A little shaky.

I'm a little shaky today - not so much now, but at dinner my hands were shaking. Mom thinks it's because of my period, but I've never had that happen before. Huh. She also thought it could be low blood sugar.

I was also ravenously hungry at dinner. Just as Mom was getting the roast ready to go in the oven, I ate up the last of the pretzel sticks and drank a Coke while watching Toronto FC's match against the Seattle Sounders. Boy, were Seattle playing dirty. And the referee was being a complete jerk, too. Like when one of our players got elbowed by a Seattle player, and the ref didn't give him a yellow card! What the hell?! It was a 0-0 tie game, anyhow.

Oh yeah, I finished my fun fur scarf yesterday during my MTV binge. Weaving in the ends was a bit tricky, but once I got used to it, it went fine.

I went to the library today and picked up The Soloist, The Wedding Singer, Super-Cute Crochet and U2's newest album No Line on the Horizon. I also cruised the manga section and grabbed volume 1 of Fullmetal Alchemist. When I went to renew my card, though, they told me I needed a piece of ID other than a piece of addressed mail, which was what another librarian told me, so next time I have to bring my health card. They changed the status of my teen card to an adult card, though.

IT'S DONE!!!!! IT'S DONE!!!!!

That's right, Justin's scarf is done! I decided not to seam the ends, though. Instead, I wove the tails in and left the curled edges alone. It looks nice that way. I should have pictures soon.

In other news, Mom's been baking, we still have to put up those garlands from Michaels, and I have to wrap three more presents - Katie's, Mom's, and Justin's. I found out the other day that Dan got me something for Christmas, so Mom decided that I would give him a shirt. Dan really didn't have to get me anything. Isn't it funny how my brother can't be bothered to get anything for his family, his FIRST family, and yet someone who isn't related to me decided to get something for me for Christmas? Words can't begin to describe how thankful I am.

Just the seaming to do now...

That's right. I'm DONE sewing the yellow triangles on Justin's scarf. It was actually not that difficult - pinning the triangles down and fixing the bind-off holes on some of the triangles, that was the hardest. Well, that and aligning the triangles. But the sewing part was not that hard. So now I just have to seam the ends, wrap 'er up in a gift box, and I'm all set. I think I might also include a little notecard with washing instructions written on it. Might be helpful.

And holy crap, it's already the 20th of December! EEP! I have to wrap pressies! Well, I've got Dad's done already. I'm giving him a shirt and The Essentials: The Blues Brothers CD, which we got at Indigo during the bitter-and-sorta-pointless shopping trip.

...And now my left speaker has kicked out. Dammit.

Anyways. Uncle Brent is probably dropping in on Christmas Eve, which is cool. Christmas Day is just us three - me, Mom and Dad. Katie, Dan, Nathan and Steph are coming up on the 27th.

I only have Nathan's lamp, Katie's pressie and Mom's pressie (can't say what they are, because they both know about my blog!) to wrap. Oh, and Justin's scarf, of course. I was going to make Breanne something, but I decided not to. I feel a little guilty, but she's been giving Uncle Brent a hard time, so maybe I'll knit her a scarf for her birthday instead.

Knitting applique. I haz it.

First, let me tell you, dear reader, about last night.

I made the mistake of calling my mother a bitch, because she wouldn't let me watch the Mr Bean Christmas special - I think it's called Merry Christmas, Mr Bean. Dad wanted to look for something else to watch, so I had to surrender the remote. For calling Mom a bitch (but not to her face - it'll take me a long time to have the guts to do that), I was off my computer for the night and sent to my room, where I listened to music and read a couple of books.

Today was better. Mom helped me with sewing the yellow triangles on Justin's scarf. I would've done the duplicate stitching, but neither me nor Mom could make head or tail of it, so she said to knit some triangles out of the yellow yarn and sew them on. I have one end done. I'm not going to do both sides of each end, just one side. I hope Justin won't mind that the triangles are slightly raised. What really pissed me off was when I was sewing away and Dad started playing with the dogs, making them bark. I was literally in tears, he bothered me that much.

