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Friday

2011-12-09T08:58:00.003Z

Here i am again, sitting at home after phoning in to my workplace and telling them i can't go in todaysorry coz blah blah stomach problems blah blah depression blah sorry blah blah. Lately, it's happening nearly every week. Last week i managed to go in every day, this week was just mental. I literally had to fight through the first two days, gave up for tuesday afternoon, and went in wednesday looking the same as i did the previous two days. Yesterday was okay-ish but i think having to work with someone in my state took the toll on my colleagues and they were as morose as i was. Today, i was sort of ok, at least compared to the start of the week. But i gave up. I shoul've put out the rubbish and just couldn't do it on time. My stomach started to hurt - lately, it hurts every morning. It gets better later, but i'm tired of it. I also misunderstood a text P. sent me - damn my english is still not good enough.
So i gave up. I just stood in the kitchen surrounded by rubbish bags. Then i phoned in and gave those stupid excuses - which even tho are true, still make me feel like i'm lying (Had to look up how to spell that. Argh.)
I decided i'll be a good girl. I'll do all the chores i should've weeks ago but couldn't bring myself 'coz "i need the weekend to rest". I'll sort all the papers and official stuff that's laying around. Ask for an appointment with my gp coz i never, ever had problems with my stomach and now i do and it makes me worried. Maybe even go to the shop so i don't have to drag P. out tomorrow.

But i'm still just sitting here, angry at the telly coz they don't have any soothing-nature-documentary on any channels we have. Yeah, that's the biggest problem with life.

Saturday, blah blah

2011-11-12T22:05:00.002Z

It's amazing how two cr@ppy workdays can totally get me down even in spite of the weekend.

Hightlights of the day: starbucks has they christmas season menu on which means pecan and caramel cheesecake + after 6 hours of playing P did pass the laptop to me so i could play Simcity.

It's 11/11/11

2011-11-11T21:33:00.004Z

... and not 11/11/11, bloody americans. ;)

Had a very very long day. Bad sleep, horrible morning, bad thoughts all day long. :(

It's 11/11/11

2011-11-11T21:33:00.001Z

... and not 11/11/11, bloody americans. ;)

Wednesday

2011-11-09T22:01:00.002Z

... when nothing happened. Washed dishes, played on laptop, knit a few rows. Yawn.

Coming up tomorrow: back to work. Arrgggh.

Tuesday

2011-11-08T21:32:00.002Z

I was nervous today all day. Managed to wake up more smoothly then the last two days and also skipped breakfast in the process simply by waking up at 9:59 and eating my tea-and-toast at the teabreak-time. After that, it was just waiting for three o'clock when i had my second counseling session. I spoke a lot again but at this time we did some problem solving too. And it was soooo good that i didn't had to go back to work afterwards! I don't mind working before but having had to go back for one more hour last time, it just made it feel like i didn't even left.
I don't know where am i heading with this whole counseling thing, i guess i'm just trying to see cleaner? And also i've done enough thinking on my own, now i want to know if i did got those things right or not :)

Ah and then watched this " Man Lab" thing with James May (all those guys on Top Gear are crazy lol) and seen the most amazing animal funerals EVER. They attached cameras to balloons, sent them up , then around 30 thousand meters they blew up and the cameras fell back. I heard about people doing the same before to make photos but this was still really cool.

Monday

2011-11-07T22:05:00.001Z

Done with the monday - now off for the holidays! Two days off work, laziness and housework catch-up on the list. Yes i can do both of them on the same day. With knitting.

Missed saturday

2011-11-06T10:49:00.002Z

I meant to write something yesterday too but completely forgot about the blog. P was working and i had the laptop for myself all day so i nestled up in the bedroom and watched animes while slowly working through the HUGE pile of clothes that got washed in the last two weeks but never folded up and put away. Now that i'm done with that the room seems much bigger. Not to mention tidier.

Done it!!!

2011-11-04T20:41:00.002Z

Done. All 40 hours. Went in five times and went back after lunch another five times. Can't count how many times i wanted to give up and just come home and crawl under a rock.
Next week i'll have two days off and my second counseling session. Lots of knitting. Lots of housework.
Yey.

Long week

2011-11-03T22:11:00.002Z

If i manage to work this week the full 40 hours, without going home early or hurting someone including myself, i'll deserve a medal. Phew. It is hard.

Working days

2011-11-02T22:11:00.002Z

The Black Dog can f**** off.

Together with the extra spicy Nandos marinade. Thank goodness for milk.

Last weekend

2011-11-01T21:14:00.002Z

So, this was the last weekend of october. P had to work unfortunately so i had two days on my own. Saturday was ok, he went to work from noon, and i wnet for a coffee and a mini-shopping - mini coz my budget was mini too. Sunday was a bit rougher, wanted to do much more housework then i managed but i did start the christmas jumper and progressed quite a lot on it.
Then P made me watch a movie - he tries to make me watch a horror but i adamantly refuse it. I have enough cr@p going on with my head don't need some stupid scary thing as well.
So he made me watch Green Mile instead, which i was also afraid of though from different reasons. Gosh it was three hours long.
I could've cried all along if i didn't check myself but i managed.

Bye bye October

2011-11-01T21:07:00.002Z

How come it's this time of the year already? I've had to look up my shawls as it is getting quite chilly in the evenings when i come home from work. I've knitted quite a lot of stuff lately but none of them for myself, except a fingerless glove i just can't get right.

The christmas jumper is progressing well, so far. I'm nearing the end of the first skein so this evening i wound up the second skein, using the cone-shaped part of my yarn winder (the one which fell apart last time i've used it :P) Better then doing it all by hand but P is adamant about me neading a proper winder. I agree. The problem is their price tag. Holy. Cow.

This weekend

2011-10-24T14:09:00.003+01:00

I've finished one shawl; started, nearly finished and discarded a fingerless glove; made pictures of the aforementioned items and of dome more; watched telly; felt cheated out of time. Why is it already monday lunchtime?! Last time i checked i just got up sunday 9 o'clock. Bah.

Still friday

2011-10-21T22:54:00.003+01:00

Well it's still friday. This was a quite good week despite having had to pull a sickie on monday and having a erm "offical talk" with my boss at thursday. Today i woke up feeling i forgot something. About something, or to do something, or to think about something. As per usual, the uneasiness grew as i grew more tired and bored and fed up during the workday, and when i got home i had no energy to do anything except click away on the laptop.

Then the bomb dropped. P got home totally angry at me. He asked me to check how long the barber is open and i told him till 9. Well it wasn't "open till 9" it was "open at 9". In the morning. I just blew his whole schedule.

Hate it that when i start to think things are going ok i make a small mistake and then have to start all over again.

Thank God for Mythbusters Top 25 Moments though, it totally cheered me up :)

Friday

2011-10-21T07:56:00.002+01:00

So, after the likes of Caucescu, Saddam and Bin Laden, Gaddafi got cought too and gunned down. I wish the best for Lybia, hope they can build something better for themselves.

I had a disciplinary (again) yesterday coz i missed too many days and most of them were suspicously close to weekends. I explained, boss filled in the paperwork, end of story. Is 7 days a year really that much btw?

Auchh

2011-10-16T14:11:00.003+01:00

Uh bad sunday... no i'm not hangover. Much. Just a little bit.

Woke up with a headache so P gave me one of his painkillers he got for his tootache, i did very well away with pain but now i'm all knackered and sleepy. Pills make me drowsy.

Still, trying not to nap through the day so hopefully i can sleep through the night and won't be so knackered tomorrow at work.

Started some new scarfs so trying to work on those... aaaand reading about cats! It's pretty much decided now that we'll get a cat next spring - we'll almost surely move away from here so it's logical not to get a kitten at christmas as i originally wanted. P wants a Bond-baddie / Crookshanks sort of squashface, but i want one with the traditional cat-face. A british shorthair maybe.

...and monday

2011-10-10T18:10:00.003+01:00

Failure is always an option. Ballwinder fall apart halfway through, which was a bit of a relief tbh as it wasn't working well. I need a new one. A less cheap one which actually works.

Another sunday

2011-10-09T13:46:00.003+01:00

I have all these

to wound into balls using these. Wish me luck.

Take 3

2011-10-01T09:05:00.011+01:00

I'm making this pattern, based on Madli's shawl in the book Knitted Lace of Estonia - with a bit modificatin - for the third time. I've already memorized it by the time i finished the first so even though it is a 10-row lace pattern, i can do it with minimal concentration. I love it :)
I've also got two letters today i'm very glad about - one is an invitation from the gp for a screening, it is high time i'd go! The other is from the theraphy i've signed up for. I'm actually making steps and it feels soooo goood. On the way to healing and being a better person :)
Ah and i've bought yarn yesterday. I planned to get some this weekend or maybe early next week after all the bills are taken off my account but one of my favourite shops did an update on their one-off skeins and i decided to get one of them. And also got the originally planned lace one too. Can't wait for those two beauties to arrive, hopefully on monday or tuesday latest!

Knitting

2011-09-20T21:43:00.006+01:00

This is how my knitting corner looks like.

Or would look like if i wouldn't shove them down the floor between the sofa and the window so i can actually sit down. Tho i've spent today on the floor, in that "contorted crazy Buddha-pose" P. just cant comprehend and means simply sitting with my legs pulled close and not slouching like him.

Oh and i'm going back to work tomorrow after two weeks off. Can't tell how thrilled i am. Not.

30

2011-09-14T07:47:00.014+01:00

I've never ever thought i will live to this age.
Of course while in one-digit (and even teen) age, anyone over the third x seemed to be in almost-pensioner age, just a couple years away from retirement. Aside of mum who will always stay young, of course.
Then sometime after hitting two digits came the realization that twenty-something is a reasonable age so thirtysomething might not be that old, after all. It must be a comfortable middle-age; but we'll never get there anyways as teens and twenties will last, like, about forever.
Getting beyond the second x comes the first tentative sign of a strange thing called wisdom: one looks back and admits being young and silly, which now, being a serious adult with two decades of experience, they can see. That lasts until the middle of the decade when everything goes downhill with a frantic search for some imaginary "break" to stop the passing of the time and get protected against the impending doom of the number 3.

Which is of course futile and with that realisation comes the thought that now we are in the same age our parent were at the time of our first memories.

