Inert Knitter

That’s right.  Books.  Twelve books.  We went to Savers today after purchasing a new rotor for the right front break.  Blargh.  Total cost of break repair…180-ish.  Much cheaper than actually taking it in though.  Thank goodness for Daniel.  Anywho, the books!  I’ve always been a big fan of Crichton.  I read The Andromida Strain when I was 13.  It got me interested in DNA and viruses.  I guess this is our way of paying homage to a man whose talent at painting a worded picture was…amazing.  I wish I still had the passion for reading I did when I was 13.  Along with the Crichton novels we picked up some of Sue Grafton’s work.  Dan had to read A is for Alabi for a class and I read it for the hell of it.  I like whodunit type stories.  She released S is for Silence not too long ago.  I can’t wait until she gets to Z.  It’d be funny if it were Z is for Zebra….which I highly doubt.   There’s The Nanny Diaries in there too for Dan’s mom.  We made off pretty good.  The books were in really good condition…like some of them haven’t been read before.  All for about 21 bucks.  Had it not been the super Veteran’s Day sale at Savers, then we would have paid 40.  I don’t even want to calculate how much it would have been if we were to purchase the books brand new from Borders or something.  Crazy.  I’ve got a lot of books to read…thank goodness winter break is coming up soon.

I thought this picture was adorable.  Congratulations to President Elect Barack Obama!  I thought Senetor McCain’s consession speach was amazingly gracious.  Obama’s speech lost me towards the end…my attention span is rediculous, really.  Anywho, I’m happy.  I, sadly, didn’t think I was going to see an African American president in my lifetime..at least one that isn’t on tv.  I think he’s the best candidate for the job.  I think he’s capable of making good decisions.  I hope he runs this country with a more discerning eye.  I hope he takes more time to scrutinize and plan.  I wish the best for him and he has my full support….of course until he does something I don’t want.  Heh.

I took a break from working on Aaron’s scarf.  I really thought that I could pull it off….I think I just needed a break.  I’m working on everyone else’s presents at the moment.  Since my halloween hello kitty hat worked so nicely, I decided to make it for everyone else.  It’s really quick to make…I could make a couple in a day.  It’ll get through fast.  I hope.

So one rectangle can be a cute hat with ears?  Yes, yes it can.  And it’ll be adorable.  Yes, yes it will.  I hope.  Only a few people to do and then I can go back to le checkered scarf.  I’m happy with how much i’ve gotten done with it so far, though.

Haven’t blogged since the anniversary. I know i said that I’d post pictures of le loot…got lazy.  But there is pictures in this post…yay pictures. So, I got my first smart phone.  Le T-Mobile G1. 

Hooray for internet all the time.  Thanks to Aaron for telling me about it to begin with.  I’m quite happy with how this phone works.  Being online all the time, very helpful.  It’s great.

Chirstmas is comin’ up.  So Christmas present making is in full swing.  Very slow swing…but it’s goin’.

Aaron’s checkered scarf is going underway nicely.  I’d like to couple more feet to it, just to make it nice and long.  It’s very soft and comfy.  For a double knit project it moved along very well.  I hope to be done with it in a few more days.  Maybe the end of the week.

Daniel and I make 6 years.  Six..whole…years.  Today was a pretty good day.  Early day at Cattle Company, shopping at Pearlridge, Ben Franklin and Home Depot and then back home. Pictures of the loot will be up…along with pictures from the party and the luau on Thursday.

Just wanted Daniel to know:

I love you…more than anything in the world.  I want to see you every morning when I wake up, I want you to be the last thing I see when I go to bed.  Thank you for being there for me…thank you for loving me.  I love you, Dan.

Everything seems all a twitter now a days.  September is almost over.  With the ending of September comes BEACH HOUSE!  Hell yeah.  I was worried that we wouldn’t be able to find a venue, but the initial beach house came through.  Copen should be a happy pup.  Maybe.  I do hope that it’ll be fun.  I tried to write a food list.  I do hope we have enough food for the weekend.  We’ll have to find that out, won’t we.

