Finals

I never post on here and I really want to be one of those cool people with the extensive and awesome blogs. I need to get going. Finals are bogging me down and when I havn't been studying I've been lazy. I really need to knit.

Twice is the charm?

What is that saying.. I can't remember it right now but this is my second post of the same purpose (to display my new hat). Last night I, very excitedly, attempted to post pictures of my just finished Chunky Cabled Beanie but eblogger decided to hate me and refused to post my post, so rude.

Now that I am permanently blinded by the flash of my camera.. here we go..


I took about 25 of the same photo from different angles. I tried to include SJP in the background but I just looked like a fool and figured I would avoid humiliation.
Yeah this is from umm a year and a half ago.. yours truly in front of the London Bridge. It was still on the memory card.. figured I'd put the photo to some use.

Thankgiving Break Hat

I started a basic k2,p2 hat on Thanksgiving day while at my Aunt's house. Knit it up really fast and finished it this afternoon. Quick knit! I'm proud of it, it looks nice, its a gift to my father for this birthday which is this Wednesday. I finally took some pictures because I'm home and have access to a camera.I've been pretty lazy this break, not seeing much of my friends. I do believe I'm coming down with a cold though and don't feel like doing anything. It feels great to just sit around and watch movies. :) My mom and I made a Tofurky last night for dinner and it was delicious! We were both very surprised at how great it tasted, full of flavor mm mm! It would have been great with more stuffing, mashed potatoes, the whole lot but it was still awesome by itself.

Here's my cat, the chubby thing that she is.. I'm trying to entise her with some Alpaca yarn.. she doesn't seem to be interested.. must be the camera.. she's probably shy.


And here is the sweater I've been working on for the last year.. The 'big sac sweater' from Stitch and Bitch. It umm.. has a few problems.. like the uhhh size. Its kinda short and umm too small.. may need some re-doing and such..

Mapleline!!

Just a little while ago some Animal Science friends and I went to Mapleline Dairy.. a farm right around the corner from UMASS. Our animal science lab went there last semester and toured their farm, learned about how they run things, etc. They have Jersey cows there instead of the traditional Holsteins that you see everywhere. Their cows are beautiful.. I love that farm. Anyway we went there to buy milk since its amaaaaaazing. I bought a small thing of chocolate milk.. yeah its on its way to being devoured.

ONLY three more days of classes and I get to go HOOOMEEEE :)

On the knitting front, I am close to being finished with the second sleeve. The sweater will be put together over Thanksgiving and then it will be complete!! woohoo!

Wolf Hollow

Yesterday I woke up quite early for a Saturday morning (8 AM), got ready, and went on a 2+ hour drive to Ipswich, Mass. to go to a place called Wolf Hollow. This family raises a pack of wolves for the purpose of preserving this incredible species and to educate the public about the importance of wolves. This was truly an awesome field trip and definitely worth the 5 hours in the van.

The woman that runs the facility isn't the friendliest of folks, disappointingly.. we got there early.. around 12:30 and wanted to park and wait but we were quickly informed that the gates absolutely do not open until 1 pm sharp.. so we drove 2+ hours to pay you and see your sanctuary but we can't park a half-hour early? Come on lady.. honestly..

On the way to and from Wolf Hollow I took advantage of my knitting time (even though I should have used the time for homework..) and knit a good portion of my dad's birthday hat. Although it seems a bit small and not at stretchy as I had hoped so maybe this won't be the actually birthday hat, I'll just have to make another one.

What a lovely Sunday it is.. pouring rain and completely gloomy weather. I suppose thats good reason for me to study for my exam tomorrow.. fun old Anatomy and Physiology!

Shrug it off.

Thats how I feel about my damn Anthropology exam I just took, except.. take away the smirk. Stupid stupid stupid anthropology I don't even like that class.

That picture was actually taken in a modern art museam in Europe.. it was in Germany.. the name escapes me at the moment. Random modern art.

The second sleeve of my sweater is coming along well.. somewhat slowly but its coming. I tried to start my fingerless mitts but since I'm not yet comfortable with knitting in the round on dpn's I quickly became flustered and felt it was not working correctly. I need guidance first. I plan on contributing at least one scarf to the Red Scarf Project again this year. I think I might make my dad a hat or a scarf for his birthday as well. Good plan.

I am really hungry.. I just ate 2 small bags of wheat thins and it really did not do it for me. I really need to upgrade my meal plan for next semester.