Actually they were a bit younger as they get married and started families at a younger age then we do.

I've really, never, ever thought i will live to see this age. It seemed way too old, way too serious, way too late to do anything unless done before.

Also i've never thought that i'll manage to survive to this age. That we won't get destroyed by a third world war or a global downturn into tyranny or some uncurable illness be it an epidemic or aids or an alien virus from space. Or by simply being hit by a car. Or just being told by someone that i didn't made the cut and society doesn't need me anymore.
I even thought that unless i can prove that i've achieved something - career, or a house with dogs and kids and husband, or a finished novel - then i will just simple evaporate as "someone not worthy".

Of course the last couple years made me realise none of these will happen and indeed almost certainly i'll get to the age of thirty. And over.
And i won't drop dead or be ostracized or written down. Actually, barely anyone will notice. Barely anyone will think " ah she's thirty and achived nothing" because, well, no one cares.

And on brighter side, the majority is still older then me, despite the feeling that the streets are full of teens and kids and younger people who think exactly the same thing i thought about age. And they will come to the same conclusion, or more likely, they won't even ponder about it like i did.

I'm not sure i will ever like my age though.
Maybe it is just a number - while in school, everyone told me i'm more mature then my age and only realized recently that that was only partially true as i was really immature in some aspects. (Which explains why i've puzzled some of my teachers so much.) I'm still immature in things. I also look younger then my age - being short is an advantage sometimes :) I also behave younger then my age, being a member of the Peter Pan generation and something of a geek.

Only thing i know is i can't turn time back. I can't even slow it down. I can't change things that happened in my past and can't put my life on a different track so to end up somewhere else. I have tons of regrets and while i'll have to bear with that weight i sincerely hope that my next decade will be better then the last one.

After all, i'm a serious thirty-years-old now.

Apparently....

2011-09-06T19:45:00.003+01:00

... it isn't anymore. After a few days of summer during the weekend, autumn arrived today with full force - wind and rain.

I'm having a hard time lately at my workplace - mainly because it's so brainless i have too much time to think and meditate about why the heck i'm working as a packer in a factory when i could be doing something much more complicated. And better paying. Well i'll go to some english course and hopefully that will help to find something better.

Is it still summer? - Meg mindig nyar van?

2011-08-14T19:02:00.002+01:00

Ok the weathlander is not the best indicator, considering we're in England, but it's the time which confuses me. Once it goes slower then a sloth, after that it flies by three week at a time...

Tweetin'

2011-08-06T18:36:00.003+01:00

I'm giving twitter a try, maybe if i have to write very short posts only i would fare better i.e. i would actually post more often. Here i am.

It's... august?!!

2011-08-04T08:02:00.003+01:00

Well. Erm. i guess i blogged as often as we got sunshine here... ok, maybe a bit less often... Bloody black dog.

It's julyyyyyy

2011-07-06T17:58:00.002+01:00

Umphh... well let's just forget about june allright? It was abismal and not just coz of the weather tho i think that didn't helped either.

It's juuuune

2011-06-08T21:15:00.002+01:00

It is officially summer, even if no one had notified The English Weather about it and it still thinks it's april - rain, sunshine, clouds, start the circle again...

That long weekend ended up whit doing nothing and being boring apart from a bit of fishing for the boys and a bit of poking my nose into fishing for me. P did some pubbing later last week which included a very funny half hour on saturday around midnight, when he (tried) to recount where they whent and what they did (and what were they drinking) and he kept repeating himself, making circles. The nerves of the last 2 weeks finally cought up with me on monday, a full 5 days after everything got sorted. Sooo typical of me.

Right now, i just cant be bothered to do anything. I need a laptop that i can drag with myself on a whim, moving to the lounge or back to the bedroom as i wish.

Long weekend, part 1.

2011-05-28T10:56:00.002+01:00

Long weekend, again - i could get used to these! I made it even longer for myself and booked tuesday off after the monday bank holiday. This weekend is Airshow - weekend and as usual, it's cloudy and windy. Don't know yet if i'll be able to drag P out but hope i can.

Last two weeks were mental here by the way. We paid the rent on time, in full, with enough money left for groceries, for the first time since we moved in; and as we have 5 weeks until the next payment instead of the usual four, had paid all the debts and leftover bills, i was looking forward to finally not having to worry about money and basic living. That lasted one day, because on tuesday, P got a call that his best mate is in hospital. I wished back all the financial cr*p in a second. The last two weeks were spent whit worrying, phonecalls and more worrying, but finally there's light at the end of the tunnel.

Six years

2011-05-12T19:41:00.001+01:00

I moved to England exactly six years ago. I didn't knew what to expect, and had no plans for the future aside of learning to speak english properly so i can't say that things didn't turned out as i planned - but nothing happened in a way i ever could've imagined.
Here's hope that the next six will be better :)

Random monday

2011-05-09T14:04:00.002+01:00

- Still have no pictures. I switched to linux a few weeks ago and it doesnt have my usual pic editor (irfanview) so i had to use some f/spot or whatever it's called - and it was really frustrating. I can't resize the damn pictures!!! Eventually i lost my patience and just played mahjongg. I keep doing the same ever since. I need an editor.

- My St.Paulaner is in flower for the third week now. It has purple flowers but my camera just cant cope with that colour and turns it into blue. Blah.

- I did overtime on saturday and this is the first full week in nearly a month. Will be sooo daaammn long. Blaaah.

- P went for a drink or four yesterday and texted me today announcing that he's dead. Hehehee.

- I nearly finished a cross stitch pattern for K. I finished all the full stitches yesterday and started the backstitches - and vow. They really made a big difference for the design :)

- No knitting. Did some brainless stocking stitch while watching Britain Got Talent but thats it. I'm hibernating the In Dreams KAL and the green cardi too. Too much frustration.

- Have to go back to work. Doubleplus no good.

Last week

2011-05-02T13:34:00.008+01:00

Wow what a week - lots of time off and only three days work :)

On easter monday, P buggered off to his island to see some family and friends, which meant i had the telly all for myself for the most of the day! Also i had no one to protest against turning the lounge into a crafts workshop.
I pulled out my beading tools and materials and in 5 hours, i had made a few things i was really happy with - as opposed with the last time when i tried this sort of crafting, and ended up with three earrings (pieces, not pairs). I made a bookmark and a keyring for P's mum, a keyring for my mum, and also a bracelet and two pairs of earrings for myself, and started another bracelet. At that point i started to run out of blue beads, so i was left with the charms only. Will continue when i have money to get some more supplies.

Tuesday, wednesday and thursday were workdays, so i could only work at the evenings on a small cross-stitch pattern for my cousin who just got her own flat (rented, not own).

Friday was spent in front of the telly again, of course, watching the wedding - i booked the time weeks ago and P still tried to protest until he gave up and went off to play pool. I was prepared for the day, too,here's how i started - toast, cup of tea and a commemorative sampler to stitch on. Around two at the afternoon i had my cousins over, tho K was so busy with her new phone (Samsung galaxy - very jealous) that she might as well not been there at all.

Saturday P was working, and he was sufficently grumpy about it. I had a much better day, i could actually spend some money to buy a few much needed clothes. I can't even remember when was the last time i bought new clothes. P got out of work at half past 4, and as i was still in the town, he asked me to start to walk towards his workplace so we'll meet up halfway. Wasn't a bad idea except half a street away from the football stadium the crowd started to come towards me - the game just finished... bad timing :)
In the evening we went down to Old Leigh which turned out to be more then "just 4 pubs" - there was a Tea Garden too, which i immediatly associated with Madame Puddyfoot's in the HP books, little antique shops and a couple galleries too. Aide of the best restaurant in Essex. We started at the Petersboat, but it was a bit too chilly plus no one was there, so we went to the Smack after one drink and luckily we did found some friends there, inside - in the family area, but no kids were around so it was ok. We left somewhat early as we (i) didn't wanted to spend much money. It was a good night but the money situation is still makes it hard to have a real night out, as it turned out on sunday morning when i assessed the damages and realized we had a bill to pay i didn't took into account, leaving us 40 pounds shorter then i expected. I was quite angry at myself - can't wait to have things sorted out finally and not having to worry that one bill will leave us in **** for a whole week or longer.
Had a lazy sunday afterwards, with pizza and some crafting. I tried out quilling - don't know why not "coiling", to sound more sophisticated or to make people confuse it with quilting. That happened at the craftshop were all i could find were two small books on quiling at the quilt and patchwork section, no papers or tools at all. So i ordered some on the internet, looked up instructions and pictures on the internet and in my craft magazines and started to coil. I quite like it, my problem could be that it is so small, but i like it that it needs some dexterity in each piece as opposed with the knitting or cross stitch were all stitch is the same.
I will make a card and/or box for the keyring and send them for my mum for her birthday.

Then i got up this morning, with the intent of finally writing something onto this blog, and as i usually do, checked the news.
Another day spent on BBC. It took them 9 years to train up those SEALs but finally they done it - bet w bush is gutted that it wasn't him who got Osama. Well we'll see the effects in the coming weeks, i hope it doesn't turn even worse.

Dangerous job

2011-04-28T07:43:00.001+01:00

My factory is a dangerous place to work, everyone realizes it after working with cardboard boxes for more then ten minutes. After five years, i thought i got over the silly mistakes but no - yesterday i've cut myself twice within half an hour. So now i have three fingers plastered, the two cuts and and a nail witch got damaged by rubbing effect of the scourers. I do look funny.

Spring, with full force - Tavasz

2011-04-21T08:07:00.002+01:00

Or is it summer already?
Weather turned around completely in the last two weeks - trees in full bloom, there`s so much more around here then my former place, i love it. And even my St.Paulaner is blooming :) We look forward to a four-day weekend :) What else to wish for?

