KnitPicks Podcast

I have recently become addicted to the Knit Picks Podcasts.  I’m not exactly sure what the appeal is, since I don’t knit very much.  It must be all the chatting about yarn, dying, spinning, and interviews with authors.  I checked out the website and they have so much amazing yarn.  The only downfall is that I can’t snuggle with it before I commit to buying.  Their prices aren’t bad either.  I really love that (at least for now) there is FREE shipping for order over $50!  And that is not a hard number to hit!  

I was listening to an old podcast from July 3, 2008, it was an interview with Gale Zucker the photographer for Shear Spirit.  I have yet to check out the book but I loved the interview!  Kelley, the podcast hostess, asked Gale if she could have any livestock in on a little farm what would she have.  Her answer to my great delight...alpacas and goats!  I was pulling some bread out of the oven and when I heard that I started laughing out loud!  I thought I was the only one on this planet that was that crazy to pick that combination of livestock.  I was happy to hear I’m not the only crazy person on the planet.  

I will eventually buy some Knit Picks’ yarn, but until I have some disposable income, I will be content with what I have and enjoy listening to the podcast.  www.knitpicks.com

Daily Audio Bible

Last year (2010), I discovered the Daily Audio Bible on itunes.  I listened on and off that year, but this year I have been (fairly) constant in listening to the Daily Audio Bible daily.  What is the Daily Audio Bible you ask?  It is the Bible being read every day every year, going through the entire Bible in one year.  Each day is a bit from the Old Testament, the New Testament, Proverbs and Psalms.  I enjoy being about to listen to the Bible and each week it is read from a different translation.

My only complaint (sort of), is that at the end there are called in prayer requests.  Sometimes I feel that some of the people are whining, selfish, and just annoying.  I usually just turn it off after the daily reading, so that in itself just by passes the problem.  

If you want to get in on this awesome way to go through the entire Bible every day of the year go to iTunes and search Daily Audio Bible and it will come right up or go to this link http://www.dailyaudiobible.com  

I feel loved...

Last weekend, my family took our traditional trip up the mountain to cut down our own Christmas tree as Little Bear Creek Tree Farm.  It was quite the hunt finding the perfect tree, but we found it.  Today, when I was chatting with my little sister she informs me that I have to come home this weekend so we can decorate our Christmas tree.  I told her if I didn’t come home this weekend I’d probably come home next weekend.  She said, that I had to come home this weekend because she needed to be able to take pictures in front of the tree with her boyfriend and “their” rabbit, Stella for the Christmas cards she intends to send out this year.  And I thought she just loved me and wanted to see me.  

December, Already?

I really cannot believe it is already the first day of the last month of this year!  I have no idea where this year went.  Okay, I do...it graduated from the future to the present to the past.  I have kept myself busy with work, then school, and now school and job hunting.  It has been a good eleven months, the only thing that could have made it better would have been to keep my job and have a free ride at school.  Oh well, I guess I'll just have to work for everything I need and want myself.  I will hopefully have a few posts this month of some yummy treats and look for a post or two on cleaning up and seasoning old cast iron cookware!

Spin, Spin, Spin!!! Yarn, Yarn, Yarn!

I'm off for an entire week from school!  I'm home and watching Sunday night football with my dad and my dogs next to a really lovely fire.  I could stay this way forever!  Today I decided to finally teach my self to learn to spin using a drop spindle.  I'm so excited!  My yarn is so ugly and beautiful at the same time!

I bought a drop spindle before I went away to school and about 5 oz. of roving to play with while at school.  Needless to say that didn't really happen.  I could never get relaxed enough to justify spending time playing with wool.  But I'm home for a week and the only other things that have my attention is some scholarship applications, my dogs, bunnies, and chickies, my family and quite a bit of time will be spent in the kitchen.



After watching a few videos on youtube.com this morning, I finally got out my roving and spindle and seriously started to learn.  I'm still in the "park and draft" level of skill but I will improve this week!  I'm really enjoying it and can't wait to be making my own yarn start to finish!

The Birthday Wishlist

My 22nd Birthday is coming up the day after tomorrow.  I may be a little old for wish lists, but honestly I don't care...I still got a few people giving me birthday presents!  And here it is:

88-Key Digital Piano, so I can take my music with me wherever I'm at

The Bread Bible

The Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl DVD (my original won't play)

The Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides DVD

This is only a taste of my full wish list, but you get the gist!

Too Long Since I Posted Last

Wow!  Really?  No posts since July 13?  Where has the time gone?  Well, I guess I've been a little consumed with the major changes in my life.  I've moved from my childhood home, to a trailer in the middle of nowhere on my parent's property to a one-bedroom apartment in Chico.  I've gone from working at the best college student job ever (and not going to school) to going to school full time and searching for a job in a new town.  I have been working on creating a shop on Etsy and selling Disney Pins on Ebay.  Both of which are still major works in progress.  I have met new people, left everyone I know, joined new clubs, even traveled with one of them already!

I will never forget what my uncle said when I came home for the weekend shortly after I moved.  I told him I was living in a trailer and going to school; his reply, "So, your moving up in the world."in the most sarcastic tone you can imagine.  Yeah, no one in my family really puts much value in higher education.  That includes myself.  Yet, I know that to get where I want to in the world, I need that piece of paper.

But, I'm adjusting, I'm going to get a job (or maybe all of you will buy stuff via this blog on Amazon and help me not have to get a real job!), and I'm going to get through this!