Day to day bullshit

monday

2009-11-30T12:29:00.003-05:00

Back from the country.
Got my flu shot. Arm hurts like a mofo.
I woke up to snow today. It has since melted.
The end of the semester is upon us and really...all I want to do is hide under the blankets. Instead, I procrastinate and blog :D

Ok, I'm done with this tiny sentence business. It feels like I'm just typing up Facebook statuses.

While I was in France last year, I spent some time with the ones I call my second parents. They're a French couple who were my parent's best friends and we spent every single holiday, football world cup, birthday and random moment together until I turned 12. That's when they moved back to France. So I went to see them last year not only because it had been a trillion years, but mainly because my second mom was battling cancer. With her husband, we spent 2 days talking about my parents, all the crazy things they did, all the stories I never heard of or thought were just myths and then some. We laughed a lot. Right around Easter, she lost that battle. It was a very hard time for my family and for me. It's part of the reasons I stopped blogging and knitting. I kinda went blank for a bit after.

There was talk of heading to France for the funeral, but it was really too hard. I was the last member of my family to see her. Anyhow, in the time I spent with them, I found out about a tradition they had with my parents and a few other friends starting in the 70's. Every year, for the first snow, everyone would pile into their car and head over to one family's house. Then they'd make crêpes. Tons and tons of crêpes.

So when it started getting cold I boldly announced to my parents that I was reviving the tradition and invited everyone i know to come over for what have now been dubbed "snow crêpes". It's a nice little testament to my aunt I think. To me it's a nice way to remember her (considering she may be the best cook I've ever known) and I know it also means a lot to my parents.

Like I said earlier, this morning I woke up to snow. I also woke up to a phone call from my second dad who's back in Montreal and is staying with my folks. Needless to say that I got a little misty...and hungry!

Anyhow, I guess it was just time that I opened up about what's going on here. Today, I'm on the hunt for a new camera charger so who knows, there might be pics sooner than later!

Enjoy the first snow!

more FO'S, still no pics

2009-11-27T00:10:00.002-05:00

Athena socks finished.
Love them.
School is driving me nuts.
Going up north for the weekend to do nothing but drink and read and laugh.

toodles

late night

2009-11-18T00:11:00.003-05:00

I came home after work and I was super cold. No fever, just freezing. I'm hoping that it's just me being tired and not anything that would hinder the day to day bullshit that I have going on. (did you like how i plugged that? huh? huh? huh?)

In an effort to make myself feel better I had a homemade brownie, slipped into my PJ's, got on the couch and under the alpaca blanket that my roommate's parents brought back from the Galapagos. I picked up my then-almost-done sock, a mug of mint tea and the remote control to the DVD player. And then I watched a Xmas movie. Oh yeah! Decadence lives strong at my house!!! I finished the sock. So that's another pair for my drawer.

Now it's late and I have class tomorrow morning. I have a sneaking suspicion that I'll need a good strong coffee to get through the am so off to bed I go.

Goodnight!

sunday

2009-11-15T17:07:00.003-05:00

This a procrastination post...

I'm supposed to be finishing a paper on The Matrix and religious/art symbolism. BLAAAAAAAAAAAAH!

Instead, I finished cleaning my apartment which is soooo nice. Both my roommate and myself have been busy recently but it's so nice when you can go to bed knowing there's no dust anywhere, that the kitchen is immaculate and not a health hazard and that the bathroom can be licked without the possibility of imminent death. I just hope that we can keep it clean. *stern face*

Tomorrow I conquer my bedroom (after handing in the paper that I'm going to finish in a few minutes...). I bought some bamboo blinds but they're off center and it stresses me out. Tomorrow will be a feat of measuring/sticking nails in the window frame/re-hanging the blinds. Once that's done, all will be right with the world and I'll be free to start looking for stuff to hang on my walls and maybe even *gasp* a desk!!!!

I don't know how I managed to finish a degree without a desk but I'm starting to notice that I need one so that I can focus and get in the zone. Maybe it'll be Xmas gift from me to me :D

In knitting news, I'm on the second sock heel. I've also figured out what I'll be doing next. It'll be Ene's Scarf in some royal blue AmiAmi laceweight that I've had forever. Another pair of socks will also start soon :D Mmmmm socks!!

