This is almost a private journal really since almost no one reads it. Well, I shouldn't say no one. Technically, it's almost a sure thing that eventually Sra will read this (Hi Sra!) but it's unlikely she'll read it until its been up for at least a couple months. Unless she started using an RSS reader or something. I think she's my one follower... Then, I've told others about my blog and I'm fairly certain that at least Mindy, Michael, and Magz have looked at it before, so there's always the possibility that they seek it out someday. Mary knows about it too, but I warned her that I'm posting Christmas gifts on here sooo... That either means she's going to be good and avoid it until at least after Christmas (at which point she'll probably have forgotten that I ever told her about it) or she's going to be bad and she's checking it daily to see if she can catch a glimpse of hers or Clara's Christmas presents. If that's the case... Bad Mary! :-P Get off my blog and check it again after Christmas instead!
But.. Like I said, it's unlikely that anyone is reading this until Sra decides to check up on my blog months later. So, technically I can post all sorts of Christmas present pictures on here and no one will be the wiser. But.. just to be safe, I'll avoid posting anything I may end up making for Sra. She is the most likely to read this afterall.
So, first on the finished Christmas present list is a slightly slouchy hat for Hannah. I love it! It turned out great (I'll post pictures later, they're on Seth's phone) and it only took one night. One night for finishing work and all! I used this pattern sorta. This is my project page for the hat. I'll be putting pictures up on it as well once I steal Seth's phone.
Ooo... I just found out how to make my project pages shareable by link! I thought they were anyway, so that means that previous posts in this blog probably have a lot of error links that should lead to Ravelry, but don't. Whoops!
Anyway, the hat turned out less slouchy than the pattern because I had to only do two rows of dc into each dc instead of three rows. Mary says Hannah has a smaller head too, so hopefully that's good. Hannah did just say she wanted me to teach her how to make a beanie, so I'm thinking she'll prefer that the hat isn't overly slouchy but instead more beanie like. I love that yarn I used and I think this hat was a perfect use for it too. I usually get this awesome yarn that I love so much that I'm afraid to use it for anything and then by the time I actually use it, it ends up going toward a project that I don't love so much and it never gets done. ... I am still overjoyed at the fact that I finished - and I mean finished completely and ready to be wrapped - a gift in one night! And I was able to chat with Mary and Clara and Seth while they played Minecraft and then later watch a couple of episodes of Doctor Who. That's got to be a record for me or something! I mean finishing work and all? - and not something that I still have to make the second one or want to add buttons or something. No, it's done - completely done! AND I even ran into a problem, tried to fix it, ran into another problem, etc. and still managed to finish it in one night. That's amazing for me. I realize that at this point I'm starting to sound like I'm tooting my own horn, but I am really surprised at myself. Details on the problems I ran into are on my project page.
The Doctor Who episode we watched last night (the Shakespeare one in Season 2) made quite a few Harry Potter references which just made my day. I also loved that the Doctor basically admitted to going into the future to read the 7th book before anyone else. And Shakespeare defeated the evil witches by saying expelliarmus! ...Or however you spell that. Like I said earlier - this is word vomit, so I'm not going to bother editing it much, so I'm not going to bother looking up how to spell expelliarmus no matter how much it sits there and taunts me by looking wrong... Really...
Oh! And I'm also proud of myself for not playing The Sims last night. I fully expected myself to go home and waste the entire night playing The Sims after that dialog from the last post about not doing just that. I was planning on only working on Mary's gift until that was done though, and I realized when I got home that my plan was flawed. Mary was over at my house when I got home, so if I wanted to knit, I couldn't work on her gift. If it was anything else, I would have just worked on it in front of her and told her it was for someone else, but Mary bought the yarn for this gift, so I can hardly pull that one off for this particular gift. I also made the mistake of telling Mary what yarns I planned on using for Clara's gifts so if I want to keep Clara's gifts a surprise for Mary too then I can't work on those when she's over either. Ah well, I have plenty of other knitted/crocheted gifts to keep me occupied when they're over. Then I'll just need to work really hard on their stuff when Mary's not over.
