I hate making up titles.

I feel as if I should post something on my blog since I haven't done that really. I honestly don't even know if anyone reads this anyway, but let's see.

I'm moving soon, I still don't know the date, but we're hoping sooner rather than later. I'd love to be settled before Christmas so I can spend Christmas with family that gives a shit. Lisa put it as "There's a difference between giving and giving a shit." which I thought was very well said. There are just some things about my family that I absolutely cannot stand. I'd just like to put it out there that no matter what it looks like on the outside looking in, we are probably one of the most dysfunctional families ever. I'm not looking for sympathy, everyone's family is screwed up, but the fact that our family is supposed to be based on "Christian Values" and we supposedly have so many strong traditions and all of that nonsense, just kinda makes it worse. I'm a Christian and I believe that there is only one person that has the ability to judge and condemn and his name is God. I believe that we're supposed to strive to be our best, to be 'like Jesus' and be accepting and loving towards one another just as he did. Jesus did not discriminate between people because of their job, because of the way they lived their lives, he just told them the good word and it was their choice whether or not to believe. He loved everyone and he sacrificed everything for the salvation of sinners, what would some of my family sacrifice for me? What would some of them sacrifice for certain other members? There are some in which they would more easily sacrifice more. There are some members of my family that I honestly wouldn't sacrifice much for, but then there are some that I would sacrifice anything and everything in the blink of an eye to save them. I don't know what it is that bonds certain people together, but I'm thankful for it. I'm very thankful for the people that I have in my life right now. I've done a lot of 'friend deleting' lately, removing stuff from my life that just isn't worth it anymore. I've done away with quite a few old, dying friendships and relationships that I kept around for nostalgia's sake and while I was kinda friendless for a while, I've made new ones and it's given me the ability to really let go of the old (aka NJ) and move onto the new (aka TX) and feel confident that I can do it.

On a lighter note, while talking with Paula, I realized why I haven't done much work on Catiebug's scarf, I'm using my bamboo needles and I don't like them. I mean, the weight of them rocks, they're so light, but it gives me that tingly feeling down my spine when I use them, almost as if someone was raking their nails down a chalkboard, and that feeling is the suck. I think I'm going to have to buy a set of metal needles in the same size in order to really finish this scarf by Christmas. I think she'll love it, it's purple and soft and those are pretty much the only requirements said 3 year old seems to have for anything to be worthy of use.

I'm almost finished with my basket weave scarf. I think I want to make this one kind of long. I haven't decided how I'm going to finish it, I might just leave it boxy. I don't know. I used red heart yarn for it, which when I wrap it around me to test it is kinda scratchy, I hope that when I wash it, it'll be less scratchy.

Steven wants a beanie, a charcoal beanie to be exact. He doesn't want black and he doesn't want blue, he wants charcoal, so I need to find some charcoal colored yarn. Maybe wool. I don't know. I should probably find a pattern and figure out how the heck to make a hat to start with. So far I've only knitted squares and rectangles, I think it's time for something new. I've tackled following a pattern....soooo.

I'm thinking of trying to learn how to do cable-y stuff. I have the pink yarn from the ugly scarf that I ripped out that will be good for playing. I must search the internet for guidance...off to do that, I've wasted enough of your time.

JL

Stolen from Paula

I'm going to post this as well, let's see how much I've read. I honestly don't think it' going to be that many. I wish that I was more of a reader!

The BBC believes most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up?

I read 14 of these! It's better than I thought. I was surprised that The Scarlett Letter wasn't on this list!

Instructions:
Look at the list and put an ‘x’ after those you have read.

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen ( )
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien ( )
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte ( )
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling (x)
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee (x)
6 The Bible - (x)
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte ( )
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell (x)
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman ()
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens ()
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott ()
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy ()
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller ( )
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare ()
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier ()
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien ()
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk ()
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger (x)
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger ()
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot ( )
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell ()
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald (x)
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens ()
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy ()
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams ()
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh ()
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky ()
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck ()
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll ()
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame ()
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy ()
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens ()
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis ()
34 Emma - Jane Austen ()
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen ()
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis ()
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini - ()
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres ()
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden (x)
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne (x)
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell ()
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown (x)
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez ()
44 A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving ()
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins ()
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery (x)
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy ()
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood ()
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding (x)
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan ()
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel ()
52 Dune - Frank Herbert ()
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons ()
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen ()
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth ()
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon ()
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens ()
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley (x)
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon ()
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez ()
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck ()
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov ()
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt ()
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold ()
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas ()
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac ()
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy ()
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding ()
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie ()
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville ()
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens ()
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker (x)
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett (x)
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson ()
75 Ulysses - James Joyce ()
76 The Inferno - Dante ()
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome ()
78 Germinal - Emile Zola ()
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray ()
80 Possession - AS Byatt ()
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens (x)
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell ()
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker ()
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro ()
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert ()
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry ()
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White (x)
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom ()
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ()
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton ()
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad ()
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery ()
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks ()
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams ()
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole ()
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute ()
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas ()
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare (x)
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl ()
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo ()