Fall!!!

It's so pretty right now. It is totally fall weather right now. I love it. However it makes me slightly mad because I know that in a couple days it will go right back to hot weather. But I'm just going to enjoy the weather for now.

I think my Dorm Room is Making me Sick

That's right my dorm room is making me sick I'm convinced. Well really I don't truly believe that but it is crazy cold. I actually wore flannel pants and a hoodie last night and I never do that not even in the winter at home. I'm going to the store today after I'm done with classes to get some medicine. I think it's really just allergies though, or maybe a combination. I don't know but it's really cold. Classes are going well. I have my first real speech on Monday and it's on Happiness...I'm really not happy about it. I love my U.S. History class my professor is so good. I also like my other history classes but my U.S. History is the best. Oh so another political shout out I guess. I must say all of the comparison of inexperience between Palin and Obama is driving me crazy. First of all I would say that yes Obama probably has more experience than Palin on national and international issues, but Obama is running for President and Palin is not. Palin is running for Vice President. Therefore it is not a very good argument in my opinion. Besides Palin does have John McCain to I guess teach her, and I guess the same argument can be made for Biden. Anyway that is getting on my nerves when I read articles or watch the news (which I don't do that often because I don't have a TV). I guess that's it for now. I haven't really been knitting much, but I've been working on my sister's Bryant's Slipover so I'm about half way done with the waist shaping which is good. Oh and the new Knitty is out and I love it, there are some things I just have to knit from it.

Politics

I don't think I've ever talked about politics on here before but right now I'm so very frustrated that I have to write about it. Today I had a class about Women in American History. I pretty much knew that going into this that it was going to be a very liberal feminist class. I mean I'm all for women's rights but there are somethings that I don't agree with. So of course Governor Sarah Palin came up. Okay here is the thing I don't think anybody really likes her in that class. Some of the things that they talk about are that she is either going to be a bad mother or a bad VP or do a half okay job on both. I think that she can do both. Be a great mother and a great VP, because here is the thing if her husband was running for VP nobody would ask those questions. Also, her abortion stance in right on in my opinion. I realize that people disagree and this is the United States of America we are allowed to disagree. I believe in the sanctity of life so to me abortion is never right. Also her pregnant daughter, apparently this is a huge issue. My view on that, there is only so much a parent can do to hopefully prevent their teenager from getting pregnant. Even if her mom had been a say stay-at-home mom her daughter could have still gone out and gotten pregnant. I mean I know well not personally but I know of Christian girls that have gotten pregnant outside of marriage. Oh and it was mentioned in my class today that Evangelical Christians may not vote for Palin because of the belief that a man should be the head of the household and not be up front leaders in church. Which is a slightly untrue statement, I believe that women should not be preachers however I do believe that women are necessary in leadership especially to lead other women. Trust me my church has tons of women leaders. Anyway I wish I had said this but James Dobson is as far as I know completely behind Palin. Therefore if Dobson is behind her than Evangelica Christians take that into consideration more than the argument about women being leaders in church. With all that I think Palin is awesome and could do great things for this nation. I hope this post makes some kind of sense. Oh and for history I'm reading Thomas Paine's Common Sense which I kind of feel is appropriate right now LOL.

School

I am now at college and I absolutely love it here!! I have 3 history classes which I'm so happy about because that is my major. I am also taking a political science class as well as speech. I'm really not to happy about speech, but I have to take it. Here are some pictures of what my mom calls my "not normal dorm room"

My bed

My desk area

My spiffy ceiling light

the view from my room (it's one of our 2 courtyards)

my fruit plate that my mom thinks is adorable

Some of these places look different now because I have been here for about 5 days now and have some more stuff like I just got some more posters yesterday plus my school books. But I'm having so much fun. I haven't really been knitting because I forgot my Bryant Slipover pattern at home. I can't decide what I want to start right now so I'm kind of waiting. Other than that things are going good and now I have to do some reading.

Update

It's way over due for a post. I only have one FO to show and that is my Ravelympics Project here is a link to it on ravelry Maroma Scarf.
This is my Maroma Wrap Scarf


And here is a close up.



