And thus ends a BUSY week

Wow!  I have had a busy, busy, hectic week!  I'm still not sure how I survived it.  First of all, I have been given some actual responsibility at work.  It is now my job to run the Teen Night at the library, which mostly involves sitting at a table socializing while watching friendly teens play video games.  Last Wednesday was my first, and I really enjoyed it until young Benjamin became a Farkle Nazi.  We had pizza, ice cream cake, cookies, soda and juice.  In the future I will have them do some easy crafts as well as video gaming, but I admit that at the moment I haven't the strength to research this.  So--in summary, last Wednesday was a little chaotic for me, and a little nerve wracking.  I got off work at ocho o'clock.

The next day I had to wake up extra early, take the cat and dog to my parents house in Lytle, get my car inspected, eat some breakfast, pack for a four day trip and go to the bank all before ten o'clock.  THEN Oliver and I left for the University of North Texas in Denton which is five and a half hours away.  The GPS lady gave us some confusing directions.  Oliver and I were very cranky by the time we arrived in Denton.  SO, for the next four days I have had to attend an eight hour per day orientation for Information Organization.  This proved more boring than you originally surmised.  I created lots of doodles, and produced a six-foot-long scarf and a purse bottom. 

And now it is past nine o'clock and I have only just arrived home nigh on an hour ago. 

I have started knitting my "purse to aspire to".  It has been slow going.  First of all, it was challenging to even join my ends on the circular needle without twisting stitches.  Once I accomplished this feat, I knitted seven rows without a hitch.  The increase row had my hands shaking and my mouth spewing profanity.  The first time I did the increase row wrong.  Ugh.  So I had to undo two whole rows.  I had not understood what the pattern meant by "make 1", even though I had already practiced this stitch in days of yore (otherwise known as two weeks ago).  I had just been knitting the next stitch in line normally, so when I got to the end I had too few stitches.  When I learned my mistake, doing m1 correctly was even more difficult because my stitches were very tight and it was a struggle to be able to pull up a loop in between stitches, and even more of a struggle to insert the right needle into the loop in the right spot.  I was able to complete this son of a BITCH row in class today, so I should not have too much trouble with the rest of the bag.  I have succeeded at making cables before, so I just need to be sure about keeping track of my stitches when I do them so that I can correct mistakes shortly after they arise.

I almost got a bed frame at IKEA today...but alas, I drive a friggin' Mustang.