Currently listening to: Bullet the Blue Sky by U2 - via YouTube, because I don't have my own copy of The Joshua Tree.

Youth group was AWESOME.

Youth group was pretty cool last night. I haven't seen Sela in a while. We're not exactly bosom buddies, but I'm jsut curious as to why I haven't seen her at meetings.

We're going to paint the loft. I'm a bit sad about this, but it really does need to be painted. We had to sand down the rough edges from where past members of the youth group had stenciled on designs, because the whole surface needed to be a bit smoother for when the primer goes on the walls. We're keeping the wall to the right plain so that we can project stuff on it, but the other walls are probably going to be an apple green. I won't be able to bring music because, by the sound of it, it'll all be mp3 players because someone has an iPod dock thingy, and I have no iPod. So.... yeah. Dammit. Emma won't be there by the sound of it because of soccer stuff. I don't know if I'll be going yet, but I hope I can go. We're also going to help with the other painting in the church.

Gah, I slept in until 11-ish this morning, and I didn't actually come upstairs until close to 12:00. I was on my computer at 4-ish, and I didn't even realise what time it really was until I heard my dad come home, and I was like, holy crap, it feels like noon, but it's 4-ish!

graaaaaagh.

I have to finish Justin's scarf tomorrow. And my hood. And my fingerless gloves.

Woo-hoo.

Time for some awesomeness, people :)

1. YouTube is liking me again. It turns out that they were doing updates, which is why it thought that my Flash was out of date or my JavaScript was turned off.

2. I think I have my new library card memorized. Although I find it pointless that they gave me a 'teen card' when I'll have to get an adult card next year.

3. Coldplay's gonna be on Saturday Night Live this week!!!!

4. I'm doing NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) this year, starting on November 1st.

5. I sent an e-mail to the Knit.1 staff asking when the next issue would be out, and I got a reply - they said that it will be out on December 16th.

6. I think we're having chicken wings for dinner, but I'm not sure. My parents bought chicken wings today.

7. My parents also bought chips today.

8. While my parents were out doing grocery shopping, I read We're Going to See The Beatles! and drank a huge mug of hot chocolate. And then I started drinking some Dr Pepper. I didn't finish the whole can yet, I figured I'd put it in the fridge so that my teeth won't get too rotten :p

9. I just remembered that Ugly Betty is on tonight!!!

10. I think I'll make a funky scarf for Breanne for Christmas.

I screwed up

No, really, I did!

I was finishing my second mug cozy, and I forgot to make the buttonhole. I went crazy. Mom was going to send me to my room and ground me from using the internet, I was so upset. But it got fixed. She taught me how to make a crochet loop.

I bound off Justin's scarf, but I haven't completed it yet. It still needs it's ends sewn and the emblem stitched on in duplicate stitch.

And I'm doing an okay job typing without looking at the keys as often. I still have to look down, though, for tougher words.

I might start dishcloths next. Or a hat.

I need a can of pop.

I'm going to visit my sister tomorrow!!!!

So tomorrow Mom, Dad and I are going to London Ontario to see Katie and her boyfriend. And I get to meet their cat, Jeffrey! I saw the photos that Katie e-mailed to Mom, and he looks like he has Siamese in him. He looks adorable. I'll take my camera with me so that I can take pictures of Jeffrey.

Also, a book called It Girl Knits is on order at the library! There's so many interesting new books that just got added, but too many for my list. It's already full. Thankfully, though, I have two items in transit, so I can free up my list a little.

I worked on Justin's scarf today. I have to take another photo of it soon, because it's progressed since the first photo. I'll have to start the second skein soon.

I feel like writing yet another post.

Yes, I'm that bored.

I worked on Justin's scarf a bit today while watching The Matrix. Then I started working on my Kerchief Scarf, which I've decided to turn into a wrap. After all, I have enough cotton for it!

My hands are ridiculously dry. I haven't really been eating or drinking much dairy - I have dairy aggravated excema, so I get dry skin when I eat or drink dairy on a regular basis. But the weird thing is, normally it's the backs of my hands that get dry, and lately it's just been between the fingers that gets dry. Maybe it's from knitting too much.

