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.

One of my favourite Led Zeppelin songs

I'm not sure if they wrote it, or if Willie Dixon wrote it, but it's definitely in my top 5 favourite Zeppelin songs. It's called 'I Can't Quit You Baby'.

Plus, the video shows two photos of my 'boyfriend', Robert Plant! ;)

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.

The blood work is DONE!

At first, I thought we wouldn't get down to the lab, because Dad got dizzy in the shower. He thinks it may have been from lack of caffeine, because he always has a coffee in the morning. It's his fuel. But we did get to do our blood work.

Normally I don't get dizzy from blood work, but this time I did. So when the woman who took the blood sample asked me if I was dizzy, and I said yes, she told me to go lay down for a bit. When she came back, I sat up and felt better, so she handed me the bottle for the urine sample and said to go do that. Afterwards we went to the Golden Griddle in that same plaza, where I devoured a waffle and four breakfast sausages.

Then it was back home to let the dogs out, then off to the dentist's. We were early, so we stopped at the Bulk Barn in that plaza because Mom needed to get dried cherries, then we went in for our appointment. And, of course, I was the last of us three to go in. On the upside, though, I didn't have to have fluoride! YES! Also, they cleaned my flipper (my fake tooth), because it was so stained from drinking stuff like tea, hot chocolate and Pepsi. The hygienist who cleaned my teeth gave me more floss, and she said that I have a small mouth and that it was difficult for her to floss the back teeth, and told me that if I feel any pain back there that I should call them. Mom said that my wisdom teeth may not give me trouble. Well, my main concern is getting the post for my fake tooth in my mouth and getting the gum grafting on the bottom teeth done, then if my wisdom teeth start paining me, I'll take care of them after.

Now all I have to do is finish Justin's scarf and wrap presents. And help Mom with the holiday baking if she needs any help.

ETA: Just so you know, my dad is alright. I think he was just tired from not having his usual intake of caffeine, but afterwards he said he was feeling okay.

My study schedule

So here's what I've come up with for January to June...

9:00 Biology
10:00 World History
11:00 Japanese
12:00 Lunch
1:00 Math
2:00 English (which may include writing, as Mom wants me to practice writing essays)
3:00 Music or Art

I may edit this list slightly, but that's a basic guideline. Four subjects just doesn't seem to be enough. I have a lot to brush up on, and I can't take nightschool courses until September.

Also, I think I found out why I hate Don't Know Much About Geography so much...

1. I don't want to read about Columbus rambling on about how the world is a pear. Seriously? A pear?

2. Geography books without pictures are always boring. Said book has some pictures, but they're all black-and-white. If I'm going to learn geography, it's going to be from books that are alive with colour, not bland books like Don't Know Much About Geography.

I'm bored

And because I'm bored, I'm gonna write another blog post.

Today was a half-decent day. I'm almost done reading Molly By Any Other Name, which is great because I started reading it a while ago and took a break from it to read other books. I think I'll take Terrier back to the library, though, because there's no way I'll be able to finish it in time - I think it's due on the 30th, and I'm only a chapter and a bit into it. I only have a few more chapters of Molly left to read, though. I think that, when my homeschooling starts up again in the new year, I'm going to start reading 1984. It looks like a good read.

Speaking of homeschooling, I made a new study schedule instead of the crappy one that Mom made up as a 'temporary schedule'. She had me doing math every day, Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays were History/Geography/Science days ('science' meaning reading a book of facts) and Tuesdays and Thursdays were Lit and Writing days.

More on my new schedule later, 'cause it's dinner time.

I screwed up my fasting...

...So now I have to have the blood and urine tests done tomorrow, before our dentist appointment, because I accidentally ate.

Oh, and I found out on Saturday that Nathan isn't giving us Christmas pressies because there's not enough money - which probably means he spent his money on his 'new family'. I'm not trying to be greedy or anything, I just thing that if he got us each something small, like an ornament, that would be nice, and relatively inexpensive, but no - he chose the coward's route.