the joys of work

I had a life, but then my work ate it.

aaa, the joys of growing up. One of my friends asked me if they needed any summer help at the library where I work. What a wonderful thought... a SUMMER job... wish i had one of those.. no, instead I have a real job. ( or enough little ones that all together it makes one real job. )

I'm almost finished the fair-isle sock i'm making!! I decided to try one of those stain-glass type sock the other day. Now, 2 months latter i'm almost done the first one. I decided to make it into s flip flop sock, only problem is that the only patterns i can find for them are either tow up or on size 6 needles... not realy what i'm looking for... why is nothing ever simple?

The play me and kate are currently in is comming to a close. Next week will be the last set of rehersal before opening night. For anyone interested in comming the dates are the last weekend in April, and the 1st and 3rd weekend in May, fri and saturday at 7:00 and sunday at 3:00

For the Love of Theatre

You have to admit, it is interesting how much one person will do for something they like.

Take Theatre for instance. We are in Swamp Meadow community Theatre, an would not beleive how much time one play can take out of your life. Right now we are doing William Shakespear's 12th Night, and other then the 2 3 hour rehearsels weekly, i'm on the SMCT committee, never mind all the practice to learn all those pointless lines of nonsense. But we do it, cause after 3 months of continous study and pratice we get 9 days of stresfilled fun.

and spinning... amazing what we do to keep spinning.
I spun all day yesterday, ( come on, it was an amazing wool and silk blend that was to die for ) but after hours of it, my wrist was killing me. After wearing an ace bandage all night, my wrist was still hearting this morning. Kate has to wear braced everyday cause of her knitting.... it is just so sad.... and the only way to justify it is.... look at the beautiful things we make!!! * wink *

~Amanda

Irony

You must admit- life is often Ironic. Like how this picture has nothing to do with the topic.










There is a lovely Christmas story called The Gift of the Magi, in which a poor young couple each decides to buy eachother a Christmas gift- but the only way to afford it is by selling their most prized possions.

She sells her long beautiful hair to buy him a chain for for his heirloom pocket watch. He sells his pocket watch to buy her a jeweled comb for her hair.


That's Irony.


Irony is proof that God has an interesting sense of humor.


Irony is getting a Dance Dance Revoltion game for Christmas when the Xbox 360 is in the shop.

Irony is getting a Leatherman Knife in hard-to-open plastic.

Irony is getting a knitting book from your Mom, that you clearly remember saying you didn't like.



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IRONY is getting a brand-new Black, engraved iPod Classic...... And finding out that your computer is to old to run it.

Narnia and RI Sheep and Wool Festival

Heyya. Long time no post. My computer has been really slow lately, so when it takes 30 mins to check and reply to 2 e-mails... there is not much time for anything else.

Today is the 1st ever Rhode Island Sheep and Wool Festival. It's from 9-4 at the Cogshell Museum in Bristol. Sounds promising even though the weather is not that fine. It's drizzly and spitting... but so long as it don't rain outright we should be fine. If you go make sure to look out for Su DiNola. She is the owner of R.I. Handspun, a little shop in Burriville (across from the police station.) She should be there today, so make sure to give her a looksee.






















Swamp Meadow Community Theater presented Narnia: The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe last week. And it was pretty good if I might say so myself. The next play is going to be the Summer Children’s production of Charlotte's Web, for children ages 8-16. Open Auditions will be June 5, 6, and 7, from 5-8 at Captain Issac Pain Elementary School in Foster RI. (right off Rt. 6) All candidates will need a 30 second monologue as well as a wallet sized picture of themselves, as well as the song, "America the Beautiful" (one vrs. only. (It's a musical.)) Hope to see you there!!






















Randomness, I know... but fun randomness all the same.
~Amanda

Happy May Day

Well, Dad fixed my camera................... ... .... ......... .... Now I just need to find the cord to hook it up to the computer.....

~Katie

It's Been A Long, Long Time...

.......Since I posted last, hmm? Sorry. My camera broke, and Amanda's computer broke, and yeah. It's not much fun posting when you know you can't post pictures! And Amanda found it rather hard to post anything with a broken computer. True story. Yup. Really. What, you don't believe me?


Anyway, we've both been really busy with life in general. Narnia's coming up fast, which is one cause for chaos.

Let's see..... some of the other things we've been doing when not exploring Narnia.....

Amanda and I are getting ready to help with Swamp Meadow's summer production: Charlotte's Web. It's a children's musical. .........Or, at least, we're doing it with children. Yeah. Amanda is the Musical Director, and I'm helping her.... Between the two of us we can not only sing all the songs, but we can even come close to hitting the right notes! Pretty impressive, huh?

I've started my first job, working over at Morning Star Christian Center, in Apple Valley Plaza, behind the Micky D's. The pay's not great, but it's better then what I was earning before.

Also, I've entered a Knitting Contest. Check it out and wish me luck: http://www.purlescence.co.uk/storytellers/index.html

Here's my pathetic little doodle's, which were part of my entry. I'm busy working up the patterns for them now.




I also posted the story parts on FanFiction.Net.

Every Girl's A Princess, and The Scarlet Cap: www.fanfiction.net/s/3510964/1/ and http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3511063/1/

They're not that bad for one afternoon's frantic work, considering that I've never finished a single one of my stories before now. I should change my pen name to 'Procrastinate Kate'.

We're hoping to go to the Spin-In tomorrow at Su DiNola's shop; RI Handspun. Stop in and visit if you get a chance, it's awesome.

