Today is my boyfriends mother’s birthday. I made her a bag out of old jeans and ties. I think she’ll like it. I will hopefully have pics to put up soon and show it off. I’m proud of it considering I made it at 2 in the morning.

Oh, and I had my job interview today. I’m getting a call back for the second interview and a drug test so it’s looking like I’ll be getting a job thank goodness. I have to go buy buttons and beads to finish my stuff for the sale on Sat. hopefully I’ll have pictures of those as well.

Matthew and I are having to find a new place to stay until the house we’re going to rent opens up on the first. The landlord doesn’t want us here anymore so we have until Monday to get a new place. On Monday I have a job interview as well so hopefully that’ll go well. Lord knows I need the job. Next week Saturday I’m going to be selling my knits. I’m excited about that. I don’t have anything made yet since I was just informed about it but I have a few things on the needles and other quickie projects I can work on. Not much else. Once we get our own place and everything I’ll be updating daily again.

Things are getting a bit difficult. We’re going out today to talk to a lady about a studio apartment that opened up so hopefully that’ll work out. The best chance at a job right now I won’t hear about until next Monday. >.< I am happy though. The fair was in town this weekend so we spent a bit of time there and I got to met a bunch of people. No crafts are getting done lately. I need to work on swatches so I can start the ballet camisole from MagKnits.

I’m still around, just looking for an apartment. I have to go pick up boxes now though.

I finally got out here to Quincy! I love it here. I don’t have long to post so just letting everyone know I’m here and well. The train ride sucked! Aside from the usual delays, not one, but both of the engines broke! I was over 10 hours late. And since I wasn’t planning that I ran out of food so had to buy their’s which always makes me ill so I’ve been dealing with the consequences yesterday and today. I got a hat done up on the train on top of a few other projects. It turned out that randomly casting on a number leads you to having a hat for an infant. It’s so beautiful here, wish I had a digi cam then I could show pictures. I need to get going though. Updates will be at random until I get a place and Internet hooked up.

Either today or tomorrow will be my last post until I get Internet connection out in CA.

I still have a lot to do. I’m making one last shopping trip for a good laptop case that isn’t heavy and bulky and a couple minor things. Then tomorrow will be a trip out to get food for the train before I leave for DC. Today will be the previously mentioned shopping trip, packing, getting my room cleared, finishing my end of the swap (I’ll try to mail tomorrow, no I will send tomorrow dang it!)

Andy bought me an Mp3 player for the trip ^^ I’m actually really worried about him. He’s almost always hanging out with me and I broke him of his video game addiction… he’s been really depressed. I feel bad about it since it’s because of me. But he wants me to go and be happy. Unlike most of the people here who’ve been trying to convince me to stay. I know he doesn’t want me to go but he’s doing everything in his power to make sure I get out there. I’ll miss him. He’s the first good friend I’ve made in a long time… since middle school,  like 8 years ago or so.

But I’m really looking forward to getting back in my baby’s arms. We have a ride again! ^-^

I’m going back to knitting. I’ll either post tomorrow, but if not I’ll be back sometime Sunday or later.

I’m nearly done with my swap projects thank goodness. If I work late I can mail them out tomorrow. That would be freakin awesome. I still have to pack up everything. I have 3 suitcases to pack everything I’m bringing with me 2 carry ons and a purse and a laptop case to pack everything that I own. Everything that doesn’t fit is either being sent or donated. Most of which will be donated. The things to send are really just books and I’m keeping them with Andy until I have a job and can pay to ship them. The sewing machine is still an issue. I’m thinking that I’m going to put it in my little suitcase carry on. It’s on the train so no one will care and it’ll be left alone and buffered against a lot of soft things. Don’t know though, I’ll test if I can handle it later today.

I’m really feeling stressed about this upcoming move. Don’t get me wrong I’m really freakin excited about it, it’s all I’ve been looking forward to since I decided to move to Quincy, but damn if it’s not getting to be troublesome. First off my depression has been acting up and god knows there is no reason for it too, I’m so happy about finally getting to CA. Sorry if that’s confusing… I’m extremely happy and excited, but I keep getting sad for no reason what so ever. Then there’s other things. I don’t have a ride to Quincy once I get to Reno. Three different rides have ditched. The first went to Europe, the second got dates confused and won’t be around, the third may be having his liscence revoked. >.< It’s troublesome. Then there’s the feeling of not having enough time. I still have work to do, and it’s not getting done as fast as I have hoped. The Internet being shut off was another downer. The fact that I don’t feel I’m knitting fast enough for the swap is irritating as well. In fact I’m going to work on that once I get off here. I still need to figure out what I’m doing with my sewing machine. I’m just really frusterated. Oh and I’m on a guilt trip for not going to visit my family this summer but I had so much to do and I still do. The work won’t end when I get to Quincy. Plus I really want my familly to meet Matthew. Unless they come back to the states, I don’t know how I’m going to arrange that. I’m going to go knit now and try to relax. Then I’m off to Andy’s to continue work on his room.