Crazy saturday

2011-04-10T10:27:00.007+01:00

Acually it started at friday evening, around half past 11 when i woke up hearing some very scary noise about an hour after going to bed. Waking up for pebbles hitting your window is not fun. P went out for "a quiet one" and apparently 3 pints had done him in big time, so much so he couldnt open the door for himself :D It`s very rare he ends up like this and he had enough punishment by standing outside thinking he has to sit in front of the door all night, so i didn`t even tell him off just put a pillow and a blanket on the sofa for him to sleep it off there (still came into the bedroom at 5 in the morning when the sofa turned too uncomfortible for sleep there longer).
The morning seemed all right even with a hungover boyfriend, and i was happily clicking away on my new ubuntu when out of nowhere (or the kitchen window maybe) a big bumblebee zoomed past me and landed on the curtain, about half a meter from my head. And when i say big i mean big. HUGE. Huge enough that i don`t wanted to be in the same room with it and i`m not easily scared by flying things. But this wouldn`t have been that much of a problem - just open the window, and herd it in the right direction using a broom. But. Our windows do not open. With the exception of the kitchen window which is an old simple/glazed type, all others are new double glazed windows with locks on them. Locks that need keys, and keys we dont have. So we couldn`t open the window.
We managed to close the curtains in the hope it will fly out of the room in search of light, opened the kitchen window fully and put the key into the front door (the doorhandle is still broken) so we could open it right away if the bee flies that way. As we were going hungry and it was a beautiful day, we decided to walk down the shore and have lunch from the burger van there and honestly, we wanted to get away from that flying monster tooand from the stupid bills which started to get on me again. Off we went, i pulled the door closed, and that second P turns back and asks "do you have the key?"
No i didn`t. I left in in the door. On the inside.
Usually i check multiple times if i have my keys, even ask P if he has his keys, but with all the bee and the angst for the bills and things, i just walked out. I broke down of course and P got annoyed me of course ("don`t you cry on a stupid key"). We had a bank card an his phone so it wasn`t that bad though we could`ve done with some jumpers as it was crazy windy too. We`ve found a windshielded spot behind a utility building and still in sight off the shore and without the wind it was lovely to sit on the grass with our bacon roll/cheeseburger and chips and even thinking about how to burglar our way back to the flat seemed enjoyable.
P broke off a branch from a tree, cleared off the twigs and off we went to broke into our own home. I had to do this once in my former flat, we had to break a kitchen window there, but that was ground floor. Here we had a kitchen window near the door too - but on the first floor so we hoped we won`t need that. i hoped that i can put my hand through the letterbox and reach the key or turn it though P didn`t had high hopes for that. He couldn`t even get his hands through, he got stuck by the thumb but i could get my hand in quite easily and then sqeezed my arm in as far as i could and actually got hold of the keyring - a bottle opener with P`s name on it. Couldn`t get it off so i tried to push the branch in along my arm and that hurt as hell as every bump where a twig was broken off scrached my arm. That still wasnt enough and also every time i twisted my arm my muscles hurt for being sqeezed against the letterbox. I gave up after a few try, P took over, then i felt a bit recuperated and i knew i was really close before the pain stopped me, so tried once again and managed to get the branch through keyrings hole and P pulled off the key from the lock and got it through the letterbox. My arm was in ruin but we were in.
We do have a spare key at my cousin`s but we left that as a last resort - popping down the shore in t-shirt and training bottoms is one thing, going through a crowded (and windy) high street and walk half hour and then admit how stupid you are is another.
We hoped the craziness finished and for 1` minutes it seemed like it did, with the bee gone while were away - but no, it was still there, visibly weaer but still alive. Ok so others might have already sprayed or crashed it, and that point we got the spray out too, but really didn`t wanted to kill it - P reckoned it was a queen-bee, and these type are endangered and in the same time important for flowers, and i just hate killing anything which moves, so we ended up doing this Wildlife Rescue England operation. After a few failed trials and bouncing back bowles we managed to trap it under a box then carefully dragged the box on the floor through the flat. We had to stop at the lounge door as it has a bit of an elevation, but it was so weak then that couldnt fly up. Finally it crawled onto a piece of cardboard and we let it out on the stairs.
A couple hours later P went out to get ice cream from the ice cream van and i saw that the bumblebee is still crawling on the stairs, but kept falling back. I got up the cardboard, manouvred under it and throw it over the railing so it landed on the grass below. I don`t know if it survived or not, i hope it did and not because of the time we spent getting it out.

(Ok i feel a bit guilty as i don`t feel sorry for the spiders even though i hate to kill them.)

Ubuntu

2011-04-08T21:10:00.003+01:00

On wednesday i received my third sp16 package. Huuuge thanks for my pal :) It was lovely and huge and turned out to be the only good thing that day... i logged in at the evening to check e/mails and to do the usual web/surfing stuff and did something i never did since i first came across the internet: opened an almost-obvious virus package. Things escalated and in five minutes, that stupid worm or whatever it is blocked my internet and kept popping up.
That was the last sign that i have to do what i was thinking for years now but never had the guts to do: switch to linux. I`ve asked my cousin to help and now i have an Ubuntu 10.04 running on my old pc.
So far so good.

Spring spring spriiing - Tavaaaasz :)

2011-03-19T10:59:00.002Z

I think the daffodils were up already last week but i only realized that i'm seeing actual flowers growing from the ground and not potted ones in a store on monday. Actually, first i just realized that the bushes i thought are constantly leaf-less are now covered in yellow flowers. That happens when you move into a new place at december, when spring comes, the flowers and blossoms look twice as new.
I wish i'd taken some pictures of the bushes - i love them, in hungarian they're called golden-rains, dont know they english names... But my mobile's camera is broken, plus even tho the plants knew its spring, the weather did a great effort during all week to try and convince everybody that it's still winter, with all its greyness, mist, fog, rain, clouds and more rain. Well fortunately Mr.Winter gave up - or somebody paid him a pint yesterday evening and just turned into better mood - and we woke to a lovely sunshine this morning.
Spring brings some less lovely thing too unfortunately even for the lucky ones like me who have no allergies at all, like flu and colds. P started work this week and of course he's starting to have man-flu or at least he's trying to convince me that he has. I bet i'm feeling worse this morning then him tho, headache and tiredness. Sunshine helps a lot luckily :)

Now on to cleaning and tidying and maybe some knitting (clue 4 is out - not sure i have the concetration tho...)

Crafts & Crufts

2011-03-13T15:56:00.007Z

I'm working on a simple cardigan while waiting for the next clue on the "In Dreams" shawl. Top-down, made in one piece, using Patons merino yarn. I think i'm becoming a merino addict :)
I wanted something simple and un-mess-up-able after the Central Park Hoodie, and i got what i wanted. It also became boooring after a couple days, so i've looked around what else could i do, and decided on this hardanger bookmark i got with my secret pal package. It's a kit, meaning that even a needle was included, so i didnt had the problem i often face of missing an important part or tool or have to measure out something. I actually finished the stitching in half a day, after i've got used to the different lenght of the stitches (being a cross-stitcher thats something i wasnt used to) it wasn't complicated. The good thing in embroidery is that it makes my left hand hurt - holding the fabric - as opposed to knitting where my right hand is the one that hurts - holding the needle - so even if i have a sore hand i can switch to the other craft.
P's x-box gave it up so he started to get really bored, but luckily this was his last lazy week as he starts at his new job tomorrow. I had two days off so i'm at the end of a four-day weekend, spent with lot of lazying around and watching telly. Documentaries in aboundance aand a dog-show :) It's a shame its only two hours each day, i could've watched them dogs all day. Finals coming up today :)

SP 16

2011-03-06T23:13:00.005Z

Package 1 - 2 balls of Drops yarn, handcream, Addi needles, and a Hardanger bookmarker (this will be a challange!)

Package 2 - Knitted Lace of Estonia. Love it :)

Wednesday - Szerda

2011-03-02T08:07:00.002Z

Huhh so long since i posted anything... usually i spend the evenings knitting so i dont kill anyone :P Two more weeks before P starts at his new place and three before he gets any money. Usually i dont mind how much (or usually, how less) money i have except when it goes really bad for really long, like now. I dont even mind watching fisihing programmes and Top gearon the telly anymore as long as im left to knit in peace :P
So in the last two weeks i made 7 squares for the bedcover, finished 2 clues in a mystery shawl and washed the dishes about five times. Thats it. Spring is better to come quickly.

Dead camera

2011-02-18T07:45:00.002Z

Or to be more exact, dead batteries. As it turned out i had un-rechargable batteries in my camera, probably as an emergency solution during the move, but the problem is, right now i have three pairs of dead batteries and cant find none of my rechargables. Also no money means no new things at all. Can't wait to be the end of march, bozfriend working and not having to rely on stupid benefits or even more stupider agencies who mess up things if you have an apostrophy in your name. Have to borrow some money till monday too so i can get stuff for my pal at sp16 and send out her package tomorrow...

Anyway, so because there's no camera, i cant take pictures, and just couldnt blog. Sat down, ok write something, and couldn't even tho i did had some things to write about, right away there's the hoodie i finally finished!!! The shoulders are erm funny to say at least, the hood way too big, and i'm reminded again that aran wight is just too warm for me, but its finished, its wearable or at least will be after i sewed on that three buttons.

Tried to play will call of duty. Those controllers are sooo out of my capacity. I mean, turning with one and moving with one and shoot 'em (i did hit the wall and a till yeay ) - well its just too comlicated for me. Have to stick with knitting im afraid :D

Finally - Na végre

2011-02-11T07:51:00.003Z

Finally i have proper internet! We got the telly + landline + broadband package set up yesterday and apparently we'v also arrived into the 21th century as everything went smoothly and with a few click. We had to do with this dongo or dongle or whatstheirname things in the past couple weeks and i'm so glad to be back on unlimited internet time :D

The local post office is still in the 19th century tho, with stupid opening times, and when they supposed to have a new and shiny and longer opening hour once a week, nobody is there. I was sitting on the stupid doorbell for 15 minutes, i mean doorbells, they had three, lights are on inside, but nothing happens. So i got my package - my first package in Secret Pal 16 :) - finally on thursday instead of monday. Loved it and a big thank you for my pal :) I really like the things i got, two balls of Drops Fabel sock yarn wih a pair Addi needles - yummy :) Wanted to order fom drops a long time heard a lo of good hings about them. And a hand lotion - always a necessity for me at my workplace - and a hardanger bookmark kit which will be a challange but wanted to give it a try years ago when i did lots of cross-stitching. Lovely package :)

Ooh off to work... mornings are too short :P

Monday - Hétfő

2011-01-31T07:54:00.003Z

I'm on my new place for three weeks now and the chaos is starting to wanish. We still dont have a sofa, or curtains on the bedroom window for that matter, and the second wardrobe is still flatpacked, so we living in the lounge and in the kitchen, which is almost useless as the washing machine is broken and had to pull it out in the middle of the room to let the wall dry. Also have a few bills to sort out, and... thats it :) We have heating, and is so much coier here then at my old place where i was always cold!

