I bruised my foot.

I think I bruised it when I accidentally hit it on the baby gate as I stepped over it - we have a baby gate up across the one doorway to keep the dogs out of the cat litter. It doesn't hurt as long as I don't put pressure on it, and even then it hardly hurts. Last night, though, it stung, as though I had scraped it along the carpet or something.

I forgot to post about my walk to the mailbox last week - I think it was last Wednesday. Mom needed a couple of things mailed, so I walked down to the mailbox. It was a nice walk: I was on my own, and the weather was beautiful. It was a bit of a relief to be on my own for that short time.

Yesterday, Mom and I went outside to take a photo of my blanket square. She took the photo, since she knows her camera better than I do, thus she probably knows how to take a good shot of a handknit object in direct sunlight :) I haven't posted it to Ravelry yet, though, because it's still on her camera.

Did I mention that Aunt Patti is a bitch? Yeah. In a nutshell, she argued with Katie about getting Grandma to Katie's graduation next month. Patti knows very well that: a) Katie has reached the limit of how many tickets she can get, and b) I don't think Grandma cat sit in a wheelchair for that long a time, even if she has an aide with her (which won't work because Katie can only get four tickets), and even if there are wheelchair-access bathrooms. It would probably be too much for her.

Well, that's all. I might skip youth group again, or maybe I'll go. I haven't decided yet. I'm still pretty pissed at Stephen - not just because of the meeting two weeks ago when nobody but me and Stone showed up, but also because he has this attitude that the other members of the youth group come because they want to chit-chat and hang out. And whenever something gets planned, it's at the last minute. And we haven't done much for church-y things except painting and a couple of members selling tickets for something... I don't think Stephen even wants us to do a summer service, because Coming of Age has their service this year. Big deal! So we can't have a service because the Coming of Age kids are doing one? I don't find that fair at all! So what if they're doing a service?! We can do one, too!

I finally got around to taking photos!

So I finally for around to taking some photos of the yarn I got in my RAK.

First, the Lion Brand Fun Fur Solid in Ivory:




Next, the Lion Brand Fun Fur Stripes in Copacabana:




And finally, the Bernat Boa in Phoenix:




I also took a photo of my yellow skinny scarf:




My eyelid looks blue in that photo :p

And I also took a photo of my short rainbow skinny scarf:




Letterman's on! Yay!

Owch.

I guess I shouldn't knit tomorrow. I have this weird pulling pain in my left wrist. Mom reckons that it might be because I don't knit continental.

I did, however, work on Justin's scarf, and it's 14 inches long! Yay! The pattern says to knit a tube that measures 60 inches in length, so I'm nearly a quarter of the way finished the tube. After that, it's just duplicate stitching, and maybe blocking if it's needed. I love working wtih Patons Decor. It rarely splits, there's no friction on the needles, and it's just plain awesome! I have some Patons Decor in another colourway, Woodbine Ombre, which I might make a hat out of... an Ava beret, perhaps?

I also have a scratch on my left hand, which is odd. I must have scratched my hand on a box, or maybe on a table corner. It looks fairly recent, so maybe I scratched my hand at the library, when I was putting the items I took back into the bins. They have these slots in the desk where you put the items in, and they drop into a bin behind the desk - one bin for books, and another bin for everything else (CDs, DVDs, audio books, and so forth).

And now, for a cute photo of Teddy...




She likes to hide under towels. We had one on the couch, and when I returned from going to get my PlayStation, I saw Teddy under the towel. I got my camera, came back, and took photos. This is the only decent photo, because I overshot a few times. It's quite blurry, but you can still see the cuteness that is Teddy!

Back from the festival!

And I only spent $3! On a wooden ring! It's black with pink flowers, and it's quite pretty. I'll have to take a photo of it sometime.

My mom and I also got six buttons from a social justice tent. They're pretty awesome. I got one with a Nelson Mandela quote and one with a Rosa Parks quote.

But when we got funnel cakes, they were more like 'elephant ears'. And I don't mean the actual ears of elephants! I mean friend dough! I had icing sugar and whipped cream on mine, my mom had cinnamon sugar on hers and my dad had maple syrup and brown sugar on his. They were still good, but not exactly what we had anticipated, because we've had a proper funnel cake before. I can't remember where we got one, though...

It was raining on and off. The fella who directed us to a spot and took the $6 parking fee told us a psychiatrist joke: How many psychiatrists does it take to change a lightbulb? One - but only if the lightbulb really wants to change!

Before we started looking at the tents, Mom took a photo of some pretty flowers, then Dad went back to the car to get his sunglasses (I, as usual, forgot mine). While we waited for him to come back, Mom took two photos of a squirrel in a tree eating a potato chip.

Holly didn't e-mail me about going to the festival, so she was probably too busy. The festival wasn't that fabulous anyway - it used to be so much better, from what my parents told me. And it was raining, so it wouldn't have been much fun for Holly.

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.

The hood is off the needles!

It's not a very good photo, but it's the finished project!

I wasn't sure if I'd get it done today, because I sliced my thumb on a can lid. I was opening a couple cans of chili, and one can had a pull-off lid and the other was a standard can that needed to be opened with a can opener. So I got the lid off and was rinsing off the lid that I had to get off the standard can, and I accidentally cut my thumb. It's not that bad a cut, so I just cleaned it and put a knuckle band-aid on it, even though the cut isn't on the knuckle - it's on the pad of my thumb, which means I won't be playing Final Fantasy VIII for a few days.

Anyway, I was worried that the yarn would get caught on this band-aid, so my dad told me that there was two first aid kits downstairs. So, I brought one up and found a fingertip bandage (not Band-Aid brand, just a generic brand), and put it on. I managed to do the three-needle bind-off on my hood, and now it just needs ties! I think I'll use my blue chunky for the ties, because the blue will go well with the grey.