Yikes.  Well, I’ll be gone this weekend.  Immediately after this is posted I am going to try and get a few hours of sleep before heading off to the train station.  I never actually went to sleep so this is being posted while I shower…  The video might take some time to load because it’s probably still encoding – just be patient, please.  I’m leaving my house at 3:45….  UGH.  The things I do for you guys…

From 4:30 AM til 10:00 I’ll be on a train.  Following said trip I will be on another train for two hours to meet up with my roommate, Nicole.  From there, I will eat lunch and begin my crazy for the next 72 hours.  It’ll be longer than 72 but I’m not including recovery from actually finishing the book.  To be fair, I’ve been crazy for the last two weeks.  I’m clinically insane.  Yikes.

“Yikes,” “shush,” “ridiculous” and “psh” have been in my vocabulary quite frequently this past month.  Interesting.

I’ve done two “How To” things for this post.  Textual form AND video form…  Textual form is annoying and too much information.  Video form sort of FAILS, though…  I am so sorry, lol.  SO, because it fails I will direct you to another video with how it SHOULD be done…  I, being a knitter, think it makes sense but others may argue with you…  Casting On and the Knit Stich.

SO…  Sleep is overrated, huh?  Yikes.  I’ll maybe post something tomorrow once I get to Chicago and find an internet connection.  Brittany – feel free to post whenever you want – I’m sorry you’re having so many problems with your camera

I’m going to probably be sleeping on the train.  UGH.  I wanted to finish New Moon a second time and then start Eclipse.  I MIGHT NOT GET TO READ THEM ALL TWICE BEFORE GETTING BREAKING DAWN!!!  What will I do with myself?!

I found out today that I get to spend Friday with Nicole AND TINA!!!  She’s one of my friends from school and we’re going to a mall, lol.  We’ll have a splendid time

If you actually read all of this next part I congratulate you on your patience.  You don’t need to but it shows where my mind has been this past month, lol…

How to Become Hopelessly Over Committed…to Numerous Things at Once

1. Have a whole summer with nothing to do
2. Join a blog/vlog project
3. Get a job IMMEDIATELY after saying you have “all the time in the world” to commit yourself to said project
4. Sleep in until noon
5. Edit videos into the wee hours of the morning for project
6. Think about project whenever you can because the new project love is there and happy
7. Be challenged by book-loving friend and decide to read a book you claimed you were uninterested in reading
8. Talk to online friend about said book and learn “how annoying” the characters are
9. Procrastinate getting book because you JUST picked up knitting again due to Harry Potter knitting book you’ve been oogling all year
10. Knit at work while kids nap
11. Finish knitting project and search for “free online knitting patterns” online
12. Find a knitting blog and vow to knit all the fruit on the website
13. Spend three hours looking up knitting patterns online and print every single one you find
14. Discover that your roommate is also about to start reading book
15. Pick up book from bookstore and begin to read
16. Buy a ton of yarn and new needles
17. Read until all hours of the night for two days
18. Knit an elephant in between reading book, sleep, work and food
19. Proclaim undying love for fictional characters in book and spend next day in zombie-like stupor thinking about book
20. Write a last minute blog post because you spent too much time knitting and reading
21. Purchase next book in series
22. Read book everywhere and get in trouble at work
23. Knit a whale
24. Finish second book in two days
25. Knit a bird
26. Go back to knitting website and ravage it
27. Download a billion patterns and vow to knit every single one
28. Purchase next book because you “can’t live without having it that very second”
29. Read until your eyes fall out
30. Start to ignore facebook (which is outstanding)
31. Finish third book and sigh in contentment
32. Read chapter 20 again
33. Start searching the internet for everything book related
34. Find author’s website
35. Refresh author’s myspace every two seconds at 11 PM to learn new quote of day
36. Speculate what quote could mean
37. Hyperventilate
38. Multiply #’s 35-37 by 22
39. Plan trip to Chicago for sole purpose of buying and reading next book with friend
40. Begin week of hard core obsession
41. Knit a ring
42. Forget to blog
43. Discover knitting website and join Twilight group
44. Enter a t-shirt design contest
45. Read 65 pages of posts to catch up on theories and gossip and junk
46. Begin posting regularly
47. Check page every five minutes to look for any updated posts
48. Become depressed when no one has posted anything for ten minutes
49. Check facebook
50. Check group
51. Sigh
52. Repeat #’s 46-48
53. Buy more yarn
54. Buy beads
55. Buy fabric
56. Have “discussion” with mother about how many projects you have going on and how you do not need any more
57. Reflect on past month and actually realize how many projects you have going on
58. Become overwhelmed
59. Write a How To list on how to become overly obsessed
60. Sigh again

Love you all….  hope you had fun sleeping

PS: oh yah, this lolcat

xoxo_nicole posted a photo:

sometimes i get the urge to make something crafty, yet different from what i normally make. it usually ends up taking form in some sort correspondence, whether it be a letter or a card or who knows what else.. this time i made a birthday card for my best friend, cori, who is turning 21 on thursday. she’s a freak for cats, like me, so i think she’ll appreciate this.

it’s hard to tell, but the cat on the inside is a 3-D pop-up!