End of Year Goals

By December 31st:

Pass all classes with A’s-
Okay, so if you didn’t know already, I’m officially a student again, taking 10 hours of courses this fall. Eventually, I plan to apply to the Respiratory Therapy program at TCC, and eventually a BSN from UTA. In years past, I didn’t really have the drive to finish college and ended up dropping my classes in 2004 all together. My GPA back then was 1.25. Crap! I’ve got my work cut out for me. To even be considered, I need no less than a B in all my core classes, but it would be best for A’s.

Go camping twice-
I say twice becuase we already have a trip planned for Memorial Day weekend at Dinosaur Valley State Park. Early in the year we had planned on going in April, but with Ashleigh still in the hospital, we cancelled. Then the heat hit and its just to hot in the summer months to go camping.
So really I just gotta plan for another weekend, probably sometime after Thanksgiving.

Learn how to knit-
This may prove to be the most difficult of the three. I can crochet.
When I was young my grandmother taught me the basics and then it got filed far away in my brain. In 2003, my first summer at Philmont, I noticed a lot people crocheting and knitting, so I decided to try my luck at making a beanie. It fit my head. Very snug. I would later pick up a hook every so often, but it was until late 2008 when the growing season of the garden had ended that I became interested again (more of a time filler than anything). I’ve only really made hats. I tried my luck at a produce bag but it gets no use.
So I’m trying my luck at making a lady bug and frog. Crochet, of course. After that I’ll try my luck at knitting. Something simple.

Funny hat.

I picked up some yarn from the fabulous Knitting Nook a few weekends ago and have been slowly crocheting this little hat for Zoe. I haven’t had much time to work on it and finally finished it tonight.

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I think it turned out pretty good. I tried it on Zoe earlier and it fits perfectly. I wanted it just a little snug so as to keep her head warm this winter.

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Here is more yarn I picked up at the same time as the other. Stephanie wants a scarf made from this.

Light in the Loafers

Okay, I don’t know of any male that has an interest in crochet. Do you?
I’ve been wanting to start doing it again. My tenure in crocheting came and went one summer after I made a beanie and I never really went back to it. So last night while picking up milk and cat litter I swung by and picked up an ugly brown skein of yarn and a new hook. It’ll take a bit to get used to again and hopefully in a few days I’ll have this turned into a nice scarf. What makes it difficult for me is that I’m left handed. So looking at diagrams isn’t hard. Then when reading instructions, I have to trade out “right” for “left”.

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For some weird happenstance, it looks like my sister was doing the same thing tonight.