Thirsty Thursday

Thirsty Thursday.. a typical thursday entails many drunken college kids acting like maniacs because thats what they do. Not me though, I'm tired and tend to not get too involved in that craziness. I would rather knit and watch tv. Yeah, exciting life I lead, I know.. I'm okay with it though.

So I am on my second sleeve of my sweater and working fruiously to finish it. I want to finish my sweater this weekend. I realllyyyyy want to finish it this weekend. There are so many projects I want to start after this one is complete.

South Park is on so I'm going to watch that and knit. Or continue to surf knitting blogs and webpages.

Sittin' around.

I think this weekend I'll take some pictures of the progress of my sweater and post them on here. I really want to knit but I'm holding off because I'm trying to force myself to do some Organic Chemistry problems. I just did a little.. I don't know if I exactly understand it but I worked on it for a short.. short while. I really just want to finish this sleeve but once I'm done with this one I can't start on the other one because i dont' think I have a size 8 needle. Oh shoot, maybe I do, hold on. Damn it, I have size 8 double pointeds. Not really gonna work I don't think unless I put little cap things on the ends.. Hmm. I suppose I could just wait until I go home on Friday but I don't have any exams this week, I wanna knit!!

There are so many things I want to knit right now. I want to start my first pair of socks, that will be my project after my sweater. I'll probably actually start socks this weekend, we'll see how much time I have. I know I won't have a lot of time who am I kidding. I also want to make another sweater, a gecko scarf. Oh my goodness I have so much knitting to do and so little time!! I need to get going! I want to make thrumed mittens as well!!!

Back to "chemistry" or something..

Procrastinating

I really need to be doing research for Chelsea's and my Animal Welfare paper.. 25 pages of good old fun. I was doing some work on it before but then my computer freaked out and froze for a good 10-15 minutes forcing me to restart and closing my precious webpages. Now I have to find the webpages, I have some bookmarked but I know I had others open and I can't remember what they were. Very frustratinggg!! Oh well, I just have to go back and start again, I was typing an outline about Veterinary Care/Concerns for the dogs in the race. Just basic bullets of things we should mention in the paper. Since we only have about a month and a week to do this paper I really need to get some solid outlines and information. Twenty-five pages is pretty hardcore. I've never written anything that long in my life.

I really wish I were knitting right now. My sweater NEEDS to be finished, this is much more important then a silly research paper. GOSH.

Rhinebeck Sheep and Wool Festival was very fun and I had a fantastic day with my mom at the fair. They had tons of sheep, TONS of farms/people selling their yarn/fiber/goods, it was soo cool!!

Hopefully my mum will send me some of the photos we took and I can put a few on here.

Lazy Friday

Tonight is my lazy Friday night. I plan on doing nothing but laying in bed, watching tv/movies, knitting, and going to bed early. I really need to get going on my sweater, it's very cold out, its sweater wearing season!!! Tomorrow my mom is picking me up early and we are going to the Rhinebeck Sheep and Wool Festival, I'm glad because I need to get away from UMASS for a while and take a breather. I had a very stressful and exhaustive week I need to be away from the dorms, away from school work, etc. Rest is in order. :)

I watched the movie Eulogy and then The Terminal this afternoon. They were both good, I enjoyed them very much and I loved just laying in bed and watching movies.

The new Regina Spektor song is quite good, I'm not sure what its called though.. oh "fidelity".. the video is on MTV U.

When I was on my way to the dining hall I was hoping they would have mashed potatoes and they did. It was amazing.. they were the ones w/ the skins on too. I shoudl have gotten more. I shoudl have brought some back to my room. MMMM I love mashed potatoes!!!! Best comfort food around.

German Landscape

Some pretty awesome German landscape. This was taken by yours truly next to a castle in Heidelberg, the view was incredible.. the Alps.. absolutely amazing.

New Blog!!

My new blog! My mum is making a blog, she has been working on it long and hard so I figured I would take the easy route and make a simple one. :) I would love to post pictures and stuff on here eventually. I probably will once I learn how to do all of this stuff. Maybe I will post some of my Europe trip on here from summer 2005 just to get the hang of it. I don't have a digital camera at school but I'll figure something out. I'm going to try to force myself to regularly update this. I tend to let things go and forget about them. Blogs are so neat though so hopefully I will keep this thing up!