Today has been long.
I wrote a 400-word response paper for my English teacher, which took way longer than it should have because all my English-class-writing skills are rusty. Then I stopped at Payless to buy grownup shoes because I need to dress professionally tomorrow (though... I am wearing bright red tights as socks...) only they didn't have them in the right size so I had to go to a different Payless to find them.
When I got home I had to do English class with my youngest brother. Then it was review-the-terms time for my psychology of sexuality class because we had a quiz on female anatomy. On my way home I picked up bright red tights at Target and lipstick at Walmart, only to discover that someone with a sense of humor decided to smash the lipstick so now I have to try to return it -- not likely! Great fun for me.
I have to get up in three hours to get on a bus for Austin, so if there is a post tomorrow it will either be automated or come in after midnight. Probably the latter. Apologies in advance.
Because I don't have too much more time to talk, let's hit 3 Good Things real quick before I head to bed.
Showing posts with label 3 Good Things. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 3 Good Things. Show all posts
Monday, February 2, 2015
Monday, January 26, 2015
Sex Class And 3GT
My Monday night class is a psychology/sociology course called Human Sexuality, and tonight was my first night. Holy cow, am I going to love this class.
The teacher is funny, sarcastic, and very chill about everything -- including the fact that he routinely annoys the professors of neighboring classes by talking about sex while they're trying to teach math or English or other innocuous subjects. The students were all there and most of them seemed comfortable. There are plenty of students there because they're majoring in psychology and practically have to take it, so those are the ones to be wary of, but as a general rule I think we should be okay.
It's a hybrid class, which means it only meets every other week on average (out of the 15 Mondays in the semester, we'll be meeting on 8 and staying home for 7). This probably means better discussions where the two or three other too-comfortable people and I don't totally dominate -- although I have some mad typing skills and don't mind long responses so I'll probably dominate anyway.
In the interest of not squicking out or boring my readers (or reader, as the case probably is), I'll likely not talk too much about this particular class. I'll try to limit myself to long discussions with Ian and some of my more open-minded friends!
And now, time for the return of my weekly series, 3 Good Things! This list is for January 19 - January 25, so Monday-Sunday. It's confusing because I can fit an entire week on one page, but my week starts on Thursday because New Year was on a Thursday, so I'm basically doing halfway through one page to halfway through the next page. It's kind of awkward, but I like adding the positivity to my Mondays, so we're sticking with it.
The teacher is funny, sarcastic, and very chill about everything -- including the fact that he routinely annoys the professors of neighboring classes by talking about sex while they're trying to teach math or English or other innocuous subjects. The students were all there and most of them seemed comfortable. There are plenty of students there because they're majoring in psychology and practically have to take it, so those are the ones to be wary of, but as a general rule I think we should be okay.
It's a hybrid class, which means it only meets every other week on average (out of the 15 Mondays in the semester, we'll be meeting on 8 and staying home for 7). This probably means better discussions where the two or three other too-comfortable people and I don't totally dominate -- although I have some mad typing skills and don't mind long responses so I'll probably dominate anyway.
In the interest of not squicking out or boring my readers (or reader, as the case probably is), I'll likely not talk too much about this particular class. I'll try to limit myself to long discussions with Ian and some of my more open-minded friends!
And now, time for the return of my weekly series, 3 Good Things! This list is for January 19 - January 25, so Monday-Sunday. It's confusing because I can fit an entire week on one page, but my week starts on Thursday because New Year was on a Thursday, so I'm basically doing halfway through one page to halfway through the next page. It's kind of awkward, but I like adding the positivity to my Mondays, so we're sticking with it.
Wednesday, January 21, 2015
Words Of Advice, And 3GT
I have three "words of advice" from today:
When you turn off one of your alarms, make sure the other one is still on.
When you do an MKAL from a new designer, expect mishaps and weirdness.
Walmart will have no exercise clothes in a size small, because people who are already a size small are the ones who do the most exercise (this is my hunch). Also, there are a million size mediums.
On which note, check out my new yoga gear! The teacher assured us that we "all have something in our closets", but I... really didn't. So I needed pants, and the hoodie was on sale and had thumbholes and I need something lightweight.
(I sent this picture to Ian without comment and his reaction was, "Woah, what are those?")
Three Good Things is next, but I'll only do through Sunday to stay on track for next week.
When you turn off one of your alarms, make sure the other one is still on.
When you do an MKAL from a new designer, expect mishaps and weirdness.
Walmart will have no exercise clothes in a size small, because people who are already a size small are the ones who do the most exercise (this is my hunch). Also, there are a million size mediums.