Today was another day in the commons. Jeez I was such an idiot. I was sitting there knitting and listening to some music with my headphones on. The sound was were it normally is but it was super quiet I could barely hear it so I had to turn in up all the way to hear it well (I’m sure you know where this is going). There were a crap load of people around for a while but everyone left and then Brain came over to say hi. So I pull off the headphones and stop the music. We talk and when he left I put them back in and turned the music back on. Still wondering why the hell I’m having to have it up so loud I look down at the jack. It’s in the bloody microphone port next to the headphone port. So I change it over quickly and turn red as hell. I must’ve looked so retarded listening to music from my laptops speakers but still wearing headphones. So that was a good hour or so of my morning.

Oh, then I had to put the knitting down when I heard Sara Evan’s Saints and Angels. I’m obessing over that song. I NEED to choreograph it! I miss dancing so much. I wish it didn’t hurt so badly to try to. I felt so betrayed by my body when I discovered it couldn’t handle it anymore. My knees bend inward so when my feet are out in first postion my knees bend straight forward and I can not physically force them over my toes unless I really want to hurt myself, then I have a bad disk in my back. It took all my will power to not get up and start dancing in the middles of the commons. I really miss it. I’ll never be able to do ballet again not well and not professionally like I dreamed of doing. I’m hoping to be able to get back into jazz. The only good thing that came out of my not being able to dance was that I went back to my crafts. I crafted all the time when I was a child, but I lost touch of that side of me when I became a gymnast and a dancer and a martial artist. Just didn’t make time for it anymore. I miss the physical activities, but I’m happy I rediscovered a part of me that was lost. I do hope that soon I can dance and do gymnastics again. I’m getting back to martial arts very soon so I’m not worried about that one. Until then I’ll keep hoping and resisting the urge to just dance my heart out and land myself at the doctors in the process.

My Kiri under went surgery today and thanks to the shop owner at Lettuce Knit she’s all fixed. I still don’t like the pattern. I don’t think I’ll be doing it again. Still loving KSH though. The yarn is so soft and lovely.

Okay so I had a really long post and I lost it all… >.<

Anyways, I spend most of the day working on the stuffs from my swap partner. She’s sent already and I’m still working so I feel a bit guilty, but I’ll be done soon.

After Andy got off work we went to Lettuce Knit again and picked up some Rowan KSH, they actually had the same dye lot which was lucky since I’ve only been to this store 2 or 3 times before and buy most of my stuff at Got Yarn. Anyway the shop owner is a lovely lady she offered to let me bring in my shawl and she’d fix it, but I’d feel guilty about it so I don’t know if I’ll actually do that or not, but I’m definitly visiting again before I leave. She even gave me a free tote bag! Pulled it right off the display and handed it to me after taking off the price tag! It was so nice. I really like that store a lot the lighting is wonderful and it’s really welcoming. Got Yarn is dark and it seems less welcoming, the ladies there are nice, I just don’t feel as comfortable there as I do at Lettuce.

After leaving the LYS Andy and I went Goodwill in search of some more suitcases, but there were none. So instead I bought two tops to unravel for yarn.

First off for comparison here’s a picture of me in normal fitting clothing. Granting I’m in the worst shape of my life, but that’ll be fixed when I start working out again like I used to before the disk in my back went bad and my knees blew out:

So then the first top I bought is 100% cotton in a lovely yellow, these pictures don’t show the color very well though. As you can see it instant adds such wonderful err curves?

Then the next one is 85% silk, and 15% cashmere it’s wonderful. The yarn will be used for a shawl or wrap of some sort. It’s a twin set here it is with the jacket:

And without:

I’m loving the softness of it! So anyway that’s what I got.

Then we went to Target to get luggage. I got a decent 5 piece set for around 80 bucks. So hopefully this one will last longer than the ones my parents have been getting me. They haven’t lasted a year and I got easy on my luggage! >.<