One project pau

The scarf that I have to deliver tomorrow is pau! Yea! All I need to do is tuck in the ends and wrap it and I'll be all set to deliver it. Even though it'll be given on December 1, I still like to think of it as a Christmas present. It makes me feel better to think that I've already finished one of my presents. :) It's for one of my former grad school professors. She's probably the only one of my professors that I'd ever knit for. Because as much as much as I've admitted that some parts of grad school were great, it truly was a horrid time in my life. We all agree that most of the people who were responsible for teaching and guiding us (ahem, otherwise known as the faculty) only made that stressful time worse than it had to be. However, the professor that I made this for was one of the few that I thought really gave a damn about what happened to us. Anyway, here it is:
I really enjoyed working on this scarf. The stitch was interesting enough to keep me going but was mindless enough that I could work on it wherever I went. And after working on the blanket, it felt like a quick knit. I found the yarn at Aloha Yarn and at the same time discovered that Aloha Yarn was an awesome yarn store. Here's a close up of the stitch pattern:
I'm delivering the scarf tomorrow at a meeting that to be quite honest, I'm not too thrilled to be attending because afterward is the UH and Washington game. We have tickets to the sold out event. It should be awesome.

A disappointment

The week's not over yet and already I feel drained. There have been times in my life where I have moved, touched, and pleasantly surprised by the people who surround me and in life in general. Unfortunately, there have also been times when I am reminded that the weather isn't always sunny and the air doesn't always smell sweet.

I am not an optimist. I am not a pessimist. I am a realist. And this week reality really sucked. I had a setback involving an event that I had agreed to participate in. I had to deal with disappointment and someone's abandon ship attitude, but that part of my week could not compare with the week of a friend of mine. She's had a horrible week, one of those weeks where really all you can say is that sometimes life sucks. And it doesn't matter who you think people are. No profession, even those in the education field, are immune from crappy people.

Thanksgiving weekend

So this Thanksgiving was a little different than recent Thanksgivings. Sure, we did the traditional, way-too-tiring relative thing on Thursday, but other than that it was odder than usual. Why?
1) While baking on Wednesday night, I discovered that our monthly payment to our security company is money well spent. When the smoke detector goes off, they really do check to make sure you're okay.
2) As usual, Lance and I examined Black Friday's sales. Oddly, there were very few things that we were interested in.
3) We didn't really partake in any of the sales. Joy and Brad went to Hilo and I dropped them off at the airport and once again, the sales weren't very good.
4) Lance was sick all weekend, which is actually probably why the rest of the weekend was weird.
5) I did not go to either the Okinawan Center craft fair or the Blaisdell craft fair, both of which are Thanksgiving weekend traditions.
6) I spent most of the weekend in the kitchen. I'm actually fairly domestic, but it's odd that I spent that much time cooking/baking. Wednesday night I worked on the overnight layered salad, cranberry sauce, and pumpkin squares. Friday I made a yummy loaf of bread. Saturday I made ziti. And today I made cinnamon rolls.

I also did my normal weekend chores (i.e. laundry) and made some progress on my knitting. The scarf that I'm working on now was actually started so that I could have some nice mindless knitting for my "knitting club", but it occurred to me this weekend that scarf delivery day is approaching quickly (umm...like, Saturday...) so I really need to finish it up. It shouldn't be a problem, it's almost done. It also occurred to me that I really need to focus on that Christmas knitting. I have quite a few projects to complete before Christmas. Yikes.

Oh, and I got to rock out to Rock Band today. I didn't play much this weekend because Lance was sick and I didn't think me banging on drums would help him feel better. Thankfully he's feeling better so I played for quite awhile today. Oh, and of course I'm just happy that he's feeling better. :)

Thanksgiving

Ahh...Thanksgiving weekend. Fantastic. I just finished cooking and baking for tomorrow and I'm just waiting for the cranberry sauce and pumpkin squares to cool so that I can go to bed. I'm glad the overnight layered salad is not a third thing that I need to cool because I'm exhausted. Lance and M*Bark both went to bed without me and I'm jealous. So tired. I blame my "boss" for the late finish as she was the stupid one who scheduled a training for the afternoon before Thanksgiving. I also blame myself for going to the stupid training. It was a big waste of time, the speaker was fairly boring and didn't quite seem to know what she was talking about, and I disagreed with many of the things that she said.

Anyway, so we have Lance's cousin's house tomorrow day and my aunty's house at night. I hope to relax this weekend, but I also have a list of things I want to get done. My desire to relax often gets overshadowed by my need to do stuff. Anyway, no matter how busy this weekend turns out to be, I'm definitely going to make time to play with our new toy. Rock Band is perhaps the most awesome game ever. I love Guitar Hero as well, but with Rock Band I finally get to fulfill my dream of being a drummer. Thank goodness this game came out after we moved out of our townhouse and in to a single family house. My poor neighbors.

I just realized that this post is a little different from the typical Thanksgiving titled blog. I didn't say anything about what I'm thankful for or anything like that. It's not that I'm not thankful for everything I have. I realize how blessed I am but honestly, I'm just a little too tired and grouchy right now.

A belated Halloween post

I tried to post this on Halloween, but blogger didn't want to cooperate so now you get a belated (but quick b/c I have stuff to do) Halloween blog. This year, Lance and I turned our pumpkin into a Transformers pumpkin. I don't know if the picture does it justice, but it turned out awesome. We decided to stay home and pass out candy b/c it was our first Halloween in our new home and we wanted to see how many trick or treaters we would get. We got quite a few and way more than we ever had at our old house. If it wasn't raining so hard, we probably would've gotten a lot more. It was neat because they all loved our pumpkin and the kids couldn't stop talking about it. Oh, and for those of you wondering, no, M*Bark did not dress up.