Eye Candy Friday, With Extra Silly Quiz Results!

Maybe it’s just me, but this is really cute:

Unfortunately, the cat in the background (Cookie) looks like she is giving Sammy (the striped kitty) the look of death. Oh well, you can’t have everything! The uneasy truce continues. As you can easily see, Sammy and Chewie just lurve each other…

And now for silly quiz results. I couldn’t resist a Pride and Prejudice quiz…and of course, I am most like Elizabeth. What else would you expect from a woman in grad school?

Which Pride and Prejudice Girl Are You? created with QuizFarm.com

You scored as ElizabethI am Elizabeth. I am headstrong and intelligent. I love to be myself, and am very loyal to my family. I can sometimes be prideful and “prejudiced,” but I try to remain open minded and I usually regret past mistakes. Elizabeth 85% Charlotte 65% Jane 60% Mrs. Bennet 40% Mary 35% Lydia 25% Kitty 25%

This ends NaBloPoMo for me. As expected, I didn’t even come near to posting every day, but I did manage to post on the first and last days of the month. That’s good enough for me! I am more than enough ready for December/Christmas: time off from the daily grind, decorating, cookies and knitting, yay!

Happy belated Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving was really nice and low key, but now it’s back to the grindstone. At least I’m in the homestretch…today I turned in another paper and it felt great. I’ll try to remember that next time I have trouble getting started on a paper I now have less than a week left of classes and then finals the week after that. Knitting is moving along nicely, although I don’t have any pictures to show for it right now. My sockapalooza socks are finished now that I finally wove in the ends (just in time Christmas, *sigh*) and I’m half-way through on Bernadette. I had a few false starts on the scarf, probably because I was too brain-dead at the time to follow a chart or written directions. Now it’s a pretty quick knit, so I hope to have another FO that I can finish in under six months for a change!

Stick a fork in it, it’s done!

I finally finished (meaning closed the toe) of the last sockapalooza sock on Thursday. I have a few more ends to weave in, then the socks need a nice soak and some blocking. I bought some nice German chocolate to send with the socks as well – my sockpal deserves it for being so patient! I’ll put up pictures here soon of the socks before I send them off.

Next I plan to pick up Bernadette again. I plan to just rip out what I’ve done and start over, since I didn’t get too far anyway and some of my bead placements were wonky.  I hope this project goes quickly, otherwise it won’t make it in time as a Christmas present for my mother-in-law.  In order to get packages to Germany by Christmas (and not pay super expensive shipping), it may have to go out by the end of the month!

Time to go home

I was particularly unproductive this morning, so I forced myself to go to the library to work for awhile after I did some stuff in the lab.  It’s almost 7:30, so I’m going home, but I still have to finish up some of my take home exam.  So there’s likely no knitting tonight.  <sigh>

Busy bee

Yes, I’ve been a busy bee.  My eyes hurt a lot yesterday from staring at the computer too long.  When I wasn’t working on a take-home exam, indexing chapters, or working on some other assignment, I was busy putting up more past completed projects on Ravelry (username: knittingmarie).  Which was a good thing, because it forced me to go back in my archives and fix some of the many broken links to images I now have after moving the site.  I also added some of my modest stash, which was actually kind of fun.  Normally I’m not much into the yarn – I much prefer the whole finished project.  But I guess Ravelry appeals to my organized/OCD side.  I’m trying to do better today with the eyes, like taking frequent breaks, eye drops, and so on.  But guess what…during one of those breaks, I finally finished the toe decreases on the last Sockapalooza sock!  Now I just have to kitchener up the toe, weave in a few ends, and give the whole thing a good soak.  I will be so happy to send those off – I’m soooo ready for a new project!  My unfinished projects that involve knitting with beads are calling to me…