Out of touch for a longggggg long time. May 15, 2009

Hello hello.

It’s been more than 2 months since I posted my last entry, so I just thought I would make one real quick.

I unfortunately haven’t had much time for knitting Mostly I’ve been hitting concerts and knitting a bit there with my peeps. Here are a few pictures that we’ve taken recently. Our group has grown in numbers!! Yay!

As you can see from the photos, I’m still working on the SAME projects that I have been working on for FOREVER. Dan and Sky’s beanies. I’ll finish them eventually!!!

Just wanted to update so my last post wasn’t from February!! I’ll have to get cracking so I can get back to posting FO’s again

<3! mickey

long time, no post! :0 August 5, 2008

Well, I was sitting here on the computer listening to music and reading other blogs thinking about how lame it is that I haven’t posted on my blog for well over a month. So I decided it would be even lamer if I just sat around thinking about it, but didn’t do anything. So here is a blog post update!!

Thanks everyone for the positive comments on my last entry! Yeah, I might try to make it 3/4 sleeves if it looks like I’m running low on yarn at the end of things. Haha, and Pepper, keep watching that yarn of yours! Desperate times call for desperate measures!!…

Well, time for confession: I practically haven’t knit at all this summer!! I haven’t touched Thermal since before my last post. It’s just sitting there in a heap on the floor taunting me. Evil little sweater.

I’ve wanted to do some small projects, like amigurumi, but haven’t gotten around to it…

I’m so lazy!

But I’ve just been so busy with other things!! Haha, here’s a hurried list of everything notable I can think of that has been either fun or not so fun:

• My dad bought me a replacement car on auction, which eerily enough turned out to be the exact same model, year, AND color of the car that had been wrecked!!
• I’ve been to a million concerts and decided to start posting all my concert footage to Youtube.
• I bought a laptop (which I might’ve said in my last post…but I can’t remember and I can’t be bothered to go read my last post haha)
• Plans for my 21st birthday are already in swing! Haha, it’s in December, and I think I’ve decided to spend it with my Sacramento friends first. Then I have plans for Reno, Los Angeles, and Chico! Wowza.
• I play guitar and started jamming with a friend of mine and writing a song, but we haven’t had a chance to for the last couple of weeks, so that’s sad Haha, but I can’t wait for the song to be finished! I like how it’s sounding.
• I have plans to go surfing for the first time ever! It’s next week and my cousin is taking me Woohoo!
• Warped tour is coming up!!!! ZOMG!!!
• Haha, my friends Joey and Shimoda from the Joey Shimoda Show Fo’ Sho! (on KXLU) invited me to go on the radio with them when I make my trip down to LA! Plus, there are plans for amazing cupcakes from a bakery called “Sprinkles” woohoo! I <3 cupcakes
• I spent a week in Reno with my family that lives there. It was a blast, I spent far too much money shopping. And we went to Tahoe, which was a blast haha and I got a wicked sunburn! Which has since turned into an okay tan (it was better before it peeled!)
• In a few weeks time I’m working the state fair in Oregon and going to see Weird Al while I’m there XD haha. I have GOT to find a little knitting project I can take with me!! Or I might go insane. And that would be bad.

So I think that’s the majority of new things.

I would like to take a second to say that if anyone reads this blog, you should check out a couple of my bffs! They’re so good! I’ve known both bands since December and think everyone should hear them!! Haha, they are Push Push Pull and Hazel and Vine . If you like them, add them on Myspace and tell them Mickey sent you!   I recommend “Shazam” on Push Push Pull’s page and “Fly By Kite” on Hazel and Vine’s page.

Well, I think that will conclude this blog post. Sorry that it had VERY little to do with knitting. When things slow down, I’ll knit more and then my posts will have more about knitting, yay! In the meantime I’ll publish the project page about the scarves I knit for Joey FOREVER ago. I hadn’t realized it was still unpublished! So here it is! And also, I actually edited my “About Me” page so that it’s actually cool now! Enjoy.

Happy knitting everyone! Hopefully your projects are all going swimmingly!! Much love!

<3 mickey

Lazy week June 10, 2008

Well, this post doesn’t have much to do with knitting since I’ve hardly been knitting this week.

I’ve STILL been to lazy to sit down and do the blocking for my lace scarf. So for now it sits wadded up in a cardboard box, taunting me.

Also taunting me is the Thermal sweater. I haven’t knit one single stitch in it since the last time I posted, which was over a week ago. I just know it’s gonna be HUGE!! Thanks for the reassuring comments on my last post, by the way. Haha, Pepper, I was laughing so hard. If your yarn goes missing, don’t check my stash for it…

Yeah, so this week was pretty lame for one reason.

That is/was my car.

My dad used it to go to work the other night and he totally got t-boned. Though fortunately everybody’s ok. And we’re all REALLY glad that it was the back door that got hit and not his!!!!

So yeah, the last week has been filled with me trying to hitch rides everywhere. I feel like such a little kid. Can you drive me to work? Can you drive me to the store? Lame. And also it has kind of put a damper on my concert life. A bunch of the ones I have planned probably won’t work because our family is having to share one minivan and my dad needs it at night to get to work

A tragedy, indeed.