I also ordered a brand new phone!  Hooray!  My Razr is killing me.  I purchased a Sidekick from Jerry for $40.  I’m not too keen on it.  It DOES have a full QWERTY keyboard which I love.  I think now that I have it, I never want to go back.  Anywho, I ordered myself a HTC Dream, the TMobile G1.  Aaron told me not too long ago to hold off on the purchase of a new phone because this phone was going to come out.  It’s the first Android phone that’s going to come out on the market.  I’m not a Google fanboy like Terrell, I just wanted a brand new phone.  I didn’t want a sidekick, but I did want a sidekick.  This phone looks..kind of like a sidekick, but awesomer.  If…that were a word.  Haha.

Knitting wise, I finished a couple sets of fingerless gloves.  My hands get cold in class, but I need my fingers for typing my notes, so that works out for me.  I was going to start making hats for Christmas.  I don’t think I have the type to do the things I had initially planned to do.  Whatever, though.  As long as Christmas presents are handmade, then it’ll be great.

I need to get back to studying.  I’m having some issues with online classes.  My procrastination level is high with these classes.  Sigh.  Wish me luck.

It’s Sunday and I’m tired as hell.  How terrible is that?  I’m supposed to be relaxed.  I didn’t have to go to work for two days straight.  Good right?  No.  I think this was the most eventful weekend of…well ever.

Friday-Thrice show.  Good show.  Started late, they only played an hour.  I would have been a bit happier had they not had an opening band and played for two hours.  The opening band was very good though.  Their drummer had one fierce beard.  Thrice didn’t play as many new songs as I would have expected.  That was fine though, considering that I haven’t really listened to any new stuff anyway.  After the show, Terrell and I got Dustin’s autograph.  Had Daniel used his words and told me what he wanted, I would have known to take out the book from Vheissu and get him to sign that, but he signed the cover instead.  We got drumsticks, Dan rejected my drumstick.  I guess now I get my own Thrice momento.  All in all, pretty good night.

Saturday-Mark’s birthday!  My little brother turned 19!  Yay.  This was a pretty jam packed day.  I had to wake up early to head to supervision and training.  I had already taken said training a year before, but since I took it BEFORE October ‘07, I needed to take it again.  Lame to the max.  On an interesting side note, I met Jason Rivers, wide reciever for the UH Warriors.  He works for my company.  Rad, eh?  After near crying my eyes out because I was bored, I went to Dan’s house.  We attended a birthday party for his cousin…niece?  I dunno.  She’s 4, very verbal, very cute.  I re-met his extended family.  They’re an interesting bunch.  I think next time, though, I should be wasted too.  It might be funnier.  That night was Mark’s “surprise” birthday party.  He loves surprises.  He planned his own party.  It was a pretty fun night. Uncle Ed…crazy.  We know he loves mojitos.  Perhaps a little too much.

Sunday-Grocery shopping, dance practice and faux reading.  Tough day.

It was a very eventful and difficult weekend for me.  Hopefully next weekend will be better. 

An hour and a half gap between classes is the worst thing that can happen to me…with my tiny attention span.  Yes, I have my laptop.  Yes, with my laptop I have access to whatever I want on the web.  I still get bored.  Perhaps next time I’ll knit.  Maybe even bring headphones and watch a movie.  We’ll have to see how this goes.  I’m getting mad bored already.  I’m hoping that forensic investigations will be the awesome class that i think it will be.  I hope.

On and even junker note: The lady that owned the beach house canned our plans.  Stating that someone had already paid..or some junk like that.  First off, she responded to me like a few days ago.  Secondly…well shit.  She could have at least said something..y’know?

On a good note: No work on Friday or on Monday.  Sweet!  Four day weekend?  What to do, what to do?  I think I’ll find a beach house for us to go to.  That would be nice.

