Knit in Public

It’s baaaaack ! I forgot how much I loved sharing these and I’m on break right now so I’m delusional and think I’ll have tons of time to look up stuff on the interwebz and for blogging after break is over. { source } I freaking love a good gnome. And these are adorable. I have one in my yard, but he fell over and was rained on and he kind of looks like a nightmare now. But I still love ‘em. This ring and I are made to be together. For reals, ya’ll. I would love to have one of these, but I...

Recently, I was thinking about my love of proclamations. They’re pretty much ultimatums I make for my life and then never follow through. Well, sometimes I follow through, I guess that’s another proclamation. The never. Does anyone else have a problem with this? It often seems like most people have it all together and just know what to do and have no problem being adults. So, I’m like, I need to get it together. Let’s make a change, self. Then I tell myself things like, I’m never talking to...

It’s been raining here for what feels like forever (it’s been 8 days or so). We Atlantans were getting a little depressed. And by we, I mean me and some of my school and Twitter friends. We’ve been depressed and complaining about it to each other. We’re over it! And since I can’t seem to get to bed before 3 am (damn you youtube!) I usually look at how the sun is shining into my room to see what time it is when I open my eyes in the morning. Before 9, sleep on, after 9, get up because I assume...

Since deactivating my Facebook account (I didn’t think I’d be able to do it, but I did) I feel so. much. more. peaceful. It’s incredible. And I haven’t smoke even 1 cigarette in over 3 months. It’s awesome. But. There is this other thing. My phone. It’s a fucking tether. And I get all caught up in it and have a hard time sitting and just being and not doing. And people having constant access to me. Not that people are always calling me and I’m so awesome, blah blah, just saying. Remember the...

{ source } A friend of mine called me a “ray of sunshine” the other day. I can’t tell you how much this touches me and warms my heart. No one has ever, ever called me that, referred to me in any way shape or form that relates to sun or even though about associating me with positivity. Ever. And for good reason. I’ve been a thunderstorm most of my life. Ok, all of my life. If you’re a long time reader, you’re probably already familiar with me and my ups and downs, but mostly downs. And I...

{ source } I’ve made some new friends recently who are pretty conservative (not politically just in general. Maybe they are politically,too, I really have no idea. We don’t sit around and talk about those things, it’s one of the things you’re not supposed to talk about. Politics and religion, but we do discuss religion because I know them from church [yes, I've been going to church, it's weird for me, too] so we don’t want to add to the weirdness by adding politics in there, although I’m...

Justin doesn’t think I’m funny. He claims he meant he just doesn’t think I’m funny on Twitter, but I know he meant he doesn’t think I’m funny at all. Whatever. My grandmother thinks I’m hilarious. All she does is laugh when we talk. That’s why I call her when I need someone to laugh with me. (I have plenty of other people who I can call to laugh at me…ahem, Justin) Skip to 5 minutes later: I was going to show you the Twitter lists I’m on. A month ago, there were a few called “hilarity” and...

I got a Wii Fit for Christmas. Admittedly, I haven’t played it a whole lot. And, I got the work out game from EA Sport for Wii and it’s way better. So, I decided to work out with the Wii Fit thing that comes with the system the other day. As soon These are the evil Miis who call you out to your roomie. as I got it geared up, it’s all like, “Where have you been? I haven’t seen you in 20 days. You’re off your program.” Dude. The stupid game is calling me out for not working out. I already feel...

I was going to write this post about the fact that our society seems to treat women who don’t want children like freaks of nature. Even though I don’t feel this way, I still get a little jolt of “there must be something wrong with her” whenever someone tells me she doesn’t want to be a mommy. I’ve been brainwashed into assuming every person on the planet with a vagina wants to procreate. The ones who chose not to have children are the smart ones. How many women out there are having kids when...

Interesting thing. Lately, I have found myself in good moods most of the time. Justin may disagree, but for the most part, I feel pretty positive about things. And this has been reflected in my moods. Which is interesting. I have never ( ever, ever ) been a positive person and good moods were usually few and far between. I really felt like that dude from Office Space who asked the doctor to hypnotize him so he didn’t know he was a work. But, I felt like this about everything. Work, after...

Out of boredom yesterday, I started reading the Notorious Killers sections of Crime Library. I was looking for the Bizarre and Strange section, but I guess the powers that be have done away with it in the past 6 years (last time I came to this website). Interestingly, they do showcase a Terrorists and Spies section. This is new. I am reading about a Black Widow named Marie Hilley from the Appalachian Mountains in Alabama. Reading this is teaching me a lot about how to not raise a serial...

As I have previously stated, quitting smoking is pretty much the hardest, shittiest thing ever. Ever. I’ve spent too much time recently wishing I could go back in time to tell my 15 year-old-self that there is absolutely nothing cool or glamorous about smoking. Nothing. Unfortunately, life doesn’t work like that. I’m at a point right now where I can’t imagine my life continuing to smoke and I can’t imagine life without smoking. Cigarettes are truly making my life unmanageable and I can’t do...

I don’t know if I can possibly explain how happy I am that daylight savings time is here!  I am beyond ecstatic.  I feel like getting to work in the dark and leaving work in the dark has taken a real toll on me.  Since the last time change, I have become such a lazy blob.  I never want to do anything at night anymore.  It’s too cold and dark to leave the house once I am home.  Well, no more!  I am going to be out and about and it’s going to be great! Do the short winter days make you depressed?

I had an interesting dream last night.  Wait!  Before you quit reading because you don’t want to hear about me interpreting my future because I had a vision of a unicorn in the sky and he told me my dead cat said to keep on keeping on, it’s nothing like that.  I promise. I was hanging out with some friends (in the dream) and I noticed that none of them were shaving their legs (I probably had this dream because I might need to shave mine, but our shower head is clogged and the water comes out in a pathetic drip).  Curious, I asked one of them what the deal was and they were all like