You can read her Blog here: http://rihandspun.blogspot.com/

She hasn't updated in awhile. Oh well.

Anywho. I'm gonna shut up before you folks (if, indeed there are any) reading this get bord and decide to start throwing moldy fruit at me.

TTFN,
~Katie

Narnia, Choir and Frogging

Choir went well yesterday.... (IDK about myself... I couldn't hear... But poeple said
I was ok.) Everyone else was perfect though. And we had a pratice again tonight, very fun.

After our choir director, Larry, told us a dozen times to get into the mikes more we decided to play 'Catholic Idol,' and each got to hold our own mike... interesting.

Narnia pratice is again tomorrow... very fun. For anyone that would like to go and see it, it will be May 4,5,6,11,12, and 13 at Captain Issac Paine Elementary School in Foster, RI. (Try to spot yours truely... look for the cute silly clumsy wood nymphs in the corners!)

Ugg... I started knitting the 2nd part of the dragon scarf only to realize I did it wrong. So I had to 'rip it' out (frogging) and start over again. Uggg.

~Amanda

Choir and Little Rays of Sunshine

It's just amazing how much a flower can cheer up a day. They are just little rays of sun shine when the sky is dark.

Yay, Church Choir today! Me and Kate sing in St. Josephs Youth Choir in Scituate, RI.

This is one of the few days that I actualy volunteered to sing a solo, and I'm very nervous about it. I feel I'm pretty good at the piano, but singing is somthing that I need a bit more help on.
I have probs finding the right note in a guitar chord, so I tend to be either a bit flat or sharp.

I practiced all week in hopes I will get it right, but I'm still not sure. Wish me luck.

But yes, try try and try again. My first attempt at the dragon scarf (as shown below,) has failed. After getting to the tail, running out of yarn, and still not getting the desired effect, I had to rip it out and start w/ a different pattern.

This one I think should work better. It is knitted in 3 parts, sewn togeather and then stuffed. (Kate helped me think up the pattern, I'm not the smart on my own!) This one will work, I hope.

Will post when finished!

~Amanda

Counting Blessings

Ah...... My newsletter is out, Narnia practice is going well, Rummy is cute, and all is right with the world.

Hmm, hmm, hmm..... I'm in such a randomly good mood today, I just can't stop thinking about all the little things that are working together to make me happy......

What kind of happy drug am I on, you ask?

The kind that has these ingredients: getting everything done that I was supposed to yesterday; getting a goodnight's sleep; waking up at a decent time this morning; not having to rush anywhere untill after lunch; and, the secret ingredients: sunshine and orenge juice.

You laugh now, but just try it. It works wonders.

I can see you're looking slightly confused, still. Wondering if there's something you missed reading in one of our posts. Well, never fear, because you haven't missed it; we just haven't mentioned it yet.

Amanda and I, and two other girls, are going to be Wood Nymphs in 'The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe,' which our local theartre group is putting on for the first two weekends in May.

Originaly, we were suppose to be in just two sceanes, at the very begining, and the very end. We were supposed to dress up, look pretty, and move a few things around on the stage. We were supposed to be pretty, composed, graceful, and largly invisible.

Well, that lasted through the first rehersal. I think they got the hint, when every one of us 'graceful' Wood Nymphs banged into this big metal door as we were exiting the stage, one after another............ Repeatedly.

After that, I noticed that the directer quickly changed 'graceful and pretty' to 'bumbling and funny.'

But they seem to like us anyway, since they've decided to extend our stage time from two sceanes to being scattered through the entire play....

Oh well. At least we're good at being the random people in the background who get to react to what the other people are saying. Anyway, it's much more fun than before, and we're all much better at it.

Now, we actually have permission to make fun of the other characters behind their backs!

Mwaheheheheheeeeee.......


~Katie

God Works in Mysterious Ways...

...Who ever said that was so right.

I'm the Editor of our church, Saint Joseph's, Youth Newsletter; 'Carpenter's Tools'.

Just the other day I was complaining about it; How I've never seen anyone read it, or even pick it up. How it's more trouble than it's worth, and I should let someone else deal with the deadline headaches. How I hate having to worry about it every month, and no one ever sends me anything for it, so that I'm stuck writing the whole thing. How I'm always forgetting to e-mail people until the last minute, and NO, I WON'T have meetings for it, because I HATE meetings, and no one comes to the meetings, and the ones who do don't have any ideas, or suggestions, or anything useful to say.

That was on Sunday.

On Monday, I remembered to get paper for my newsletter, but I wasn't looking forward to working on it at all.

Then I went to the Youth Ministry Meeting.

Wouldn't you know it; two different people asked me when Carpenter's Tools was going to be out, and said that they always read it, and asked me how it was coming.

I was so surprised, I think I just stared at them, wide-eyed, for a few seconds before my brain caught up enough to answer.

When I got home and checked my e-mail, there, lo and behold, were e-mails with things to put in the newsletter.

I do believe that was a sign for me to shut up, quite complaining, and put more effort into my poor, sad little newsletter.

God works in mysterious ways indeed.

As Eugenides, from Megan Whalen Turner's 'The Queen of Attolia' says,
' "Moira came. She brought me a message from the gods.... Stop whining,' Eugenides said.
"What?" Eddis's expression shifted from wary to puzzled.
"That was the message. For me, alone among mortals, the gods send their messanger to tell me to stop whining. That'll teach me to go hide in a temple." '

Peace. Out.
~Katie