..since I last updated? I’m sorry for my inconsistency. Three weeks. Wow. Ok.
Well, i got an A- on my first essay, which i was quite shocked about; but the lecturer said that other papers will mark us a lot harder, they tend to be gentle on us for this paper as it is the first study many of us have done in quite a while. So, meh :/ Whatever. Now i’m starting on the 2nd assignment and am already freaking a little, but it is not due in for a month, so i have time to get my head together.
I have had a lovely cold for a couple of weeks which i caught from the step-daughter, so there was quite a chorus of lung-coughing-up going on for a while there! We are better now though. It has been really really wet the past few days (fine by me!) and it is definitely getting autumnal. Stupid me, i believed the weather forecast this morning and have been cold all day. Grrrr.
i am losing weight! (again.) If you’ve done the diet thing multiple times, you may have noticed that there are times in your life when you just can’t make it work, and then every once in while something goes “click” in your brain and suddenly you are very determined and focussed and prepared to make sacrifices because now losing weight is somehow Very Important? That’s where i am just now.
I discovered the other weekend while looking for something else that i had THREE lots of Weight Watchers courses sitting around the place, and i thought to myself “I SO know how to do Weight Watchers and i have all the information i need right here, so why not just get on with it?” Now with WW they place a lot of emphasis on going to the meetings for support. Last year i tried going to meetings near where i work, and the year before that i went to some meetings near my house. What they don’t really mention is that you need to click with the meeting Leader, and if you don’t (which i didn’t in either case) then the meetings are largely a waste of $18 a week. So i am being such a rebel (lol) and going it alone! I just finished my 1st week and lost around 1.25kg (that’s 2.5 lb for the Americans). I say “around” because our crappy scales are pretty vague. i am about to go and reward myself for this result by visiting my LYS and getting some yarn to make a scarf. Not that i NEED another scarf, i have a lovely one that i bought a few years ago which is about a zillion km long and very soft and light in grey and black – but i want to wear one that i made myself. You know how it is.
Life. Our house continues to have too many people in it (flatmates/stepchildren) and to be a tip because nobody ever cleans up except me and i’ve pretty much given up as well now. My Significant Other continues to be mostly a very sweet and kind guy and i feel like i should probably appreciate him more, but just now all i can think about is that he drinks too much, needs to lose a lot of weight and start doing some exercise and that he won’t live long enough to grow old if he carries on like this, and i just want to slap him in the face and say “Wake up!!!”
Last night when i got off the bus going home i saw one of our neighbours having a conversation on the footpath with some woman i didn’t know. As i walked past them i thought the woman said something to me but i wasn’t certain (i don’t hear that well when there is background noise such as traffic) – so i walked past her. Then i heard her say something along the lines of “do you not talk or are you just rude?” Later we figured out that she may have been the neighbour’s wife, but i don’t remember ever seeing her before and i’m not in the habit of saying hi to total strangers. GRRRRRR!!! my SO said to say hi and be nice if i see her again. I say, a) what are you doing taking her side rather than mine? and b) i don’t why this bothers me, but it does and now i have a Grudge against her – whoever she is.
CRAFTS! PHOTOS! of the bag that i was working on and finally finished. I’m really pleased with the colours and how it turned out, and really glad that i crocheted it in wool and felted it. the pattern is available fror free from here
http://www.garnstudio.com/lang/en/visoppskrift.php?d_nr=103&d_id=40&lang=en
Now this pattern has been translated from Norwegian into English and uses UK terminology, so if anyone wants to make it bear in mind that treble crochet means US double crochet. I really recommend making the bag slightly larger than the pattern and felting it, as otherwise it is pretty floppy. Also, i made the strap in dc as per the pattern, but if you can be bothered i think single crochet would be better – less stretchy. I might make more of these for when i have an Etsy shop someday!
May 7, 2008 at 12:31 am
That bag is AWESOME! I would sooo buy that in your shop. I love hand made stuff. I personally have no talent/time for it, though.
Good job on your classes.
May 7, 2008 at 5:39 am
Beautiful, I like the felted look better than the original pattern! I might have to whip up one of these babies. They would make great gifts.
May 10, 2008 at 5:45 pm
The bag is really something! Wow!
Congrats on the weight loss and being at a ‘connected’ point where it works. I think I lost a little weight last week being sick and not eating for an entire week. Now I feel like I’ve been starved and eating a hearty supper — although I’ve proudly resisted eating the cakes, cookies, snacks laid out in the break room at work. 1 point for me. Oh to be my younger self with the killer metabolism. I think my metabolism died a couple of years ago!
Don’t fret the snarky ‘woman’, whoever she is. If you’d said something, she might have hissed that you were rudely interrupting! At some point (if she IS the neighbor’s wife), you can meet her and laugh about it. I, too, have trouble hearing precisely if there’s ambient noise or I have my sunglasses on (guess my senses get muted
).
Good luck on your next assignment!
Shu
May 29, 2008 at 2:47 pm
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