More sock stuff

2009-11-09T10:39:00.004-05:00

Yesterday while watching Xmas movies with my roommate, I finished a pair of plain socks. So i was left with a "what do I do now??" feeling. So I cast on for another pair of socks. I dug up my old Robyn's Nest sock club patterns and found the yarn that goes with it. I'm now on the foot of Paddy's Lucky Clover Socks.

I'm starting to appreciate my well stocked sock drawer :D I'm also enjoying the fact that there's less yarn in my stash. There's still enough yarn for me to make socks for about 10 years but still, it's less than last year.

The traveling guy is still in town. It's nice for now, but I know he's going to leave. My mother, my roommate, my best friends and a few other people have suggested that I might have a bit of a commitment issue since I can't get away from travelers. That's a possibility...

:D

On a roll

2009-11-07T00:52:00.003-05:00

Well Bella's Mittens are done! And I have to say that they look good! I'm a little sad because my ginormic hands wouldn't fit in them (they'd need an extra horseshoe cable repeat) but I guess that's a good thing since they're going to the other K tomorrow as a belated birthday present. I've actually been thinking about making her a complimentary hat for Xmas... Guess we'll have to see if I can muster something up. If you have any suggestions, send them my way!

What am I knitting next? Well, I don't really know. I could start Ene's Scarf or the Swallowtail shawl. Then again, I could also do with more socks. One can never have too many brightly colored socks!

What to do?!?!?!

Wow

2009-11-06T09:27:00.002-05:00

I forgot how satisfying it can be to finish knitting projects! I finished a pair of Fetching with the rest of the Araucania and I thankfully have enough left to make another pair. My mother saw the first pair and well...took them. She said "Hmmm! I like them, they match my hat. Thanks!" Anyhow, just before Halloween was the other K's birthday (recap: she and I have been friends since we were 8, went to Ireland together and she met me in France last summer...Plus we live 8 blocks away from each other :D) and she requested a pair of "Twilight" mittens. So we went to Ariadne and picked up some Brown Sheep Lamb's Pride Bulky in Charcoal heather. I CO the first mitt at work last night at 6. By the time we closed up at 10.30, I was all done except for the thumb. I know, shocking! I may eventually have to make another pair for myself.

What else can I tell you? I went on a date recently. It went really well but nomadic men are the bane of my existence. Enough said...

That's it for me!

So...

2009-11-02T20:04:00.002-05:00

I took a mental health day today (hee hee!) and spent all day chillaxing with Serge, books and movies. I managed to finish Rivulet scarf and since there was a whole bunch of yarn left over on the barely touched 3rd skein, I CO for a pair of Fetching. It'll make for a nice holiday gift to someone!

post-halloween post

2009-11-01T13:01:00.003-05:00

I love Halloween. It's always fun! My lady posse and I hit up a local pub and checked out the fellow freaks. One was a "B-girl", one was a greek goddess and I was Twister. Like the game. It's not super original but considering my personal recession, it was easier to paint on spots on a tank top than to go out and buy a costume. Anyhow, it was a success and this morning I woke up with a sliiiiiiiight hangover and a serious sore throat. I'm laying low with some tea, a blanket and some knitting. Serge is ignoring me today and meowing at the top of his lungs while staring at the closet door.

I eventually have to get my ass in gear since I have to go to work later on, but at least I can knit while there :D

OH yes, for the Montrealers out there, please go vote so that we can shake off the whole "Montreal is the new Palermo"-thing...

let's talk about the scarf

2009-10-26T22:54:00.003-04:00

So the Rivulet scarf is coming along quite well. I'm only starting the second skein and it's already 30 inches long! I'm really digging the yarn although I have 3 skeins of Araucania from the same dye lot and they're all seriously different colors. Oh well...It's a scarf. Speaking of which I think that I'm only going to need 2 skeins for the scarrf so I'm trying to figure out what to make with the third...some mittens? Fetching? I don't know...any one skein suggestions out there for something completely awesome?

middle of the night post

2009-10-24T02:28:00.003-04:00

So the Rivulet scarf is 15 inches long and I'm having fun with this one. It's an easy pattern and I'm liking the way it looks even though my gauge is a little looser than recommended. I'm also working on the heel of a plain sock. Once this one is done, I'll be going back to patterned socks since Cookie A.'s book is just calling out to me again. When I bought it, I decided that I'd make every pair of socks in there. I'm going with the order of the book, seems easier that way. I've also collected a SERIOUS collection of sock patterns so...maybe I should be making those instead of plain boring socks...

Anyhow!

Today at work, I made pumpkin chocolate chip cookies with about 20 kids. My suggestion, never bake with such a large crowd of curious hands...such a mess!!!! But we really did have a lot of fun!

In answer to the comment on my last post, yes I am on twitter (supermitaines), feel free to join me and read the random stuff that pops into my brain.

Night!

wow

2009-10-22T23:53:00.002-04:00

the snowflakes were coming down HARD!!!! I'm so glad they didn't stay...

I cast-on for the Rivulet scarf today in some Araucania...alas it's pooling like a mofo but really, for something that's going around my neck, I don't think it matters too much.

I'm sorry for the tiny straight to the point messages. I got used to Facebook and Twitter, so I'm lowly getting back into this...

Ishbel

2009-10-20T13:32:00.001-04:00

She's finished, she's pretty and she's blocking as we speak!

This is one of the first time that gauge and I get along so well!

10 rows

2009-10-19T21:20:00.002-04:00

I'm 10 rows away from finshing Ishbel in KnitPicks Shadow.

I'm also watching Sleepy Hollow instead of finishing a midterm.

I love Johnny Depp...he makes for the best Ichabod Crane ever!

6 months

2009-10-10T11:58:00.001-04:00

6 months have gone by since my last post. That's a long time. But I'll be back. Hold the phone...I am back!

Baldness

2009-04-01T22:51:00.001-04:00

I went to the hairdressers today...here's what I came out looking like...

I'm really enjoying being bald again!

On Strike...

2009-03-31T09:20:00.002-04:00

Well not me, but my professors. I totally agree with their cause...the only thing is that technically I should be finishing my semester on the 21st and well, I haven't been to class in about hmm about a month!!!! I wonder if the school will reimburse me a third of my tuition? HA! That's wishful thinking!

So anyways, I'm almost done settling in. This weekend will be our first apartment party to celebrate my quarter of a century. It should be awesome. And there will be pics. Have no fear about that!

In knitting news...well not much is going on, I'm not knitting much, I've got a little bit of an Oolong sock going (which is going to be gorgeous!!!!) but I just can't manage to stay focused for a long time which means that progress is slower than usual. Ugh!

Don't you love it when you look outside and there's no more snow. And it's not even April yet! I can't wait for the summer. This year I'm not planning any major trips but a lot of little road trips around Canada and the US. I kinda want to discover my own continent. My first destination, I think, will be Halifax followed by Denver in June for a HUGE North American Couchsurfing event. After that...we'll see how my wallet is doing before planning anything else. :D

Off I go!
Toodles

St-Patrick's shenanigans...

2009-03-23T11:22:00.004-04:00

As per usual after the parade, I took off with my ladies and we hit the Irish Embassy (not the actual embassy but a bar with a confusing name...) and we proceeded to drink. A lot.

As opposed to the past few years, this time we hooked up with a whole bunch of other friends. This kept shenanigans to a record low this year and was actually quite awesome. The rest of the pics are on Flickr.

Moving

2009-03-19T11:48:00.002-04:00

I moved. Yay! So now I'm all settled in (kinda) in my own place with Serge and our roommate. Every previous time that I'd moved, it seemed like such a looooong shitty process but this time, everything was moved in 2 hours. I had some awesome friends helping out (especially with the constructing of my IKEA stuff) and my father (bless him!) made pizza from scratch so that I wouldn't have to shell out for food. Needless to say it was 8 million times tastier than anything I could've ordered :D Anyhow, everything is good here. It helps that my professors are on strike. It gives me a little more time to spend reading in bed with Serge (what a terrible life I lead...).

Anyhow...

my 500th post is coming up fairly soon. I feel like I should go all out and do something to make it special, but I don't know what...maybe a change in appearance? I don't really know...any ideas?

how a 24 year old can still get grounded...

2009-03-13T17:39:00.005-04:00

The sun is shinning, we get an extra hour of it (yay!) and it's ~~VERY~~ slowly getting warmer outside. I'm also getting healthier!

I'm so freaking happy about this.