No much money hough so my first package in Secret Pal 16 i'm sending ou today will be wool-less. I will hopefully make it up on the second package especially as my spoilee has her birthday at the end of february.

After the move for nearly two weeks i couldnt even look at yarn - my final tally was 7 bags by the way... P promised to throw out a few on the way here but he didn't dare :D I spent a couple evenings since then on the Central Park Hoodie and is coimng together very nicely, button-bands and sewing left only.
Here's P modeling it for me - hopefully it will be just a bit too small for him otherwise he will steal it from me :D

Still alive but barely kicking -

2011-01-23T13:13:00.001Z

Bookshelves - Konyvespolcok

2011-01-17T14:36:00.003Z

My old baby-bookshelf, overflowing with books:

The new tall bookshelf - assembled at half past nine in the evening, so no back piece as it needed nailing on and didn't wanted to start off badly with the neigbourhs - and for comparison, the old one behind it:

And the new one with backing on and with all the books on it - since then i packed the bottom shelf full with magazines and rearranged it a bit, and still have room on it.

Lord Byron

2011-01-09T09:57:00.001Z

Apparently, hungarian schools do theach about him, unlike the english ones. Or, which is more plausible, my dear boyfriend is really not into literature :D

Finished painting - Befejezett festmény

2011-01-05T20:37:00.003Z

Feature wall in the lounge is done. Took ages but finally finished :)

Happy New Year! - BÚÉK!

2011-01-04T07:16:00.003Z

(Now back to the sponge factory...)

(Ideje visszamenni szivacsot pakolni...)

Secret Pal 16 Questionnaire

2011-01-03T11:06:00.002Z

9th January - sorry was too busy in the last week, only completed this now. I'll be moving today and dont know when can i get internet again, hopefully in a couple of days :)

1. What is/are your favorite yarn/s to knit with? What fibers do you absolutely not like?

I like superwash merino - simple and effective ;) Couldn't warm up to bamboo or nylon content but dont mind acriliyc if its soft enough.

2. What do you use to store your needles/hooks in?

I have a needle case or two for my straigth ones, the circulars usually hang from a nail on the wall :D

3. How long have you been knitting & how did you learn? Would you consider your skill level to be beginner, intermediate or advanced?

I learned to knit when i was 11 but took it up seriously only 2 years ago. I'm intermediate in lace a looser when it comes to get something to fit or get the exact size.

4. Do you have an Amazon or other online wish list?

Used to have, under the name zmihalik (but havent used in a long time)

5. What’s your favorite scent?

Light, subtle flowery scents like lily of the valley; cinnamon, cherrie

6. Do you have a sweet tooth? Favorite candy?

I love cakes and icecream :) Not a fan of candies and cant stand liqourice .

7. What other crafts or Do-It-Yourself things do you like to do? Do you spin?

Embroidery, cross stitch, beadwork, learning to sew too :) No time for spinning, busy knitting :)

8. What kind of music do you like? Can your computer/stereo play MP3s? (if your buddy wants to make you a CD)

I dont like club, mixes and rap but everything else i do. Old style rock, world music, even classics :)

9. What’s your favorite color(s)? Any colors you just can’t stand?

All shades of blue especially azure, turquise, and darkblue; i like autumn colours too, dont like pink and neon-bright colours.

10. What is your family situation? Do you have any pets?

About to move in with my boyfriend (today!!) No pets yet, planning a kitten soon

11. Do you wear scarves, hats, mittens or ponchos?

Yes please. I have plenty of shawls and scarves but lacking in mittens...

12. What is/are your favorite item/s to knit?

Lace shawls. Beautiful, quick, can use a one-off expensive yarn, and no worries about the fit :D

13. What are you knitting right now?

A hoodie for myself.

14. Do you like to receive handmade gifts?

I'd like to very much!

15. Do you prefer straight or circular needles? Bamboo, aluminum, plastic?

Circulars, wooden or metal. Dont like bamboo, too sticky for me.

16. Do you own a yarn winder and/or swift?

Yes, both, but they arent the greatest :(

17. How old is your oldest UFO?

Ancient. Three years maybe?

18. What is your favorite holiday? What winter holiday do you observe?

Christmas, christmas :)

19. Is there anything that you collect?

Yarn, needles, books, yarn...

20. Any books, yarns, needles or patterns out there you are dying to get your hands on? What knitting magazine subscriptions do you have?

I'd really like a skein of Sock that rock yarn... I'd like one of EZ or B. walker's books, or Estonian lace, or Susan Lewis's book on lace or something from Yarnharlot... No money coz of mooving :(

I'm not a subscriber but i buy Simply Knitting every month (lightens up grocery shopping to get aknitting magazine too )

21. Are there any new techniques you’d like to learn?

Make garments that actually fit and arent way too big.

22. Are you a sock knitter? What are your foot measurements?

I was before the shawl-fever kicked in and want to go back :) Size 38 (eu) or 5,5 (uk) - medium usually fits :)

23. When is your birthday?

14th september

24. Are you on Ravelry? If so, what’s your ID? Yes, i'm shadowbat there too :)

Decisions, decisions - Melyiket válasszam

2010-12-22T21:41:00.003Z

... avagy itt a piros, hol a piros :D

Number 4 is the most likely candidate, brightened up with a shot of white :)

New flat, new snow - Új lakás, új hó

2010-12-18T23:05:00.006Z

Early this morning we signed the contract for the new flat. This will be the second place i live since i moved to england 5 years ago, and this is the second time we had snow this year 8the first time lasted for a week :P) The nerves with the paperwork and workplace problems in the last two weeks pretty much took away the exitement but it was still a very good feeling to have it all settled. I had to fire up the boiler - 'coz i'm good with boilers - ha ha... Took a couple of hours to warm up, though a breakfast did help to feel less numb of the cold. We tried to ring up the landlord too as according to the contract we have to ask his permission for any redecorations but he didn't answered - P thought that's good as it means he doesn't really care what we do. So we did some measurements - until i broke the tape measure, then sampled a few paints in the bedroom where the wallpaper looks actually quite bad, so can't think that the landlord would have problem with that being taken care of.
Around one o'clock it started snowing, which was looked quite pretty and really cold considering how close we are to the seashore - and not some protected estuary but the actual North Sea. Wind was blowing from the direction of the shore blowing the snow paralell with the ground. We started to think about getting to move in spite of all this as we knew it can get really bad at least considering public transport. Well we've been a bit too slow (or too quick?) because we just missed a bus, then for about an hour, there were no buses nor trains going, and the snow just kept falling. When finally a train came and did depart too the snow was almost over but i was so numb that even the hot shower weren't enough to warm me up.
Then in the evening the girls tried to convince me to go out to dance - well i'm really not in the mood for clubbing and definately don't want to stick my nose out of the door until i don't have to at tomorrow morning.Hopefully i wont be numb then.

Left in the cold - Hidegen hagyva

2010-12-11T09:09:00.004Z

Without heating or hot water for two weeks, including a week of snow and freezing temperatures. My boiler started to break down about a month ago and gradually got worse. Took a while to chase down the plumber and then convince him that yes, the booiler really does what it does - apparently, this type aither works, or breaks down completely, while mine does turn on sometimes, but mostly not. So showers are totally out of question, and the flat cooled down to about 12 °C too :P Good thing i have fond memories in having to wash using a basin from summer holidays spent at my godparents house, before they built a bathroom for they house and had only a bedroom, a kitchen and an outhouse. Otherwise i would feel really angry for spending the majority of my wages on rent and bills and feeling miserable in a cold flat.
I have a small fan heater which warms up my bedroom nicely, tho the lounge never gets really cozy being bigger and with horrible insulation, and of course it eats up electricity at 2 pounds a day rate. 3 if i'm home and need it during the daylight hours.
Plumber spent quite a lot of time on it on thursday, and couldnt fix it, so now he has to talk with the manufacturer, and hopefully he will fix it on monday. I can't have more time off for plumbing - in fact i'm facing a disciplinary on monday for missing too much time, had a warning from earlier, and as i stayed home to get my broken boiler fixed, now i'm on the official stage. Great. Hopefully i'll have to face only my manager who already gave me a tell-off but if the the other boss is there it will be harsh. Had the last three days off and as the prospect of this kept popping up my had i couldn't really enjoy my holiday. And it also annoys me that they couldn't just wrote off that day as holiday - i guess because my boss is sure we were off for house-hunting on that day :P

Luckily there are some things that can keep me happy despite the antarctical conditions and bitchy bosses, amongst them is having a coffee at starbucks and knitting :) I actually got an order, from my cousin's wife. She said "make me a shawl like yours " :) She has a black and white checkered coat so tought black would be nice with that. Finally i had an excuse to try a twinkle yarn, and even tho it turned out lighter (not black with sparkly flecks but light and dark grey) she liked the yarn so hopefully she will like the finished shawl too.

-5

2010-12-03T07:04:00.002Z

Azt hiszem rekordod döntöttünk, legalábbis mióta én itt lakok, ilyen hideg tuti nem volt. Még jó hogy péntek van :)

I think this is a new record, this is the lowest ever at least since i live here. Good thing its friday :)

Second snow - Második hó

2010-11-29T22:22:00.002Z

First snow - Első hó

2010-11-29T21:31:00.006Z

There was a bit of snowfall this morning, the first this winter - what else could possibly have a more cheering up effect in a monday morning? :)

It started to really fall when i reached High street - i made this picture in front of the station, looking towards the university. Then, Shoeburyness being closer to the see, there was even more there. Yey :)

Of course all was gone at lunchtime - only a few very small patches remained in the shadows.

Only the cold remained for the evening, had a nice meal at Wimpey's - i thought it's a fast food place like macd's or bking, but it was almost a restaurant - including they prices. But it was nice, nice food, well made, the orange juice yummy, even the ketchup was tasty. Good thing i didn't know its not a cheap place beforehand otherwise i never would've gone in, especially not in a monday evening when i'm planning a nice homecooked meal for tomorrow :D

Soaking the frog - Békaáztatás

2010-11-28T18:16:00.002Z

Soaking the hat i made for P using Squashed Frog (Easyknits (what else...) merino/cashmere yarn). Of course it came out bigger then should be so i dumped it into hot water, in hope of some shrinkage, but being a superwash yarn, it had no effect.
So i throw it into the washing machine. Fringers crossed it comes out ok.

HP 7 /1

2010-11-21T15:04:00.005Z

Watched it yesterday! Boyfriend wanted to take me to Lakeside because they have sofas there (and beer ;) but bus replacements were runnning instead of the trains so we postponed that. The local cinema was nearly full, so had a look around the area and ended up going to Romford. The whole day was bit tight on the schedule but also we had luck each and every time - all trains and buses were on time, with minimal waiting. The shopping centre we went to was a nice building design-wise, all floating roofs and creativity, but i bet the architect never heard about fear of heights. There was a pavement escalator (not stairs but smooth surface) wich went up with a u-bend, very slowly, in the middle of the building, far away from any wall, with two floor high drops on both sides. Freaked both of us out. Had to look up the stairs later which were no more then fire-exit stairs, stickered up with "Stairs to all levels" for people like us.
Other then this, it was really nice. We had dinner at a fully packed Nando's and silly me realized after finishing that they do indeed make plain chicken :P Usually i have medium hot ones, but yesterday i wasn't in a spicy food - mood. For the movie we got ourselves a twister bottle of blue and orange fruit juice (wich leaked after the crashed ice in it melted), sweet popcorn, and a selection of sweets. Felt like being on Hogwarts Express trying out all the sweets from the trolley :)
We catched the last train home, and our luck lasted, both the toilets and the waiting room were open so i was saved from having to stand in the freezing night at 1 am for 40 minutes while in desperate need of a loo.
And the film itself? Mmmm :) This was the first HP movie which i didn't felt rushed, they finally had time to do all the things nicely, staying true to the book's plot as much as possible without the feeling that they left half the important things out. The first scene, as soon they showed Hermione in her room... i knew what will happen, and it made me cry right away. And a couple more scenes too, not to mention i always well up when the main title comes up. Also we agreed that Ron was the best in the whole movie, i just cant get over Hermione's talk, the actress' timing is always a bit off for me, and the guy who plays Harry is just going along somehow. All in all i really liked this as finally it didnt feel like its just an illustration of the book version, but a real interpretation.

On the knitting front, i messed up the seconf glove. Started the fingers in the same row i did the thumb in :P

Wrap up - Öltözködjünk rétegesen

2010-11-16T22:29:00.003Z

I've finished 3 projects in the last couple of days which made me sit down and just grin to the outside world and feeling contented. Ok so the third is still not totally finished but only coz i'm picky. So i had to start something new :) Gloves for boyfriend :)

Easyknits

2010-11-13T13:05:00.008Z

This shop should be shot down and Jon (the guy running it) locked up. (Just kidding!!) Every time i think i got all the stuff i like from there, he comes up with something i-have-to-have-it-RiGHT-NOW!! :D
The sock club kit just came in couple weeks ago - inspired by Van Gogh's Sunflowers, instant woosh :) Next day, i had a look at the shop and what did i found?

Twinkling yarn. Just what i need for winter to cheer me up in the cold. And i had no money to have any!!

Today's the first day in weeks i have some yarn-money to spend, so i went to the page, and what do i see? Lace yarn. L-A-C-E. Ok maybe these ones i'll be able to resist, whit a bit of persuaison.
And then there's the merino-silk blend which has one of my favourite colour combinations ever, the all-colour-mix. Tho i might get that one in a less elegant fibre, there's a bfl version too...

I'll leave half of last weeks wage there. Of course the sly little rascal comes up with the best stuff before christmas, it's business after all. But he does keep coming up with colourways that are so spot on for me that if i could dye my own yarn i probably couldnt make them so close to my taste.

Keep up the good work Jon :)

(And no, this is not an advertisement, i'm just really enthusiastic about my favourite yarn-shop :)

# 196

2010-10-23T13:44:00.003+01:00

Sometimes its just too hard to come up whit a good title. Or any title. Anyways, today is only about...

... will come back tomorow frozen to the bones if im really unlucky :D

Milagros

2010-10-13T20:14:00.000+01:00

20 and counting :)

4UP

2010-10-13T07:21:00.000+01:00

It's so good to have some good news and hopeful things going on. I hope everithing goes well at that mine in Chile :) I was following the news since they were found and is so heartwarming to see a country and even people from other contries join together, things being handled right by authorites, experts asked, even survivors of the Peru plane crash lending a hand, in all, its just so good to see humans doing well :)

10.10.10

2010-10-10T18:03:00.004+01:00

Komolyan, egy ilyen dátum mellett nem lehet elmenni :) 2010. 10. 10. Rosszul indult nap után nagy lelkizés, megfejelve egy kis vásárlással délután - valami tényleg lehet a levegőben, mert vettem egy vállpánt nélküli miniruhát, ami még sosem forult elő az elmúlt 29 évben. Meg balerina-cipőt is hozzá, mivel csak sportos cipőim vannak. És még tetszenek is :D Tegnap is vettem pár holmit, bár nem (csak) ruhákat, hanem paplant meg hizatot is, úgyhogy a számlámra rá sem merek nézni, szegény totálisan anorexiás ez után a hétvégi fogyókúra után...

Seriously, how could a date like this go unnoticed? :D 10th of the 10th month of the 2010th year. Wow.
Today started badly, followed with a hefty discussion, topped off with shopping in the afternoon - something must be in the air as i bought a strapless minidress - something i never did in the last 29 years. Plus balerina-shoes to go woth it as i only own sporty shoes. And strangely, i like them :) I bought couple things yesterday too tho not only clothes but duvet and cover too so my poor bank account must be totally anorexic after this weight-loss diet....

Wardobe finished - Szekrény befejezve

2010-09-26T14:16:00.002+01:00

Wardrobe in making - Ruhásszekrény, készülőfélben

2010-09-25T19:14:00.001+01:00

Birthday presents - Szülinapi ajándékok

2010-09-21T19:28:00.004+01:00

I dont know what's the costum in England but in Hungary we say birthdays are valid plus and minus 8 days from the real date - meaning birthday wishes and presents can be 8 days early or late and are considered being right on time. Well, seven days, but royalmail needed the last three :D
A "bigbottle" of Soak to wash all my handknits with it, and a pair of fancy rosewood needles, only 6 inches long, but hopefully i will use them to make scarfs this autumn as much as i use my symphony woods for shawls :)

Friday off - Szabadpéntek

2010-09-17T15:09:00.009+01:00

Two days of holiday and actually done some knitting... first off, i finished this scarf yesterday. A bit short but run out of yarn, but the recipient liked it a lot :) (yeayy, knitting for someone else is goood :D)
The usual after-finish dilemma kicked in today: i picked up some long-going projects, some new yarn, had a cup of tea, then after a bit of an argument with myself i decided to do two things side-by-side. So i will rip back the "Lush and lacy" cardi i started in last december and was laying around for months, in a half-sewed half-screwed state, excuse my french. It was too big as i discovered, plus i messed up not just the sewing but the neck-band too. :P Plus there were 3 more balls left, (hopefully) enough for the hoodie and full-lenght sleeves of the Central Park Hoodie i really wanted to do for ages. Couldn't visualize it from this yarn but i'm giving it a go anyways, better then leave the yarn laying around.The paralell project will be another Swallowtail, with the same yarn - Easyknits skinny semi-solid - just different colour, this time Plum Jam. Just to be true to myself i messed this one up too, even before getting out any needles. I've wound up the yarn onto the yarn winder's base so i couldnt pull the ball of. Had to undo it by hand and wind back to the swift. Well done :P

Ahh and as i had a birthday couple days ago, i was thinking on baking a cake for myself... better skip that right now, dont want to burn down the kitchen :D

Friday out - Pénteki zizi

2010-09-11T13:39:00.002+01:00

Getting asked for id 4 days before your 29th birthday in an over-18's pub is not a bad thing :D

Day out - Kirándulás

2010-09-05T21:55:00.002+01:00

Hadley Castle, sheep and blackberries...

wtf?!

2010-08-29T20:26:00.002+01:00

The new Linkin Park song, Catalyst. Its cool up until 1:18, when it should be kicking in, but instead... would've been a hit 15 years ago at a mayday, i guess? First time i heard i just couldn't stop laughing. Straaange stuff. :P
New album comes out on my birthday (14 september) better be something better!!

Begging puppy eyes - Könyörgő kiskutyaszemek

2010-08-23T21:26:00.007+01:00

On saturday i was hanging around in Canvey, eating ice cream and playing with a dobermann so big i didnt needed to bend down at all or he to lift up his head for me to pet him. He's heeling from a small surgery - there are stitches on his chest, and two more on his side - and needed company so i was helping out dog-babysitting :)
He made this begging puppy-face for the 15 minutes straight, as long as i was eating. I resisted. I'm experienced in this :)
Was a bit surprised though to realize that dogs can and do make this begging face no matter size or age and invariably look just way too cute...

Szombaton Canvey-n voltam, jégkrémet ettem és egy akkora dobermannal játszottam, hogy nem kellett lehajolnom vagy éppenséggel neki fölemelnie a fejét ahhoz hogy megsimogassam. Egy kisebb műtétből lábadozik - látszanak is az öltések a mellkasán, meg van még kettő sebe az oldalán is - úgyhogy kellett neki a társaság, én meg besegítettem a kutya-bébicsőszségben :)
Végig ezt a könyörgő kiskutya-pofát csinálta amíg ettem a jégkrémet, kb 15 percig. Persze ellenálltam, van ebben gyakorlatom :)
Azon viszont meglepődtem, hogy ezek szerint mérettől és életkortól függetlenül, minden kutya tudja ezt az arckifejezést produkálni - és egyszerűen túl édesek ilyenkor...

Clouds - Felhők

2010-08-17T07:06:00.001+01:00

30 blocks and counting - 30 négyzet, egyelőre

2010-08-05T20:46:00.002+01:00

Még tavaly elkezdtem egy patchwork-szerű ágytakarót, hogy felhasználjam valamire az akril/műszálas fonalaimat. 25 és 30 között vagyok valahol, és valami ritka béna gombolyagból kötök, ez a harmadik négyzetem és még mindig van belőle egy csomó - sose lesz vége! Alig várom, hogy meglegyen a minimum 60 négyzet, ami egy kisebb takaróhoz kell, és köthessek valami tényleg szépet valami tényleg szép fonalból...