I'm thinking of trying to make a hat to match it. I haven't every designed anything before but really I'm just taking the stitch pattern and adapting it. I don't know I'm still thinking about it. I have also finished my monkey socks, but I haven't taken pictures of them yet. I also have made a rug for my dorm room and it is super cute! I'll take more pictures soon and add them .
I leave for school in 5 days and I'm so super excited! I am so ready for school to start. Also as you can tell I'm slowly making changes to my blog. I'm ready for a change, it's slow going because I'm playing the the HTML codes and since I don't really know HTML I'm just kinda playing with it. So that's all that's going on lately.

I've been Bitten

Okay it's now time to admit it. I was kinda skeptical at first because well I don't really wear them, but I've been bitten by the sock bug. I love them! They are so fast and easier to knit than i even thought. I'm working on Monkey from Knitty. They are super easy and super cute. I'm using

Colinette Jitterbug in the colorway Fire. I'm in love. Here is a link to my Ravelry project page with more info. I wish I had pictures but alas I let my sister borrow my camera this week for camp so when she gets home on Friday I'll try and take some pictures. I'm also gearing up for the Ravelympics. I'm so excited about it. I'm doing a scarf and will post more about it later. I promise pictures in my next post.

How Great is Our God

There are oh so many reasons why I love going to the youth service at my church even though technically I'm to0 old for it, but I still go sometimes (okay well a lot but that's because it's so good). Tonight my college and career leader actually spoke because the youth minister was having a meeting with the camp counselors. He spoke on prayer. It was just awesome. When I left I just felt like I wanted to keep worshiping God and I really wish that the praise and worship had been so much longer, one song we sang was How Great is Our God. Which can sometimes get a little old because we sing it so much, but tonight I really focused on the words and what the song was saying and I don't know, it was kinda like a camp moment. Then I was reading this blog about one of Beth Moore's conferences that someone had been to and so now I'm listening to Revelation Song on Youtube because that's the only way I can listen to it. I love worship music, especially the new songs coming out that are what I sometimes like to call rock worship. I don't know there is something about the music being so loud that I can't hear anything else but the music so that way I can focus on God more. I don't know it's kinda weird but awesome and amazing at the same time. I'm just marveling the in the awesomeness of God tonight. I don't normally write posts like this, but this is what I'm feeling.

Why am I blogging about these things?

So I have bought some new yarn. I got the Bernat Bamboo natural blends it's amazing I love the way it feels. I think I'm going to make a washcloth out of it for my new roommate at school. Oh and I bought new foundation. I haven't worn makeup in months because well I didn't really like my foundation so today I went to the store and got some Cover girl trublend whipped foundation or whatever it's called. I love the way it looks on my skin completely natural. Oh and I have started playing around with google docs and other google application stuff. I think I like the fact that I have some documents that are stored on the web so that they maybe they won't get lost or whatever. Apparently things are completely boring if these are the most exciting things that have happened to me lately.

Limbo

So I'm really disliking this period of my life that I'm in right now. It's like I'm in limbo just waiting for things to happen, or things are happening and I'm not part of them. It's a rather hard thing to explain. Hopefully once school starts I can get into a nice routine that I will be happy with. I am excitied though because today I got my room and roommate assignment. Although I'm not in the dorm that I wanted, I am in a brand new building which is less than 1/2 a mile from the main campus block. The dorm that I wanted is on the main campus block. But the more I looked into my dorm building the happier I became about it. I am only having one roommate as opposed to two or three. We have our own bathroom and I will get my own sink. So there are some upsides. Also better parking because of where my college is the parking is really bad and hard to find. So I'm just trusting that God has put me in that dorm room in that building for a reason and I just have to trust Him!

Frustration

I'm in this weird and lovely frustration period. First of all my job. I really do enjoy my job, but they keep scheduling me on days that I really can't work on, like Sundays which is when I go to church. I talked to my boss about it and He said that He wouldn't schedule me anymore but that my hours would probably be cut. I mean I understand but I've given him 5 and even 6 if He needs to schedule me, and I'm available on any of those days at any time. I'm just so frustrated. Secondly, school. I need money and I don't know where it's coming from. I realize that it isn't really any one's fault but my own, but I'm still frustrated about what to do. I guess it'll all work out, but in the meantime I'm still going to be frustrated.