I'm going to knit!

Lack of updates, I'm sorry!  I've just been distracted by job interviews, waiting an hour and a half in Nashville for gas, and random trips to Georgia with Emily.  But I'm still sorry.

But I'm going to start knitting again!  Dalton, GA has a sweet little LYS where I bought some Berroco Peruvia in the most amazing brown and green.  When I get back to my apartment I'll upload pictures.  Chris said he wants a beanie with ear flaps, so Thorpe by Kristen Kapur seems like a good fit.  I haven't been this excited about knitting something in a long time.  It's probably because I haven't really knit anything lately.  Eee!  I couldn't find any good chunky yarns (the lady in there said that in Georiga it's too warm to really warrant much of a sale), so I'm going to double the yarn up for this. Also, because I have an unfounded fear of dpns, I'm going to knit it with two circulars.  Holla.

Yay!  I can't wait to get back to knit!

Also, I'm going to see Jenny Lewis and Conor Oberst play tonight at the Ryman in Nashville.  This is going to be the best show ever.

It's been awhile.

I haven't been online in for-ev-er.  The sudden change from being constantly online to not at all is addling my brain!  Do I even exist?!  It's strange.

Greenville's back in session which I'm trying not to think about, and I had to work all weekend so I couldn't even make it out there for the triple birthday bash.  I guess it turned into a double birthday bash.  Thank goodness Emily and I set a date to meet in Dalton the CARPET CAPITAL OF THE WORLD the 19th through the 21st.  I definitely need to see her.

I haven't even had time to KNIT anything!  I had lofty hopes of making a hand towel for my bathroom, but my free time is spent between roommates and boyfriends and Greenville friends and new friends and I have no time to myself.  I'm kind of going through a knitting and internet withdrawal.  Symptoms include anxiety attacks about the amount of Facebook notifications piling up, and stress induced from email inbox overflows.  Also I just really want to knit.

Ok.  Time for bed.  

This rings so true.

Caption - We need a special holiday to honor the countless kind souls with unsecured networks named "linksys"

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!