I'm currently knittting a patchwork bedcover, to use up all my acrilic yarns - i started this last year. Right now i'm using the most crappy ball ever, this is the third square i'm on and there's still plenty of yarn left. Brrr. Can't wait to have 60 square finished (i have between 25 and 30 right now) so i can make a smaller throw and move on to knit something really pretty from some really pretty yarn...

Where did july go?! - Hova tűnt a július?!

2010-08-02T21:45:00.005+01:00

I did overtime yesterday and read The Little Prince in english for the first time. I finished it on the train which was full with people going home after a day at the beach... I still remember full paragraphs in hungarian, said by the voice-actors from an audio performance of the book. I wished i knew french though, some nuances can be so lost in translation.

After i got home, i realized it's august already - i'm afraid i missed out on this summer. Not the first time. Though on friday we went for a drink with a couple of collegues and sat in the back garden, wich is definetly something very summer-y as other times its just too cold and windy to sit outside after work. It was a bit crazy evening... ended up at some flat with eight or ten girls in it and only one (very ugly) guy, aside from us. Not the best proportions for a houseparty i think. We came home shortly with cousin K and climbed onto everything along the way, like building materials, rails, fences, fountains... damn snowboard movies have a bad influence on me :D and K likes it when i'm a bit "loosened up by beer". Thanks.

Why i don't blog - Amiért nem írok

2010-07-24T15:21:00.006+01:00

I was working on this. Used up a 150g/475 m big roll of BFL yarn with about two meters left over. Its 212 cm long and 30 wide. Biiiggg. I wish i've made it wider though, and could've used some wires when blocked as the edges should be loopy - well i didn't had the amount of pins nor the patience to pin them in place at every row. As there's a loop at the beginning of each row. Next payday, maybe.

Ezen dolgoztam. 150 grammnyi / 475 méternyi kékpofájú gyapjút evett föl, talán két méternyi ha maradt. 212 centi hosszú és 30 széles avagy túlnagy. Szélesebbre kellett volna kötnöm, és nem ártott volna néhány blokkolótű sem, mert így nem látszanak a hurkok a két hosszanti oldalon. Minden sor elején van egy hurok, csak épp nem volt se elég gombostűm, se elég türelmem egyesével kipöckölni őket. Majd következő fizuból veszek drótokat.

I was also working on these - top row middle and right plus bottom row left were done last saturday. Took about two hours each plus a few breaks (like lunch, brewing tea and stuff) and watched a stupid amount of documentaries on youtube. I run out of the interesting ones and also my head still spins a bit from the amount of information so now i'm off to snowboard videos. Much less brainy but the occasional rap and hip-hop as background music is annoying.

Ezekkel is haladtam - felső sor középső és jobboldali plusz az alsó sor baloldalija mind a múlt hét szombati kötő-maratonom eredménye. Kb két óra kellett mindegyikre, nem számolva a szüneteket (úgymint étkezés, teaivás és hasonlók). Ó és egy rakás doku-film a jutúbon. Kifogytam az üsszes érdekesből mostanra, meg a fejem iszsong egy kicsit - még mindig - a sok infótól, úgyhogy most snowboard-ot nézek. Sokkal kevesebb agymunka kell hozzá, csak az időnkénti rap/hip-hop kísérőzene idegesít.

Yesterday i found an interview in german and was totally surprised how much i understood. The only word i had absolutely no clue of was Schulter. Looked up - it means shoulder. The etimology enthusiast in me was seriously dissappointed for not figuring this out :D But it's good to know that i still understand german and 10 years of learning wasn't entirely in vain :)

Tegnap találtam egy cikket, németül volt, és teljesen meglepődtem, hogy mennyire jól megértettem. A "shulter" volt az egyetlen szó, aminek a jelentéséről halvány gőzöm sem volt, megnéztem a szótárban, és vállat jelent. Ami angolul ugye shoulder, vagyis majdnem ugyanaz. Azt hittem lefejelem az asztalt, én a nagy etimológus, ilyet bakizni :D De azért jó tudni, hogy nem felejtettem el mégse németül és nem volt hiábavaló a 10 év tanulás :)

Finally final - Itt a vége

2010-07-11T19:15:00.003+01:00

I just broke a nice habit. At the last two world cup finals, i was traveling - not just traveling, flying actually. In 2002, we catched the second half after landing and giving up a city sightseeing tour; in 2006, we were sitting in the lounge and had to board before it was finished.
Now, i'm sitting at home - altough not in my home country.

Go Holland, go Spain, go Vuvuzelas ;)

(btw i couldnt help smiling when i saw the bbc guys all dressed up suit-and-tie for the final :D )

Concerning football - Ami a focit illeti

2010-07-03T16:56:00.011+01:00

"Football is a game played by 22 people and always won by the germans. " I heard this a couple years ago when England was beaten by Germany, again. I was never that impressed by them but wow what a play today. Poor poor Argentina.

"A foci egy olyan játék, amit 22-en játszanak, és mindig a németek nyernek." 4-0 Argentína ellen, szuper meccs.

That guy is Maradona??!! Wow. And i saw him playing when he was called the best player in the world! Ok it might have been like twenty years ago... no wait, i can't be that old...

Hát Maradonát nem ismertem volna föl ha nem mondják be a nevét. És én még láttam játszani anno, amikor ő volt a legjobb játékos a világon. Persze lehet, hogy ez már 20 éve volt... na neeem, annyira nem lehetek öreg...

This is the third big tournament since i live here in England and the support was they highest ever now - more flags, hats and shirts then at the last two occasions put together. At least here in Southend.
This is how our canteen looked like; thats three tv-sets on top of big boxes. Normally we dont have any. (I hope they leave one here after the cup...)

Az angolok beleadtak mindent a dekorálásba - annyi zászló, mez meg miegyéb van (volt) mindenfelé, mint az előző vb + eb alatt összesen. A gyári kantin is teljesen ki volt dekorálva, a három tévéről nem is beszélve. Eddig soha nem volt tévénk (remélem egyet legalább itthagynak a vb után...)

Some of my collegues before the match against Slovenia. We were allowed to watch the match in the canteen but no payment for that time (no holiday either) and no beer.

Pár kollégám élt a lehetőséggel hogy nézhettük a meccset - munkaidőben, fizu/szabi és sör nélkül.

The last teabreak was just before halftime, so we arrived to find virtually no free chairs. We had to sit on the tables at back, then after 5 minutes, at halftime, everyone rushed out and we could have a look at the highlights. Some girls from the office were mingling with the working class too :)

Az utolsó szünetünk félidő előtt öt perccel kezdődött, úgyhogy csak a terem hátuljában tudtunk leülni az asztalokra. Aztán öt perc múlva mindenki kirohant a félidei cigire, és megnézhettük az összefoglalót. Volt ott egy pár csaj az irodából is, keverve a munkásnéppel :)

Let's knit... - Akkor kössünk...

2010-07-03T10:45:00.006+01:00

I was knitting a shawl last week (up until i lost track of what row i'm on and put the thing aside) that had an interesting feature: every row started with a yarn over wich made a nice loopy edging on both sides. Today, i'm working on a simple square and didn't undertsood why do i keep having more and more stitches and funny loops all around. Well because i automaticaly started every row with a yarn over!! Bad habits :)

Múlt héten egy olyan sálat kötöttem (amíg el nem felejtettem, melyik sorban járok, és félreraktam az egészet későbbi kibogozásra) amin minden sor egy ráhajtással kezdődött, így szép csipkés széle lett. Ma nekiálltam egy sima négyszögnek, és nem értettem honnan került a sorok szélére az a sok lyuk meg fölösleges szem. Mert még mindig ráhajtással kezdtem a sorokat :)

Random picture - Fénygépezős

2010-06-27T21:04:00.004+01:00

... for playful businessmen, presented by the National Rail, UK.

... játékos lelkű üzletembereknek, a National Rail avagy Nemzeti Vasúttársaság, UK, jóvoltából.

Still alive - Még mindig élek

2010-06-27T15:15:00.002+01:00

... altough barely. Lost my blogging "mojo". Together with the knitting one. Sunshine seems to help though and i even went to a real holiday, the first time in years. Or maybe centuries :D

... bár éppenhogycsak. Eccerűen nem volt kedvem blogolni. Kötni se. A napfény segít azért :) Ééés nyaralni is voltam, kb évszázadok óta először...

Like it / Like it not - Szeretem / nem szeretem

2010-04-24T11:48:00.007+01:00

Like it: my Symphony interchangable needle tips, size 3.25mm. I bought these only because i wanted to try wooden needles. Originally didn't liked them, i was constatly afraid that the tips will get chipped off, the needle will broke in the middle, i didn't liked the colours, they were much slower then the metal needles... But in the course of the last year, i ended up using these a lots of times even when i started with different sizes or on plastic needles. I just keep ending up working with these and now i'm fairly sure they wont broke just buy holding them. I made some of my biggest knitting accomplishments with these, an Aeolian and a Swallowtail lace shawl, among other projects.
Good old tools which slowly but surely worked themselves into being one of my core knitting necessities.

Like it not: garter stitch. I'm all right with them as edging as they stop the fabric from rolling but as an all-around stitch, row after row, i just can't stand it. Soooo slow, and i have to fight to get the tip of the needle under the loop at every stitch... Guess would be less bad with a looser tension but i'm a tight knitter. So, for now, no garter stitch blankies and squares. I'll stick to lace :)

Like it: AC/DC. A couple of years back my brother and me asked our mum what kind of music did she listened to when she was our age. We both are no-mainstream, me liking heavy metal and world music and my bro liking punk, and we knew our dad liked pop-rock and she was in high school '72-76, in the height of abba and boney-m, so we wondered if it just us gone astray... Her answer: "Well, i liked stuff like ac/dc, led zeppelin and such". Both our jaws dropped. She grew like 4 inches in the eyes of my brother and we went "Ahaa!!! So it's a genetic thing. Not our fault!" Something genetic must be in it as our closest cousin - who is first cousin on both sides, yeah crazy family we are - is also into hard rock. Blame the parents :D

Like it not: i spent way too much money on yarn in the last two months. I barely bought anything in january and february, and now i'm falling over the other side of the horse (or what's the expression.) I think i spent between a hundred and hundred and fifty pounds. I dont wast to count it 'coz i'm afraid i'd end up something even closer to two hundred. At least i love all of them, everything i bought :)

Still dumb... - Még mindig...

