Well, the term is over & all of my final tests and papers are turned in. This week I have no classes and it seems a little odd. Next term (starting in January), I am taking 3 courses (I usually take 2 per term). It's not as rough as it sounds - one of those courses is only 6 weeks long, and another is an online course.
But I got my grades for the Fall term. I got an "A" in Introduction to Software for Business and a "B" in Sociology. I'm happy! I wasn't sure what Sociology would be - there was one test that I got a "D" on, and I wasn't sure what grade I got on the final test. I do have moments that I have to remind myself that a "B" is still a good grade (sometimes I feel that I should only get "A's". Most of the time, I'm pretty content with the grades. :-)
I have no new knitting to show you. I dug the company car out of the snow yesterday & I am feeling it today. My hands, arms, shoulders all hurt. I'm not sure if I can knit right now or not. I have to finish a hat for Christmas, so I guess I'd better suck it up & knit. :-)
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
Saturday, December 19, 2009
A Knitting Machine...
I am a knitting machine lately! I spent a long time (I think it was actually over a YEAR) without knitting and now I'm a knitting machine. Knitting helps to relax me. Lately I've been stressed (mind, body, soul, heart), so I've been knitting.
I started the blue scarf. One day I decided to knit on it while I watched a movie (SWAT - I've seen it many times, but love the part where LL Cool J says, "Tell Daddy how you want it." - but that's a completely different topic!). When the movie was finished, I had knit about 12 inches of that scarf. A foot! Well, more bad days/nights followed. And then there was the weekend that I was putting off writing my 5-7 page research paper for Sociology...and before I knew it, that scarf was finished.
The hat was next. That took me a total of maybe 6 hours (spread out over 2 or 3 days). So now the entire set is finished and is ready to be given as a Christmas present. And it's only December 3rd! I am not one of these people who has their Christmas shopping done early. In fact, I rarely have anything done early. I don't usually knit Christmas presents either, because I tend to not finish them. So the fact that I have a knitted set finished (by December 3rd) is so amazing!
Ok. I started this post December 3rd...it is now December 19th! I had to load the "finished" pictures from my camera & every time I thought of doing it, I didn't have the time. So tonight I finally uploaded them.
Today we are having a blizzard here in PA. It sucks. I am not a big fan of snow. Tonight I had planned on going out - a girl's night out. But that all changed when the snow that started in the early morning hours was still going strong at 4PM. It may still be snowing, I don't know. I haven't looked outside lately (if I ignore it, it'll go away). Anyway. I'm not happy about being stuck in the house.
My friend/co-worker's church was supposed to have a Praise Mime concert tonight & that was re-scheduled. My church was supposed to have a Christmas cantata tomorrow & that has been re-scheduled. Snow sucks!
Well, enough of my snowed in sob story. It's time for me to get to bed. :-)
I started the blue scarf. One day I decided to knit on it while I watched a movie (SWAT - I've seen it many times, but love the part where LL Cool J says, "Tell Daddy how you want it." - but that's a completely different topic!). When the movie was finished, I had knit about 12 inches of that scarf. A foot! Well, more bad days/nights followed. And then there was the weekend that I was putting off writing my 5-7 page research paper for Sociology...and before I knew it, that scarf was finished.
The hat was next. That took me a total of maybe 6 hours (spread out over 2 or 3 days). So now the entire set is finished and is ready to be given as a Christmas present. And it's only December 3rd! I am not one of these people who has their Christmas shopping done early. In fact, I rarely have anything done early. I don't usually knit Christmas presents either, because I tend to not finish them. So the fact that I have a knitted set finished (by December 3rd) is so amazing!
The second hat does not have a matching scarf. The recipient already has a scarf that's this color (that he bought), so I made this hat to go along with that scarf.
Ok. I started this post December 3rd...it is now December 19th! I had to load the "finished" pictures from my camera & every time I thought of doing it, I didn't have the time. So tonight I finally uploaded them.
Today we are having a blizzard here in PA. It sucks. I am not a big fan of snow. Tonight I had planned on going out - a girl's night out. But that all changed when the snow that started in the early morning hours was still going strong at 4PM. It may still be snowing, I don't know. I haven't looked outside lately (if I ignore it, it'll go away). Anyway. I'm not happy about being stuck in the house.
My friend/co-worker's church was supposed to have a Praise Mime concert tonight & that was re-scheduled. My church was supposed to have a Christmas cantata tomorrow & that has been re-scheduled. Snow sucks!
Well, enough of my snowed in sob story. It's time for me to get to bed. :-)
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