I'm Broke

I went to the yarn store on Thursday. I was only going to get yarn for this next project, really. Its not my fault that, well. There is this funny thing about shopping, and yarn in particular. You find something that is just so very awesome, and you put it in your basket, and then you find another as you make your way to the counter. Well, by the time you actually make it to the counter you end up spending 140$. oops. But they are exciting yarns, see?

Wait...what was that in the corner...is that...Doctor Who Yarn?!!?!

It was just..there. With all the colours combined. I had to have it. Ideas of what I should make?


Anyway, I have started my new project, a fancy shawl. I had a couple of false starts with it, having all 97 stitches cast-on, and a row or two knit and then dropping the first cast-on stich. grrr. Vas-eva'

This is much different then the other things I did, not only because I'm using a flancy pattern, but it's lace. And you know what? It's slippery and does not want to stay wrapped on my finger nicely, cause it is so thin. But I think I am getting it.

Here's a question though. It says to garter stitch for 18 rows. Do I count the cast-on as one of those 18?

I'm Qtap, and I'm a knitter.

Based on the evidence, I do believe I am addicted to knitting. See for yourselves and decide.

I learned to cast and knit a day or two before leaving for New York and have since learned to purl, and yarn over. I have made a scarf and baby blanket, and am working on attempting a headband. What am I doing right now instead of sleeping? Looking at a vid on how to do an SSK. I spent 70$ on needles, and am planing on taking a 25$ class on pattern reading. Not only that but I went out and purchased a new bag/purse what have you in order that I could carry my knitting with me, as my old one was not big enough to do so. Looking at my bookmarks bar, one would find a brand new folder labeled knitting full of blogs, and folders each for patters and yarn shops/sites, my email and computer also contain such folders.


That and I seem to knit left handed which is causing some difficulty in learning new stitches from a friend/classmate. I keep getting confused!!

ETA: This problem has been fixed by learning the stitch from her right handed, reviewing on knittinghelp.com and then taking it all out and doing it correctly via my left hand.

The Beginning of the End

Darkness falls like blinding light
The end is near, it's now in sight
The time has come, the time is now
Greet the king, hes come to call

As we wait in line
Await the thrown
Things will pass
Which we've always known

As days grown long, and shorter still
Tumult passes, peace instilled
From lions mane we unite
Together now, unhindered might

The end is here
The time is now
All eyes open
Wonder
Wow

The Chandelier

Bright light shining
Throughout the room
Not one spark twinkles,
Thousands do
Each way you look there is something new.

In each twist is a light
Just waiting to be seen
Glistening, gleaming, shining on
From each little light, a new one brings
Sparkling forever

G-d vs. Hashem

I have found myself struggling with this concept for sometime now. While on the one hand, Hashem, literally The Name, is G-d, on the other, He is not. For to name G-d is to define G-d and to define G-d is to limit G-d, and G-d by definition is limitless.

Day of Sadness, Day of Tears

Why do we suffer?
Why do we cry?
Senseless hatred
Amongst all our lives

The golden walls burning
Crying and pain
Foxes, sly foxes
Nothing more profane

We want to return
We cry and we plead
Enough now already
We regret the deed

Years pass us by
But still we do cry
Each time though, it's different
More people have died

Bring us back to you O Lord
And we shall return
Restore us, as in days of old

G-d's Gorgeous World

I forgot to sleep last night, so as soon as it was light enough(read 05something) I headed out for a sunrise bike ride.

Lovely little Rainbow here, you can't really see it so well in the picture, it was rather faded.

A bit more yellow in the picture then in actuality, but it's beautiful, no?

Here you can see the Greenway and Sunrise as I bike. Taking a picture while biking is a lot easier than one would think, oddly enough.

Some of the prairie life that lives it's happy life on the side of the path.

At this point I turned around because it started to rain, and while I don't mind the rain, tisn't so good for my bike.(It stopped some five minutes later)

On the way back it was a touch windy, and here you can see the white undersides of a tree's leaves as they blow. I was going for the contrast between the white and green, which was rather stunning, really. Alas, I had the camera set to auto, and not night as it should have been, considering how the lighting was on that side of the path. Well, at least I learned for some of my later shots.

The tracks, oh the tracks. Off in the distance you can see the water tower and Nordicware. Did you know that the NordicWare tower used to be a grain elevator? The first(and possibly only, I have no idea) concrete grain elevator, ever. ...I'm not really sure what BRT means, but I suspect it might have something to do with the bloody loud train whistle that they blow at midnight or two in the morning, or it might be letting them know that they are entering into a populated area and crossing a street, so they aught slow down a bit. The two might actually be related, come to think of it.

At this point I could have turned off and gone home, but I felt like going a bit more, and so continued on till the coffee factory.

I'm rather fond of this one, I just love how the four leaves stand out amongst all the rest. This is also, sadly, the last picture, for here is where I turned around again, and then my batteries died, much to my chagrin as there where some lovely opportunities, that shall forever be lost to time.