Bye for now

Bye everyone, I'll be back on Sunday.

Ginny

Sad Monday

My Grandmother passed away this morning, so it is a sad Monday. She's been in so much pain and discomfort due to her cancer so I'm glad that she's finally free from it. My mom stayed with her all night in the hospice, and Mommom slipped away this morning just as she promised that she would over the weekend. I think that in a wierd way, her warning to us that she would die today was her attempt to put us at ease over losing her. I went to sleep last night and thought about how much I love her and I said goodbye to her as I dozed off to sleep. Somehow I knew that when I woke up today it would be to a phone call from my mom to tell me that she was gone.
I see it fitting of her to leave us right after Thanksgiving because it was a holiday that she really liked, and she was surrounded by family over the weekend. I just can't believe that she's gone, and I'll miss her.

Matt and I will be leaving for Indiana on Wednesday so that we can be with the family and attend the funeral. This is the first time that I've lost someone close to me and it will be my first funeral, so I think it's important for me to go and get closure.


We did actually have a nice Thanksgiving, and I thought that I'd include a picture of our dinner table so that this post isn't completely sad. The other photo at the top of the page is my Grandma (right) at the rehearsal dinner for my wedding.

Blogging Hiatus

Did I spell that right?

Anyways, I am going to have to take a short break from blogging this week due to an overwhelming amount of homework that is due on Tuesday of next week. I will most definitely be spending the next several days alternating between moments of academic clarity and poor-pathetic-me pouting tantrums. No knitting, no fun, no Oprah.

Hopefully I'll be rejuvenated and happy in time for our Thanksgiving festivities.

Another weekend gone...

Mini High School Reunion

Despite the piles of homework I'm supposed to be doing, Matt and I spent a lot of the weekend playing. On Friday night we had a bunch of people over to the house before going out for drinks because all of my friends from high school happened to be in town at the same time. These guys were like my brothers growing up and we've never been in the same town since high school, so it was really fun to see everyone. There's just something about hanging out with old friends that is so satisfying.

On Saturday we went out on a date, sushi and a concert. We saw Amos Lee, a singer/songwriter that we both really like. The show was great! But I was so irritated with all of the people that I almost lost it. It was all general admission, so since we were just standing Matt and I found a spot close to the stage before it got crowded so that I could see (I'm all of 5'-2".) Once the show started, this really really tall guy pushes his way in and stands directly in front of me. I was fuming! Then his equally mammoth wife showed up and it was all over. I was so overwhelmed with annoyance that I could think of nothing but how bad I wanted to push them out of the way. I got my chance when he started stepping on my foot over and over and I finally pushed him really hard (as hard as I could, anyway) and yelled "would you please stop stepping on my foot!!!" And I was clearly so mad at him that he wouldn't stop apologizing, although in a very annoying way, and so I couldn't help but to continue to tell him what he had done to irritate me. It wasn't really a shining moment for me, but in the end he and his wife let me stand in front of them. Matt stayed behind, I think he was a little embarrassed.

The moral of this story? Sometimes it really sucks to be short, but being sassy and short has its benefits!

And since this is a knitting blog, I should tell you that I'm really making headway on Matt's sweater. Last night during Grey's Anatomy I finished the top and started working on the body. I'm so excited! I hope it fits. I am making it a little bigger than the pattern calls for because when I made him try on the top it didn't seem to fit around the arms. What I didn't realize is that the pattern tells you to cast on an additional 20 stitches when you start working in rounds for the body, so that would have made up for the fit in the top. I'm hoping that it will just give him some more room to move without looking too baggy, but we'll have to wait and see!

And in a last note, if you do watch Grey's Anatomy, Matt's cousin Brittany was on it last night! She was the Asian woman who yelled for help at the restaurant because her husband collapsed. It was a great performance, of course.

Back on track

This week has been very busy as I try to get my schoolwork back in order. I fell off the wagon there for a bit, so now I've got to try and make up for lost time. Yesterday I spent the day doing all of my reading for various classes and I began to figure out my schedule for next semester. Essentially what I'm doing rather than getting an AA is scheduling my classes based on the curriculum requirements of the school I want to go to. This is a little bit risky considering I'm not in that school yet...but I'm trying to be positive. On Tuesday I had a little bit of a freak out though when I started to think about how jacked up my credits will look if I end up going to some other school! It's an art school, and I am beginning to get really nervous that I don't have that artistic/creative streak that I'm supposed to have in order to go to art school. This is making me nervous. I'm realizing more and more that despite my craftiness, there is a big difference between crafty and creative....but I think I should stop analyzing now.

Food and Snoopy

Well, I didn't get a chance to work alot on Matt's seamless sweater this weekend, but I did get to eat alot of good food and do some shopping! On Friday we drove up north and ate at the Dry Creek Kitchen for lunch. We had an amazing two hour meal and completely stuffed ourselves! We had intended to hit a couple of wineries while we were up there but we spent so much time eating that we didn't get a chance to. So, we drove south a little bit and hit the Charles Schultz Museum in Santa Rosa. I didn't really know what to expect but it turned out to be really fun. I mean, how could you NOT enjoy looking at original Peanuts comics? There was also an exhibit of Peanuts quilts made by various Japanese quiltmakers. I really don't know how the whole thing happened with Japanese people and Snoopy...but it's huge, and apparently it's big enough that people will spend years devoting themselves to things such as Snoopy quilts. I was hoping that they would have a book or some postcards of the exhibit on sale at the museum shop but there was nothing! Very disapointing gift shop if you ask me.

Anyways, this is only a small sampling of the highly exciting weekend I had. It has been so exciting that I might even save bits and pieces of it to sprinkle into my the coming posts in an attempt to make my life seem interesting and fun (when really I'm just going to school every night and doing homework all day.) But really, I'd better go to bed now so that I'm ready to get some quality homework time in tomorrow. Good night.

Seamless Sweater, Yay!

So I guess that my attempt to blog more than once a week didn't go so well this time, but there's always next week! I've been working feverishly on Matt's seamless sweater and I really love it so far. I'm using a loose pattern from the store and some merino yarn in charcoal gray. The pattern is really easy and it's going much faster than I thought it would. Granted, I'm still working on the chest area...but I'll get to seperate the sleeves and body pretty soon.

Matt's parents are in town this weekend so we're going to spend the day up in wine country and have some lunch, do some wine tasting and stuff. I'm looking forward to getting out of the city for the day, although driving for an hour with four people in the mini can be a little bit cramped!

Have a great weekend everyone!