On which note, check out my new yoga gear! The teacher assured us that we "all have something in our closets", but I... really didn't. So I needed pants, and the hoodie was on sale and had thumbholes and I need something lightweight.
(I sent this picture to Ian without comment and his reaction was, "Woah, what are those?")
Three Good Things is next, but I'll only do through Sunday to stay on track for next week.
Monday, January 12, 2015
Kiss A Ginger Day (And 3GT)
Did you know January 12th is Kiss A Ginger Day? I learned this today, and it made me laugh. I'm a redhead by choice, which I call "ginger with maintenance" for giggles. And my boyfriend is a natural ginger, though it's intermittently fading to blonde. It's not a really good color for him and I keep contemplating suggesting he get in on the whole henna thing. (I don't think he will.)
Anyway, the other thing it is today is said boyfriend's birthday, which is just extremely appropriate and ironic. I find it absolutely hilarious. (Although my mention of it on Facebook makes no sense, since he accidentally put his birthday in wrong and has never bothered to change it, so pretty much everyone he knows thinks his birthday was a few days ago.)
Because it was his birthday, I said he could pick the colors for today's square in my Year Of Adulting blanket, if he liked. He was very excited about the prospect. His options were to pick the colors themselves, or to pick three numbers (1-15 inclusive) and let the system I set up pick the colors for him. Being a geeky sort of person he opted for the numbers, and chose the numbers 6,7, and 15.
This came out to Red, Grape, Ocean. I started giggling like mad and informed him that he had chosen a red and a purple, which are (as you may recall from the Friendship Star) our colors. He rather proudly asserted that he was "too good", a sentiment with which I readily agreed.
So today's square looks like this:
Anyway, the other thing it is today is said boyfriend's birthday, which is just extremely appropriate and ironic. I find it absolutely hilarious. (Although my mention of it on Facebook makes no sense, since he accidentally put his birthday in wrong and has never bothered to change it, so pretty much everyone he knows thinks his birthday was a few days ago.)
Because it was his birthday, I said he could pick the colors for today's square in my Year Of Adulting blanket, if he liked. He was very excited about the prospect. His options were to pick the colors themselves, or to pick three numbers (1-15 inclusive) and let the system I set up pick the colors for him. Being a geeky sort of person he opted for the numbers, and chose the numbers 6,7, and 15.
This came out to Red, Grape, Ocean. I started giggling like mad and informed him that he had chosen a red and a purple, which are (as you may recall from the Friendship Star) our colors. He rather proudly asserted that he was "too good", a sentiment with which I readily agreed.
So today's square looks like this:
Wednesday, January 7, 2015
MKAL Clue #1 And The Return Of 3 Good Things
My MKAL has officially started! Ahh!
As you may be able to tell, I'm a little too excited about this. The thrill of mystery and all that.
So my first swatch on my 2.75mm (US2) needles turned out with 8.5 stitches per inch, which is pretty common for me. I did the math for the size of the socks and figured out that the small would be 6.5 inches and the medium would be 7.5 inches. I need about 7.2, so neither of those would work. Thankfully, I have 3.25mm (US3) circular needles that I can use to make them two-at-a-time. That swatch turned out with 8 stitches per inch, which would give me a 7-inch small or an 8-inch medium. Small it is, I guess. They'll be a little tight but there's not too much I can do about it. I needed smaller needles so I could get 9 stitches per inch, which would have been about 7.1 inches, but I don't have any. So I'm settled.
This week's clue is just the toe portion. It uses Judy's Magic Cast-On with 8 stitches and increases up to the 56 stitches for the foot, which is a type of toe I've never done before. It's going to be a challenge with the magic loop two-at-a-time thing going as well. I'm super excited. I've already ripped it out once, so hopefully the second round goes better. I'll be working on it while watching anime with a friend for the next couple hours.
One of my New Year Resolutions was to keep up with 3 Good Things all year, so periodically -- when I don't have enough material for a regular blog post -- I'll be posting [some of] my 3 Good Things. You obviously don't have to care, but I'd like to share the little bits of positivity I can drag out of my life. Read on if you're interested.
As you may be able to tell, I'm a little too excited about this. The thrill of mystery and all that.
So my first swatch on my 2.75mm (US2) needles turned out with 8.5 stitches per inch, which is pretty common for me. I did the math for the size of the socks and figured out that the small would be 6.5 inches and the medium would be 7.5 inches. I need about 7.2, so neither of those would work. Thankfully, I have 3.25mm (US3) circular needles that I can use to make them two-at-a-time. That swatch turned out with 8 stitches per inch, which would give me a 7-inch small or an 8-inch medium. Small it is, I guess. They'll be a little tight but there's not too much I can do about it. I needed smaller needles so I could get 9 stitches per inch, which would have been about 7.1 inches, but I don't have any. So I'm settled.
