Archive for January, 2006

Uh-Oh, My First Meme! 31Jan06

So I got tagged to do a meme by Beverly yesterday, so now I’ll do some shameless question answering in true blogging style, so here it goes:

Instructions: Remove the blog in the top spot from the following list and bump everyone up one place. Then add your blog to the bottom slot. Woman Obsessed Scout’s Knitted Swag MookittyKnitting Wearing Black in New Mexico adam knits (a lot)!

I’m tagging, anyone who uses a Mac! (don’t know if that’ll be a big audience, but I’m new to the knitting blog world so I don’t know too many people who haven’t done this meme yet ;))

What were you doing 10 years ago? Let’s see, 10 years ago, I was 11 years old, and I was probably biding my time with school, and beginning to hack with Linux on my family’s computer, and probably reading way too many books. My Mom used to actually lock me outside on the back porch when I was a little kid because all I would do is read.

What were you doing 1 year ago? One year ago, I was beginning the spring semester of my junior year, and starting to slave my butt off in the hellish class that was Junior Design. Man that class really sucked.

What were you doing one hour ago? Just arriving at work, with my girl Emma, and getting a double macchiato from my brother’s girlfriend, who makes amazing coffee :)

List 5 creative things you want to achieve this year:

  1. Learn to knit socks
  2. Get some microcontrollers and program them to do home automation tasks
  3. Start taking violin lessons again once I finish school and move to Abq full time
  4. Get a house and do some sweet decorating
  5. Cook really good food for friends at least once a month

List 5 snacks you enjoy:

  1. Chocolate and Espresso
  2. My homemade chocolate chip cookies
  3. Chips and El Pinto salsa
  4. Spicy Thai Kettle Chips
  5. A banana spread with peanut butter and a glass of milk

List 5 things you would do if money were no object:

  1. Build a house in the east mountains, but not too close to my parent’s house ;)
  2. Buy a new VW Passat, with all the options
  3. Go on a wine and espresso tour of Italy
  4. Start a company that makes sweet knitted stuff for nerdy people
  5. Pay off my parent’s house, in return for all their support through college and life in general

List 5 bad habits:

  1. Biting my fingernails
  2. Blogging or Internetting when I have other stuff to do
  3. Speeding
  4. Eating fast food because I’m too busy for not bad for me food
  5. Biting the ends off of all of my pens

List 5 things you like doing:

  1. Knitting, of course!
  2. Playing with Emma
  3. Using my Mac/Listening to my iPod
  4. Solving really hard math/engineering problems
  5. Playing with robots and microcontrollers

List 5 favorite gadgets:

  1. iPod nano
  2. My trusty old iBook (which I’ve taken apart, spilled stuff on and dropped; but it still keeps ticking)
  3. Treo 650
  4. Nintendo DS
  5. Knitting Needles!

Name one thing you like about yourself: That I’m not ashamed of who I am, and the things I like to do, and that I can be myself, even if I’m a bit weird ;)

Getting Closer… 30Jan06

I’m just about halfway done with the final strip for the blanket, I’m hoping to finish sometime tomorrow, or maybe tonight during 24 if I’m feeling ambitious :) I’m hoping it’s a good episode tonight, since last weeks wasn’t exactly all that action packed. I’m such a crack whore for 24, it’s not even funny.

That’s pretty much all that’s going on with me these past few days, I haven’t been knitting too much because I’ve been too busy finding all kinds of neat Word Press plugins to install on the server. I got a cool plugin to display my most recent photos on my flickr photostream, and I installed a really cool new statistics package called Mint, so I can see how many people are checking out the blog. I’ll keep you guys updated on the progress of the blanket, I’m sure I’ll be spending some time at Village Wools this week having them help me stitch it up and add the edging.

Also, tonight is the Monday night gauntlet of dog obedience classes, with Liberty’s (one of my Mom’s 3 Schnauzers) class, followed by Emma and Daisy’s (another one of my Mom’s dogs) class. I can’t wait until the spring when Emma will be ready to start agility classes, it’ll be so much fun to learn to compete!

This knitter is employed! 27Jan06

emma's blanket - 2/3 done!

May I present, the newest student intern at Sandia National Labs! The interview went fantastic, and I got a call back by dinner time with an official offer! I couldn’t believe that things are moving so quickly, but I’m thrilled to actually have a confirmed job for after graduation, and not have to worry about things in the job search department anymore. I really can’t believe I got a job at Sandia too, it’s such a great place to work, I’m thrilled. And the group I’ll be working with does some really cool work in my field, so it’s a really great deal all in all. Now begins the long process of obtaining a security clearance, that should be a lotta fun ;)

As far as knitting goes, I finally finished the 2nd strip of Emma’s blanket, just one more to go! It’s really starting to shape up, and the squares on both the strips match up pretty evenly. People think I’m a bit crazy that I spoil my dog so much by making her a blanket, but it’s more for me than her, and it’s given me a lot of good experience in working color areas. Hopefully in a few more days I’ll finish the final strip and then all that’s left is to sew them together and add the edging, I can’t wait!

I’m going to pay for this in a few hours 26Jan06

So even though I haven’t been feeling all that well, I ended up knitting until around 12:30am this morning, and I completed the 2nd strip for my blanket! I’m really excited now, because it’s really starting to shape up. I promise some pictures later on sometime during Thursday morning proper, when it’s actually not time to be sleeping ;)

Death on a Cracker 25Jan06

Today I was officially what my good friend refers to as the “death on a cracker” phase, as I woke up to find my throat was really sore and that my lymphnodes were enormous. I ended up sleeping most of the day and missing my classes, thanks to a kind soul who offered to take notes for me. I’m pretty much OD’ed on zinc cough drops, tylenol cold and gatorade, so I feel a lot better now.

In other news, I have an informal job interview tomorrow, and I’m totally psyched! For those of you who don’t know, I’m a senior at New Mexico Tech, in Socorro, NM, and I will be graduating with my B.S. in Electrical Engineering this May. So I’ve been trying to find a job, and my Uncle who works at Sandia Labs recommended me to hook me up with the director of the Radar and Communications Systems department, who called today to see if I wanted to go to lunch with him tomorrow to discuss a position :-D I was super-excited because this is a position that might pay for me to go to grad school sometime in the future, and it’s at Sandia, which is a good place to get into if you’re an engineer. So despite the sickness it was a pretty good day, all in all :) Now I’m going to see if I can settle down for a bit and watch some TV and get my knit on!

Also, thanks to all those in the blogosphere who have been so great to me through visiting and commenting on my humble little blog. I really appreciate that everyone has welcomed me into the community! Thanks to Meg for the shout-out, I’ll try to hit up Abq Knit Night sometime, but not before I hit up Abq SnB, since Scout has invited me quite a few times now ;)