Officially dubbed "Free Shit Day"

So, today was the first day if Info Fair, which is the big huge tabling extravaganza that occurs every year two days before the start of the school year. All organizations and clubs and a few local stores are out, giving away mad amounts of free stuff. I got a yoyo that lights up (it amuses me greatly. I wish I were better at it) and a frisbee I will never use. I got a waterbottle, warming flavored lotion, condoms, candy, mints and lots and lots of pens.

I came home and checked the mail and found 4 free samples of various things. Cereal, a "food bar", parchment paper, and some facial cleanser. I have more free stuff than I can handle. It's all terribly exciting for me the poor starving college student. And I LOVE IT.

In other news I have completely failed to take pictures and share my latest yarn acquisitions. These are notable because I am on a year-long yarn diet and I have done pretty damned good up until now, only cheating-but-not-really-because-it-doesn't-count on some sock yarn, cheap yarn from thrift stores, and yarn for projects for other people. I think I'll still keep up the effort to keep the yarn buying to a minimum after the year is over, and may come up with some other way to curb the appetite, like maybe a "must finish two projects before buying yarn for another one" type deal (hats and mittens and other such small objects will only count as 1/2 a project). I think this sounds good to me.

Hooray for getting shit done

I just finished the socks for my brother. I finished the hat for Svend a while back, need to take pics of that once I give it to him. For now I have pictures of my brother wearing his new socks:





Exciting, no? I need to finish more stuff soon. Some more interesting stuff.

More than meets the eye

So, Svend's birthday is coming up and I've already knit him a hat, but I came up with this BRILLIANT idea to glass etch the Transformers logo on to cups. When we went to see the new movie he was all indignant when they got things wrong, immediately knew who all the transformers were, and basically squeed all over himself. I figured he'd go ape-shit if I did this.

Well, I did two of those tonight, one the main logo, one the decepticons logo. Here they are:





The close-up of the Decepticons one leaves much to be desired. Sorry about that.

They're imperfect (one of the decepticon's jowels is MUCH bigger than the other one) but I still think he'll love them.

Sooo.....my roommate is the only reason I am sane.

I could not for the life of me find a skien of yarn I desperately need for the toe of a pair of socks I'm knitting for my brother. I searched ALL OVER MY ROOM (perk: my room is now cleaner than it was and better organized) and all over the living room. I was going out of my mind. Then, my roommate very nonchalantly says "could you have put it in your desk? Hiding it from the cat?" So, I pick a drawer, and look in, and what is staring up at me? The skien I've been pulling my hair out trying to find.

I swear I'd lose myself if it weren't for my roomie. Her name is Jamie, and she's pretty awesome. I should knit her something cool one of these days.

Here comes the bitter pill, but I don't think I'll take it

So, I have realized I have way too many WIPs and some of them have become UFOs because of it. I realized that in my WIP post I forgot to write about the Print O' the Wave shawl I've been neglecting, and that is just a testament to how far it's been pushed to the side. Even though I'm a bit over my head, I have started a new project, a hat for Svend. This needs to be finished ASAP since his birthday is coming up. I also ripped out and reknit what I had done of the socks for my bro, and I'm close to finishing the first one, though I should be done by now.

I have, in all honesty, 5 WIPs and 3 UFOs. Oi. I need to finish something already. The hat could be finished really quickly if I tried, so could the socks for my bro. Oh, then I need to start a scarf for a swap. Ugh. There's something wrong with me. Should I make a "finish by" timeline for the WIPs? I think I should.

1. Socks for my bro: ASAP
2. Hat for Svend: Sep. 25th
3. Scarf for Swap (not yet a WIP): Dec. 2nd
4. Dollar and a half cardigan: before the end of fall, preferably
5. Vest for mom: Christmas
6. Fairisle vest for me (UFO): Christmas (I want to wear it that day)
7. Print o the wave stole (UFO): SOON!! DAMNIT!!
8. Monkey Socks: whenever, not a big deal.
9: Pasha the penguin: on who knows, it's already a two year old UFO.

hello, my name is Tina and I am addicted to starting projects.

Bumbershoot time

Time for me to stop being lazy and to write about Bumbershoot. I went two days, saw way more bands the first day but managed to forget my camera. Sigh. Oh well. I'll try and describe what I saw.

First day:
The Cops - Seattle band that I saw in B'ham last year. Played at 12:45, very early. They did kick ass. The crowd wasn't that into it, but, well, it was early. The old hippie guy was around (he's at everything I swear) though no one was dancing with him this time.
The Shins - in the main stage, packed solid. Were pretty awesome. Left early to go see...
Mae - in the exhibition hall (which usually fills up super-fast). They were pretty good, didn't exactly rock the house but played a fun show.
The Pharmacy - only saw them for a short time, Svend wasn't impressed and neither was I.
Common Market - only caught part of their show, sounded fun, got the crowd going. However, no comparison for.....
Gogol Bordello - holy shit. Best. Show. Ever. So much fun, so much dancing. I had started to feel shitty, feet and back hurt, but it all seemed to go away while I danced. All came back right after they finished, though. Heh.

The next day the first band we saw was Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, and I got pictures this time:



That last one was taken shortly after the guitar died and the bass player and drummer were playing by themselves. They got everything working again soon and were awesome.

Saw Bouncing Souls, didn't take pictures of them. Left early to get into a comedy show (which we didn't get into despite being an hour early. Sigh)

On the way out we saw this pig:

and had a nerdy moment and had to take a picture.

*yawn*

Went to Bumbershoot yesterday and the day before. I only have a few pics from yesterday, as I forgot my camera the first day. We'll see if I can't get the pics off of my phone. However, I am long overdo for a post of camping pics, so here they are:

The tent Svend and I slept in. Pretty ghetto.

Jame's and Gina's tent. Way swankier. However, just as prone to leaking as ours was. Our last night was very wet.

Right next to our site. I thought it was pretty cool.

Svend and his knife. He really likes that knife.

We hiked down to Ross Dam

From on top of Ross Dam

Suicidal plant

James and Gina decided to have a chicken fight

Gina won 2 out of 3

View from the Dam on the way out.

We spent two nights out there, had amazing meals both nights (best food I've had in a while) and generally had a good time, until the last night when it poured rain and we left before 8 in the morning. Oh well. It was still a good time.