A couple of days ago I started being messed up sick (high fever and severe lightheaded-ness). It got to the point where my mom (bless her!) had to ground me so that I would stay in bed for 48 hours without moving or doing anything. Now I'm not one to get bossed around...but if you've met my mom you can understand my compliance...What!?! She can be scary!

Anyhow all it took was a lot of mom-made soup, antibiotics for the bronchitis that I have, tiger balm (so much stronger than any vapo-rub out there) and 16 hours of sleep and I started feeling better. So good actually that I started getting restless. For fear of getting yelled at by the mom (!) I just got packing for my move on Sunday and well...that's what I've been doing since.

So to all you moms out there who think that one day your babies will grow up and leave you all alone, well...I don't know where I was going with that statement but you can laugh at me because really...I'm about to turn 25 in 3 weeks and my mom totally grounded my ass. And I'm soooo thankful for it!

Moms rule!

Sickness...redux

2009-03-10T00:20:00.002-04:00

This morning the second I sat down at work, I felt it wash over me. The flu. Yes, it has hit me twice in the span of 3 weeks. Joy. Fucking JOY...! At least it's given me some knitting time. This evening I came home and instead of packing I stayed in bed with tea full of lemon, ginger, honey and other stuff, some painkillers, kleenex and Serge. We watched too many episodes of How I Met Your Mother and finished knitting a hat.

Hold the pres...what did she say?!?!?!?!

Yes yes yes, I finished the Greenery Hat and I quite like it. I don't know if I'll wear it...I might just give it away around Holidays 2009...or not, I haven't decided yet. Anyhow, that's all that's going on here.

Toodles and please stay healthy!

march break

2009-03-05T10:22:00.002-05:00

March break is the most perfect-est time of the year. Now if only it could coincide with the St-Patrick's Day Parade so that I wouldn't feel bad about skipping class to nurse a hangover...

But I digress.

This march break has been full or work, good friends and lease signings. I move in 10 days. I'm freaking out. 10 days!!!!! That's not much time to get all my shit in boxes but I'll manage. It's going to be awesome to move!!!

On the knitting front, I've cast on a hat! It's pretty much the highest level of fiber-y commitment that I can muster up these days and it's going pretty well. I think that I'll manage to finish it before the winter is over.

Other than that, there's nothing really exciting going on here. I spent an awesome weekend at my cottage with friends. OH! My team won at pub quiz...LOL! Ok I'm off to have a bit of an adventure so that I have actual content to post!

Best. Oscars. Ever.

2009-02-23T14:13:00.001-05:00

THE MUSICAL IS BACK!

sicky mcgee

2009-02-19T08:07:00.003-05:00

I don't know what happened...but this past sunday I was watching a movie at a friend's place and the second I got home I felt sick. Monday I woke up feeling like a jackhammer had been pushed into my throat so I drank plenty of tea and warm water. Then comes tuesday and it was a full blown cold. Ok, I hate colds but you know I thought "it'll last a couple more days and then I'll be fine". All of a sudden though I can't sleep because I can't breathe. When I do sleep I wake up at 20 minute intervals to blow my nose/drink water. Yesterday was more of the same except that the sounds I was making when coughing sounded like they were coming from waaaaay deep inside. Last night, I settled in for a long night of much needed sleep. I passed out around 10 and then at 2 am my eyes were WIDE OPEN. I fell back asleep for about an hour and woke up drenched as if I'd taken a shower in my pj's.

I work a shift from 2 until 10.30 tonight. My mom won't hug me because she thinks I'm contagious (which the doctor will probably confirm in an hour). Could this day get any worse?? Oh yeah, there's a fakaktah snowstorm outside.

Grumpy-ness.

update

2009-02-17T10:23:00.002-05:00

It's been a while I know, but sometimes I just have nothing to say. That or I'm super busy. The past while has kind of been a smush of the two options. School and work are kicking my ass. I'm pulling ridiculous amounts of hours but I'm still loving work a whole lot. School is also quite awesome. I've also been spending a lot of time with friends.

...

You see...I don't really have anything to say! But everything is awesome. Really. Only bad part is that my brothers shit of a dog ate my skein of Malabrigo lace. So I've reordered another one (my sibling paid) and eventually I'll finish Muir. But that's pretty much the only knitting related content I can put on here...I don't know why...Plus I have all the yarn for like 10000000 projects. Oh well the mojo will come back. I know it will!

Alright toodles!