Rants

No pictures today, I'm being super lazy.

My fiancé Mike left again for New York...while I am incredibly sad, it is also somewhat exciting. Assuming I see him on one of our spring breaks, this means we will only have to say goodbye ONE MORE TIME before we never have to say goodbye again :)

After over 3 years of a long distance relationship, I'm pretty darn excited! Now that there's an end in sight, the distance is getting much easier. Looking for apartments, planning a wedding, and talking about living in Boston together makes it much more exciting and joyful than sad.

On the downside. Apple sucks.

I have a MacBook Pro, which I love. However, my WiFi isn't working. It will work about 2 minutes and then get angry and decide not to speak to me for a few hours. I successfully logged onto my blog in one of those 2 minute periods, but WiFi has shunned me once again. So who knows when this will actually get posted.

It's not like I haven't tried to fix this problem. I went to the Apple store yesterday. Twice. They deleted some system files or whatever off of the computer and said that should fix it. My brilliant Mike said it wouldn't. And it didn't. I clicked some buttons that they recommended and something worked. So I had Internet most of the day today. And I actually just got off the phone 30 seconds ago (I took a break a couple sentences ago) with the second apple person of the night. Internet is currently working. We'll see how long that lasts. They're gonna call back in 24 hours.  Crossing my fingers.

Oh right! This is a knitting blog. I did some of that the past few days. Not as much as I would like because of the stupid homework. Earlier today, I successfully proved that Hungarian and Finnish are related languages. So that was productive. Anyway. I finished a mitten!!! The left one!!!  But I didn't weave in my ends...because it's annoying. The right mitten is going well. I picked up some stitches along...MY INTERNET JUST BROKE AGAIN.

I picked up some stitches along the cabled band and have started the thumb gusset shaping. It's going much better than the first one did. I also ordered buttons from Etsy for the mittens. I've never put buttons on any of my knitting before, so I'm really excited to see how it turns out!

My other old lady problem: my wrists are stiff from carpal tunnel syndrome.  I guess it's because I practiced piano for a little more than an hour today. Don't tell my teacher, but it's the only time I've practiced in the past week. I'm hoping that it's also due to the extreme cold...St. Louis dropped in temperature over 50 degrees in the past 24 hours.

OK I'm gonna stop my ranting while my Internet is connected for the next 2 minutes...hopefully I have some pics of completed mittens soon!!

Happy knitting :)

Ruthie