Cecilia’s Diary

Dear Diary,

I am a madwoman!  Since I’m from the States, I grew up with the American version of football, and since I was four I’ve been a Packers fan.  Unfortunately, my team lost tonight in a rather impressive show of whoopsies from both sides AND the referees.  Watching the game was rather depressing.  Almost as depressing was how tight some of the stitches I was trying to knit during the game got!  Oops!  Serves me right for not giving the game my full attention, I suppose.

I have my new desk, and it’s fabulous!  It’s about twice as big as my old desk, but the storage space is significantly different.  I had to move another small cabinet to make room, and now I don’t have hardly any room to put the stuff that was in THAT cabinet.  Oops.  I guess we all have to make sacrifices sometimes.  The desk is very pretty, though, and looks very nice in my room.  I have a lot more room to spread out my homework, too!

Barring the tight stitches during horrible calls and tense moments, I got a lot of knitting done today.  Diary, I think I’ve finally found a groove with some basic stitches!  I was a little nervous, though, when I had to switch to stockinette from seed stitch while working on circulars (I’m trying nonmagical knitting right now) because I wasn’t sure if I was supposed to knit all the time or purl every other row!  Since I’m brand new, I didn’t know any better!  Luckily, I picked the logical way of doing it and knit all the way around.  It looks like the picture, so I must have made the right choice!  Hooray!

Diary, I also was a little naughty and spent some of my school money on knitting supplies!  I’m expecting two separate owls sometime in the next few weeks with a couple of books (for both crochet and knitting) and also a skein of yarn that I’m hoping is the same yarn (different color) of a very small ball I received from a local witch back home.  It’s such an interesting yarn with almost perfect stitch definition, soft and still fuzzy.  Maybe I’ll magic a picture here and show my classmates later to see if they know what it might be.  I’m trying a soy wool combination, but if it’s not the right yarn I’ll definitely magic a picture here.

I’m very tired and better get to bed, since tomorrow is a long day for me.  I have a LOT of studying to do for an upcoming exam, and haven’t looked at it hardly at all this weekend!  Good thing I was productive in other areas!!!