Amanda
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Saturday, March 29, 2008
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
My week so far...
Amanda
WUNDERBAR!
I had a pretty good day today but I'll start from the beginning of the week.
Sunday
Sunrise service went pretty well but I was really beat afterward. I went home and crashed. When I woke up, my mom showed me the variety of lovely Easter candies I could help myself to, including some "Lamb of God" peach flavored gummies. Odd texture, those sheep... Anyway, my mom's longtime friend gave Becky and I some chocolate... bunnies? Nope.
And they call us adults! Not to Auntie Ellen I guess...
Monday
That's the view of Sutro Tower from Safeway's rooftop parking. Michael and I went to get a snack in the afternoon. More importantly, I got some COFFEE! Monday's weather was beautiful, even in the Sunset district and I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Tuesday
The daytime was pretty uneventful. I finished a novel, did some knitting, and ran some errands. After my mom got off of work, we headed downtown to meet my dad for some dinner and some shopping. The more I shop, the more convinced I become that I'm no marathon shopper. After dinner, I was SO sleepy. Here's some random Westfield love.
Wednesday
I awoke early this morning because I planned to drive my dad to work - the beemer needed some shop work. My dad decided to tell me at 7:30am that he DIDN'T need me to drive. Then why did I wake up so early?! Anyway, I was excited because I had a date at 12. Not with a boy. With a spinning wheel. And it was AWESOME. I got the hang of it pretty quickly and my teacher was really patient. She even let me stay past the hour to finish what I was doing. I didn't get a chance to take a picture of what I spun but I ran into this character on my way back to my car.
I thought it was pretty awesome. Anyway, that's how my week's been going so far. Are you guys finding cool things in your everyday routine?
WUNDERBAR!
I had a pretty good day today but I'll start from the beginning of the week.
Sunday
Sunrise service went pretty well but I was really beat afterward. I went home and crashed. When I woke up, my mom showed me the variety of lovely Easter candies I could help myself to, including some "Lamb of God" peach flavored gummies. Odd texture, those sheep... Anyway, my mom's longtime friend gave Becky and I some chocolate... bunnies? Nope.
And they call us adults! Not to Auntie Ellen I guess...
Monday
That's the view of Sutro Tower from Safeway's rooftop parking. Michael and I went to get a snack in the afternoon. More importantly, I got some COFFEE! Monday's weather was beautiful, even in the Sunset district and I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Tuesday
The daytime was pretty uneventful. I finished a novel, did some knitting, and ran some errands. After my mom got off of work, we headed downtown to meet my dad for some dinner and some shopping. The more I shop, the more convinced I become that I'm no marathon shopper. After dinner, I was SO sleepy. Here's some random Westfield love.
Wednesday
I awoke early this morning because I planned to drive my dad to work - the beemer needed some shop work. My dad decided to tell me at 7:30am that he DIDN'T need me to drive. Then why did I wake up so early?! Anyway, I was excited because I had a date at 12. Not with a boy. With a spinning wheel. And it was AWESOME. I got the hang of it pretty quickly and my teacher was really patient. She even let me stay past the hour to finish what I was doing. I didn't get a chance to take a picture of what I spun but I ran into this character on my way back to my car.
I thought it was pretty awesome. Anyway, that's how my week's been going so far. Are you guys finding cool things in your everyday routine?
Thursday, March 20, 2008
I'm almost there!
Amanda
So, it's Thursday afternoon and I'm posting cause I'm pretty excited about spring break next week. I can't wait until I can actually sleep in. I've decided that I'll only allow myself to sleep in til 10. Any later than that and I won't be able to get out of bed the next week.
As for your question, Holly, I don't give all my projects Spanish names but I do name them. The reason for this is that most of the patterns that I knit are named by their designers. I named the cardigan that because the original pattern is called "Mr. Greenjeans" after the yarn the designer used. My yarn's colorway was verdeazul. Ta-da!
The weather this week was so deceiving. It would look partly sunny and then become completely overcast and freezing. Today is actually the most sunny it's been all week. Since spring is upon us, I'm hoping for warmer weather, even if it means that the warm air will bring fog in. It is San Francisco, after all.
Anyway, next week will be good. I'm planning on taking a spinning class on Wednesday and the rest of the week will be spend mostly out of the house doing stuff, I hope. I'll take lots of pictures and post some.
So, it's Thursday afternoon and I'm posting cause I'm pretty excited about spring break next week. I can't wait until I can actually sleep in. I've decided that I'll only allow myself to sleep in til 10. Any later than that and I won't be able to get out of bed the next week.
As for your question, Holly, I don't give all my projects Spanish names but I do name them. The reason for this is that most of the patterns that I knit are named by their designers. I named the cardigan that because the original pattern is called "Mr. Greenjeans" after the yarn the designer used. My yarn's colorway was verdeazul. Ta-da!
The weather this week was so deceiving. It would look partly sunny and then become completely overcast and freezing. Today is actually the most sunny it's been all week. Since spring is upon us, I'm hoping for warmer weather, even if it means that the warm air will bring fog in. It is San Francisco, after all.
Anyway, next week will be good. I'm planning on taking a spinning class on Wednesday and the rest of the week will be spend mostly out of the house doing stuff, I hope. I'll take lots of pictures and post some.
