Updateeee.

I need a job. I hate being without a job, it's so dang boring. 

The digital camera I want from Target is $100. More than likely, it'll be my Christmas present to myself, hehe.

I've had to rip out and restart Estelle's baby blanket about four times now. At this rate, I'll have to give it to Baby Girl for her high school graduation. Oy vey.

I hate boys. ..Minus the ones I'm related to. They're all a bunch of disappointments and stupid excuses.

I also hate running out of gas. First time ever and it happened tonight. Total bummer. 

I love living with my best friend. 

October is an awesome month for movies on television. I'm watching Jeeper Creepers right now.

I'm exhausted so I'm gonna catch some sleep before the Great Job Search of 2008 starts tomorrow!! Wish me luck.

Just a little f.y.i.

I am soooo glad to finally be back home in Las Vegas!! Who else has a mom that would drive 2600 miles in five days to bring you back home then turn around and have to be at work by 6:30am the next morning?! My mom's incredible. THANKS AGAIN MAMA!! We got into Sin City around 3 yesterday and immediately went to my new house to unload the trailer and see Charlene. Emma spent the night there so she could get used to the room, plus I didn't want her to have to battle two dogs and yet another car ride. I spent the night at Mom and Dad's, saw Matt, Starla, Barn, and Dad. Socks is in hiding somewhere, but I hear that's the norm now. I woke up to Starla laying across my legs and Barney whimpering for my attention next to my head, haha. I got up around 6:45am, which is now normal for me since that would make it 8:45am Kansas time. Hopefully I'll start waking up at a decent hour. Anyway, I plan on driving my car to my house today, cleaning and setting up my room, and hopefully going down to Cox Communications for new cable and modem boxes so I'll have internet and cable in my room by tonight, if not by tomorrow night. As far as knitting, my main focuses are Estelle's baby blanket (which is more of a spare time project) and knitting things to put up on Etsy. I'm getting a lot of ideas for things to sell, so we'll see how it goes. My next post will come once I've got internet in my house so be patient!! =]

There really is no place like home

As we speak, my mother (who is beyond awesome, by the way) is on her way to Manhattan, Kansas to take this city girl back home. It's not a matter of failure, it's a matter of me really needing to be surrounded by things I know right now. I've been homesick for almost three months now and it just got to the point where I was asking myself "..Then why in the world am I still here?!" I never saw much of this town, considering I don't have a car, and it never quite felt like someplace I could ever call home. I guess I'm just too used to Vegas and it's size, heh. I love small towns.. No, wait, correction: I love MY small town - Roann. I've learned that, while I do want to be on my own, I still want my family within distance. I still need my family within distance. Though I'm moving back to Sin City, I'm not moving back in with the parentals. My best friend, Charlene, and her mom have a room that they want to rent out to me, which I happily accepted. I've known Charlene since I was about 15 years old (best friends since I was 18, though) so I know how good of a person she is. Anyway, Mom's starting out on her journey right now and should be here tomorrow night. Then we'll leave first thing Monday morning. Words cannot even begin to describe how excited I am; I couldn't even sleep last night, I just wanted to pack pack pack!! I'll be completely set by the time Mom gets here so she doesn't have to do anything but help me load some boxes and furniture. Oh, and the best part about living with Charlene: Emma gets to live with me!!!!!!!!! That poor thing needs to stop living in a kennel and go back to sleeping on my bed every night. This will probably be my last post until I'm officially in Vegas, since I need to pack my computer and break down my computer desk, hehe. I CAN'T WAIT TO BE HOME!

Open your hearts.. and wallets!

Nice title, huh? It relates to the fact that I have no roadblocks in my way of opening up my Etsy account anymore, so it should be up by tomorrow or Friday at the latest. I'll be spreading the word like crazyyyy on Myspace. My having a car pretty much depends on the success of this shop so let's cross our fingers.. and toes, just for extra luck. I'll give out the link once everything's set up! Stay tuned!!

Quick update.

Just a quick update to tell y'all what's been going on, since my next to last update wasn't the happiest, heh. Don't worry Mom, I promise I'm alright. Some days are just plain hard, that's all. My job is going well, but unfortunately, I'm getting paid next to nothing and not getting a whole lot of hours so I've started hunting for another job. Hopefully I'll be able to get one soon so I can start hardcore saving for a car. I think I'd deal with being here a lot better if I had a car, having something that's mine, some way to escape from the house for a while. Plus I haven't even seen all of Manhattan, because I'm afraid of walking around and getting myself lost, heh. It'd be nice to have a car before it gets too freezing to walk around outside. Anyway, still trying to knit up every bit of yarn I have so I can get that Etsy shop really going. I'm just waiting on pictures and my new debit card. I think the hat count is around 17 (ish; I've lost count!) for adults, 2 or 3 for kids. I'll be spreading the word about Etsy on Myspace, encouraging people to go check it out. I'm really getting interested in this whole "Buy Homemade" movement. Alex gave me the idea of making soap and knitting soap satchels to sell also; I think that'd be something neat to try. I guess that's all for now. I'm working on updating my Myspace since I haven't in FOREVER, hehe. Til next time! <3

Etsy!!

