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.

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?

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

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!

Hippo Birdie Two Ewe

Hehe, so I REALLY liked this, so I wanted to show you guys :)

Look and read the first picture, but don't peek to the second picture until you're done looking at this first one!

Cute, but random right?
Ok, and now for the next picture..
Hehe, get it? Get it? :D I LOVE it! It was a birthday card I bought for my friend last week hahah. So imagine me browsing through the card section, picking up this card, looking at the cover, and thinking, "This bookstore has really random cards! They must have replaced some of the "random" cards into the "birthday" section.. geez!" And then, I open the card to see the second picture and *ding*.. the lightbulb goes off and I'm chuckling to myself because I was so moded. Haha, but seriously, besides this card, all the other cards were really lame, so I wasn't just being mean and cynical initially :)

And while we're on the subject on animals.. take a look at these:

Heads of a giraffe and a moose, right? (Ok, with a little imagination!)

Actually.... they are bones that make up part of your vertebrae (spinal column)! Oooo, I squeezed in a quick anatomy lesson for you guys! Didn't know you had that on your back did you?? :)

I'm only sick in the head. Literally.

Amanda

Luckily, I only have a (head?) cold. The first few days I had so much pressure in my sinuses it was ridiculous. I'm feeling a lot better now, still a little stuffed up but I can deal with that.

So school is really crazy and I'm glad that I couldn't officially register for that textiles class. I would be so overwhelmed right now if I had another class. I have to simultaneously learn the piano, clarinet, saxophone, viola, and a touch of cello and violin. Honestly, I never thought I'd have to do all that.

I actually like the wind instruments. It took me a while to get a sound out of the clarinet because I hadn't soaked the reed enough and I was given a thicker reed, which is harder to play on.

In other news, here's the cardigan I've been working on for a few weeks now.




I've actually got a lot more of the cabled ribbing done but I haven't taken an updated photo. To be continued.

Anyway, I can't wait to give you my personal commentary this Friday. Who knew my snarkiness would be missed?

How come everyone's sick? :(

Amanda, are you okay? Missed you last night at fellowship. I hope you're not too seriously sick. Heheh, we started a new series of lessons... this time, it's on church history. Didn't see that one coming. I really tried to listen initially, but I must say the 30 min video wasn't the most entertaining. It's not even laughable like the previous ones. People started spacing out like 5 minutes in. Please come back soon; I miss your side commentaries haha.

And are you really learning to play the alto sax or was I misinformed? Please give me a brief lesson after you get down the basics! I really just want someone to tell me if I'm blowing it right and if the sounds coming out are normal-sounding or not. And perhaps a simple fingering sheet.

Yay, I have more pictures to show later. Hehee, hopefully you guys will like them :D