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Personality Type

You Are An INFP

The Idealist You are creative with a great imagination, living in your own inner world. Open minded and accepting, you strive for harmony in your important relationships. It takes a long time for people to get to know you. You are hesitant to let people get close. But once you care for someone, you do everything you can to help them grow and develop. In love, you tend to have high (and often unrealistic) standards. You are very sensitive. You tend to have intense feelings. At work, you need to do something that expresses your personal values. You would make an excellent writer, psychologist, or artist. How you see yourself: Unselfish, empathetic, and spiritual When other people don't get you, they see you as: Unrealistic, naive, and weak

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Harry Potter - Book 7

When the 6th book came out two years ago, and they announced that the final book wouldn't be out for another two years, well, I thought that day would never come. But it's almost here. Saturday morning at 12:01, which is just under 32 hours away. I plan on buying my copy at WalMart, but I don't know if I will stand in line at that hour of the day. I'll probably just get up early and go. I don't like driving at night anyway. Unless I get my new headlights installed, and they actually work. That is, brighter than regular headlamps are. One way or another, I know what will be consuming my weekend.


I have three dishcloths OTN [naturally], and I will work on those as well. I was planning on buying the CD of the book, but it's going to sell for over $40, and that's not in my budget right now. It would be a good buy, a $20++ savings, but spending $40 - - - - I don't think so.

Hard to Keep Up

It's hard to keep up a blog when I have to go to the library to get online. And even more difficult to post pictures of the dishcloths I've knitted. But I will figure out a way to do it.

Okay, Now It's Hot!!!!

The temp has hit 100°. The humidity is very low, only 14%. Nevertheless, 100° is hot. I start getting a headache as soon as I walk outside, but it subsides when I come back in. Thank goodness. Also, the temp will drop a lot when the sun heads for the horizon. That's one of the reasons I moved out here. In MN the dewpoint would be in the mid 60s to 70s. Here the dewpoint is 42°, so the air is dry, and being in AC actually makes a big difference.

About This Blog

Did you notice that the two things this blog is about requires sitting, relaxing, solitude, and eye-hand coordination. I guess that says something about us knitters/readers. Okay, so reading requires only minimal eye-hand coordination, but it requires some.

Solitude could mean having to shut out the sights and sounds around you to create an illusion of solitude.

Relaxing isn't a requirement, but hopefully it's a by-product.

I had done some knitting in the past. Mostly simple slippers, hats, and dishcloths. I hadn't knitted anything for years, but when I was living in my car from August 2006 to mid-March 2007, I started up again. One of the hardest things about living in a car is finding things to fill your time. When the weather was hot, I did a lot of reading. When autumn was approaching, I decided I could use an afghan. I crocheted the old standby, the ripple afghan. It's simple, fast, and cheap yarn works just fine. When I was finished with that I switched to knitting dishcloths. I went to the library to use the computers, found tons of free patterns online. While surfing the 'Net I started coming across blogs and then discovered KALS as well. I guess I've knitted around 80 or so. Igave about 25 away at work (working part time).

What was really cool was, I started getting books-on-tape from the library so I could "read" while I was knitting. Now that I have a place to live, I watch TV and knit. Actually, it's more like listening to TV, but it works, and satisfies my need to do more than one thing at a time. If I could work in a third thing to do as well, that would make me extremely happy.