Princesses & Magic Loop

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I live a productive life, of sorts. This evening I knit one of those booties you see to the left, then began a newborn-sized (baby) hat using the magic loop method, while getting a solid 150 pages read of the Princess Diaries series by Meg Cabot. I'm on the fourth volume already, so that's a little nutty. I'm completely obsessed. I just put the next four books on reserve at the library to pick up tomorrow. While I was looking up the books to reserve on the online catalog I found another 20 books I had put in a list so now I'm feeling even more pressured to get these read! Can I just say how great it is to finally be back in a reading mood, especially now that I can (pretty much) knit and read at the same time? Oh, man, I think I've hit the sweet spot in this lifestyle of mine.

- rl

(p.s. this is part of my 14 goals for 2014. You can view all my goals here.)

Trying New Things: Quinoa

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We tried something new for dinner tonight: quinoa! It's a grain I've seen mentioned around the web a good amount, and when I mentioned to my mom that I wanted to give it a try, she was on board with it and we began looking up recipes on Pinterest. We eventually decided on this one. We had a little bit of difficulty figuring out how much dry quinoa we needed to make cooked quinoa to use for the dish, and we accidentally added an extra 1/2 cup of it to the meal, but I don't think it altered it too much. Overall it was fine, but was just kind of boring. I'm having a hard time wrapping my mind around the fact that quinoa is a grain, just like rice, so it tasted pretty much the same as rice, which is practically tasteless, right? Or is that just me?

- rl

(p.s. this is part of my 14 goals for 2014. You can view all my goals here.)

WIP Wednesday

I don't feel like I made a lot of progress this week on my projects. I'm especially bummed that I didn't get any cross stitching done. Lame.

- rl

Tuesday Night Knitting Marathons

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Tonight I watched a few episodes of 7th Heaven to get this baby bootie knocked out. I cast on for it forever ago (meaning like Friday). It's kinda part of a deadline that is just ASAP, but I'm having trouble feeling motivated working on them. It turned out pretty cute, though, so maybe I'll be able to move through these two pairs of booties + two hats quickly. And then there are too many library books with too soon due dates. Ugh, the struggle. Also, only 64 days until I move to Chicago! Woo!

- rl

(p.s. this is part of my 14 goals for 2014. You can view all my goals here.)

Taking a Break

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Right now I am taking a break from reading Harry Potter. I only have 400 or so pages left, yet I can't stand the thought of reading anymore. It's not that I'm bored with it, but there is just so much going on that I've had to set it aside and I'm working on this library book that's due this week - The Princess Diaries. It's already insanely different from the movie, so I'll be curious to see how difficult it is for me, if at all, to finish this long series.

- rl

(p.s. this is part of my 14 goals for 2014. You can view all my goals here.)