Riding!

So, today I rode to Hudson Leather Factory Outlet store or whatever with my parents, my aunt and uncle, and a friend of theirs. Actually, first my mom, dad, and I met the other peoples at Artesian Wells (it's a 'sports tavern'). We waited there for what felt like forever... Dad showed us the stage that his band will be playing on in two weeks and we sat around... Finally, Uncle Jon and Aunt Judy showed up with.. er, I don't remember his name... but, heh, (I hope my parents don't secretly read my blog or something) this guy was like, old.. but sexy old... you know? Like he was probably around 50ish but he was still fit and acted like a little kid still. It was kinda funny... Anyway, now that I've finished embarrassing myself by calling a 50 year old sexy... (I feel like Magz right now.. lol) We left for the leather store, which, by the way, has a little fair type biker party thing every memorial, labor day, and 4th of July. We got there extremely late though and only caught like the last 2 songs from the live band and barely anyone was there anymore. My mom still had fun because she managed to talk Dad into getting her chaps and, I think, 3 belly button rings (one of which was the playboy bunny *rolls eyes* Dad's pick of course). I of course got nothing and when I mentioned that Dad had just been complaining that I was riding in tennis shoes and kinda hinted at some new boots, Dad just brought up that fact that my car needs a new tire... Yeah, lame... Anyway, most of the day was pretty uneventful... On the way home, all of the old folks (tehe) ditched me at the state line. You see, we had stopped so they could all put their brain buckets (helmets) back on. While we were stopped though, a guy from the house we'd stopped by came out and was talking to us. Well, he convinced them to go to some bar down the road back in Ohio that was having a biker night or something. I was going to go... oh, and get this!! My mom and dad were trying to tell me that 19 is the legal drinking age in Ohio and so I could go with them but I couldn't drink too much because I was driving my bike. Yeah! I was like, first of all, NO. The drinking age is not 19 in Ohio. It's 21, just like the rest of the country and I'm not going to drink at a bar with my parents. Then the guy whose house we were stopped in front of made things worse by saying, "Oh, they won't card her! They aren't carding anyone tonight!" and my dad was like, "Yeah, ride up on a bike and I'm sure they wouldn't card you." So, regardless to say, I decided to head home on my own and let them have their fun.

Oh, but before I left them, we compared helmets... They were all amazed at the sheer amount of suicided bugs on my bike and myself. It's ridiculous! Bugs like me so much that they even suicide on me more than on other people! Those pictures up there are of my helmet when I got home. Once it got dark, it was like it was snowing there were so many bugs coming at me!

It's My Birthday!!

It's my birthday! Oh, wait, did I just say that? tehe. So, it's my 19th birthday and I'm in a strangely good mood considering that I've only received 1 bday present so far. That present was a green shrug and scarf from Sarah. She probably has a pic up on her blog but I haven't checked. Unfortunately I don't know where I put my camera so I can't post any pictures today... :( I'm a lot farther on my Slytherin scarf though. I have 5 stripe patterns completed now and the best part is that I haven't gotten distracted still. This might be a record! Let's see, oh! I don't remember if I said this in the last post, but I recently put a new one-shot up on fanfiction. It's an implied RonHermione fic called, "You're Welcome". Aaaanndd, I'll be putting another one up once I proofread it one more time that's called, er.. well, I haven't come up with a name yet I don't think... anyway, it's a NevilleGinny fic set during the 4th book. It's basically how Neville asked Ginny to go to the ball with him. It's going to be a total of 4 chapters I think but they're pretty short chapters so I might combine them... It's written from Nevilles PoV first and then from Ginny's PoV. I love getting inside Neville's head. I so don't see him as shy in his own head. I see him as thinking of all sorts of witty comments and whatnot but just never being able to say them outloud... anyway... now that you all think I'm weird ...er...

Hmm.. let's see, well, I got some llama wool from my uncle (he has a llama/emu/chicken farm) and Sarah and I need to figure out when we're going to have fun getting it ready to spin. Oh and I really want a spinning wheel for my birthday... too bad they're reaaaally expensive... Maybe I can ask for just that for christmas this year and all my aunts and my grandma, etc can all go together to get one for me? *shrug* That would be really cool... wow.. I've been all over the place on this post.

hmm.. okay, so I just had an idea... should I post that story I was talking about on here and ask whoever happens to read it what I should name it? or should I just try to come up with a name on my own? *shrug* the only person who reads this regularly is Sarah I think... I had that one random commenter that his/her blog didn't really make sense. I think it was just like a link to somewhere else and I didn't feel like testing to see where that link went. Anywho (again), I just thought of a brilliant idea that will fix everything! I'm going to post it on deviantart and ask what I should name it on there because I have a bunch of friends on there that might read it and make suggestions. Anyone who actually does read this and wants to check out my story can look under the name "Somethingwithatail" at either fanfiction.net or deviantart.com. Wait, can I post a fanfiction on da? hmm.... not sure on that one...

Okay, so that was one long, random post with no pictures... wait, no, I'm going to randomly add a cute picture of Seth's niece, Clara May. There. Okay, so I added two cute pictures of Clara May (I already had those uploaded onto my computer and I just can't take any new pictures like of my progress or anything.)

I'm not sure if all of that made sense, but I don't feel like reading over all of it and I'm sure if I messed up too badly that Sarah will point it out to me eventually.

AHHH!!!!!

Okay, first of all, mother's day is not the reason for that scream (the name of the post). No, I actually did quite well on mother's day considering I'm not even a mother (nor do I plan to be anytime in the next 20 years... or just ever). My mum paid for me and Seth to go out to eat with her and her two sisters and my grandma in the morning and then also gave us money to go out to Lonestar with my other grandma and uncles and aunt.. oh and Jerry (my grandma's fiance)... (believe me there are much weirder things in my family than my grandma having a fiance.)

