amigurumi goodness

since i have become completely addicted to crochet, i tried another pattern that i found online of an amigurumi bird here. i did it yesterday... not quite sure how long it took me because i did most of it, went to church, ate dinner, and then finished it off when i came home. since it's so small it didn't take that much time, even at my slow speed. so here she is:

sorry about the flash again. :/

butt shot!!

here she is amongst her brethren; this time without the flash!

anyway, i'm super proud about this one even though she turned out a lot taller than she should have. maybe it gives her a little more personality? anyway, i don't know if i will be doing any more amigurumi for a while cuz i have a serious shortage of yarn and i need to stock up some more. since i'm kinda short on money right now, that might take a while... :)

FINALLY

i finally taught myself how to crochet. i've basically just been going crazy all of yesterday and today just learning the basic stitches like single crochet, half double crochet (*sigh* crazy oxymoron) double crochet, triple crochet, and crocheting in rounds... it's insane, and my hand really hurts so i'm typing really. really. really. slow. REALLY SLOW. :)

anyway, today i finished my first crochet project, an octopus. the whole reason i wanted to learn to crochet was to do amigurumi, and this is my very first (amateur) attempt at something amigrumi-ish. it turned out kinda cute, despite a lot of lumpiness and other mistakes. oh well. here's the pattern.

here it is:

the legs should have been way longer than that and the pattern should have said to chain on more than 31, but i guess it looks fine this way... maybe more proportionate?

i've decided that it will be my beta's new best friend! yay! ;D

aww. how cute. anyway, sorry about the bad lighting. i took this at night with bad flash and whatnot. and i know i know, i've kinda been neglecting that rug i've been knitting. it's just that i need to get a hold of some more yarn, and that may take a while...

so for the past 2 days (conveniently while i've been learning to crochet) i have been watching old episodes of The Office and right when i realized i have become addicted to it, i found out i have finished watching all the episodes available on tv-links. why? WHY!? now i'll never find out what happens between Jim and Pam! anyway, now i need to find some other website that offers more episodes of The Office, which i am really craving right now. or maybe i could just go the honest way and buy the dvds. but.... i need money! why?! why am i so poor?! The Office was basically the best thing going for me all summer, and now it's out of reach... oh well. *sigh* :(

hey there!

i realize that i haven't had many updates on my attempts to cook, so here's one for ya:

i tried to cook gnocchi after watching this video on youtube. anyway, i've decided that i kinda like watching cooking show stuff online rather than on food network, mainly because the food seems more real... also because Robert Rodriguez somehow just makes cooking seem a whole lot cooler... :D

anyway, here are the results. sorry again for the crappy picture, but it was a cell phone shot.

here's my gnocchi with meat marinara sauce. it turned out tasting pretty good, even though no one here bothered to eat it and decided to eat Jack in the Box hamburgers instead... hmmmph... :( anyway, there will be more food updates to come!!

i am glad to announce that i am past the halfway point in knitting my rug. i kinda stopped it for a while now cuz i realized i needed more yarn.... also, i realize how small it's gonna end up, but that's ok. i really just want to get it over with.

also: another thing i think i should be working on right now is trying to redecorate my room without having to paint the walls, mainly because i just don't have that kind of money. it's like a horrible blank slate right now, and hopefully by the end of the summer it will look a whole lot better. :)

anime expo 'o7

this weekend i spent 4 days at the anime expo, to which my friends said "do you even LIKE anime?" my response being "no..." in fact, i'm kinda borderline on hate right now. too many lines out in the blazing sun, too many crowds of smelly, smelly people. i'm so glad that i'm finally home. i stayed in a semi-ghetto holiday inn for the three nights with my sister and a bunch of her classmates, like a HEAPIN' LOAD of them. every night there was about 12 people staying in our dinky 2-bed room. it's not that i didn't have any fun, it's just that there were a lot of times that i didn't have fun, and i have to complain about it to someone, dammit! haha... laugh it off, that's right! :D

now that that's all over, i need to begin looking for a job! i've been saying that i am gonna get a job over the summer for a REALLY long time, and now that a month of summer has past, it's getting harder to keep that promise. all i've been doing in my spare time is knitting and watching project runway marathons (damn you BRAVO! it's so addictive...) ohh BTW, it seems that i haven't been knitting enough because i'm not even 1/3 of the way finished with my rug thing... i really want to get it over with so that i can begin doing other things. i've tried to keep away from websites like craftster so i won't get any other ideas until i finished the rug. i don't know why it's taking me that long. it's not even that hard to do!!!

anyway, what i really want to do right now is make some hikaru dorodango. i got the idea from craftzine and it looks really easy to do, but it takes a lot of time and (i'm assuming) good quality dirt, which i don't have any of right now.

my parents are kinda mad at me right now cuz of my cell phone bill. apparently my part of the bill is being charged $43 more than the normal rate, $35 of which is all for texting. i really didn't even know that it was that expensive!!! anyway, they want me to pay them the $35 back, but i really don't have any money. i spent all of my moolah on parking and food for that freakin' anime expo since mom only gave me $30 for the whole trip and parking is $8 a day and food is always around $9 there. living is expensive!!!