Gail (aka Nightsongs)

13. sornál tartok a széle mintában és talán egy sorra elég a amaradék fonalam. Vagy rendelek még egy motringot 13 fontér, aminek 95%-a meg for maradni, vagy visszabontom a hatodik mintaismétlésig és elkezdem ott a szélét. Ami bő húsz sor :( Gail jegelve, egyelőre, amíg össze nem szedem a lelkierőt hozzá.
Akárcsak a Lush and Lacy kardigán, a háta ugyanis 2 centivel rövidebb az elejénél, úgyhogy vagy fölbontom azt is és megtoldom, vagy valamit trükközök a varrással.

I'm on the 13th row on the edge chart and i have scarcely enough yarn to finish one row. Either i'll have to order another skein for 13 pounds and have 95% of it left over, or have to rip the shawl back to the sixth pattern repeat and start the edge chart there. Thats more than 20 rows :( Gail is put on hiatus, for now, until i find the courage to deal with it.
Same goes for the Lush and Lacy cardigan, the back turned out to be almost an inch shorter then the fronts so either i rip it and make the back longer or have to do some tricks with the sewing.

Azt hiszem megyek és kötök néhány sima, egyszerű, elronthatatlan (haha... ) négyzetet az ágytakaróhoz.

I think i shall go now and knit some simple, easy, un-mess-up-able (or something like this...) squares for the bedcover.

Sápadtarcúak - Palefaces

I think i'm watching too much indian stuff lately. As in too many red-brown skinned men :D Today i saw a nice looking guy in the store and thought "mm, he looks good, but is a bit too pale". Almost laughed out loud at myself as he wasn't particularly fair just had a rather pale skintone with contrasting darker hair. Yeah, well, this is England here, people can be very white, or even very pink... and there are more of these types, proportionatly, than what i got used to in Hungary, but until now the lots of black and asian people - whom i wasn't used at all - balanced this out. At home most people are white, even though more brown then here, but still white race (or is this word already considered non-pc?) We have a proportion of romani people and the occasional chinese shopkeeper and black students, but nowhere near the mixture of nations and colours and features like here. And it took me a while to get used to it, simply because it is strange. No wonder people get suspicious, prejudiced and even adverse. I can understand it now. Not agree, but realize that it is (another) human weakness.
It's one of those things i didn't came across at home and make this whole living-abroad, being uprooted thing a bit more valuable experience then just working in a sponge factory.

Életjel - Sign of life

Seems like i have anything better to do then blogging. I tried, but it takes so much time to write a decent one (khm... at least by my measures. Meaning "not too embarassing".) Looking back this two weeks since the big snow - well, snow's gone; wrote 3 posts but couldn't finish either of them due to increasing obstruction by yawning, heavy eyelids and erratic brain performance.
What i did do: ripped back the Gail i started around november, and started again. Goes better now, though still had to do twice every second/third right-side row but that's due to my usual method of watching movies while knitting. I'm on the fifth pattern repeat now, and still like the yarn, both the colours and the construction of it, there was one row i had to make 4 times and just couldn't get it rigt, and the yarn endured all three ripping. Five stars.
Also had read two of the library books, and would have finished the third too but for the three days of holidays i had this week, which meant no one hour lunch-break but constant internet and pc access - minus 3 hours of reading time :D
Also watched three movies, and a hungarian cartoon mini-series i found amongst my dvds. The latest one is a very lovely story about a fox, very popular in Hungary both the cartoon and the book it was based on, but also sort of sad, so i avoided it for a very long time. I thouhgt i will just watch the first two parts, and stop before it turns sad, but the original four parts were edited into one long movie in this dvd so couldn't stop literally :) I'm glad i watched it though, it's a very heart-warming story.

And now i'm off to the library before they close...

Hóhelyzet - The case of snow

Azzal kezdődött, hogy szerdán az utolsó szünetjükrről két centis hóval borítva jöttek vissza az emberek, akik kevesebb mint 10 percet álltak a fedetlen dohányzórészen. Wow. Fél óra alatt esett 10 centi. Jól nézett ki :)
Ahhoz épp elég volt, hogy a menedzserek nagy futkosásba kezdjenek, majd miután megállapították, hogy minden részleg már a holnapi melókat csinálja (szokás szerint...) , engedélyezték hoyg aki akar, hazamehet.

Csütörtököt ellógtam, mert véletlen kikapcsoltak az ébresztőt a telefonomon, és véletlen nem kapcsoltam vissza. Egész nap havazott :) Legalább haladtam a rendrakással (még mindig tart. Sose érek a végére attól tartok...)

Ma is havazgatott, sztem kb mint tegnap, csak épp ma nem láttam a gyár beljeséből :P Hallottam fél füllel pletykákat valami fél ötös elengedésről, de 16:34 kor mentem ki kezet mosni egy munka végeztével, és sehol semmi. No sebaj.
Jövök vissza, főnök megy körbe a Fehér Jegyzetfüzettel, amibe s túlórákat szokták írni; már épp kezdtem gondolkodni, hogy bezony jönni kéne, mikor kiderült hogy a fél ötkor, ma, hazamenőket írja össze. Két perc múlva megindult a fél gyár :) 38kor indultam el kifelé, és siettem, mer 49-kor van egy vonat - hát a hó nagyon bezavar, normál út- és járdaviszonyok mellett 10 perc kacagva elég, most meg futnom kellett a jegykaputól a vonatig. De elértem, így öt óra ötkor már leszálltam a vonatról, ahelyett hogy akkor indultam volna a következővel :)
Itt viszont elfogyott a szerencsém, általában ha a gyár környékén esik, akkor van esély hogy benn a központban már nem (a gyár kijjebb van a tenger felé); hát most épp fordítva, leszálltam, és akkor kezdett neki úgy igazán a nagypihés, vízszintesen fújós, építsünk sétáló hóembereket típusó havazás. Mire hazaértem, nagyjából elállt :)

Piac - Market

Utálom amikor árulnom kell valamit: fölösleges bútort, munkaerőt, szabadidőt - vagy üres szobát.