Anywho, the first grandma (my mom's mom) gave me money after we ate to buy a purse that caught my eye at Target. Said purse is that first picture up there. (Isn't it awesome?! and it's reversible!)

Onto the second and third pictures: Oh hey! look at that! It looks like it's almost done... hang on... why is the top all ruffly? That's not what it's supposed to look like... Well, maybe it'll look better on, right? Okay, next step in the pattern is to close up the hole in the underarm using 3needle bind off... Wait just a second... There are 2o-some stitches on the sleeve and only 16 on the main part of the body... there needs to be the same number of stitches for three needle bind off, right? Let's check the pattern. *checks pattern... hits head on wall* That's right folks, I put too many stitches on waste yarn allllll the way back at the join of the sleeves... That, and I had my mom try it on as is and the top is still ruffly with it on. All of this means I have to undo all of my work from the past week and do it again.

As you can imagine, I was quite miffed about all of this and decided to take it out on the project by ignoring the project... so I worked on my Slytherin scarf instead. So, the 4th picture is my progress on that. I have the first stripe pattern done! :D?

Oh, and I stopped at JoAnn's on mother's day too and I picked up some clearance yarn for a pair of colorful socks (hopefully I have enough for knee-highs and hopefully I'll finish this pair of socks). I'll post the picture of that yarn some other time... probably the first time that I mess up something in the Harry Potter Plot (tehe.. I like that name....) and decide to work on something else for awhile. Toodles!

Mother's Day!

So, unfortunately my Harry Potter items must be put on hiatus for a short time while I finish up my mum's Mother's Day present (and it'll probably have to pass as her bday present too because that's coming up and I'm broke :S). I'm very proud of myself because the shirt that I'm making for my mum is actually starting to look like a shirt. Check out the picture up there... Isn't it just awesome? Okay, well maybe I'm just weird but it's awesome to me. The color, black with silver and gold running through it, is perfect for my mom as is the pattern (Tempting II on knitty.com). She helped pick both out so I know she'll like it and the last time she saw me working on it, it was just a tube so she should be somewhat surprised once I'm done... I hoped to be done by Mother's Day.. but that would mean a lot of work tonight... I'll be close though. Oh, and I love the minimum finishing work. I know that once I start doing sweaters and stuff... the finishing work will be the bane of my existence. I'll put off finishing the project just to avoid the finishing work.. I know it will happen.

Anyway, the first two pictures are my progress so far on my Slytherin scarf and I hope that these pictures assure Sarah that my gray yarn is in fact gray and not pink like it appeared to be in the other picture.

The 3rd picture is of my progress on my mum's shirt. It actually looks like a shirt finally! Also, I'm almost done! The last picture I had to include because I just love the color pattern for this shirt. It's dark.. yet shiny.. Unfortunately, my camera (or maybe it's just me) sucks at taking up close pictures so it's very blurry :'( . Anyway, for anyone who wants to know, the yarn I'm using for the shirt is Red Heart Fiesta. The color is called "black" but as you see, it's not just black.

Wish me luck as I try to finish up this shirt as quickly as possible!

Woot! New Plans!

I told you I'd change my to do list. Sarah and I have decided that we will be dressing up properly for the 6th Harry Potter movie in November. So, we're both knitting ourselves sweater vests and scarves while her sister, Mary, sews us up some ties. Sarah will be a Ravenclaw and Mary, Seth (my bf), and I will be Slytherin. I think we out number you Sarah.

Anyway, I now have 2 Slytherin sweater vests and 3 Slytherin scarves that I'm supposed to have done before November 21st. I'm still not sure I can manage it. However, I'll not be giving up easily and I've already started the first scarf (mine :P ). I know, I've barely started it (that's the picture up there with just a few stitches cast on) but I'll have at least a few inches done by the end of the night I think.

The other picture is a screenshot from PoA. Malfoy's cronie on the right is wearing my scarf... or at least that's what my scarf is supposed to look like...

My plan B (if I can't finish the extra vest and scarf for Seth) is to write "MUGGLE" in big letters on a plain t-shirt and make him wear that. (I got that idea from a picture I found online while looking for ideas)

Oh, and Sarah was thinking it might be neat to have the house mittens too... I highly doubt I'll get that far... but then again, mittens are fun...

First post.. again.

So, this is my second blog ... because the first one is screwy and it says I never started a blogger account yet my friend can still go to my other blog. But I can't get to it, so here's my new one. This will be my spot to report on any knitting updates, the latest Harry Potter Fanfic I've been reading (or writing), and pretty much anything else. Let's see... Well, I can finally post this picture of the mittens I finished. I really like making mittens. They seem to knit up really fast for me and they look really nice too. However, my sizing is a bit off. The first pair that I made for Sarah were way too big and now these that I made for Seth's nurse (long story) might be a bit too small... She said she had small hands though... I'd planned on posting a picture of the Pineapple Upside Down Cake of Holy DOOM!!! but I seem to have lost the picture soo... I'd rather post knitting pictures anyway.

Let's see, current projects (in order of current importance):

My mom's Mother's Day present (Knitty.com Tempting II)

Kid's socks (I can't seem to finish a pair of socks so I'm trying them in a smaller size :D)

The many bags I've started and not finished

Sarah's B-day/ xmas present (sorry sra but your bday's not until december. I have some time)

The many patterns I find and want to do before the other stuff on this list (and I probably will)

Basically, my mom's present is the most important right now. All the other things will move around a gazillion times before I finish them all (if I finish them all).

Oh, and I need to start working on a plan to start a knitting group at our school or at least in our area somewhere.

I just noticed that this has become my to do list concerning knitting. lol.. well, I guess that works too, huh?