Starting Over.

I broke down and started up on the mini SD coat again tonight. This time, I've found that I need to use bigger needles (last time my gauge was off and I needed to use size 3). I'm also using pink boucle instead of the blue-green I used before, just to give myself a little added motivation.

I am going to knit very slowly. No television or music in the background, and if I break a sweat, I'm putting it down! Even if it takes me a month to finish it, I'm not going to mess it up again.

Kristen has been very glum today. She couldn't get Ryundel, our brother has been hasseling her about washing the kitchen floor and getting in his way, she burnt her hand and on top of that a mole ran away with one of her lilies. =_=...I'm not very good at cheering people up, but I tried to make it up to her to babying her a little. It's been a bad luck week. The Doll and Hobby Shoppe put its remaining 1/6 scale dolls on sale, and I kind of badgered her into asking for Raughla13. I had planned on getting her a long time ago, but she doesn't have any cute mini dolls!

For some reason, whenever I try to cheer someone up, I go to bed at the end of the day feeling bad.

I played the Sims tonight. My girl is unhappy again. I need to have her make more friends!

I'm hungry. I wish we had a nice, ripe avocado lying around, I love avocado! When I was younger I hated them, but Kristen ate them all the time. I ate half of one first thing in the morning once and it made me sick! But when I tasted it in sushi I really liked the texture, and then I started eating them occasionally. I know they're high in fat, but if they give me joy, who cares?

I wish we had more chocolate mousse =_=...

I felt kind of sick to my stomach yesterday, and I wondered if I contracted salmonella from the raw egg whites in the chocolate mousse. Then I ate some more late at night, and I felt fine. I guess we'll make it again!

I could use some sushi right now! Salmon or eel sounds good. When I first tried sushi I thought it was okay, but there was something about tuna rolls that didn't strike my fancy. I figured I was still squeamish about the raw fish, but I think I just don't like maguro that much. It's a little bit bitter. I like salmon rolls much better--I think that's one fish that tastes better raw!

Kristen says that when she went to Japan, her host parents told her that most Japanese people think that Westerners hate eel. Is that true? The first time I tried unagi I thought it was fantastic. ^_^;...I don't know...does the fact that eels look like snakes drive people away?

Coming Along Okay.

The last time I tried to post the entry, I ended up deleting it all by accident. I could die right now. A four paragraph message!

Well, this one is going to have to be even better.

I did 18 rows on the MSD coat. Now that I'm using the more appropriate size 5 needles, my stitches aren't as tight and hard to work with. The boucle is dark pink mottled with light green and reminds me of strawberries. I am pleased...for now, at least ^_^!

Everyone's squawking about the 60cm Obitsu dolls. I can't help it, I wanna try one too! Even if the head mold isn't perfect, Atemi-san's dolls are pretty, and if I can make something that looks like a giant Jenny doll I'd be elated. I probably will buy one eventally and stow it until my birthday in October. If I'm going to have to turn 25 while I still have the mind of a child, I think I deserve a giant doll to play with!

I had a nightmare last night about fighting with my high school friends. It seemed to stretch on for hours, but when I woke up I found out that I had only been asleep for an hour and a half since I went to bed. What's up with that?

Sometimes I like to stay up late and watch music videos on VH-1. For the entire course of the '90's I hardly listened to any "earth" music at all and now I think I'm trying to make up for it by listening to music all the time. Well...I was looking forward to the one hour they actually show music videos on VH-1, and what do you know? They showed that J-Lo video where she inserts herself into "Flashdance" for the third night in a row! "I'm Glad?" I hate that stupid video, and I hate her singing and I hate having to look at her flaunt her body all the time. I swear, even Britney Spears is better than her. I hate Jennifer Lopez's music almost as much as Nelly Furtado's. At first I thought I was being too hard on her, but yesterday I heard one of her songs after long weeks of silence and I almost started to cry. Why would anyone want to listen to that awful raspy voice??

I'm not watching any TV tonight. I've seen that J-Lo video 4 times in the past 2 weeks, and I only watched VH-1 for a half hour at a time. And last night, two videos later they actually had the nerve to show "Jenny From the Block." Please! No more J-Lo!! ;_;