Dictated, not read

I just disappeared off the face of the internet for a while. Part of it is, as Tot put it, I accidentally a boyfriend. Long story short, my grandmother set me up with a guy and he's very sweet and way too tall for his own good. There are still some things to work out but it's been going really well so far. [knock on wood]

I've also been consumed by the yarn gods... I've been knitting hardcore. Like, I have 4 big bags of yarn with projects in mind and about 5 different projects started on needles in a different bag. On top of that, I'm also trying to learn to crochet, but that hasn't been going as well. I've made some cute hats so far, socks are next on my list of things to try. But I really want to get the crocheting working first, it's just kind of counter-intuitive to what I'm used to knitting and WAY harder to count. But I seem to know way more people who know how to do that than knit, so I guess I'm in good shape as far as help.

And finally killing my time, my temp agency set me up with an actual full time job. It's not too bad, I'm sort of getting used to it, but it does eat most of a day pretty well. But I'm finally getting used to everything and I might actually be able to juggle everything in my life again.

Now: Pictures!

I'm just linking them since the photos are giant and I'm not in the mood to shrink them down for a post.

My first finished hat... and my mother.

The little ear hat in process.

The ear hat finished!

I got the pattern for the little ear hat here. I moved the ears a little, because I messed some stuff up at the very beginning.

My cousin's wedding went really well. It was a beautiful location, everyone looked nice and there were no horrible issues during the ceremony. We even saw deer! A whole family of deer and they came surprisingly close to us after the ceremony when we were already taking pictures. I'll post some when I get a little bit of time.

Which I've had almost none of lately. Yesterday was my first day off in 10 days and I spent most of the day asleep or doing errands that I didn't have time for while I was working. I've been neglecting RP and my flist just trying to keep myself sane and happy. I'm sorry to everyone, I haven't abandoned you, I'm just up to my eyeballs in real life.

In other news, I got a fish! He's a black and blue betta and I have named him Mr. Tickles. I am entirely certain that three hams will kill him. For more information on why this makes me as happy as a bag of wigs see: http://video.adultswim.com/the-brak-show/goldfish.html

And now I'm off, yet again, to work.

I've been so sick the last few days. I was sent home from work Tuesday because I was too sick, although they needed me desperately before that. We're understaffed and overworked and my partner (the other person with my same job title as I have who was moved up at the same time) is leaving, so everything is in an uproar.

But I have a happy Naruto icon... which I can't believe I didn't make earlier. It's from my very favorite doujinshi, Flower Art. It's so pretty and so very sad. But then, anything with the Yondaime in it tends to be sad.

Okay, I need to lay back down now.

So today marked my 7th straight day in a row of work. I didn't work full 9 hour shifts every day, but I did work at least 6 hours each of the last 7 days.

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I got a job! It's not as many hours or as much per hour as I wanted, but it sure beats $0/hr 24/7 which is what I have now. I'm actually excited, not the getting up at 5am twice a week part, but the part where I am no longer a bum. It's at Old Navy, where I worked for 9 months in college. I would have worked there longer but they closed my store down. At the time it was nice because I got severance from the company for staying on to help close the store. They seemed happy to have me back, especially since I will be doing the somewhat more specialized work for this store that I did before in Boulder.

On the down side I seem to have picked up a cold somewhere. It's not bad at the moment, but it's going to be annoying for a week or so. It isn't hampering my happiness about being employed.

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Saturday was insane. My grandmother woke up blind in one eye and called us about 4 minutes after my mother left to meet a friend for lunch and shopping. So my father was freaking out, and I was trying to get him to calm down and deal with it while I tried to get ready for the dinner party we were supposed to be having that night. My father and I were supposed to go shopping for all the things we needed to finish the party preparations, but he ended up taking my grandmother to the emergency room and I did everything else myself.

None of this would have been so bad except that out of 6 family members that live in Colorado, my dad and I were the only ones who knew about my grandmother. We called everyone else, no one was around or had their phones on. Including my mother, who, like my father, has a cell phone that she just never turns on. I've had the "what's the point of having it if you never turn it on?" conversation with them before, but I think this time I finally got through. At least I hope I did.

Still haven't found a job, I'm putting in more applications every day. I really need to get some kind of income because I'm looking at a lot of dental work soon, and I have no insurance to cover it. My parents told me they will pay for it, or rather lend me the money to pay for it and I can pay them back whenever I get a job.

I think as far as moving to Seattle goes, I will be making plans to move around January so I have time to get things together... considering the rest of my boxes haven't come yet. the one that did come I have to make a claim on, and the woman I talked to sounded less than optimistic that they would let my claim go through. In fact she all but said I was screwed. Fan-tastic.

I have a horrible migraine right now, but only one class to teach. So I'm going to slog through it and then take the afternoon off.

I just realized I have less than 2 weeks left of work because I get a 4 day summer holiday and that means I don't have to go to school the last 4 days after my goodbye ceremony. It also probably means I will be procrastinating on packing and cleaning, but I now have 3 full weeks to do it all in instead of two. Oh, and only 4 days in Osaka instead of 7. But that's still 4 days in Osaka!

It's been a while since I updated. Probably because I haven't been doing anything all that interesting.

I did pack a really awesome box last night. I sent home my Square Enix limited edition preview book, the big Reborn puzzle I bought a while back along with the little Kingdom Hearts one I got the other day, about half of my Gundam models wrapped up in a couple of the shirts I intend to keep, the little pink bunny from Chobits that I actually got in America and somehow ended up in Japan with me and a few little stuffed Pokemon dolls. I felt like a very responsible adult sealing that up and shipping it home. |D My parents will be so confused when they open it. I think there might be some mameshiba in there as well.