Knitting Backwards and some more stuff

Well I learned a new trick tonight, knitting backwards! Who's ever heard such a thing!? I saw something about it when looking at entrelac (or whatever) so I was like hey what's that? Looked it up and found an easy (for me) tutorial about it on knitty (which is GREAT if you've never been there) knitty's tutorial I hope that works. Any who, the shirt I'm knitting is from Knitty too and I don't really remember what it's called. I'll update that later. anyways, I'm going along knitting my shirt, find that tutorial and decide I should try it. Instead of being logical and starting a quick sample swatch I just start trying it out on my shirt. Could you have imagined how bad that could have ended up if it didn't work for me. Like if I'd have messed up somewhere? BUT, to my knowledge I picked it right up and i love it cause I hate to purl. :( Now to get rid of it completely ;) In other life news I think it's time to cut my nails, just kidding although it would be smart cause I keep typing numbers, but seriously though Jordan found a gun he likes and wants and that fits him. Now I guess that's not as exciting to everyone else but it's been forever since he's done that. But then again he misses a gun that he recently got rid of so he may get this one and another in the caliber he got rid of. Whatever though, no point in trying to fight about it. It gets deer meat in the freezer and you can't beat that with any beef/chicken/pig whatever else out there. Oh it's so good. But I digress, he is trying to find a job guiding hunts which would rock out for him since that's his passion and he knows so much about it. I was bored the other day and instead of finding new patterns I found myself looking at guns/hunting info. God forbid Jordan ever finds out about that. just kidding, kinda. I swear everyone that goes into the local (good) gun shop is going to know who we are by the end of the summer. That's great huh. I guess that's it right now. go to sleep.

Stuff

Okay okay so I didn't get around to posting pictures... I just don't know enough about this blogger thing to know how to put in pictures other than with html BUT I don't feel like figuring out where to upload them online so I can do the coding to put them down where I want them. I used to be real good at HTML and played with it all the time, even to the point where I almost made my very own website but alas, I didn't. I like the blog aspect of things and prefer this one to my MySpace one even though I'm pretty sure that NOONE reads this one... it's so lonely in here. hello hello hello is there anybody in here, just nod if you can hear me... But I digress. I have started trying to knit a tank top and it's going along just fine. Last time I tried knitting a shirt it was actually a sweater and I Hated the yarn. So it's about 4/7th of the way done. I don't know where that fraction came from but whatever. I have been making stitch markers which are so awesome, I'm testing them out with this project. They are working! Uh, I went to my parents house for the 4th and we had fun. My aunt was there and I like her but don't get to see her much. I don't know why. anywho I'll keep you (whoever you are, introduce yourself to me) updated on my progress of everything. Peace out!

time and where does it all go?

So here's to life. Oh there's so much going on! I have really been on the ball with making stuff. I have made like 6 different bikini tops trying to figure out which one I liked the most and truth be told I don't fully like any of them. My future SIL had her baby the other night and she's too cute. I made her a hat/blanket set out of the crochet version of Stitch and Bitch that I totally adore. I made that little hat that looks like a flower which I got the pattern from http://suzies-yarnie-stuff.blogspot.com/2007/03/tulip-cap.html (I doubt that's clickable) and I also made some of the Go Green market bags from her site. uh, I've made her a head band too. It's sorta out of Crochet Today but I had made a few changes to it. I crocheted me a shirt, a ton of sponges, some necklaces, hats, pretty much just a ton of stuff. I have now branched out to making some bead work. Which I found out I totally love too. Poor Jordan won't know what to do with me now. Speaking of him I feel totally bad for him because he got a Tikka T3 I think. (which is a really good gun brand) in a caliber he's been wanting for a while (25-06) and it did not shoot worth anything. Turns out that the stock on it was loose. Now that he got it tight again he doesn't want to shoot it anymore (when he first was shooting it it left a bruise on his shoulder). Because of that, and the loudness of it (since it has such a short barrel on it) he's looking for a replacement. Well the problem there is that he has a really long length of pull (I guess you'd still call it that) because he has long arms so not many guns that would sit comfortably on the Average Joe do on him. We've been going crazy trying to find him one that's suitable and will not be too heavy to carry hunting (he doesn't like to sit in blinds because it's not as sportsman like). It's been a blast! Not even sarcastic like. I've learned to enjoy it until Jeyton gets fussy. I have even learned a bunch about hunting and guns in general. Look at me be well rounded. I keep forgetting about my blog so I'm going to try to post like once a week or something. I got some apparently vintage Dawn Odyssey yarn. It's six skeins they came in an unopened bag and everything. I have no clue what to do with it. It smells like moth balls though :( which makes it even harder to find something to make. I thought about a shawl and hoping the smell comes out when I wash it. But I don't know if I want to knit it or crochet it. I want to make this blog fun and something that people would read but I don't know how I'll go about that. Oh and we also had gotten a concealable Kel-Tec hand gun but I have a bad wrist and it hurt when I shot it. So we have traded it for a small Bersa and I haven't shot that one yet so I don't know how it'll work out on my wrist. I don't know what else to talk about I'll try posting some pictures later. Peace out

