Day 20 → A hobby of yours

I can crochet! That's about as much as a hobby as I can do, unless you count watching TV or shipping like I'm getting paid as a hobby.

I tried to find a youtube video of my favorite stitch, and... couldn't find it? Whatever. I know enough to make blankets and scarves, and that is enough for me.

So, generally speaking, when you find out someone is pregnant, you have, like, at least six months to get your shit together. That is HALF A YEAR. I found out that my cousin Natali was going to have a baby, oh... seven, eight months ago? Or something? Find this out, decide around four months ago that I'm going to crochet her a baby blanket. Last ( Read more... )

I am in a weird, weird state of mind right now. Maybe it's not 'state of mind' so much as: I feel a bit weird- I'm tired and headachey and stuffy; I have two papers due Tuesday before noon, 3-5 pages each; I have two scarves to finish before Tuesday so Mom can mail them out to our relatives, that's not even taking into account the several I still ( Read more... )

THE GATORS ARE GOING TO THE BCS CHAMPIONSHIP! There is no end to my excitement ( Read more... )

A) Last night Crusoe almost made me cry from angsty shippiness. This is my dilemma: I love any love story with heart-wrenching angst, but I hate cheaters. THIS A QUANDARY ( Read more... )

Bullets is the name of the game tonight ( Read more... )

After running my mouth all summer about how everyone's getting scarves for Christmas, I realized like last week that after finishing Gramma's bigass "lap" blanket that wound up being about the size of my double bed and using almost two two pounds of yarn (!!!) I hadn't really crocheted anything. So now I have to speed my ass up and I think I'm ( Read more... )

I love crocheting. And I am suddenly really good at it.

That is all.