Finished Konstantinos’ Hat III…

I finally finished the silly thing. It’s a pattern that takes most people less than a week but, owing to illness, it took me one day over a month to complete.

I give you the hat:

Right now, I’m working on a matching scarf for him. I’m crocheting the scarf in contrast to my having knit the hat. I’m about ten percent done so far using an H-8/5.00mm hook. I anticipate that making this scarf will take me about two days of constant crocheting or ten days of mild crocheting.

After I finish the scarf, I’m making socks for my new friend.

Friday’s Looking Up

*does the happy dance*

Damn cell phone problems and the horse they rode in on! I’ve got a date on Monday!

Guy two was having cell phone problems. *sigh of relief*

We’ve got a date tentatively set for Monday. *sigh of relief*

I really, really, really missed him. The feeling of relief I’m having right now is palpable.

This Was My Thursday

Okay, a sentence at a time as I’m less likely to cry that way.

Fell in love with a guy on OKCupid several years ago. We became fast friends and eventually entered into a relationship. Things were going well but he kept pushing for me to find someone closer so I wouldn’t be lonely. I would try but nothing would hold a candle to him, so I wasn’t trying hard.

Enter guy two from OKCupid. We hit it off lighting fast, we had the same interests, the same ambitions and even the same shoe size. He even lives in the same state, albeit on a different coast from me. The New Relationship Energy between us was heady. I was explaining how wonderful guy two was to guy one (we’re Polyamorous) and he suggested that maybe, I’d found my true love. A few minutes later, he’s suggesting I go with guy two. Of course, I balk as I haven’t even met guy two yet and I love guy one very much. Guy one is insistent though and we break up with me declaring that he’s always going to be my friend unless he says otherwise.

Enter confusion with guy two. Guy two uses Straight Talk as a telephone provider and he informed me that his 30 day subscription would be running out on Wednesday but would be back on by Thursday. Since I know someone else with Straight Talk, I think nothing of it and cool it on the Wednesday texts. I send a good morning text on Thursday and…crickets. Several hours later, I send another text and…crickets. I start sending the ubiquitous “Hello” text and even a “Yoo hoo” but get no reply. Finally, I send a “good night” text with a little note explaining that I’m starting to get a bit worried about him as he told me to text on Thursday but isn’t replying. I’m thinking something happened but use my thinking head and check his profile on OKCupid. He’s logged in. Bastard.

I go back to guy one and explain what’s happening and get a “sorry” from him along with advice to “ignore the bullshitters and enjoy life” after I explain that I’m probably going to go back to the comfort and emotional safety of knitting and crocheting after this fiasco.

I am hoping against reason that guy two is not being a total cad and that something genuinely did prevent him from texting me back.

So yeah, that was my Thursday. Let’s see what Friday has in store for me. Yay. Not.

Minimal Progress and Illness

Oh joy be unconfined. I have an abscess. It burst but I get the feeling it’s coming back for round two. I just have that feeling. Today is a nice, calm, gloomy day in the City by the Bay. I’m currently no closer to completed on Villimarjatar but I’m a little way forward on Konstantinos’ Hat III. I’ve given up on the doily owing to so many mistakes in the pattern and I am only two rows further along with the blanket. I’ve just been so sick lately.

I’m currently taking 500mg of Amoxicillin for the abscess on my gum with hopes that it will clear up. I really can’t afford to go to the dentist and I have no dental coverage. I will be making it a Priority to switch providers though.

Despite all this, I managed to order the stuff for my incoming phone: The skin, charger (which might be replaced with Samsung’s official model) and screen protectors as well as some yarn and a new pair of circular needles. With this new yarn, I’m going to make a knitted shawl, a hat for my mother to replace the one she messed up with cigarette tar and superwash merino wool for a pair of gloves for me.

I also managed to make a new friend via OKCupid. I haven’t met him yet but he’s a seemingly nice guy who lives on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. That’s a bit of a head trip for me since I’ve never been there before. We are planning on meeting sometime this month and, hopefully, we’ll form a lasting friendship.

LOL, this post is a written train wreck. I am really sick right now. I should be laying down but I felt I had to make an effort at updating this blog after so long without doing it.

Today, I’m going to make Banana Bread. Yay me. Then, I’ll collapse in a feverish heap. Later y’all.

Villimarjatar and Other Stuff

Yay!!!!! I’m through with pattern repeat one!!!!