Update

So I haven't been here in awhile... not like anyone really reads this thing anyways. Well anyways, Jeyton has like 9 teeth right now... the eight front ones and one coming in in the back. He's walking so sure of himself now, going everywhere and getting mad when held. I'm sitting here this morning watching the news about this flu thing going on and yesterday I was told that my future MIL's mother's pharmacist said that there are two cases in town... and that startles me a bit but why wouldn't it be in the news? Are they "protecting" us from freaking out or would they logically want to tell everyone so that we don't go out and get ourselves contaminated? Whatever though. Uh on the other hand I've been crocheting like crazy, made my own bikini pattern pretty much but I'm not thrilled with it quite yet. I made one for said MIL... no comment but it's SO cute! I'm proud of how it turned out. I haven't been feeling tip top here lately, I almost feel the need for my therapist again but money is tight so I'll have to find another way to help get me out of this... oh the Joys of Depression. I have a friend who had a baby here recently and while she was pregnant the dad abused her. I was so proud when she left him but now apparently she's back with him and I don't get it. I understand letting him be in her life (to an extent) but why get back with him? What's the probability that he's going to do the same thing again? I cannot condone her behavior so I don't know what I'm going to do. A real man doesn't hit his woman. He should treat her right, especially when she's the mother of your child. I've been busting my butt cleaning the house and Jordan is supposed to be helping me... but he has class and work out here on the ranch so I'm trying not to worry about it. We really need storage so much... our house is SO tiny. I don't know what I'm going to do about that one. I've got cabin fever crazy like... even when I get to go to town, just need more to do I guess. So I need to get on the ball with other things I guess. Anyways I need to get up and get some things done around the house to keep myself from going crazy... peace out.

Well then, I finished my exams, technically no. I missed one exam and failed the class within 3 points of passing! That sucks. My scholarship means that I need to pass 12 hours and I didn't, so I don't know if I'm going to keep it. Jeyton seems like he's getting another tooth and this one isn't coming in like the last two. He took two steps on his own the other night. He's getting so big now! I guess that's all.

goodness gracious

for the longest time I forgot how to sign into this thing and even forgot I had it for a while... is that not sad? well anyways So Much has happened since like half a year ago. :) Jeyton has passed the crawling point and is trying to walk. He's 10 months old now. And in the past month he has gotten TWO teeth!!! Yeah they came in about a week apart and he was so good about it. Noone knew he even had the first till he bit my finger one day. Then a week later I was looking at his one and realized he had two. I'm trying to FLY (if you don't know what that is check out flylady.net and jump in it's so great for me) now... been slowly working on it for the longest time but now I'm trying to get into it more hopefully over winter break from school I can really get going. We're (Jordan and I) are trying to get school over with this semester but we can't make it go any faster. Finals are the week after this coming one (if that makes sense). Hopefully we can get in enough study time to do well on them and pass this semester. This should be fun, I'll try to remember how to login and keep this thing updated. Peace out.

First Post/ Exciting News

So this is the first post and I guess I am going to say a few things before I start everything else. First off I live in the middle of nowhere in West Texas on a ranch... with my fiance, six month old son, and my fiance's parents. My fiance's name is Jordan, my son is Jeyton and we live in a tiny house. It's less than 1000 square feet, tiny for as much stuff as we have. Jeyton just has his six month check up yesterday and he weighs 14 pounds 3 ounces, which is great considering he was born at 3 pounds 12 ounces. He got shots and didn't cry that much this time which was cool cause last time he bawled so bad. Uh, we had horrible carpet in the house when we first moved in and now that Jeyton is starting to crawl we got tile to put down and that's coming along very well. He's started meat today and he pretty much liked it, so that's cool. And now he needs a bigger car seat! We are just so happy that he is doing so well... but we have to run to a tiny town to go to Wal Mart and get bigger diapers! If I think about it later I'll try to update this again later... BYE GUYS

Okay I'm back, I just wanted to say that we ran to town and got diapers but what was awesome was that on the way home (about 15 minutes) Jeyton was singing along with the music that we were playing... he was just yelling and blabbing on and on it was just too cute I guess I'm gonna try and get some sleep soon. Bye again