The Foxy Knitter

Brains?

Life exploded on me after April.  I got a job, Manthing got a job, we moved out into our first apartment together, and so on and so forth.

Things have settled down enough for me to actually, ya know, blog.  I'm hoping to get a hold of a new camera soon so I'll actually be able to post some pictures.  My current one decrees that everything must be bright orange.  I've adjusted all the settings one would normally adjust to fix the problem, changed light, changed perspective.  Nope.  Bright orange all around.

I'm not dead, or a zombie, I promise.

Busy, busy

Life exploded on me for a while, thus the lack of updates.

I competed in the Knitting Olympics, both on Ravelry and through the Yarn Harlot.  I decided to test myself and ended up making a sweater.  I finished, too.

I've been sequestering myself to my craft room so I can make all the stock for the convention I'll be vendoring at in April.

Things will be quiet for a while still, until things settle down.

Frustration

I've been under quite a bit of stress lately, thus my lack of activity with pretty much everything.  I work well under pressure but after a certain point I just go "screw you guys, I'm going home".  I hit that point about a week ago.

There has been more drama.  I'm always surprised to see people who could easily have been my parents act like spoiled children with a load in their pants.  I also find it very sad when I, just a few years out of high school, take a look at supposed "responsible adults" and wonder how they've functioned in society thus far.  Really, if this is what I'm supposed to grow up to be then I'd rather just stay home and color all day.

As far as projects go...I'm working on a twenty foot tall tree puppet.  Yep.  Interesting stuff going on here.

Lack of Inspiration

I've been a little lax with updates on just about everything recently, for one reason or another.

It's been quiet on the blog due to me dedicating more time to finding a job for myself and my fiance.  Prospects are looking good for him, but not so much for me.  Pending the results of a background check, which shouldn't have anything surprising on it, he should hopefully have a job by the end of the month.  Me however...yeah, still looking.

Crafting of any sort has come to a bit of a halt.  I've been uninspired recently.  I've got a few projects in the works but have had no motivation to finish them.  This happens from time to time so I'm not worried.

There's also been some recent personal drama that ended with me violently ending a once very close friendship.  But I suppose that's what I get for being friends with a social puppet.  Meh, no huge loss here.

Eccentricities: Part One

To start off the new year I figured I'd make a post about some of the little bits of my vocabulary that may be confusing to people who don't live in my little crazy brain space. Very specifically I'll be covering one of the descriptive terms I use that often needs explaining. And that is:

Hannah Montana

Yes, Hannah Montana. There's a back story here, I swear.

A good friend of mine took my fiance and I on a trip to Yellowstone as an engagement gift. She always carried a little bag of necessities in her backpack that had band-aids, floss, small scissors, and the like. The little things you think you don't need but actually do. Within this little bag of random she had a tube of hand sanitizer. But it wasn't just any hand sanitizer, it was Hannah Montana hand sanitizer.

We speculated on how strong the stuff actually was and figured it must be somewhere above medical grade sanitizer, due to how much it stung and the overpowering alcohol smell that quickly filled any confined space. Thus, the adjective Hannah Montana was born. Essentially it refers to anything that's stronger than it should be, or is surprisingly strong.

That's all for today. Happy (belated) New Years!

Sick As A Dog

I think I caught some post-holiday crud.  I slept until 9 at night yesterday, after going to bed at midnight.  Fever off and on during the day, along with chills, and the occasional throbbing headache.

Thinking back on it, it might be stress related.  I've been waiting to hear back from a prospective employer on if I made it to the second round of interviews since last Tuesday.  I've been waiting on a package that's a week overdue at this point, and not wanting to possibly have to deal with PayPal's resolution procedures.  Not to mention the normal day to day worries on top of that.

Or I could have caught it from one of my toddler age cousins.  Actually, I'm kinda banking on that being the case.

Besides that I've been working a pair of mitts for my fiance, using some gray Cascade Soft Spun I bought recently.  The pattern, Malabrigo Hand Thingies (Ravelry link), is pretty simple.  But be careful, the mitts come out pretty small so if you have larger hands they'll need to be modified.  I'll be making some in blue/green Soft Spun for myself soon.

Edit: Got an email shortly after posting this from the lady I bought my stuff from to let me that she had been sick and wasn't able to make it to the post office.  She upgraded my package to Priority for free so I should have my stuff by the end of the week at the latest.  I'll post pictures once it arrives.

Home Again

After visiting my extended family and my fiance's parents, we're back home and recovering.

I gotta say that my in-laws seem to have a better grasp on my actual holiday wants, though I can't complain about what my family got me.  It was mostly very practical gifts, some new clothes and a handful of gas cards.  Though my grandma did go to her local yarn store and picked out some lovely patterns and yarn for me.  We're planning on getting together some weekend and just craft.  I'm her only grandchild that does anything remotely crafty so she's usually very interested in what I'm working on.

The in-laws, however, got me the nickle-plated Knit Picks interchangeable circular set, and a new iPod Nano.  Both of those were the long shots on my list to them, but according to my fiance his parents are crazy about me so it's no big deal for them to drop that amount of money on gifts.

While I may not agree with my in-laws theological ideals and they do drive me up the wall, they're still very supportive and generally all around good people.

We're visting my fiance's sister and brother-in-law tomorrow and then I think we're officially done with holiday stuff.

It's been a long month.

Holiday Busy

Busy, busy, busy over here.

I need to finish a Rainbow Scarf for my future sister-in-law, using one ball of Mini Mochi in the Jungle colorway for that.  There's also the homebrew flip top mitts I'm winging for my future brother-in-law, and the nearly finished Swallowtail Shawl for my mother, not to mention the two knitted toys I've been neglecting. 

So, this space will be a little quiet until I can slog my way through all of this.  Expect a real introductory post soon!