OMG. !

Exams are this week (my school does tri-mesters, which is why exams are so early) and I’ve been studying my butt off.  And today, I was feeling slightly ADD, and decided to take a picture of my knitting inside my Psychology book, to post up here in representation of how I’d MUCH rather be knitting than studying the different parts and functions of the brain. 

So, I take this picture on my phone, and send it to my email, hoping I can easily add the picture to my blog.  And, after logging into said email account, I notice an email from Indiana University Bloomington, my dream school.  Thinking this was just a conformation that they received my application, I click on the message.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

THANK GOD for ADD, and random pictures:

:)

Internet is offical back and here to stay!  Guess what my problem was?

The fun little internet enabler button on my laptop, placed conviently right where it’s most likely to get shut off, was magically turned off FOR MONTHS! Meaning, the rest of the house had internet, but I did not.  And I realized that, finally, and voila, internet!

Now let’s just ignore the fact that I’m an idiot for not realizing that that was the reason.  Or, more importantly, why three people (myself, my father, and the tech-genius, Kelly) did all not realize this.  Makes me kind of sad for my family, honestly.

But oh well!

I finished a few things, but have no pictures (surprise, surprise!).

A Water Bottle Cozy (for lack of any better name, that’s what I got stuck with), that has little dark blue waves around the bottem, and a draw string to tighten* around the top of the water bottle has been my biggest.  I started it over the summer– the post where the only clue was “waves”, yeah that one–and finally finished it a few days ago.  Which is the segue into my next piece of news–

I knitted in class on Wednesday :)

Granted, I had done it before during Free-Days in Band, but this was legit during class.  We were watching a Beautiful Mind (amazing movie), studying schizophrenia in Psychology, and I asked my teacher if I could knit while we watched it.  It was quite an interseting conversation between the Confused Teacher (a 26-y/o, super cool girl who has a great sense of humor) and the Misunderstood Knitting Teenager, meaning me.

MKT: I promise I won’t disrupt the class, but can I knit while we watch the movie? I’ll still pay attention, I promise.
CF: …What?
MKT:  ..Um.. I want to know if I can knit during the movie.. is that okay?
CF: .. Why?
MKT: ‘Cause I like it?
CF: [Blank stare.]  What are you making?
MKT: A water bottle holder thing. A cozy… thing. [MKT got frazzled at this point of the conversation.]
CF: For who?
MKT: … me?
[several seconds of silence]
CF:  How old are you?
MKT: Sixtyfive. [MKT was slightly annoyed at this point.]
CF: Go for it, I guess.

THEN!  When another cool teacher walked into the room, she points me out and goes “Hey, look at my resident Grandmother over here.”

Heh, gee thanks.  Self-esteem booster, right there.

But I finished the dang thing that day in class, so HA!  Who’s your grandma, huh, Teach?

Also, my knitting cult at school is gaining strength.  There are now four of us total who knit at Seussical  [the Musical] rehearsals now: Brittny (Boyfriend’s little sister/my bestfrann), Kayla, their friend Briggitte, and myself.  And others are asking to learn as well :) It makes me kind of proud.  I’d honestly like to start a knitting club at school, but have no idea what faculty member would sponser it.  I’ve even kind of asked around, but nobody knows how to do it, accept Madame, our French teacher, but she stopped a longgggggg time ago.  I’ll just have to keep looking, I guess.

MMm, now that I’ve been incredibly ADD, I must go back to my massive amounts of homework (see my Twitter for details).

Internt is still pooped out at my house. Dad and tech-savvy friend Kelly (a dude, believe it or not) can’t figure out why my laptop refuses to connect to the internet, and why the main computer (the new one that has messed our whole house’s connection up) only has it sometimes. So I’ve tried to Twitter-update via my phone as much as possible (meaning, as much as I remember to) because I haven’t been able to blog in a month or so, but I don’t really have anything funny and witty to say– unlike the Yarn Harlot, for example. I love her Tweets :)
And now, just to make things worse, my phone has broken offically. The front screen, and front buttons (I’ve had the EnV2 for maybe two-ish years now?) broke awhile ago, and as of yesterday after school, the inside screen has passed on too. Basically, I can make and receive calls, and listen to my phone buzz proudly to annouce, “Hey, you’ve got a text mesasge!” but I can’t read it :(
Call me a sterotypical teenager, but I AM DYING. Almost 24 hours without texting has been killing me; I feel so lonely. And it’s not like I text all the time, but I do it enough that I feel cut off from the world. I get Facebook updates, Twitter updates from people I follow, and random messages from my friends sent to my phone–not to mention that’s my main source of communication with Boyfriend, as he is in college now and his class schedule does not mesh well with my daily schedule, meaning the only time (besides texting) I get to speak with him is at night. <—Holy crap, that was a LONG sentence.
So, basically, I'm dying.
And as I type this, my phone just vibrated in front of me with it's little text message alert noise, mocking me. "You're popular! You are! People want to talk to you… BUT NO! HAHAHA!"
That's what I hear. Every single time.
Ugh.
Okay, so hopefully I'll be getting a new phone later this week. I'm looking at the Samsung Rogue, but the fact that it's a Samsung kind of scares me. I've never had anything besides an LG, so this is kind of unnerving. Then again, I guess my EnV and my Env2 have both broken.. so, why am I not weary of LG's? Huh. Okay.

