drive-by blogging

like the venerable yarn harlot, i have a habit of overestimating what i can achieve in one day.

aside from personal issues, by 7 pm i thought i was a bit behind, but still had the finish line in sight. reading accomplished, clear thesis picked, arguments planned out. all i should have had to do at that point was sit down and write the damn thing, which should have taken three hours, four at most, allowing for time to find all the proper citations, of course.

real life interfered.

i may have started something completed unrelated just to take the edge off. (seriously, i have to stop reading the harlot before i blog, she's way too influential).

the colors aren't as bright with a stupid cell phone. i'm pretty sure this is "I love this Yarn" and the colors are more similar to their Autumn Stripe, but it think it's been discontinued.

anyway, i still have yesterday's paper to finish on top of everything else on my list for today, so i can be ready for tomorrow.

let space-warping commence

i think i found a way to make it through. i just have to set reasonable goals and stick to them (and perhaps still ignore the housework?)

count update: three dotees, three papers, and two shirts done by monday!

today's list:
go to post office
start reading for paper
cycle while reading to keep from falling to sleep
intersperse reading with making of bleach stencils
finish reading
do shirts
start paper
intersperse paper with crafting on one dotee
finish paper
finish dotee

most people at this point would give up hope of crafting, or say it's not as important as school. this is true. it is also true, however, that my forum is my community, and the place i go to show off my stuff, and i don't want to be locked out of it for not meeting deadlines.

tomorrow's list:
finish other two dotees (after class, of course)

saturday's list:
read and write paper #2
intersperse said reading and writing with holiday crafting, just to take the edge off

sunday's list:
read and write paper #3
enjoy myself at halloween party!

let it begin! (sorry i don't have any pictures to show)

anyone know how to warp the space-time continuum?

today is one of those days when i realize my lifestyle, while it has certain benefits, can sometimes bite me hard on the hind parts (i borrowed that phrase).

for example, by monday, i need to have three papers, two edits (with responses), three art dolls, one knitting needle roll and two halloween costumes done.

problem is, since i get by fairly competently in class by paying attention and taking good notes (i may also occassionally glance at the reading), that i never really end up doing the reading. so, to do these three papers, i have to catch up on all my reading. normally this wouldn't be a big deal, but the reading is either medieval texts (only some of which are translated out of middle english and into regular english), theoretical essays on shakespeare, or unfiltered literary criticism essays, which draw from everyone from nietzsche to freud to derrida. unfiltered. unabridged.

it also doesn't help that my sewing machine is broken, and that i will probably have to neglect all housework and probably a fair chunk of sleep just to get this all done.

see? if i had just kept up with my reading, i'd already have a fair chunk of this knocked off, or at least started. it doesn't help that i'm a master procrastinator as well. i think it comes from being overly controlled as a child. i didn't rebel by getting drunk, or high, or chopping off my hair and turning it green, or wearing all black and getting weird tattoos and piercings. instead, i haven't made my bed in seven years and never do things when i'm told. i get them done eventually, just not when i'm told.

i'm not even going to think about my christmas crafting list.

a cutey pair of booties

I love it when friends have babies. It means i get to make all sorts of cute stuff.

I mean, my one friend has a 1.5-year-old and a four-year-old, and they're a hoot and a half (I love Sheldon), but there's nothing quite like newborns.

My T.A. friend and his wife had their baby boy on Thursday night! So Friday afternoon I whipped up some casseroles and brought them over, and I finished up this tiny pair of booties today.

And one of my husband's friends will have another baby boy in about six months! Here's one of those places where and impulse buy from Houseworks can pay off - I bought a bag that had pretty green fabric in it one day, to match something else I already had in my stash, but, lo and behold, it wasn't fabric, but flannel, and there were kiddie animal prints in there too!

Somebody's getting a rag quilt for a baby gift.

Oh, and I'm thinking about writing a book... On top of the three papers and two swap packages I have due next weekend.

i've been gone awhile....

so, here's some stuff i've been working on since august:

wedding afghan #1:

 homemade macaroni and cheese recipe:

wedding afghan #2:

commissioned necklaces:

scarf recplica (crocheted): it's a christmas present for someone, but i'm not telling who!

homemade meatball and cabbage soup recipe:

coca-cola sleep shorts!

crochet owlets (that's a quarter for reference):

mi frist amigurumi! link from zelda (he got sent away in a craft swap and has a happy new home now):

another in a long line of christmas presents - a cutesy fuzzy hat for a friend's daughter:

i've got about a dozen projects in the works right now, and for today, i cleaned the kitchen so i could cook, put on a roast, started the laundry, and i'm in the process of cleaning our bedroom so the laundry clothes can migrate from the hallway, clearing up the hallway for the as-yet-unpacked boxes from the game room, so we can get the old couch out of there, so the boxes can go back in and hopefully be unpacked, so we can move the big green chair in so the new loveseat can come in from my parent's garage.

i'd rather be knitting.

plus side is we had some $ for furniture as a wedding present from my parents. my brother and his wife chose to get a leather sectional couch, but we waited until we saw a store going out of business and we got a new coffee table, 2 matching end tables, a couch, a loveseat, and a dresser and mirror for the same price. it was pretty awesome. the one end table and the mirror is in storage right now, but we managed to find room for the rest. we got rid of the old tables and gave the couch to a very deserving family we know. the old couch from the game room and dresser are on their way to being sold - we might even turn a profit on the little couch.

*sigh* commercial break over. back to work.