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But there is progress on the socks. The green ones. I am turning the heel on #1 as soon as I am done typing. I am stuck at school tonight till 10, again, so the hope I had for photos is little to known. I have to make an interactive PDF based on a brochure that I just finished designing today. Its great. (In all sarcasm) I am trying to find a freind to eat dinner with me, but it looks like I am on my own till 6. I have Metals class tonight. The plan is to kick some wax a** and take names. Actually, I am carving wax rings tonight so that we can cast them, next week I think. I hope to get done early so I can bow out. I would be working on the interactive pdf right now, but the dunder head that I am, I left the power cord at home. It's really really useful there. Soooo yea. Grrrrr. I love Billy Corgan. And I love The Machina of the Gods. Some people think its the worst album the Smashing Pumpkins released, but I think it is wonderful. Oh and Porcupine Tree. I love them too. I need to...

Today, at "work" I did a whole bunch of stuff. I feel the progress, or something. I got 15 minutes left and I finished the 75 pages of reading that was due tonight before class! It's excellent. So anyway new knitting news. I started the baby blanket that I am making for Josie's new neice. Mys sister is making the other blanket for the other new neice. They are adopted, and Josie wanted to give them something nice and new and their very own. I was super excited to help. Later tonight I will try to post a pic. Its a super simple round blanket, but maybe it will double as a shawl. My knitee is 16, after all :) Anyway happy days to all. gtg to class.

So, I know I have too much yarn. I saw the other bloggers do "flash your stash" at the beginning of April, and I realized I could never do that. I have way too much yarn floating around. It's kind of a sick obsession. I may be able to brainwash some friends into getting paid in yarn to help me organize it all this summer. I just want to label the darn boxes and have the same stuff in the same box. Hopefully a lot of it will be used by the community knitting group I hope to start. Nothing new on that front. I think maybe this summer can be a jumping off point. I was really on fire about it, but the desire to continue trying to do it has abated somewhat. (Sadly :()I think reality of RIT set in, and there just hasn't been a lot of time to do anything. I got a new computer between now and the last time I posted, and I know have a camera on my computer. This is exciting because I hope to be able to at least post pictures of my knitting projects. Speaking of which, her...

Sorry I haven't updated in so long, I was hoping for a camera, and waiting to take pictures until i got one. Unfortunately neither has happened. I will just have to post pictures from the camera I have, and hope its enough! I just finished a baby sweater last night as I watched the Superbowl at church. It is pretty awesome, my church- we used the projector last night as a BIG screen and watched the game. For me it was really more of a social event, but I was rooting for the Steelers- and they won :) I have to get a zipper tonight, if I remember. Hopefully I will have the baby sweater finished and in the mail tomorrow. I have to send the stripey socks to tony too... They are done and have been done for over a month now... And the presents for my bf family from christmas. I didn't buy them till i had money, but they haven't gotten sent yet either. :( I will get to it soon! The baby sweater is soo cute, everyone that has watched me knit it is so proud of my progress! Now o...

Wow, it's been a long time since I posted. Life has been crazy! I am an RIT student now, work at RIT now (goodbye wegmans!) and I haven't had too many minutes to myself since November 28. I am currently working on 3 projects. Working actively, that is. I found the strawberry pie shawl so I started that with some lovely yarn (LionBrand 100% wool) that I dyed with Koolaid. The picture is of me frogging, but the project is much farther now. If i can dig up my digi cam i will take a few more. I started a second shawl in lionbrand white wool (the big 8oz one), and I will make my best friend help me dye that after I knit it. The other project I have been working on is my mom's socks. They are a late Christmas present, she decided she wanted them about a week before Christmas-- so she got yarn in her stocking. I am using some LionBrand Magic Stripes. The yarn flavor is Denim Stripes. Mom likes the one that is done... the second one is in the works. In other knitting news, I mee...

I went to the Warm Up America website and I was so wrong... Warm Up America is an organization that knits and crochets blankets for many needy people, including the homeless. So I apologize for my last post and that it was so upset. I was dealing with my own perceptions of the homeless. Honestly I have seen that thinking elsewhere, and it is definatley one of the things I want to overcome. I talked to Kathy, my coach, yesterday, and she was really excited about my ideas. She and I are gonna talk in depth about it tomorrow. I am excited. I am supposed to come up with an outline... and I just don't know how to set it up!... but i will manage. Its very cold here at home tonight.

I was thinking about how exactly to get the knitting for the homeless project started. What do I need to do? What do I need to think about? One of the things I have been noticing is that there are a lot of knitting for charity projects/charities out there. I have read several that use money and knitted items to help children (who are essentially poor), people who are very ill, and people who are in dire living situations. So, why, do I see so little about homeless organizations? Why is it that the only people who get consideration are those who cannot help the situation they are in? I have noticed that there is a commonly held idea about the homeless. It is that they brought it upon themselves. Perhaps they were too lazy to get a job, too fat, too slow... whatever. We Americans, and I can only speak of Americans... we don't want to help people when we think that whatever has happened to them is "thier own damn fault." This, i think is the primary reason why I haven...

so this is the beginning. of something i hope that will prove to help me get going. Get going on what, you ask? Well, I will tell you, since you asked. Recently I took a class at church about Spiritual gifts. Spiritual gifts are things that a person is talented at and that they use to help others. (Usually used for others benefits and not themselves.) This is really important, because Spiritual gifts are different than natural talents. Well, ultimately what we realized, as I went through the course, is that I have a heart for hurting people, and I desire to care for them. This would generally consist of doing things to help people with physical, spiritual, and emotional needs. This seems so very much a wide and huge category-- but i realized that the person group I really cared about... had a burden for... where the homeless of the Rochester area. Apparently, the Rochester subway system (now defunct) is where many homeless people reside and live in the winter. This would explain why I...

This is my first post in blogger, and actually I already like it better than my LJ account, it is definately prettier to look at :) I hope that this journal will be a place to post images, talk about my knitting, and to show others my work. I also have a "in progress" website , thanks to my boyfriend, Brian Blankenship. He is on this site too, my love

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