My left arm is killing me

Hi. Sorry for the lack of posts.

So, my left arm is really sore because I was working on a spiral scarf. It's over 800 stitches after the last increase row. Yes, I am crazy. I have to ask my mom to help me with it, though, because I'm running out of the Red Heart I'm using. I knew I was going to run out, but in the middle of a row?!

I'm reading a book called Girl in the Arena. It's due back to the library in twelve days. I might not finish it in time. Unless I can renew it.

I cleaned off my table yesterday. I moved my Beatles Monopoly to the bottom shelf of my right-hand bookcase, got rid of some garbage, moved my Cook's Magazine Anyone Can Cook cookbook to the space beside Beatles Monopoly, etc. I still have to find a space for Macbeth and Hamlet on one of my bookcases, but that can be done later. The important thing was moving Beatles Monopoly to a better spot, and bringing my Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll downstairs and putting it on my table. I organized my spare pads of paper and my knitting patterns, too.

I also exercised last night. I was already planning on exercising, but it got left to very late in the evening. I was so pissed off at my mom for nattering about me being out of shape and apparently putting on weight since I left karate, so I did some exercises in the dead of night, lol.

I'm gonna make a Team Spike wristband soon. For one of the HPKCHC classes :)

A somewhat productive Thursday

So, I didn't go to youth group last night, because chances are I would have bitched Stephen out for leaving me and Stone stranded last week.

Today's been good. I did some biology - another skull page. But this one's the last of the skulls - next I get to learn about the ribcage and such. I just wish Human 3D would stay functioning - I loved the animations. Mom gave me this biology e-book CD-ROM that used to be Katie's, but I haven't tried running it yet, because the system requirements say Windows 95, so... I'm a little scared :p I'm sure it'll run okay, but still, I want to be careful.

I was going to do memoir writing, but I never got around to it. Maybe tomorrow. I worked on one story a little, but not much. I also read a little bit of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.

No math today, but I might start Key to Geometry soon.

This afternoon, before Coronation Street came on, I watched Milk and cast on for my Herbology assignment. Milk was fantastic. Harvey Milk, to me, seemed to me like a Caucasian Martin Luther King Jr. - a powerful speaker. It is a shame, a real shame, that his life was cut short.

The Herbology assignment didn't go too well - my work was too loose, so I ripped it out, and I'm going to start again using a smaller circular needle.

Right now, my wrists are aching, so I should probably give myself a break from knitting and excessive typing tomorrow. Maybe I'll ask Mom to help me block some stuff, including the blanket square. And then maybe I'll borrow her camera and take a photo of the blanket square so that I'll earn points for my house.

I was thinking today that I should not only start geometry, but also physics. I have a physics book, but I'm concerned about what math I'll need for physics. Maybe I'll wait until I've done some geometry, or maybe I'll just go ahead and work through the physics book.

I was supposed to exercise today. Maybe tonight, before bed. I'll probably do some shadow-boxing (basically, shadow-boxing is fighting an imaginary opponent), and some exercises like push-ups, sit-ups, squats, etc.

I might also start a simple roll-brim hat, maybe adapting the pattern from Hip to Knit so that it's in the round instead of knit flat and seamed.

M-O-N-D-A-Y S-U-C-K-S!

Well, the new season of the Ellen Degeneres Show starts today, and Bonnie Hunt's show started today, so that's a plus. But I have an annoying headache. Being on my computer (man, that sounds weird... MY computer!) probably isn't helping much, either. It started out as a headache and sinus pressure, so I took a Claritin, which helped with the pressure.

Back to my computer. I was on it yesterday, and had a strange craving for seafood sauce, the kind of sauce you dip shrimp or calamari into. I couldn't believe it. Seafood sauce! I was craving seafood sauce!!! I find this weird mainly because I got sick of seafood sauce and stopped eating it with shrimp and calamari.

I also had to do updates on my computer. Java was yelling at me, as was Windows. On top of that, when I opened a PDF, Adobe decided to automatically update. Then I had to install the Adobe updates, with help from Dad. Dad also helped me with the Java updates and with the Windows updates. Fun. i did get some writing done while I waited for stuff to finish updating, though. I'm still getting used to Microsoft Word 2007, though, because on the downstairs computer, the version of Word that we have is '97-2003. Eeep.

My shoulders ache as well. I did push-ups, sit-ups and squats today, because I felt that I needed to exercise more. I haven't gone to cardio kickboxing in a while, so I'm out of shape. Mom wants me to go to the cardio class tonight, actually.