I’m finally finished pattern repeat one of Villimarjatar. It’s been a long hard road but I think I have the pattern now. It’s just a question of getting through pattern repeats two through thirty-four.

Aside from that, I am oozing into age 32. I got myself some yarn, crochet thread and bread pans as well as a steel crochet hook set. Teeny tiny crochet hooks they are too. In addition to this, I finally got Torchwood: Miracle Day and Sherlock: Season Two. I also got some mango mandarin body wash, lotion and Shea butter for myself.

For the Maternal Parental, I got a pound of Bobby Pins, some pocket tissues and a vegetable peeler. For the house, I got some Playtex gloves to clean with and save our hands.

Now that I’ve worked on Villimarjatar, I’m going to do some more work on the Return of the Scrap Yarn Shiver Stopper – Blanket 2013 before I dive into Torchwood and Sherlock.

Tomorrow, I’m going to cook with my new bread pans.

I Am Bored

My boredom is making itself known through my baking nearly every food item in sight. I’ve made banana bread, chocolate chip cookies, bread pudding and rice pudding so far. Today, I’m baking more bread pudding and will probably be baking bread to replace the bread going into the bread pudding.

I believe this has to do with my twice yearly soar and crash creshendo. For those of you who aren’t in the know, I have what is called Rapid Cycling Bipolar II Disorder. Usually, it’s my mood that rockets and tanks but, thankfully, for some reason, this time, it’s making its presence known through my cooking. I can think of worse things I could be doing. I’m actually coming up on the nine year anniversary of my first, and hopefully only, hospitalization.

Mind you, this could also be due to a lesser hormonal influence. I’m currently on the Cup. It’s my nicer euphemism for menstruation. You’re welcome. Thankfully, I’m not vomiting this month and there are no cramps to speak of. Just a sudden urge to bake everything.

Whether it’s due to mental influences or hormones, I’m getting quite a lot done. Now, if I could just push this into my knitting and crocheting. I did do a bit of crocheting this morning while having a Peter Stormare-fest of movies but I only finished a row on the Return of the Scrap Yarn Shiver Stopper – Blanket 2013 that I started while watching 12 Angry Men with the Maternal Parental. Hopefully, this energy will be with me again tonight when I sit down to watch more Peter Stormare movies and I’ll be able to get some work done.

In truth, I should probably be putting this extra viewing energy into something scientific or philosophical but…he’s hot and, with the exception of Bad Boys II, I like his movies/tv shows.

The only other thing happening right now is my problem with edema. I am currently about fourteen pounds overweight in fluid and I’m not enjoying it. It’s hard to stand, which makes this baking fun. Not. It’s a bit hard to breathe and I feel and look like Stay Puft Marshmallow Man. That’s about it, so Yay.

Oh Yes, I Did It Again

Somewhere in the ninth row of the first pattern repeat, I sl1, k1, psso instead of k.

So, I messed up Villimarjatar, again. I’m not deterred. I really really REALLY want to make this thing. I’m determined to make Villimarjatar and I plan on knitting tonight until my fingers bleed. Okay, not really, but I am determined. I’m going to cast on 89 stitches again tonight and try my best not to mess up.

RIght now, I am going to focus on the marketing list though. The Maternal Parental slaved me out to make cookies for my aunt’s Easter dinner. Darn my undeniable talent. So, I’ve got to buy enough chocolate chips, flour, sugar, brown sugar and vanilla extract to make cookies for however many people are coming to the dinner. In addition to that, for my own household, I’m going to try my hand at Banana Pudding and Rice Pudding.

In other news, there is the running gag of me trying to see the PanSTARRS comet and missing it. Last night was the most hilarious. I found the moon, and beautiful it did look, but, by the time I made it outside, there was no sign of the comet. I really want to see this thing. I tend to miss every other astronomical event. Eclipses, comets, asteroids, meteorites, Aurorae, etc. So, it would be nice to see PanSTARRS. I’ve even got my old Beakman’s World binoculars locked and primed for the viewing.

This is a bit shocking. The Maternal Parental is craving Sagan. Yesterday, she asked me what else I had, aside from Cosmos, with him in it. The only thing I could think of at the time was an interview/discussion he did with Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Hawking on some British talk show. Then I remembered that one of his last interviews was also floating around and I figured that would be very good for her to watch.

This just in: “Jorge Mario Bergoglio, archbishop of Buenos Aires, is named as the new head of the Catholic Church, and will be known as Pope Francis I.”