TAKING BACK [THE KNIT]

... was not the regular tuesday night blog night because my computer is broken. like totally fucked beyond even using it at all. so we'll see what happens with that, but don't really expect much from me until that gets fixed. (i'm at school right now, and only have about 20 mins to post, so this will be a short one!)

geez, i was just looking at my actual blog before i started to post, and i realized how old all the pictures on the top right are! my friends are insane about taking pictures and i have about a million new ones that need to be put up there. perhaps i will phase out some of the older ones that i'm not a huge fan of.

i've been knitting like mad lately! i'm working on 2 scarves, a purse, and i'm going to start a hat after i finish the purse. plus, i realized i should finish the afghan that i'm making my mom before christmas, as that would be a great thing to give her. so i've got like 9 panels to do in a month or so. we'll see if that actually gets done, i'm sure it won't! i'm such a procrastinator! i never get anything done by the deadlines i set. (like i have to tell you guys that, i pretty much promise something in every entry and very rarely follow through.) it's just that i have too much going and it's hard to spend a lot of time on one thing. plus i have no attention span. anyway, everything EVERYTHING i am working on features cables. what a dumbass i am. you would think since i'm working on a huge blanket that is all cabled that i would lay off and do something like lace or just something simple otherwise. but no. i'm cabling my ass off. i definitely need to mix it up, and the next few things i do after this will definitely not involve cables. I'm thinking I need to make a return to illusion knitting, and maybe try my hand at a pair of socks or something like that. i could do with a little stockinette in the round at this point. maybe a little lace action, too, who knows.

I don't know what it is, but Tuesday nights always seem like a good time to blog! I'm just always in the mood to talk on Tuesdays or something. Hm.

I have had a lovely day today. I woke up and went and made breakfast with/for a couple of friends and hung out all morning. Then I came home and ate and took a nap. I really can't complain about today at all. I'm actually in a really good mood right now, which is kind of weird.

Great news guys: I'm going to be teaching someone how to knit! It seems like he (yes, he!) might already know, but I'm definitely teaching him how to cast on. I've never really taugh anyone how to knit that continued to do it. I've taught a couple of friends who crocheted to knit but they didn't really stick with it. Anyway, I'm excited.

For some reason, craftster has been driving me slightly crazy lately. People just ask the same questions over and over and pretty much post a bunch of the same ugly shit. Like fucking fingerless gloves. Unless you're homeless and rummaging through trash cans, you shouldn't be wearing fingerless gloves. I know they're a lot easier and give you a lot more dexterity than just wearing gloves but seriously, they're hideous. Anyway, there is ocasionally some useful/cool stuff but for the most part it seems like it has been pretty ehhhh lately. Maybe it's just me. =/

I just remembered I need to take picture of my freaking aviator cap, which has been done for like two months. Ugh. The next time my hair is done and I have make up on I will take them. It turned out well, I don't know why I keep forgetting to take pictures! I'll also try to get some WIP pictures of the bag I am making. Speaking of said bag, I think I'm going to have to line it, and possibly use something to keep the bottom flat. Ugh. I might just say forget it and leave it looking goofy. Who knows. I can't wait to be done with it, that's for sure.

I was watching the new Knitty Gritty last night, and it made me want to try double knitting with intarsia. (random bitching moment: I missed this show for two weeks because I wasn't home on Monday night, and apparently the one last week was about knitted lingirie. I'm sure it will be ugly, most of the patterns they show are, but I really want to check it out. Thank god for diynetwork.com!) Anyway, I have never done any intarsia and for some reason I really want to design a couple of scaves with something done in intarsia and double knit on top of that. Now I'm thinking I might actually do this ... Hrm. I'm off to go look at pictures I could use. Wouldn't you love a scarf with your own picture on it? That would be pretty badass ...

I just got back from voting for the first time! Aren't you guys proud of me?! I really can't see why people don't vote. It takes no time and really couldn't be easier. Plus, you can be a permanent absentee if it's really that hard for you to get to the polls! If you don't vote, YOU SHOULD! There really is no excuse ...

Yesterday, I went to San Francisco with three of my friends. It was awesome; I love the city. We did tourist-y stuff, for the fun of it. We went to Alcatraz, which was fun. I think we had all been there before, so it really was nothing new and we didn't spend very long there. I'd forgotten what a hike it is to get up there. I took a bunch of pictures. I like to take pictures of things and places a lot more than I like taking pictures of people, so this was a great time to do that. Although I have to say, when you have friends as crazy as mine, it is fun to take pictures of them. Take my friend Amanda, for example. In Alcatraz there are cells that are open that you can go into and take pictures or do whatever. Inside, there is a toilet and a sink. So to make it a little more realistic, Amanda decided to sit on the toilet with her pants down. After Alcatraz we were all starving and ready for a nap. We ate at this place on the embarcadero called Fog City Diner. Oh. My. Fucking. God. Best french fries I have EVER had. That in itself basically made my day; they were that good. If you're in San Francisco, eat there! After that, we drove out to the Cliff House. I hadn't been there in several years, and didn't know they re-did the whole restaurant that was there! I was kind of surprised. We walked around there for a while, and went into the cave that's there. I pretty much just about lost my mind in there and went back outside. It freaked me the fuck out, and I'm really not sure why. I didn't even take any pictures of it. But I did take a lot of pictures of the ruins and the ocean and all that. After it started to rain, we drove around for a while and went through Golden Gate Park, another of my favorite places in the city. We ended up having dinner at a sushi/teriyaki place that was really good. I was still stuffed from lunch, but I managed to eat.  Imagine that. Anyway, (I almost forgot!) while we were driving around before dinner, we stopped at Walgreen's to get some tylenol for Amanda's toothache. As we were getting ready to leave, a couple of cars in front of us a bicyclist ran into an opened car door. He laid in the middle of the street for a while, and the guy who had opened his door helped him up and stuff. He didn't see hurt and didn't even have any visible scrapes, and his clothes weren't torn. He's really lucky he didn't get run over. I know I'm going to hell for saying this (amongst other reasons), but it was pretty much hysterically funny. I wouldn't have laughed if he was hurt. He just laid there like he was dead, and then stood up and was fine. I'm guessing he's going to be a little more careful the next time he rides his bike so close to parked cars.

The thing about being in San Francisco is that it makes me want to knit. I'm not sure if it's the weather or the feel or what. But the whole way home in the car, I sat and wished I'd brought something to work on. I worked on my purse for a good while today, and hopefully it will be done soon. Cables are such a pain but I love them! Especially on stuff, moreso than clothes.

Thanks to Natasha, I found the AntiCraft, which I am in love with! I really like the "Snowball's chance in hell" armwarmers, even though I usually am not a fan of armwarmers. I looooove that skull -> snowflake pattern, and will use it on something, for sure.

I think this is it for today. I'm uploading pictures of SF right now, and I will put links, etc. in here as I go.

Today is Dia De Los Muertos and I didn't end up going to the cemetery! (Is that how it's spelled? Cemetary? Ever since I read that goddamned Stephen King book, I can never remember how it's really spelled!) Anyway, I hope everyone had a lovely Halloween weekend, full of partying and costumes and fun. Mine was pretty great. Friday night I went to a party at my friend Lynsey's house. The cops came and all kinds of crazy stuff happened but it was great! I was dressed as a dudebitch bitch/sceneslut. (If you don't get it you would if you saw pictures.) Then Saturday I went to a house show, dressed as a girl scout. Using my old uniforms! I had a great time, and it was such a fun night. Then, on the way home, Toni and I pretty much had a breakdown and both of us were crying. We are both going through tough times right now. It's hard to be 18 and in community college with no direction in your life. The more I think and bitch about this, the more depressed I get. And I don't really want to ruin my good mood right now. Sunday, I shopped and didn't but anything. Also, Toni and I went to the river and took cool pictures of some abandoned stuff. Definitely need to upload those. Then I sat and watched a bunch of Hitchcock movies on tv and knitted. Last night, Toni, Lynsey, and I had a little sleep over at Toni's because her boyfriend broke up with her. Today, I have pretty much spent the whole day asleep. I slept at Toni's. Then went over to Lynsey's and slept while she went to class. I came home, had lunch and then went back to bed! And I'm actually still tired. I'm thinking being a little depressed has a lot to do with it. Overall, I have had a wonderful week.

Okay, so the purse I'm knitting is a stash-busting thing. I have a bunch of burgundy Red Heart that I've been sick of loooking at, so I decided to make a purse. I'm using #6s and my god. Shitty acrylic + small, bamboo needles + cables = total nightmare. But I am liking how it's coming so far, so I'm just going to keep going and hope that it gets a little easier.

Guess who broke the 'menu' button on her iPod mini? Yeah that would be me. So I have an iPod shuffle now, hahahah! And I can't turn the backlight off, so I have no battery life either. Why does shit like this always happen to me? I pretty much only use shuffle anyway, so I'm not that upset. It's just the idea of the whole thing!