Since I want a car in the very-ridiculously-soon future, and I only make enough money from my job to basically cover my gas expenses, I decided I'd start a shop on Etsy. I figured that once I got my shop all set up, I could add links to my blog, my Myspace, and the numerous knitting groups I belong to. Hopefully I'll be able to start selling things quickly which means I could driveeee.. which means I'd be able to go visit my family [hint hint]!! Oh, and my Etsy shop is actually a tribute to the lady who decided I needed needles in my hands: Mama. My username [which is automatically the name for my shop too] is KnitstirKid, haha. I'm hoping to get the shop set up by next week so stay tuned for an update on that.

Homesick

I swear, it's like the longer I stay in Manhattan, the more and more I realize how much I loved Las Vegas. The streets here are almost always deserted, something that never happens back home. There aren't even street lights in the neighborhood! So nobody goes outside past dusk. Everything closes here around 6 or 7, which is lameeee. Doesn't help that being here means being away from my mama - it's already been two months since I've seen her!!! The longest I've ever gone without seeing my mom is nine months - and that's only because I was waiting on being born!! Since we've lived in this house (we were in Kansas City for about 2 weeks before moving to Manhattan), I've been trying to send Emma back to Las Vegas, because we aren't allowed to have pets. She spends her time outside in the backyard in her kennel when I'm not outside with her (our gates don't close properly so I can't trust that she won't try to wander away). She's always got food and water and she does just fine, but she's such a princess that she needs to be inside. Besides, she's my little baby; she never slept outside before coming here, she was always sleeping in my bed. Mom was hoping to get her home this weekend, but I don't think that's going to happen. I had problems with my debit card and called B of A to see if they could fix it.. Unfortunately, the lady told me the only thing she could do was cancel the card and order me another one. It's on it's way but won't be here until at least next Wednesday. I hardly ever keep cash on me, so I have to wait for the debit card to pay the vet (pets on an airplane have to have a health certificate, saying they're healthy enough to fly) and to give Maria gas money since the airport is two hours away and I don't have a car (something I need to fix IMMEDIATELY; it's starting to get too cold to walk everywhere, heh). Hopefully we'll be able to get Emma home next weekend or the weekend after. I'm so jealous that she gets to go back to Las Vegas!! Anyway, I've gotta get ready for work and do some quick cleaning (although it's 100 times more difficult when people are home, argh). I'm gonna try to pick up my needles later today though!!! Yesterday I made two adult-sized hats and one child's. I started a new scarf on some size 11's; basically I'm just killing time until Mom's third box can get here so I can start Estelle's baby blanket. =] Until next time!

Quick update

So, my adult hat count is now up to 10 and I've started working on some kid hats too. I haven't gotten a chance to knit today yet though, since I got up early and started cleaning the house (Man, picking up after four people is a full time job in itself!). I also had to take apart my futon frame so Alex and I could get it upstairs. Due to the narrow stairs and the skinny doorframes, we hadn't been able to figure out how to get it upstairs so I had the brilliant idea of "Hey, let's just take it apart!". Wellll, that didn't go so great at first. It took us about 40 minutes to even figure out HOW.. We are obviously not girls who work with tools on a daily basis. It was actually Alex who figured it out first and then we eventually got the back of the frame off. It's skinny enough now that it should fit through the doorway.. If not, I may just pull my hair out, haha. Now that we've gotten the back off, we've taken a little break to regain our energy to get it upstairs. I made some mac & cheese for lunch so now that we've eaten, it's Round Two: Megan vs. Futon. Cross your fingers!! After that, we've gotta put it back together (MUCH easier than tearing it apart) and then I'll finally have some knitting time! Yay!!

By the way, I thought I'd just mention that the importance of three girls in my life is obvious: I've got three pictures on my desk. One is the picture of Gracie this Easter. Another is Rhonda and I about three years ago. The last is Mom and I, me looking like I'm around 2, 2 1/2. =] Gotta represent each member of the Secret Society, of course, hehe. The picture of Granma [honorary member, of course] is next to my bed, though.

Until next time!
UPDATE: Even after taking the back part of the frame off, it STILL wasn't skinny enough so we had to take it back downstairs, where we removed the bars on either side so the legs could be moved to a larger angle. Third time was a charm! Then it took us about 30 minutes to put it back together. I felt very accomplished to finally have the stupid thing put together AND I've even got blisters on my hands to show off my hard work, haha!!

Hot hands, lemme tell ya..

I got myself into an ancient knitter's pickle last week. Just as I was finishing up Bayli's hat, I ran out of the orange yarn and, of course, had no more and hadn't seen any like it around here. Luckily, I found a small ball of it at the veryyy bottom of my storage container so I was able to finish the hat. I still needed more to make a matching scarf; Mom really came through for me on that one, heh. Nevermind the fact that she's sent me two boxes full of yarn (Mom - you rock!) to play with. I'm really grateful that she's sending me yarn, considering the fact that I've already made seven (yes, SEVEN) hats in two days. I've got one on the loom right now that I plan on finishing before I go to bed tonight. I also have intentions of making matching scarves to these hats. I figure I might as well knit up a whole bunch of stuff so that I can sell it on Etsy. I worked three hours today at the knitting shop. It was a lot of fun and the yarn there is really awesome (read: really expensive). I won't be getting a lot of hours, but I get a fair wage and I wanted to do it just because it was fun, not for the money. Anyway, I don't work again until Thursday so I'll be able to crank out an obscene amount of hats. Even Alex wants to contribute to my Etsy madness; she's more of a bag/pillow type of person, but her things come out really cute as well. I'll, hopefully, start putting pictures of my projects this week. Until then!