Living a life

Finished the triangle shawl in dark pink / raspberry (?)
very nice.. very nice. Wearing it in the office. Wish it is warmer. Fingers still frozen.

http://www.knitty.com/ISSUEwinter03/PATTtriaran.html

Next project I want to start on the yarn my meow bought me... Can't figure out what to make yet. It is too stressful. Never bought a ball of yarn that costs more than $5 and he bought me 6, each costing $17.50! Suddenly knitting isn't just fun anymore, it turned serious.

Took a good look at the yarn today and found out that the "inside" of the ball of yarn is a cardboard roll, like the "heart" of an average toilet roll.. wow.. price per inch of yarn just went up again. Heart pain...

Now I'm in a dilemma. If i make a scarf.. which is abt the right amount of yarn, i won't wear it so much. If i make it into clothings of sorts i'll have to buy more, thereby hurting my heart and pocket even more.

maybe more research time is needed...

knitting blogs

Living a life

been reading my fav blog http://www.gaiser.org/ and being envious abt how other people can write such interesting blogs.

Also liked an article about how boarding school boys used to knit for the army during the world wars. http://www.csmonitor.com/1997/1205/120597.home.home.1.html. It was an interesting article. It's about a gentleman looking back on his boarding school days and on how boys were knitting little squares and throwing them into the collection bin for someone else to patch them into a blanket for the soldiers.

Wish more people can learn how to knit. It's a great past-time and it helps sooth the person..
I used to think that's what makes me a calm and happy person: knitting... untill these 2 days.

I've been rather irritable these 2 days, as my colleagues trapped in the small room with me testified... I blame it on PMS, until one of them mentioned that it could be because my boyfriend has been away too long...

Rather alarmed at the realization... but how true. I am actually not consciously missing him, but i suppose somewhere in my subconscious i'm getting frantic. Good thing he's coming home tomorrow night or I might just bite everyone's head off!

life is good

Living a life
As we plough through the mundane drone of life, we sometimes hit a patch when everything is going perfectly… Friends, colleagues, family, bf… This is when we don’t dare to shout it out loud less we jinx it.

So here I am, not shouting anything at all.

Finding myself conscientiously looking for things that make me vaguely unhappy, just to keep the balance so that nothing big and bad will hit to balance the cosmo. Difficult to do so sometimes, but when I do find it, I’m happy! Which is ironic. But knowing that I can be happy about being unhappy is still a good thing!

Had a mahjong session last night. Great fun, no win no lose for my pocket. The best kind.

touch freak

touchy feely day again

walking on the street, minding my own business... BAM! guy talking to his 2 girl friends, not looking where he was walking, slammed his arm right into my butt from behind.

I glared and glared as a cat wud glare. Reaction was too slow. Should have hissed and spat. Guy said, "Sorry!", turned back and continued chatting with girl friends. Feel so violated...

Bought lunch, sat down on those stools at the food court. Lapping up my lunch and fat guy sat down on the stool behind and bumped into me back to back. Damn!

Entertained myself through the lunch fantasizing on how i should have smashed their faces in...

Oh well, the lunch was good. Managed to knit another inch on my shawl. Expected completion date: 18 June 06. Yippee!