Now that I think about it, fall is coming... meaning that pretty soon my feet will dry up and new splits will pop up on my toes. Yay me.

I indulged again - I pulled my duvet over me and listened to some of the songs off Darkness on the Edge of Town while going through my issues of Knit.1. Then I turned on the radio, and they played a song from said album, a song called 'Promised Land'. Or is it 'The Promised Land'? Anyway, it's a cool song. Mom called me up for dinner, but I didn't come up. When Dad called me up for dinner a little bit later, I came up and ate.

I'm getting back into the habit of playing my keyboard. I've been trying to play 'Bennie and the Jets' by ear, which is going okay. 'Badlands' is much harder, because the tempo is quicker.

Idolmania!

So I watched Canadian Idol tonight. Although I'm pissed that Mark Day got kicked off (I also feel bad for not voting), I still enjoyed tonight's episode. Even though the coaches were Simple Plan, who are not my cup of tea. I thought Bryan Adams was supposed to coach them this week! Maybe it's next week. I tried voting, but I kept getting a busy signal. I'll try again in a bit.

I was actually a bit nervous about phoning in, as I've never done that before, and I'm not keen on using the phone. That's why I never call any of my friends - I feel more comfortable e-mailing them or talking to them on Windows Live Messenger.

I moved my kerchief scarf onto a circular needle, because I've decided to make it into a shawl-of-sorts. Should be fun. I'm itching to make a horizontal scarf, even though my size 9 circular needle is holding a piece of my vest. I'll probably work on the last huge piece tomorrow. I read the last bit of the pattern, and the seaming is a three-needle bind-off, so I'm really happy about that. I love three-needle bind-off! I haven't worked on the baby cardigan in a while, because I've been putting off starting the cuffs (it's knit in one piece). I worked on Justin's scarf while watching Big Brother and not knowing which houseguests are the good guys/girls and the bad guys/girls. I'm getting bored with Big Brother.

America's Got Talent is on tomorrow! Yay!

A picture of the scarf for Justin

It's a bit hard to see the colour, but it's dark green.

My first project in the round... and I picked a SCARF!

I started the Josh's Triforce Scarf for my cousin, Justin. It's the first project I've started in the round. I had to have my mom start me off, because not only was I casting on too tightly, but the needle was too long. Yay me. So momma did the first round to start me off because I didn't know much about knitting in the round. The scarf is a tube done of DPNs, but I'm using a circular needle because it's a bit easier to learn knitting in the round on a circular needle.

I'll have pictures soon!

(Oh my goodness... there's an itty-bitty spider on the desk!)

Yarn!!!!!!!

Okay, I know I'm not supposed to be buying yarn, because I should be using up my stash, but hey, my stash is small. And as you can see in the bottom photo, they were marked down. I intend to make a horizontal scarf, like the one shown in the book Teen Knitting Club.

Third post today, but hey, it's photos!

Behold, ladies and gentlemen, the knitting of Merenwen!

The top two are shots of my swatch scarf. As you can see, it hasn't been blocked, nor have the ends been woven in. I was supposed to do that this weekend, but yesterday I was busy doing yard work (for money!), and I forgot to block it today.

The third photo is the beginning of the right front piece of my vest.

Interesting...

I got a fair bit of knitting done yesterday afternoon. Well, knitting and rewinding a ball of acrylic DK. I rewound that yarn while watching most of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, then I worked on my dropped stitch scarf during Juno, and I worked on it a bit more during Sweeney Todd, which was a pretty cool film. Afterwards I felt like dancing around and singing and squashing beetles like Helena Bonham-Carter. That reminds me... she was also in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, as Bellatrix Lestrange!

It's FINISHED!

Yep. My swatch scarf is done - I just cast off last night while watching America's Funniest Home Videos. I think I finished casting off at the beginning of the Graham Norton Show. I'd take a picture, but it's too dark today. I acted like a complete nutter when I finished casting off - I made my needles sway, as if they were dancing in some sort of romance flick.

Perhaps I'll start a pair of fingerless gloves, now that my size 5 needles are free.