2010-04-18T10:51:00.006+01:00

Started a simple cardigan pattern. Instruction: Cast on 115 stitches. Using markers, that's 30 + 30 + 30 +15. Right? It was for me, for 5 cm of ribbing and another 8 rows of stocking st, at least. After that, I felt really really dumb. Have to take up crosswords or some logic-boosting thing before i sink into the level of a holstein-friesian.

Mooo.

Probably because of this (another...) failure, i led myself persuaded by my cousin K and cousin-in-law C to go with them to a club after the pub instead of going home. I dressed deliberately casually, jeans and training shoes, as the clubs here all have dress-code. Unfortunately for me the other two wasn't too dressed up either plus the place wasn't full so they let me in too. Before i knew what's happening i was paying the 6 pounds entry and got to the edge of the dancefloor... Luckily the bar was nearby too. It turned out quite nicely though, somehow i found the don'give a damn rocker in me and even the music couldn't bother. We had a funny evening, girls night out while my other cousin was babysitting his daughter at home :D
And thank god - or whoever invented it - for the green tea. ;)

Butulok - Dumbing down

2010-04-14T07:04:00.005+01:00

Mert 8x6 az 32. Aha. A sok szivacs az oka, egyszerűen kiszívják az ember agyát... Még jó hogy a két kollégám se jutott többre, a thai csaj nem tud angolul számolni, a lengyel meg lengyelül se :)

Vasárnap meg voltunk moziban és vettünk leckét sárkány-edzésből. Nagggyon tetszett, C-nek nem annyira pedig miatta mentünk, négy felnőtt a három és fél évessel (jó kifogás). Moost vana Miért? korszakban és rendszeresen ez a válasza bármit mond neki az ember. Balszerencséréjére az anyukája profi a csattanós, gyors válaszokban, mi meg próbálunk nem röhögni :) Mos is volt egy jó párbeszédük: a film nézése helyett a pótülőkéjével játszott, háttal a vászonnak.
- C, gyere, nézd leesett a kisfiú.
- Mért? - Fel se nézve.
- Mert nem figyeltél.
Na erre fölkapta a fejét és kikukucskált. De attól tartok a málnaszörp tetszett neki a legjobban az egész mozizásban.

Spring, sunshine, horse racing - and the dark clouds - Tavasz, napsütés, lóverseny - és a sötét felhők

2010-04-10T14:15:00.007+01:00

I was working this morning, first overtime in ages or at least months. I hope this means the company is going up :) Same for the weather, sunshine and blossoming trees in abundance, plus my cousin's wife and daughter are arriving at the afternoon so it looks to be a very nice weekend.
Yesterday we had a little betting game at the workplace too. Today's the Grand National - horse race - and the managers cut up a start list, and for a bet of one pound, you get to pick a horsename and if your horse wins, you take all 40 pounds. I was working with two of the chinese womens and their faces just lit up when the boss said the last bit :D "Yeah, we want to win all the money!!" :D And then we spent half an hour laughing at the horse names. Mine is #20, Snowy Morning - this one's more on the cute rather then on the funny side, and as i watched quite a lot of ski and snowboard lately it seemed sort of appropriate. The funniest name was "Comply or Die" i think, this one got the most laughs.

On the more serious side, i saw a piece of news printed out and handed around by the polish people at teabreak but only saw the title. That was around 10 am so it only talked about a plane crash involving the polish president. Now i read the whole article about the tragedy and feel so sorry for all the polish people. May those people who served their country rest in peace. So many great people had died, i guess the whole country is in shock.

Just a sidenote though - i dearly hope this won't cause diplomatic problems, and it was "just" a mechanical failure or pilot problem, not something more sinister. There's sooo much going on already right now, with all the elections: both Hungary and the UK will held parliamentary elections in may; and the "unrest" - what a stupid word for near-civil-war-like situations - Kyrgizistan and Thailand too, i have thai collegues too - everyone's going to be miserable now that spring is here?!

Ok heads up, i'm 27 rows away from finishing my aeolian shawl and relatives are coming and the sun shines :)

Just look at the date - Milyen nap is van?

2010-04-01T07:16:00.002+01:00

I clicked on wikipedia to check out the news for today and read: "A Japanese multinational conglomerate (headquarters pictured) investigates how some of its customers were accidentally sent back in time to the year 1999. " I said what, and read again, maybe i just mis-translated something... then i remembered what day is :) I love wikipedia on this day :D
And i'm getting better, last year i browsed through most of the page and was totally confused before realizing what's going on. Hehe :)

Csak még egy "csak egy szombat" - Just another "just another saturday"

2010-03-20T12:57:00.006Z

Input:

Zene / Music: The Offspring
Étel/Food: Vegyes zöldség leves / Vegetable soup

Output:

Pénz / Money:túúúl sok/ tooo much. :P
Kötés / Knitting: zero.

De még csak dél van, előttem a nap java része :)
But it's only noon, most of the day is still in front of me :)

Március 15. és a tavaszi letargia - 15 March and a K.O.

2010-03-15T19:37:00.004Z

Azért jobban örültem volna, ha nem totális levertséggel ébredek, de olyan szinten, hogy tökéletesen üres fejjel támolyogtam ki az állomásra, a vonaton majdnem bőgtem minden ok nélkül, és 20 perc után hazakérezkedtem hogy ki tudjam bőgni magam. Tavaszi letargia? Vagy most jön ki rajtam a hosszú tél? Pár hete már érett a dolog de hogy ennyira padlóra küldjön... Nem egy méltó tiszteletadás a nemzeti ünnepen :(

It would've been a nice day if i hadn't woken up feeling totally beaten and on the verge of crying with no concrete reason whatsoever. I lasted 20 minutes at work then asked to be let home so i could cry it out. Spring letarghy or the long winter? I felt down for weeks but didn't expected to be knocked out this much. Not an appropriate tribute in our National Day :(

Phat Fiber Sampler Box

2010-03-14T15:03:00.004Z

This thing is creepy. The shop had about 1670 sell at 15:00 and 1736 at 15:01. Thanks to a tutorial i managed to rush through the checkout , then went back to actually take a look at the things, and all was gone. In about 40 seconds. This would've looked nasty in a real shop!!!

Mi az ördög... - What the devil...

2010-03-13T10:10:00.005Z

You Are The Devil

You don't represent evil, but you do represent the animalistic side of humans.
You demonstrate what happens when we listen to our first instincts.
At times you tend to be materialistic and hedonistic, giving in to temptation.
Admit it, you're guilty of acting first - and forgetting to think later!
Your fortune:
Right now, you may be having a difficult time as a result of choices you have made.
You need to think about what's important in your life, and discover what chains you down.
It is the time to acknowledge your faults and take steps to overcome them.
It's also the time to let go of any fears or inhibitions that are holding you back.

Aha, mert írd be a neved és megmondjuk melyik tarot kártya vagy. :D Ott kéne hagynom ezeket a blogthing-es kvízeket mielőtt teljesen becsavarodok :D

Yeah, submit your name and we'll tell you what tarot card you are. :D I should leave these bloghthing quizes before i go totally crazy. :D

Jim, Johnny, Jack...

2010-03-12T21:30:00.007Z

Ma egész nap azon gondolkoztam, hogy a Jim Beam meg a Johnny Walker mellett melyik a harmadik m-betűs májméreg. Mármint j-betűs. Már a gondolatra berúgok vagy mi?!!Bár inkább csak az alliterációt terjesztettem ki ösztönösen. :)
Aztán az előbb bementem a spájzba és szembetalálkoztam Jack-kel :) A tennessee-i gyerek, nem a whitechapel-i a késsel :D Borzasztó a szaga, az ízéről nem is beszélve, de egy korty után hat.

Ez volt az én hétvégi ereszd-el-a hajamat jelenetem :D

I was pondering all day today about who is the third m-letter i mean j-letter... liqour-guy beside Jim Beam and Johnny Walker. Then walked into the cupboard under the stairs and met Jack :) The tennessee guy, not the whitechapel one with knife. :) It smells horrible not mention how it tastes, but one sip makes the effect.

This was my weekend lets-go-wild party :D

Zsiráf - Giraffe

2010-03-11T06:54:00.006Z

You Are a Giraffe

You are down to earth and realistic. You are able to see far off into the horizon.
You bring a lot of perspective to other's lives. You are never too myopic.
You are honest to a fault. You tend to tell it how it is, even if someone isn't ready to hear it.
You are very down to earth and practical. You prioritize what matters in your life, and you don't waste your time.

Ezt a napot is megértem. A 154 centis magasságommal, zsiráf :)

I never thought i'll be once labeled as giraffe with my 5'1" height. :)

Itt találtam / found it here: blogthings.com

Utolsó nap - Last day

2010-02-28T22:47:00.007Z

And Canada won! Yes :) If not the hungarians, at least them ;)

...

Pretty soon the fire in the cauldron will be gone. I won't see it go just as i didn't saw it being lit. Didn't saw the opening ceremony and the same will be the case with the closing, and this i regret a bit, because these shows where always big events to watch on the tv while i was growing up, but also, i dont have a tv set now and no one to watch as my cousins aren't interested in winter sports and the rest of my family is too far away. I watched the games on bbc online, not everything, and not compulsively, and often in the background while doing knitting. I cheered mostly for strangers, for good games, for people whose few-line backround stories cathced my attention or just had a catchy name; i cheered for brits and hungarians in particular - when i could get snippets of them, when not, i had to do with poles and any neighbourghs like slovaks and slovenians and austrians. Or anyone. They where good games, great moments, lots of fog and snow, and well, canada can cheer :)

Next up in one and a half years : London. Can't wait :)

A részvétel a fontos... - What matters is being there...

2010-02-28T22:38:00.006Z

I wanted to write about the two guys who came last in the 50 km cross country and put up a big fight at the end and sprinted for the finish line to catch the 47th place - they raced just like those who went for the medals.