This week's clue is just the toe portion. It uses Judy's Magic Cast-On with 8 stitches and increases up to the 56 stitches for the foot, which is a type of toe I've never done before. It's going to be a challenge with the magic loop two-at-a-time thing going as well. I'm super excited. I've already ripped it out once, so hopefully the second round goes better. I'll be working on it while watching anime with a friend for the next couple hours.
One of my New Year Resolutions was to keep up with 3 Good Things all year, so periodically -- when I don't have enough material for a regular blog post -- I'll be posting [some of] my 3 Good Things. You obviously don't have to care, but I'd like to share the little bits of positivity I can drag out of my life. Read on if you're interested.
Monday, July 7, 2014
Normalcy, TdF, And 3 Good Things
Happy Monday everyone! How has your day been? Mine has been less productive than yesterday, but enjoyable nonetheless.
I didn't actually get up until noon, but when I did I fixed my bed and took a shower and made a large quantity of food because I was very hungry. While I was eating I sat down to catch up some on the 2014 Winter Olympics that are still on the DVR from February. All I'm watching is the figure skating, and all I had left of it was the women's skating (plus the post-competition gala, which is essentially "Hey, have some fun!"). Once I finished breakfast I grabbed Róisín and my green-and-blue fiber bundle and returned to watching. I spent most of the day spinning and watching Olympics, except for when I took a break to tackle my closet again. Two more shelves and another drawer down (leaving only the two drawers of shirts plus all the hanging clothes on the other side), and I also figured out how to handle all the bags hanging on the back wall. I've determined I cannot have more projects on the go than hooks to hang the project bags. We'll see how that works. The "one project per hook/needle set" rule seems to have helped greatly, so maybe this one will too.
I finished both my singles for today with time to spare, and spent a while knitting on Wibbley Wobbley Timey Wimey as well. I have one more row to finish the TARDISes (TARDI? What's the plural of TARDIS?) and then it's on to the boring stitch patterns (reverse stockinette and ribbing). I was hoping to have two balls of the yarn leftover, but it looks like I may actually have to break into the third ball to finish the ribbing. I'm okay with that.
Here's my Tour de Fleece collage for today:
I didn't actually get up until noon, but when I did I fixed my bed and took a shower and made a large quantity of food because I was very hungry. While I was eating I sat down to catch up some on the 2014 Winter Olympics that are still on the DVR from February. All I'm watching is the figure skating, and all I had left of it was the women's skating (plus the post-competition gala, which is essentially "Hey, have some fun!"). Once I finished breakfast I grabbed Róisín and my green-and-blue fiber bundle and returned to watching. I spent most of the day spinning and watching Olympics, except for when I took a break to tackle my closet again. Two more shelves and another drawer down (leaving only the two drawers of shirts plus all the hanging clothes on the other side), and I also figured out how to handle all the bags hanging on the back wall. I've determined I cannot have more projects on the go than hooks to hang the project bags. We'll see how that works. The "one project per hook/needle set" rule seems to have helped greatly, so maybe this one will too.
I finished both my singles for today with time to spare, and spent a while knitting on Wibbley Wobbley Timey Wimey as well. I have one more row to finish the TARDISes (TARDI? What's the plural of TARDIS?) and then it's on to the boring stitch patterns (reverse stockinette and ribbing). I was hoping to have two balls of the yarn leftover, but it looks like I may actually have to break into the third ball to finish the ribbing. I'm okay with that.
Here's my Tour de Fleece collage for today:
Monday, June 30, 2014
Resolution Wrap-Up Plus 3 Good Things
Today you get a twofer, because I'm going to try to add some positivity to my Mondays and it's also the last day of the month. So, we have the Monthly Resolution Wrap-Up and the first dose of 3 Good Things in the same post! So here we go.
Resolution Wrap-Up
I did pretty well if you consider them 24 separate goals, but I failed if you consider it one goal. Also, hilariously, my randomized square position was perfect so I've only gotten two bingos. It's terrible. See?
Pathetic, isn't it? Well, here's the breakdown.
Resolution Wrap-Up
I did pretty well if you consider them 24 separate goals, but I failed if you consider it one goal. Also, hilariously, my randomized square position was perfect so I've only gotten two bingos. It's terrible. See?
Pathetic, isn't it? Well, here's the breakdown.
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