll avoid using the explicit alternative).

So now I'm up here, blogging, with a Ravelry window open, Queen's greatest hits blaring, and a can of V8 on my desk.

♪Can anybody find me somebody to looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooove?♪

Okay, I'm a lazy blogger.

But really, not a lot has happened.

I went to Michael's yesterday to get some yarn (even though I'm supposed to be de-stashing) for a project I intend on starting. I won't say what, in case someone reads it and spills. Then today I went to Len's to get a button for my ruff. I got a pair of sparkly star shank buttons, which I think will go well with the blur yarn. I'm not sure what I'll do with the second button - maybe I'll make a purse.

I've also joined the Teen RAK (Random Acts of Kindness) group on Ravelry. It's already quite fun.

The destashing is going well. I used up a skein of blue acrylic for that ruff, nearly a skein of Lion Brand Imagine on my mobius wrap, and some Wool-Ease Thick & Quick. I also might use up my Knit Picks Wool of the Andes by making a felted punk tie, and I cast on for a pair of fingerless gloves, which will use up some of my black DK. I also used just over a skein of my Berella Whistler by making my hood, but I still need to make the ties, which will use more Whistler of the same colour.

Other than that, there's nothing else to report. I only got one decent shot of the yarn I just got, so I'll put up photos in another post when I get a decent shot of the darker colour. I'll also take a photo of the buttons.