This rings so true.

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You're as cold as ice!

I'm heeere!  Here in Nashtown!  Sound the bells above!  What?  Who knows.

Jon's editing photos (aka talking on Adium and sending emails) and Chris is asleep and I'm happily typing away, thinking about what I'm going to knit next.  "Perhaps it will be blue!  Oh, can you imagine?  Blue spaghetti!"

I'm pretty happy and content.  It's fun living with Alex and Betsy, it's fun having my car back, and it's fun to be DOING things with my life.

Another exciting thing is that I'm going to go to the "sit n' knit" at Threaded Bliss yarns!  I seriously am looking forward to this.  I'm going to be the coolest person you will ever know.  I haven't had time to knit anything at all since I've been here, so hopefully it'll be my one time a week for relaxing.

Nashville, ho!

So I left my new Macbook charger in Tucson. Lame. But it's all right - I've been so busy seeing people, packing up stuff, and going to weddings that I haven't needed it.

When I got to Greenville I was so bored. Angie and I did our obligatory McDonalds-run late the night before, but the next day everyone I knew (which wasn't a whole lot) was working so I spent a lot of the day wandering around the town and campus wondering why no one remembered to remind me how there was nothing to do. But later that night I remembered what I love about this place -- sitting on Thomas' porch, drinking beer, sitting in silence with the breeze and the bugs; being secretly giddy to hang out with certain amazing muscians and then 5 minutes later embarrasing myself completely in front of them; laying on the diry carpet of Tower with Caitlin and Bre, no furniture, boxes in piles, talking for hours and hours about sex, life, God... the people are what I'll miss.

I can't believe I'll never live here again.

Almost a Nash-villain. Emphasis on villain.

I leave for Greenville tomorrow morning! Yay! I love my Tucson, but nowhere's fun with no car, friends, or job. Good thing I found knitting, right? I'm a grandma - even more so because I bought like 4 cardigans (along with a lot of other stuff... how am I going to fit it all in my suitcases??) yesterday with my momma. I accept my place in life.

I'm still plodding away on the boots for Liz. I had to start over twice because I couldn't figure out the damned circular double needle whatever crap. Now that I finally got the hang of it, I can't remember why I thought it was so hard. Here's my progress so far:

Yay!

So they're not going to be done necessarily before I leave... but winter's a long way off. Maybe a Christmas present? A Thanksgiving remembrance? A Halloween treat?

In cooler news, I got the iPhone knockoff The DARE! I always seem to get the anti-Mac devices even though I really like all Apple products. Basically, my phone is amazing. And I'm getting a Macbook tonight! This is typical D'Andrea - I was supposed to get it for graduation. But I'm not complaining, this poor little lappy is on its last legs. I guess most Dells don't live past their 4th birthday.

Blue Sky Rain, the Sisterhood, and Ugg Boots

Well, the sun's shining and it's pouring outside, so you know everything's normal here in Arizona.

Seriously, I see lots of blue sky.

I still haven't seen Elizabeth (or really any of my family) for a while now, so I haven't been able to make her sit still and take pictures of her wearing the Sweet Vest (capitalization for awesome-nouns). But one day! One day soon. I haven't picked out buttons yet, but I'm hoping for something older and ugly looking to match, like a Cameo button or something puke green.

I'm going to see The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 tonight with Crystal. We're the only members of the Sisterhood left in town, and we will be grieving our separation in style.

I'm still plugging away on the Long Distance Relationship Scarf, but am stuck because I'm trying to decide if I want to knit approximately 3 feet in plain stockinette or in some other style that won't make me die of boredom. I'm easily distracted, even with my obsessions.

Elizabeth really wants me to make her these:



Apparently Ugg has some just like them for a couple hundred dollars, but the pattern was only $6 and she has ordered me to make them for her. I'll have to learn to knit in the round on 2 circular needles (which is weird and scary, but this summer is all about staving off boredom, so I'll do it), but other than that should be pretty quick to knit. So now I have two deadlines - finish the LDR Scarf and these boots before I leave Tucson. Go me!

Long Distance Relationship Scarf

I was talking to Colin tonight about his girlfriend's upcoming arrival to Tucson. I told him about my recent obsession with knitting and he told me I should knit her something Arizona-y. He suggested a saguaro. I was dubious. But then I found this amazing pattern for a dishcloth that has a pattern for every state. Yes please! I settled on a scarf (it's quick and she's getting here in like 3 days) that has the shape of Arizona and the letters AZ at one end, and the shape of Illinois (where she's from) with the letters IL at the other. Colin bequeathed unto it the name, "The Long Distance Relationship Scarf" and the legend of the scarf has begun.

But seriously, isn't it cool? Yay Arizona! Maybe I should do something for Ohio for Chris? Too nerdy? Maybe.

An update for the cardigan - the body is basically done, so all I need to do now are make the sleeves and make the collar. I would have worked on it more tonight except I went over to my Irish neighbor's and was fed mass quantities of wine. When I tried to leave after one glass, Amond told me, "We have a saying in Ireland - a bird can't fly with only one wing," which apparently means that you have to drink more. A lot more. Irish people are great.

Grandma at 22

So I've been busy knitting (while trying to forget that I'm knitting because there's nothing else to do in this town without a car or friends that still live here - Nashville, only 2 weeks until I see thy glory) and am super excited about my results.

Exhibit 1, The Finished Scarf:

Exhibit 2, The Goldenrod Cardigan of Glory and Honor:

I'm actually about twice as far along on the cardigan as the pictures show, but I'm too lazy to take more pictures. You'll just have to wait (Christie, I know you're the only one that reads this, so assume that when I'm talking, I'm talking to you).

Knitting Jackpot, say whaaaaaat

I won the freaking Knitting Jackpot. No lie.

Andrew and I were just hanging out at his house, waiting for Bethany's goodbye party tonight, and I was knitting. We had just stopped at Michael's and bought size 19 (yeah, they're huge) circular needles so I could make Rachel a cardigan for her birthday. Triva asked, "Are you knitting?" and when I said yes, she came out with a HUGE box and said, "My grandmother was a big knitter and left this all to me, but I don't knit at all. You can take whatever out of this you want." Holla atcha boy, for REALZ.

After I regained my speech and hugged Triva a million times, I sorted through the box and ended up with, and please note this all:

Size 11s
2 pairs of size 10s
Size 9s
2 pairs of size 8s
4 pairs of size 7s (3 are 14" and one is 10")
Size 6s
Size 5s
Size 4s

PLUS

A circular needle kit that has sizes 6-15 with attachments to make each of those 12, 14, 16, or 21 inches long.

All night I sat there and would periodically remember my good fortune and how happy I am. How freaking awesome!