So yeah, if anyone has a car they want to give me, I won’t stop you!! haha.

I <3 Joey at KXLU! *listen to his show!* April 23, 2008

SOOO….

Today was amazing because a couple of shout outs on the L.A. radio station KXLU (88.9 FM)

And because I’m a huge giant dork, I recorded the 2 that I was awake for! I guess Joey mentioned me a few times, starting a t 7-ish, but I was still SOUND asleep that early, lol.

CHECK IT OUT!!!!

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The First:

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The Second:

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So that ABSOLUTELY made my day!!!

Anyway, he had left a comment on my post of the scrunchable scarf that I had made for myself asking if I sell these. Long story short, we e-mailed back and forth a bunch, he picked out some awesome yarns at knitpicks.com and I spent the last couple of weeks making them for him. And, of course, I was totally paranoid that he wasn’t going to like them and think they looked amateur or something (which is what I always fear when I make stuff for my friends. I guess it’s just because I always know the little flaws that bug me about a project as I’m working on it, but they’re not things that anyone else notice or even care about). But he LOVES them! So yay!!!

Anyway, I’ll post links to my Project Info page when I get a pic of him and his scarves.

Until then, YAY!!!

And listen to Joey on Tuesday mornings 6-10am Pacific Time (88.9FM for L.A. or stream online at http://www.kxlu.com) because he’s super awesome and they play some AWESOME indie music.

And one last thing. If anyone happens to know where I can buy some sweet rainbow yarn online, can you leave me a comment about it? I’ve only seen tacky acrylic Red Heart rainbow color changing yarn, but nothing nice. So yeah, I was hoping for worsted weight, but if the yarn is super awesome I can probably make it work. Here’s a picture of the stuff Joey likes, but I couldn’t find anything comparable to it online

My New Toy! March 13, 2008

So I’ve been wanting a new digital camera for a while now, but I’ve been to cheap to invest in one. But then my old digital camera did something I will never forgive it for:

{Enter Micaiah, front row of awesome concert, digital camera in hand and pointed}

{Enter Colby, guitarist from awesome band Bidwell, who also happens to knit (sexy, right?)}

{Colby: runs in front of Micaiah and makes an awesome face/pose for her camera}

{Micaiah: frantically clicks camera button, flash goes off, gleefully pulls up saved pictures to pridefully stare at the awesomest picture taken at a concert ever, when:}

Micaiah: “NO!!!!!! HOW IN THE WORLD DID IT NOT TAKE THE STUPID PICTURE??!! THE FLASH WENT OFF!!! CAMERA, I’M GOING TO PUNCH YOU IN YOUR STUPID FACE! I HATE YOU!!!”

Um yes. So now that you have relived this painful memory with me, look at what I got when I “stretched” (I hate to say blew, since that would make it sound like I wasn’t in control of my spending…) my camera budget (and ignore how horribly I take care of my nails):

And look at how beautiful the pictures are that it takes! :

YAY!!!

So I would like to say:

1- Look forward to MUCH better pictures of my projects, as I will now be able to actually focus on them up close without washing them out with flash. YAY!

2- Sorry if the pictures take longer to load now as the megapixels per picture have almost doubled what the old ones were.

XD YAY!!! So I still absolutely love my 35mm Canon way more than this one (I’m a dark room girl all the way) but for the speed, convenience, and VERY pleasantly surprising picture quality I am SO HAPPY about this digital camera.

Wish me luck on my next Bidwell concert this Friday. This thing had better take fast pictures of Colby, because I would hate to have to punch it in the face after I just spent what I did to buy it…

Craftster January 8, 2008

So I was gonna mention this earlier but I forgot to. I just got a Craftster account! And if you’re on there you should totally add me to your buddies list.

My username is mickeyness

And in other news, I gave my sister the pony I made for her. Her response:

“OH MY GOD THIS IS THE CUTEST FREAKING THING IN THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE. OMG. OMG. OMG…”

Clearly she doesn’t get out much if she thought that was the cutest thing in the universe, but the sentiment was appreciated Yay!

The first of many posts to come December 31, 2007

Wow. My very first post. It’s almost a momentous occasion. But not quite.

Well, my name is Mickey and I’ve been reading tons of knitting blogs for years, but I’ve never had one of my own. So now I’m breaking my lazy streak and giving this a try.

I’ve been knitting for about 4 years now and crocheting for about 2. But I’ve always been kind of lazy with the projects I’ve done. Purses, scarves, baby blankets. Pretty much just one piece knits/crochets that don’t require much effort or thought.

I want to start working on more difficult projects, so I can build better knitting skills than just your standard knits and purls. The last semi-difficult project I started was a cable knit scarf, which I only got half-ways finished and has been sitting in my knitting bin for about a year now. I REALLY want to knit a sweater for myself.

So yeah, I guess there’s not too much to say. My local yarn shop went out of business yesterday : ( and I went down and bought a bunch of yarn. I don’t really know what I want to make it into. I was thinking it needs something with kind of an 80’s look because of the colors, maybe with intarsia, but I still can’t figure out what to do. Any ideas?

I could always make a scarf. : (