Shawl Progress

So, I was happily plugging along on the border for my shawl (its got a little stripe of loops all away around with a triangle motif stacked on top) and I had finished 11/25 triangles for the first long edge when I took a look at the way I'd been connecting it to the center panel. Big uh oh, the triangles had been attached too far apart, causing the center panel to bunch and I was quickly running out of side length of continue attaching to. In summary, I had to rip out 9 of the triangles and go back to the beginning. Havent felt good enough to work on it since.

Yesterday morning I felt a little tickle in my chest/neck but I figured I'd just get a little bit of a cough by the end of the day and that would be it. Too bad that wasnt the case. By 5pm my tonsils were srsly starting to act up and by 8pm I was out. Srsly, whole body achs and pain, throbbing pulse, my tonsils feel all swollen and I can't stand to swallow. *cry*

I don't know what it is about this yr that's made me so sick. Just, really knocked me out.

Shawl Progress

360/360 rows completed for the center panel, now I've just got to do the border. Pain and hardship though accompany that little woe. Thankfully, through careful reading and probably a lot of luck I got through the first repeat of the border with only 1 very fixable error and it turned out lovely. I swear, however, I am never going to use Boucle yarn again, it's practically impossible to visually distinguish stitches in it.

1/100ish border rows completed. It's so very very tedious though I fear it's going to take more than 5 days to finish this shawl.

Bed

Do you ever have a morning when there is almost nothing else in the world that feels or could possibly feel as good as staying cuddled up in bed? It's just like a dream, that mix of tiredness, warmth and cushy-soft comfort.

I read an article recently about how you shouldnt pile a ton of blankets onto yourself when you sleep because your core temperature needs to go down so you can fall asleep. Personally I find this a bit flip-flopped. I almost never have trouble getting to sleep, whether I'm at home or away, hard surface, bed, sofa, inside, outside. On the rare occasions I do have trouble it's 95% of the time because I'm too cold.

I love blankets, bedspreads, comforters. I have about five layers on my bed. A sheet, 2 comforters, a crochet bedspread, and a velour bedspread thingy. It's perfect. Heavenly.

This morning I very seriously did not want to get out of bed. I really just wanted to luxuriate in the niceness of the moment. It was all so warm and safe and comfortable.

I love the color white, white rooms. It's so clean. Not hospital white but beach house white (you know what I mean?) When I get a place of my own I want to get rid of all my clutter and live in a clean, comfortable, white beach house style place with large windows and plush comforters so I can wake up warm and comfortable with a salty breeze ruffling the drapes.

This reminds me that at some point I need to get back to work on my crochet bedspread. ;D

Lrg Rectangular Shawl with center Diamon Pattern 01

So, here's news of my current knitting project. I found this book a few months back at my local Joanns store and was utterly dumbstruck with the stuff i found. Obviously, not everything is actually usuable but I feel in love with the idea of lace shawl making.

I'm not very handy at knitting though so it's been something of a battle to get any sort of success. But, here at last, I've spent the last two weeks steadily working my way through one of the simple rectangular shawl patters.

Currently finished 260/360 rows for the center panel. (excuse the crappy photo, it's a combination of my camera+the lighting in my house *shrugs*) It's nice and non-blurry but the pattern is mostly lost unfortunatly.

I started this with the intent to have it finished for Prom (which is the 26th of this month). I'm hopeful I'll still be able to accomplish that goal but as the time comes to do the border looms nearer I'm a bit apprehensive--I dont know how to use dpns at all, nor how to knit on any sort of border. So, keeping my fingers crossed.

In other news, I checked a recipe book out from the library the other day full of "Spanish Recipes by Region". I attempted the chiabata bread recipe last night with something less than glowing success but I'm hopeful that with more practice it will come out better in future. At the least, it tastes good, if too dense.

Middle of the Week, focus new

So, I recently broke up with my boyfriend (JW) of one year. And of course by recently, I mean two weeks ago, but it was only one week ago that the last nail really fell in the coffin.

At first I was sad, of course, and at first it seemed like we might be able to fix things. But no. There was no fixing this. Everyone keeps telling me now I need to look outward and older (he was only 6 months older than me). I suppose they have a point, he was too emotionally immature, he has problems he needs to work out on his own. And it comes down to the simple truth that we werent well matched for each other anyways.

In the wake of this, I must admit that I feel mostly relief. I feel free, and light and unburdened now that we're no longer together. It's amazing. And I've taken this past week or so to realize I need to focus on me, on my interests and my hobbies and all the projects I've put on the back burner, both for him and for school. It's a revalation.

Perhaps it's a horrible thing to say, admitting that I'm happier now than when I was with him, that I almost wish we'd broken up earlier, but I wont say that, because this has been a very beneficial learning experience. And, if nothing else, it can always be used later as material ;)

Now I approach Wednesday with something like dread, because there are still three days left to the week, but I have nothing to worry about beyond the basic stresses of school itself. It's refreshing. I move forward into the world my own person, with my own thoughts and opinions and a carefree attitude. I don't always have to be wrong or misinformed or whatever. I can have my thoughts and my hobbies and they shall be mine alone and I dont have to think about children. It puts something like a cheery note on even Wednesday.

More to come on my new knitting project (and my new I do mean two weeks old), books I'm reading and probably some whining about school.