But then started the ice hockey final and got stuck. And i said myself i won't get exited or anything, but did. Of course. Of course chewed my nails and got that stone in the stomach and those damn americans scored 24.4 seconds back. It's so bad to watch them canadians do the same stupid thing as hungarians and english do: getting nervous and let it slip.

Hope not. Fingers crossed.

Btw i finished the Gail during the 50k and cast off during the hockey.

Utolsó előtti nap - Next to last day

2010-02-27T19:18:00.005Z

One more day to go in Vancouver... i don't like closing ceremonies, they are beautiful of course but watching the olympic light go out and being left with the bleak weekdays, so melancholy. Same as getting the decorations off the christmas tree. Or the start of term in school. Apart of seeing everyone back :)
I've just cast off the traveling jitterbug - i have 5 g of yarn left. I've played a bit at the last 10 rows on the stocking stitch section as i wanted to make 12 repeats instead of 11, and needed 173 stitches or 14 more than the pattern stated, but in the same amount of rows - so i had to squeese that plus 14 stitches in somewhere. I made some m1's on all sides - middle of the right and left parts of both sides, so increased 10 stiches every 2 rows instead of six. Of course i've messed up big time. On the rs row, right part had 5 more stitches then needed, while the left part had 3 st's missing. Holy cow. I don't know what went wrong, i was counting and paying attention. Luckily after that i didn't had any major problems, no rip-backs, no skipped rows, not even hand-ache.
All is well if the end is well, this was a quick knit, yarn was enough, i've got to know again a new type of triangular shawl(ette)s and i'm getting more and more insight of their construction - so far without having to buy any expensive books. Time to donate to ravelry :)

Angol időjárás, megint - English weather, again

2010-02-26T22:22:00.001Z

This time living up to the reputation regarding the quantity and frequency of rain. Today was the first day of the week when i did not get soaked either in the morning or at the evening (or both). Today we had big wind only :P

I had three days totally off of knitting. I didn't had anything on the needles to just carry on, and was too knocked off after the swallowtail to start anything new. I wanted to do two little scarves/shawls plus the big lacey one during the olympics time, i had one small and the big one down, olympics still going, so after a remarkably short time of pondering ( a mere 2 hours...) i grabbed one of the jitterbugs and cast on for a Traveling woman. I had a bit of a sway towards the Multnomah with stocking stitch instead of garter st as the colours are on the rustic side and would have looked well with those big calm waves, but it also would've made it too rustic. So i stuck with the traveling eoman and it goes quite nice, i'm on the middle of the second repeat of chart a. The probably will be too short for three repeats as the edge chart quite big. I have time until sunday evening, so even with the planned pub visit i'll finish it easily.
Next olympics i'll have to do something really big. Like a Herbert Niebling lace with 2000 (two thousand) sticthes in one round or some norwegian colourwork jumper on 3mm needles.

I ordered some yarn and other stuff off the internet including a 2,5 mm circular addi needle i needed in order to start a project. Except when the needles arrived and i held them i just couldn't remember what project was that. Maybe some gloves. Now i have to go back to my ravelry page and dug up my Favourites pile... like i don't do this enough times already (about once a week, takes hours :D )

Medálosztás - Medal ceremony

2010-02-22T07:03:00.005Z

"Please accept this Ravatar bouquet from the beautiful Bobettes, wearing gorgeous lacy scarves, cowls and shawls of many colors:

and this medal from the head of the International Ravelympic Committee, Adonis Dionysius Bobicus Maximus:

Now please rise for the Ravelry International Anthem.

dum…dedumdum..de…dummmdedumdidoh…..(crescendo)…Dah!!!

And the crowd runs off in search of blocking wires and T-Pins… because they’re all I.L.L."

Ezért kaptam.
I earned it with this.

:)

(I.L.L. = I Love Lace ;)

Pssszt - Pssst

2010-02-21T17:45:00.010Z

Csak akkor akartam írni róla amikor már megkaptam a medált érte, de a moderátor asszem amerikai, és még mindig nincs eredményhirdetés a mai napra, és már majdnem 10 órája befejeztem, szóval... befejeztem a Swallowtail-t, blokkolva, elvarrva, és szép lett nagyon, még meg is dícsérték, igaz hogy a fonal színét - ami nekem nem igazán esetem, de hát ízlések és pofonok :D
Aztán meg két órámba került befejezni a bejegyzést a londoni utamról, eredeti dátum szerint február 10-re van keltezve. És hova lett már megint a hétvégém?!

I wanted to announce it when i got the badge but the moderator who gives out the medals is american i guess and i finished almost 10 hours ago, so... the Swallowtail is finished, blocked, sewn up, pretty and already complimented or at least the colour of the yarn - which i wasn't particularly fond of, but for each they own :D
Also i spent about 2 hours writing up the london trip and posted it with the original date, february 10... where's my weekend again?!

Hm, swallowtail azt jelenti pillangó, a lepkék egy csoportja. Meg vagyok lőve, én eddig azt hittem ez két szó szinonímája egymásnak - olyasmi mint hogy mi vasban (Vas megye) a rovarokat úgy általában simán bogárnak hívjuk. Csak épp a rovar-bogárnál tudjuk, hogy mi a különbség, de attól még nyelvjárási jellegzetességként simán felcseréljük, a lepke-pillangó dologról viszont nem tudtam. És biológiából érettségiztem!

Wow swallowtail means butterfly... in hungarian, we use two words: lepke and pillango (papillon) as synonims but pillango (butterflies) are actually a subfamily in the family of lepke (Papilionidae). In my home county on the western border we use these words exchangably, just as bug and insect, these are dialect specialities. I knew about the bug thing but not about the butterfly. And i took biology as one of my matriculation exam subjects!

Érme bűvészet - Coin magic

2010-02-21T11:27:00.032Z

Last weekend i found an interesting coin in my purse. I'm using that small vallet only in the canteen during weekdays, so i must have get it there with the change. It says United States on the tail side and has "1 dime" written on it. I found this strange as i thought the currency is dollar in the USA :D
I looked it up on wiki and now i understand why are they always using the nicknames for the coins in the films. Because that's what's written on them. Not 10 cents, 25 cents, 50 cents but 1 dime, quarter, half dollar, and no numbers. Crazy people.
Also it's interesting that the dime - 10 cents - is the same size and colour as the 5p here; and the nickel - 5 cents - is just slightly smaller and has the same colour as the 10p. I might add, the hungarian 5 forint and 10 forint are like copies of the british 5 and 10 pence. International coin-spiracy. Nothing can beat in weirdness the good old 50p though.

"Weird! What a shape! This is money?" (quote from Ron Weasley)

This dime was the most interesting (furthest from home) coin i found here in England so far; the others were an euro 1 cent, spanish one if i remember right, i picked it up from the pavement on High street; and two twenty pence pieces, one from Gibraltar and one from Guernsey. I've got these two from the canteen too; we have a lots of different people working there from around the world, some doesn't even know british money well, so it's not that surprising.
I collect the rarer 50p and 2 pounds pieces too, i have about 30 pounds worth of those in my jewellery box. Sometimes when i'm very short on change i use a couple of them and then spend weeks to try get them back.
Last year there was a big re-design on the coins and now the reverses make up the the royal shield - being a heraldry geek, i almost squeeked when saw the first puzzle-piece amongst the change and realized this will be one of the best puzzles i ever did. I checked every single piece of change i could get my paws on and took two months after having all the others to hunt down a 1p coin, the last missing piece, with the help of my cousin who got the bug from me and was also collecting them on his own. I like the old reverses too, so many historical references on them: Tudor arms, Prince of Wales arms, scottish thistle, royal lion, tudor rose, the full royal coat of arms and these are just the basic ones... the one and two pounds have at least a dozen variations each. I love living history :)

I also keep a hungarian 20 forint piece in my vallet, which has a stool iris on it ; and a 50 forint, with a saker falcon, in my jeans pocket. Coin magic ;)

Ázik - Soaking

2010-02-20T20:17:00.006Z

Swallowtail elkötve, beáztatva. Jobb mancs hasogat. Körülnéztem a szobában, és rendetlenség van. Ideje visszatérni a való világba :)

Swallowtail bind off, in the soak. Right paw aching. Had taken a look around the room and it's a mess. Time to come back to the real world :)

(Az ott a bbc olimpiai közvetítése, on-line. Most azér örülnék egy tévének... az nem pixeles és nem akad :P )

(That's the bbc's on-line olympics coverage. I'd like a tv set right now... no pixels and no erratic stream :P)

Hatodik nap - Day six

2010-02-17T22:38:00.005Z

Nincs időm írni, olimpiázok :D A bbc online közvetítást nézem, és némelyik kommentátornak haláli angol humora van. A többi meg kommentátor átkát okoz sorozatosan - amikor elkezdik mondani, mennyire jó valaki, az illető általában esik egy jó nagyot... :D

No time to write, doing olympics :) Some of these bbc commentators have real funny british humour, the rest have commentator's curse - every time they start to praise someone the person they talk about falls :D :D

11 ismétlésnél tartok a kis mintából a Swallowtail-en, és úgy döntöttem a receptben írt számú ismétlést fogom kötni. Majdnem biztos hogy ki fogok fogyni a fonalból, valószínűleg 4 sorral a vége előtt, mint a Gail-nél, de a rövidítés csökkentené a kihívási értéket is. Hosszabbítás mondjuk szintén őrültség lenne :D

11 repeats of the budding lace pattern on the swallowtail done, and i decided to go with the original number of repeats. Almost sure i'll end up four rows short like with the Gail, but this supposed to be a challange... shortening it would lessen that. Lenghtening it would be total crazy too :D
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Ami a munkát illeti - a gyár adott nekünk egy cirádásan fogalmazott levelet, miszerint nincs elég megrendelésünk, úgyhogy ha valaki ki szeretne venni pár napot, örömmel engedélyezik. Fizetetlen szabi persze. Főnök nem adott nekem a levélből, kicsit tartottam tőle hogy azért, mert rám ez valamiért nem vonatkozik, de csak elfelejtett.

On the working front - factory gave us a pretty elaborate letter about not having enough orders so if we want to take a few days off they'd be glad to let us have them. Unpaid of course. Boss skipped me so i thought maybe i'm excluded but she just forget about me.