Here we go.  I just started work last week.  It’s not too shabby.  The hours are good, Wednesday hours are sweet, at least I’m making money.  Now we start school.  Blah.  My schedule for this semester isn’t too shabby though.  Two on campus classes and two internet classes.  I only need to buy books for one class, so this will be the cheapest book semester ever.  My biggest concern would be my SSCI 301 class…oh and my writing intensive class.  I feel bad for the professor for my WI class.  There were a bunch of people falling asleep in class.  It doesn’t help that the topic isn’t exactly the most exciting…heh.  But I think my favorite class will be Forensic Investigation.  Holy moley, I didn’t realize what class I was signing up for until I went to class.  I always wanted to take this class!  Whew.  I decided to use anthro as my social science complimentary instead of Sociology.  I thought my sociology classes were kind of boring anyway.  Meh.  Antrhopology…I do likes you.

Since I’m working, I’d like to save a little money.  I have to pay for my cards, my phone and my loan.  That’s pretty easy to cover now.  But I don’t want to spend it all at one time, so I decided to write a want list.  I think, like my kids, I should reward myself for good behavior and everytime I complete a task, I should reward myself with something from my want list.  So far, I’ve got a PNS camera.   Perhaps, if I get a B on my first test, then I’ll buy my PNS.  I think I should set my goals first, and then set my wants.  Lol.  But I just want, instead of my goals.  But goals are like wants?  I don’t know.

In all honestly, I’m a terrible cook.  I can cook little things really well.  Spam, saimin, portuguese sausage, bacon…that I can do.  I can do those things fairly well.  Ask me to make anything else?  I dunno.  I do pretty ok with Penne and alfredo, I can do a Cannelloni pretty decent.  Today I decided to do a Filipino dish.  I don’t know how to cook Filipino anything.  I know that it’s a watch and learn kind of culture…but I wasn’t too interested in the preparation as much as I was interested in the final product and the act of eating it.  I was craving pork guisantes and I told Dan.  He suggested that I make it for dinner.  Now, I thought that he was a little crazy…pork guisantes for dinner…at his house?  I didn’t know if his dad would eat it or not.  His dad is a big steak and potato kind of guy.  Filipino food?  I dunno.  I tried…and i kind of failed.  It’s not inedible.  It just doesn’t taste the same.  We put too much tomato sauce.  My mom ended up telling me that the tomato sauce was really just for the coloring than the flavor.  I wish she had told me that before I put two cans of tomato sauce and a can of paste.  Sigh.  I made pork guisantes stew.  It’s ok.  Practice makes better.  Next on my to try list is lumpia.  I want to learn from the best.  Unfortunately, Auntie Merced lives in Kalihi and I don’t want to drive all the way over there just to learn how to make lumpia.  I’ll have to ask my mom…again.  Those are the two filipino dishes that I want to master.  Pork guisantes and lumpia.  Once I get those things, I’ll be happy.

I decided to work a full 32 hours again.  Now that’s only 8 hours away from full time, but that makes a big difference.  I’ve gotten tired of not having cash…and I have a loan to pay for.  I know nothing about my client other than it’s at a school that I’ve worked at and I’ve gone to.  I’m crossing my fingers and hoping that the new building was opened so that I can sit in an air conditioned FSC next to the front parking lot because Makakilo is so damn hill-y.  Damn those hills.  I also decided to take on five classes this semester…because I want stress.  I can do it though.  I’m capable, I just need to prioritize.  I need to set goals for this semester.  I just…need to figure those out now.  What’s different though from this semester and last semester is that I’m only going to school for 2 days.  The other classes are online.  Three to be exact.  Well, that’s if I can even get into the classes.  Two are open only to outer island kids.  Bummer.   I do hope I get into those classes though.  Two writing intensive classes and a methods course.  I’m asking for trouble.  We’ll just see how that goes.

There it is.  I asked for hair just below my shoulders.  She cut it..and then it dried above..my shoulders.  Poo.  I think it’s cute though.  It is certainly a lot better than what it was.  I was glad that she actually finished the style instead of just letting me leave with my hair wet.  I’m happy/not happy.  Ah well.  Can’t do anything but let it grow now.

Here we are at PCC right before the awesome night show.  I forgot how fun PCC really is.  I failed to realize how great Hawaii really is.  Everyone looked happy to be there.  Hawaii brought joy to all…they had good kalua pig.  It was really fun.

We ate yakiniku and Coldstone.  This was the first time I ever ate Coldstone and I must say that I was not disappointed.  I was actually quite happy.  I’d like more.