Oh, and I have indeed been knitting. I'm working on this new fun-fur scarf, which is skinny and has this pretty green-lime green-aqua-dark green-navy blue colorway, and I made a journal pocket for my new journal so it doesn't get smashed in my purse, and.. I feel like there is more than I listed but I don't remember. I'm currently 100% broke, so I haven't been able to buy any yarn. I do, however, REALLY want to get this kit in the new KnitPicks catalog, the really pretty green/blue snowflake mitten and hat kit. It'll match the scarf I'm making perfectly, and after following the Frankenmitten saga on Yarn Harlot's blog, I'm really into making myself some mittens. Plus they look challenging, so that's exciting.
If I can actually get ahold of some funds for the kit, that's another story. But I'd like to make them :)

I guess that's all. Nothing really of interest to report on my life right now. I got a minor part in the fall musical, surprise, surprise. I'm beginning college applications, and there's major, and completely unnecessary and immature drama within my friendship circle right now, which is really annoying. I guess school really has begun, huh? Oh and I've been super-converting two of my kind-of know-how-to-knit friends into serious knitters. Letting them borrow all of my needles and use my yarn, that sort of thing. It's kind of fantastic :) They make me feel so smart, so I'm kind of loving it haha.

Ah, okay, now I'm really done. Homework calls.

Still no internet at the house. or time to post, as school has offically started, meaning band, student government, Seussical the Musical auditons are next week.. and yeah. Busy, busy, busy.

No knitting has been done. Yeah, bad blogger. Poop on my face.

And now I’m at a friend’s house, desperately trying to stay in touch with the knitting world by hiding in the corner of her living room, ignoring The Soup on TV, while most of them (Kayla, my friend  I taught to knit, is sitting next to me stalking my knitting-cyberness right now, actually, lol) are sleeping/about to sleep.  Yes, I am pathetic.  But I am okay with that :)

Here are the quick highlights:

ZERO knitting done –yes, bad blogger, very bad knitting blogger, but I’ve had no time (as Kayla just pointed out as she reads over my shoulder lol) and no desire, honestly– but the fabulous Band Camp ended today.  It was totally different than in year’s past, we were actually focused and disciplined for the most part the entire time, which is a HUGE change from years past.  The biggets difference is that this year we have Section Leaders (like me!) who actually give a flying pickle about us looking good and being quiet and attentive.  It was so much fun, but I basically snapped yesterday.  My section, the mighty Trumpets, were called out because our line was all over the place (think like a really bad looking zig-zag– yeah, we sucked so bad I can’t even call it a zigzag, that’d be too nice) and they weren’t listening, and dilberately disobeying me and so I cracked. I made them all march up and down the field until “I get bored” –aka, about 20 minutes.  They were so mad, but they learned their lesson, I hope think.  They were better this morning :)

But yeah, now that you know my life’s story.. We have a parade tomorrow morning, then a special surprise event for a friend, so it should hopefully be a good day.  I’m excited for the surprise event :)

Ah. Okay now I don’t feel so awful for not having updated, and for having my “Stat” counter go from a grid that goes up to 20 (people viewing my blog) to only 10 :(

I’ll post again the second I get an internet connection :)

I haven’t deserted my blog!  I promise, I’m still here and remembering it and planning out posts, but there’s one tiny little complication: The internet has died at my house again.

So, here I am, using Boyfriend’s computer (while he sits in the other room still watching Emperor’s New Groove) to try to become back in touch with the cyber world: knitting blogs, Ravelry, Yarn Harlot, etc. etc.  And I just fixed up Twitter to my phone (I think) so hopefully I can still update this week, even if not through blogging.

Using my time wisely, I’ll skip the meaningless fluff I usually go on and on with and just give you all the highlights:  I’ve been working on schoolwork, not knitting, so nothing new to report.  Band Camp (two-a-days version) starts tomorrow, and lasts until Friday.  Then parades and assorted other rehearsals until school starts on the 20th.  So I shall probably be absent next week too, even if my internet comes back up (sorry sorry sorry).  But follow me on Twitter, I’ll try to be as boring and annoying amusing on there as I can’t update here. 

(And while I sit here and apologize for my bloggy-absence, many of you may be thanking the Heavens that I’m not available to annoy you all :P. Haha, just kidding. I hope lol)

But now I must go, I don’t want to be rude to Boyfriend as he so generously let me on his computer.  Back to Emperor Kuzco! :)

Finished!

Traveling Vine iCozy is finished and beautiful :) I’m very proud of it, accept for one tiny part:

                                 ^ I don’t know if you can see it (I can, but I know what I’m looking for).  There is the little loop sticking out where I somehow split the stitch, and didn’t notice.  It pretty much blends in with the navy color, but it still bugs me.  Part of my perfectionism coming out, I suppose.

Now, I’m deep within my swatching and designing this bag I thought up a few days ago.  It’s very frustrating, because almost all of my stash yarn has no labels (most if it was from one big deal I got at a garage sale, the crocheter who was selling it all had ripped most of the labels off) so I have no idea how much yarn is in each skein, and how to figure out how much yarn I’m using.  I might just say screw it and go to Jo Ann’s later to buy all the yarn I need, even though I already have the colors I want.. Oh well.  I’m feeling cheap so I’ll probably just suck it up and use what I have to knit the prototype, then buy the good stuff to double-check the pattern, making a pretty bag. Hm.. Who knows?

Other than that, I’ve made no progress on the Purple Scarf.  Garter stitch is boring, that’s the only reason why.  I just can’t bring myself to work on it, I don’t know why.  Plus I’m not entirely sure she’s even going to like it, because it’s kind of young-looking, isn’t it? I mean, would a 17 year old girl really like getting a fuzzy purple scarf on her birthday?

…And I think I just talked myself out of giving it to her, believe it or not.  Huh. Funny how that just worked =/ Back to the drawing board, I guess.