I hate it when i have to sell something: unneded furniture, workforce, freetime - or vacant room.

Input

"Törékeny dolgok" avagy Neil Gaiman "egypercesek". Azért kellett megvennem, mert van benne egy darab novella Shadow-val (az Amerikai istenek-ből), de amúgy is megvettem volna előbb-utóbb, mert Gaiman. Uff.

Fragile Things, aka Neil Gaiman One minute Stories (after the Örkény One Minute Stories). I had to buy it 'coz it has a novell with Shadow (from American Gods), but i would've bought it anyways as it is a Gaiman book. 'nuff said.

"Csillagok és bolygók rövid kalauza". Nem jöhettem ki egy könyvvel ha már egyszer a vízkövekben jártam (Waterstones a könyvesbolt-hálózat neve. Mint a Libri meg az Alexandra.) Szép színes, kevés szöveggel, mert kellett egy ilyen kis könyv csillagászat témában is, hogy ne a netet kelljen bújnom emiatt is. Túlságosan függök a wikipédián.

A Concise Guide to the Stars and Planets. I couldn't just leave Watersones with only one book. Nice colourful with lots of pictures and not much text, i needed a little book in astronomy too so i don't have to search the net every time i have a question on this topic. I use wikipedia way too often.

Plusz vettem ki három indiánokról szóló könyvet a könyvtárból, hogy legyen mit olvasni párhuzamosan az 'Amerikai istenek, második nekirugaszkodás' alkalmából. Fura egyébként, elsőre sokkal lassabnak tűnt az egész sztori, bár azt hiszem azért mert egy csomó dolog fölött átsiklottam mivel nem tudtam, mire utal / nem tudtam hogy utal-e egyáltalán valamire / előreutalás volt, amit most, ismerve a további cselekményt, már értek.
Aztán még ott van hogy egyszerűen nem csíptem Laura-t, tiszteltem azért amit Shadow-ért tett a saját halála után (ehh, ez jó kis paradox) de egyszerűen nem értettem mi a csudát keresett mellette amíg élt. Most már jobban értem.
Sam pedig ugyanolyan vagány mint mindig :)

Plus i get three books about indians from the library, for reading paralell with Amercian Gods reading #2. It's a bit strange now, as for the first reeding i found it a bit too slow. Maybe that was because i slipped over things i did not understand what the reference means / i did not know it is a reference at all / it was a hint for later events, and now knowing the plot i understand it.
Also i just couldnt bring myself to like Laura - i respected her for what her deeds after her death (yuck) but just didn't get what had she do with Shadow before. Now i understand her better. Sam's still cool as ever :)

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Zene:

Republic: Tüzet viszek album, különösen a Varázsolj a szívemmel és a Játsz egy kicsit a tűzzel. Felváltva.



Music:

Republic: "I'm carrying fire" - especially the songs hm how to translate... "Make magic using my heart" and "Play a little with the fire".

I don't know about any official or unofficial translations about the band into english... It's a hungarian folk-rock band, something like the irish The Corrs just more rock-ish. Not as much as Korpiklaani though :) They are (or at least were at a few years back) quite popular, had more big chart hits, the biggest probably "Fly away little bird" - it's a cute silly little song, everyone sung that :)

Sikertelen szombat - Unsucsessful saturday

I hope the year wont be like its first two days, and especially not like the first saturday. Grr. Sometimes things just doesn't work out for me - i mean nothing works out the whole day. Sometimes though, now being closer to 30 and putting on some wisdomlike shell during the years, i can stop in the middle of it and prevent things to get even worst. Sometimes.

Yesterday i went to the library to get some background information for American Gods. I looked for something on norse mithology in the first place, and then maybe something native american and egyptian.
I scanned the two sections about "introduction to religions", and everything i could find in the norse/scandinavian/viking stuff were two books - one a practical guide for modern pagans, the other a big album full with whole-page photos. Nufffing else. No myths, no cataloge of gods, or rituals, nor anything about the Eddas, nothing. One shelf was half empty, so maybe someone took all the norse stuff and i just came in the wrong time, but hell. This was really annoying.
The egyptian books were all big ones or practical guides of how to use ancient wisdom in modern life, so i only took one about indians (the smallest and least flamboyant). Plus two more about them from the American history section i stumbled upon on the way out.

Armed with the three books, i went to have a coffe and muffin for lunch, the usual saturday treat :) At the till i realized i only had 3 pounds and some pennies in cash, so i tried to pay with card - but i could not. So i had to send back the muffin and have only a vanilla latte :( I was so embarassed and slightly angry about all these that i sit down at the table with big armchairs instead of squeezing in the little table near the toalett door (otherwise the place was full) and forget to put sugar in the coffee. To my surprise it was still drinkable, and the other people didn't made a mess about me occupying the better place. Whatever.

Ah and after that i spent the whole afternoon trying to make up my courage and telling my cousins i dont want to go out 'coz i dont have money and more importantly i've had enough in the last two weeks from crowds and loud pop music. I only managed to say i only go to the pub with them but not to the club after. I tried to explain why the prospect of disco music and dancing does not make me happy, i'm not sure they get it, but they were in a peaceful mood so i didn't have to start the "what about you going to really loud rock concerts 3 times in two weeks" thing, they just let me drink my beer and go home.
Life's hard.