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Sorry - I lied about posting over break :P
Yea, I had planned to post during my spring break, thinking I'd have all the time in the world (I didn't). It ended up being so busy, I didn't get to relax as much as I had hoped to. I ate out a lot to hang out with people I haven't had time to in awhile.. lunch, dinner, coffee run :P... and then I also caught up on LOST (!!), got my haircut, got sick at toward the end of break, went to Kaiser twice, and pretty much just slept a lot during the last few days of break. I only got a paragraph done for my 10-15 page paper that I had MEANT to do over break. Chyikes. And that is why I haven't posted. But I felt like I could use a break right now :P
Haha, I had meant to ask - Amanda, do you name all of your projects? Does my scarf get a fancy spanish name too? Tell me how it's going with you learning the different instruments. I have some basic flute music if you want more practice haha.
Oh yea! Exciting stuff. I got my housing all set up this week! It was crazy, but it was an amazing thing because all odds were against us. People starting lining up for housing sign-ups at noon on Monday when sign-ups begin TUESDAY at 9am. I had hoped to get an empty suite so me, my roommate, and 2 other friends could share it together, but it's harder because empty suites are limited. And since I'm still sorta sick and neither of us wanted to stick it out overnight in line, 1 of us went at 6am Tuesday instead and hoped for the best. Basically, everything ended working out JUST right and we got the last empty suite on the 3rd floor (which we wanted). I think there was just 1 more in the 2nd floor. There was more to the story (including me leaving class and running across campus) but it would take too long so maybe I'll tell you guys in person :) But it was definitely amazing and you can either call it a series of very fortunate coincidences or God working through all the details. I would say God was definitely good to us.
Ok, end of break and time to study like mad for o-chem! ...agh! See you Friday? I don't know when we're ever going to see Faja - she's not coming back until Sunday night :( Maybe the weekend after?
Haha, I had meant to ask - Amanda, do you name all of your projects? Does my scarf get a fancy spanish name too? Tell me how it's going with you learning the different instruments. I have some basic flute music if you want more practice haha.
Oh yea! Exciting stuff. I got my housing all set up this week! It was crazy, but it was an amazing thing because all odds were against us. People starting lining up for housing sign-ups at noon on Monday when sign-ups begin TUESDAY at 9am. I had hoped to get an empty suite so me, my roommate, and 2 other friends could share it together, but it's harder because empty suites are limited. And since I'm still sorta sick and neither of us wanted to stick it out overnight in line, 1 of us went at 6am Tuesday instead and hoped for the best. Basically, everything ended working out JUST right and we got the last empty suite on the 3rd floor (which we wanted). I think there was just 1 more in the 2nd floor. There was more to the story (including me leaving class and running across campus) but it would take too long so maybe I'll tell you guys in person :) But it was definitely amazing and you can either call it a series of very fortunate coincidences or God working through all the details. I would say God was definitely good to us.
Ok, end of break and time to study like mad for o-chem! ...agh! See you Friday? I don't know when we're ever going to see Faja - she's not coming back until Sunday night :( Maybe the weekend after?
Thursday, March 6, 2008
Just a note..
mmm you guys, don't click the link on the comment in the previous entry.. it gave me a pop-up. Better yet, i think we should delete it, but I think you're the only one who can Amanda because it's on your post.
Haha, I know this shouldn't be considered a real entry.. erm, I'll write one over break for you guys. One more thing, Amanda don't forget to find music so we can make beautiful music together on Sunday during rehearsal downtime!! :P
Haha, I know this shouldn't be considered a real entry.. erm, I'll write one over break for you guys. One more thing, Amanda don't forget to find music so we can make beautiful music together on Sunday during rehearsal downtime!! :P
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
It's been a long time.
Amanda
So, I've been holding out on posting for a while because I wanted to have something impressive to show for all the time that has lapsed. I proudly present two finished objects (called FOs in the knitting world) from March '08.
I give you Pantalones Verdeazules!
And Foliage the Third!
I have to say, I'm pretty pleased with these. The sweater especially. I had my eye on the pattern for some time and I started it in January. The hat was made using the leftover yarn from the sweater. I got to wear the cardigan to school and everyone thought it was cute and were like "You made that?"
In other news, school is becoming a huge drag. I can't wait for spring break. I think I'm going to learn how to spin yarn over the break from a studio in SF. Sigh. Only two more weeks after this one is over. I hope your weeks are going well. I won't be at fellowship this Friday because I got invited to a reachout in Chinatown.
See you Sunday!
So, I've been holding out on posting for a while because I wanted to have something impressive to show for all the time that has lapsed. I proudly present two finished objects (called FOs in the knitting world) from March '08.
I give you Pantalones Verdeazules!
And Foliage the Third!
I have to say, I'm pretty pleased with these. The sweater especially. I had my eye on the pattern for some time and I started it in January. The hat was made using the leftover yarn from the sweater. I got to wear the cardigan to school and everyone thought it was cute and were like "You made that?"
In other news, school is becoming a huge drag. I can't wait for spring break. I think I'm going to learn how to spin yarn over the break from a studio in SF. Sigh. Only two more weeks after this one is over. I hope your weeks are going well. I won't be at fellowship this Friday because I got invited to a reachout in Chinatown.
See you Sunday!
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