I have another hell-week of finals this next week and then I will be out of school for a WHOLE ENTIRE MONTH!!!
A whole month of just working! Maybe I’ll be able to go to some knitting group! See a movie! The possibilities are endless!
One of the things I’d wanted to do was to travel to Florida to see my sister and my nieces. Not gonna happen, since I have to work a few holidays as a condition of continued employment. One of my classmates is going to London and Paris over the break, I am so jealous!
This program I’m in, this all-consuming program. . .it is exasperating, frustrating, amazing and wonderful all at the same time. I wish I could write about it. Aside from time issues, it’s just not anything I want to write about in any sort of way, for a variety of reasons. I will say that even though for this year your life needs to be about this program, life still happens around us. Some of it good, some of it bad. My life has been a relative sea of calm compared to others. Three other people in my class have gotten married during this program. Two other people have gotten engaged, and I wouldn’t be surprised if I came back from this break to find that a few more will be engaged as well. And the sad: just before Thanksgiving the father of one of my classmates passed away suddenly. How do you deal with that?
And after this glorious month of freedom, we go back for our final quarter. By the end of March, we’ll be finished!!! So hard to believe!
I recently ordered some yarn at the Knit Picks Cyber Monday sale to knit some gifts for Chistmas and birthdays for the little ones in my life. I am not knitting anything for the adults this year, it’s just going to be too nerve-wracking. They will probably get jewelry or other stuff. Here are two combinations of yarn that I’m using to make the Girl’s Skinny Tank for each of my nieces in Florida:
That’s Knit Picks’ Comfy Sportweight in Seafoam, Ivory, and Honeydew. Honestly, I was expecting the Seafoam to be a lighter color. The color combo is still good, just not quite what I was imagining.
That’s Knit Picks’ Comfy Sportweight in Honeydew, Ivory, and Flamingo. Now for this grouping, the flamingo was not the color I thought I was going to get, and by that I mean the color is different. I was expecting a more pink color, and the flamingo has a decidedly peach cast to it! Here’s what Knit Picks has to say about the color: “Flamingo is a delicate pink with blue undertones. This soft pink reminds us of the lightest colored feathers of the bird, Flamingo. Combine with Sea Foam, Honeydew and Ivory for a lighter color palette [thanks, I think I will, ha ha!] or with darker tones like Blackberry, Planetarium and Pomegranate as an accent in a darker color palette.” I don’t read blue undertones at all. I’ll have to bring the skein to knit night to have my color experts render their opinion. By the way, I think the ball of Flamingo in the picture above is pretty true-to-life.
As with the other project, I am not unhappy with the color combo, it just isn’t what I really envisioned for the end result. Also, I swear I did not read Knit Picks’ color description before I picked my colors for these projects!
So I did get an order through at the beginning of the Cyber Monday sale. I was sitting in Pharm class when I placed my order. The class ends at 9:20 and my order was placed by the end of class. From what I’ve read, I was one of the lucky ones to get my order in so quickly! The yarn above – it’s just the tip of the proverbial iceberg, friends. More to come after my finals. I’ll probably post on a semi-regular basis over the break, provided I have something to write about.
P.S. Songs I’ve been obsessed with of late: Don’t Move by Phantogram and Shake It Out by Florence + The Machine.
