pure awesomeness

  Yay for new books! My awesome Mom got me this super awesome book while she was in Cali.

yes, Charles Dickens. One of my very favorite authors ever. Gotta love him :)

So thick! and shiny!

There are five of his novels. Tale of Two Cities, David Copperfield, A Christmas Carol, Great Expectations, and Oliver Twist. I've already read David Copperfield, and who hasn't read A Christmas Carol? So what shall I read next?

Yup, Tale of Two Cities. while I knit. win.

So now that I've bored everyone with my over excitement of this awesome book, I'm going to talk about knitting! yay!!! *ignores the groans and clicking of the exit button from my readers*

knitting is awesome. So is the fact that the camera is back and I can now take endless pictures of my knitting.

Broke off the sleeves on my Goodale today and I'm now working on the body! yayay!

And a random picture of the pattern... because I thought it came out cool looking. And now I'll be done...

chocolate, books, and other such goodness

I meant to post this Sunday, but I fell asleep and when I woke up it was time for youthgroup. oh the things sleep will do to you.. haha! anyway... I made these super awesome, tasty, delicious things for my dgroup.

mmm :) sooo good. pretty easy. all you do is put a kiss on one of those cool checker board pretzels, stick it in the oven till they're slightly melted, squish another pretzel on top, freeze and voila! the most delicious snack out there. sadly I don't have any pictures of them finished, but as I said, a nap took up almost my entire afternoon.


On another random note.... I went to the library today to "grab a book". and yeah... well. I came home with five, plus a movie. you gotta love libraries :)

see the bottom one? "what the dickens" how could you not resist checking it out? so far it's really dumb though. and not really that interesting.... but it's still a cool name.

these 10 things...

So my last post was a big hit. I got over 40 views (which is a lot for this lame little blog of mine) and a nice discussion that followed. this discussion is by no means over, so feel free to keep posting :)  and for real guys, thanks =)
but I thought I'd have this next post on a lighter topic. so I consulted with my good friend Plinky and they said that I should post 10 things that make me happy. After a long time of consideration i decided this was a good idea. So here I begin.

1) yarn. I know, I know... original. but it's true. very very true. yarn makes me very happy. the smell, the texture, the colors, ahhh.... it's just so wonderful! :')

2) shoes. same thing as yarn, they're just amazing. they're so stinking adorable and i love 'em very much and they can always make me happy. no matter what.

3) friends. I get very happy around friends. most of my friends tend to think of me as an overly happy person, believe me, I'm not. I just get really excited and happy around you guys.

4) Kids. they have this amazing ability of making me happy. the way they adore me, the way they think life is so simple and yet at the same time make the biggest deal out of tiny things. yeah, gotta love 'em.

5) Family. this is a weird one. because my family has this amazing ability of making me the biggest grump, and at the same time they can make me so happy. <3<3

6) books.  once again, the smell, the texture of the pages, the amazing story that's just waiting to be read. gah! i love books. a lot. especially really old copies that are super cool looking. they make me very happy!

7) inside jokes. they are the bomb. if you ever see me randomly laughing during the day when nothing funny is happening it's usually because i just remembered an amazing inside joke.

8) pajamas. life is a thousand times better when you're in them.

9) getting to drive. i always feel very happy behind the wheel. I'm sure this will pass.

10) funny words. like muscles. which should really be pronounced musicals. for real.

hope you all have an amazing weekend!