Just from writing the above paragraph I already want to play The Sims again. It's a horribly addicting game. I mean really terrible. Once you start playing it's hell trying to stop and then when you do, it takes all your will power not to just go right back to it as soon as you have a bit of free time. And then, when you finally pull yourself away from it and you think you've kicked the habit, someone says something about it or just says something that reminds you of it and WHAM! You want to play it again. Just like that, it's all you can think of all over again. That game is almost as bad as caffeine! Caffeine is also horribly addicting and unhealthy. Actually The Sims is unhealthy as well, because it promotes sitting in front of a computer for hours on end making your Sim live a wonderful life while you get absolutely nothing done. Ya know, its so addictive that if I thought it was possible, I'd say that they're somehow feeding you caffeine or some other drug through the screen when you play it just to keep you playing it. I mean, I woke up one morning to go to work at like 6 ish to find Seth still up playing The SIMs! Seth playing The Sims and the world didn't end - I know, shocking. Seth still being up at 6 am wasn't as surprising as finding out he was playing The Sims all night. I guess that's what happens when he gets me the Supernatural expansion pack and then realizes that he could play a vampire. I haven't played one myself yet, but the new town is just crawling with them. And apparently, instead of hunger they have thirst and they drink these plasma packs they find in fridges instead of eating food. And they start smoking if they are outside in the daylight (at least they don't sparkle). Oh, but there's this one emo looking npc vampire Sim named Dante or something ... and for some odd reason, he has face paint on every outfit other than his everyday. I'm not talking creepy blood around his mouth or something understandable. No, I'm talking rainbows and unicorns on his forehead, clown make-up, and tiger face paint depending on the outfit. It's screwed up. I've even given him a makeover with my stylist Sim and got rid of the face paint, but the next time my Sim went to a party, his face paint was back! How screwed up is that?
Wow... this post is long.
I think I'll make it longer by listing out the projects I have to knit/crochet still:
Slightly Slouchy Beanie for Hannah- Slouchy Beanie for Mary
- "One night sweater" for Mary
- Woven hat for Mary
- Baby sweater for new nephew (Oh yeah, Michael and Mindy are having a boy! A big one too! He's apparently in the 99th percentile for weight at the moment... Not so great for Mindy. She's fairly small herself and she's intending to have the baby naturally soo... Ouch?) .. (Oh, I hope they don't mind me putting that stuff on here... Well, Mindy, if you read this and would prefer I take it off, let me know and I will. However, like I babbled on and on about earlier in this post: no one actually reads this anyway. Oh, and if you are reading this, Mindy, stop now! Read it after Christmas!)
- Baby Blanket for new nephew
- Something for Clara with pink and green handspun yarn. Possibly this scarf.
- Something for Clara with white with color spots handspun yarn - possibly something for Mary instead of Clara. She liked the yarn, technically. But I have a lot planned for Mary already sooo.... ? Possibly this hat.
- Snowmobile scarf for Rick - I should get started on this one soon since it's going to be mindless, but very time consuming. I'll have to steal the needles from another project, I think... That's going to suck.
- Link Gauntlets for Seth (two options... I'll probably go with the easier ones if I get to this...)
- Dad asked for a Harley hat, but I don't think I have any orange and black yarn worthy of a hat... I had a little bit of both leftover from the hat I knit for Aunt Tina.. But nowhere near enough to make another hat, and I actually used up most of the black that was left anyway... I want to make him this as a bass guitar case for his little portable bass guitar, but 1) I don't have the yarn (again I would use black and orange for Harley) and 2) it's a felting project and felting hates me and 3) Do I really have time before Christmas?
- Something for Mom? She didn't know what she wanted, but it sounds like she might use some wrist warmers at work. I would probably have something laying around that would work for her, but it can't be bulky yarn because I don't think she'd like bulky wrist warmers... I'll have to look around and find something she'd like that I can make in the short amount of time I can give to a project before Christmas.
I'd really like to not be still finishing Christmas gifts after Christmas, so I'm thinking I should cut my list down to a manageable size. I might have to just buy my parents something... I don't think they actually like knitted stuff anyway... Then again, I don't think I've ever actually completed any of the knitted gifts I've tried to make for them in the past. My mom got a knitted scarf, but that was only because it was supposed to be knit for a paying customer who ended up not wanting it. So, technically, my parents have never really seen any finished projects from me... Hm... It would be really nice to fix that this year... *looks up at list* Hmmm... No idea how I'm going to make this work though...
The problem is... that this list actually does look manageable to me right now... But I know myself better than that. One finished project in a month is amazing enough, but 12?! The world will end... Oh, wait... Yes! I can do it, because me completing 12 projects in around a month's time - having done the impossible - will be the cause of the end of the world in 2012! It makes so much sense now. Great! I'm going to cause the end of the world if it kills me! ... Wow... What a statement. (Remember what I said in my other blog about statements like that?- Well, not quite like that... but the same general idea)
So, I believe I just decided that the reason the world is going to end in December of 2012 is because I am going to complete 12 knitted/crocheted projects in the space of less than a month - which of course will spark the Apocalypse. :-D Just in case you didn't figure that out already.
I hope Seth made brownies today...
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