Idegek - Nerves

I definetly have them - too many and too weak. Actually my hair is like that too, too many but too thin, according to a hairdresser i went to a while ago. And i thougt it's too few but thick... but the same woman told me i have darkblonde hair, so... (I'm dark brown. Medium in bright sunshine. Not a shade lighter.)

So... the thing is, the package i sent last monday still haven't arrived as of today (thursday). The letter - posted on last thursday - arrived on tuesday, but no package yet. I feel so sorry for my pal, i already had that net connection blunder, and now the packet is late.
I'm just so afraid that it's my fault, i messed up the adress, put something in it so now it's being examined by counter-terrorist specialists, or fell into pieces mid-air, or the owl got a heat stroke over the French Riviera or a stray turbulence smashed it into a skilift over the alps or... or the royal mail simply lost it, because it is a simple air mail and not something recorded, signed for, or tagged with biometrical identification... yes, these later are my fault, and that's what i'm dreading. I sent it as a simple air mail package, as so far everything i ordered from abroad, from the us to australia, arrived safe and sound and quick with "airmail, no fuss".

Maybe the problem is that those came in, and this one went out.


But if some thickneck postman stole the cookies and the yarn and is having a tea with them while watching eastenders, i will curse them to boogies. Arggghhh.

Input

Listening: Kerrang Radio, HP4 (the one with the goblet, Rita Skeeter and Cedric Diggory)

Reading: Joseph Campbell: The Masks of God: Primitive mythology - brilliant, i mean... 3 chapters on, not a single word about actual mythologies, only explaining the background, and although i do not understand it fully (wouldn't even in hungarian, i reckon) it is absolutly interesting and and... wow. I'm so glad i signed in the library again, this is my third pack of books and a second one - the first was the one about britain's religions - with seriously good facts, and the "widening of horizon" i missed in the last few years. Of course it can turn awful later (only three chapters down), but it was worth already. I love it when i read a book and instantly know that i learned something or some already known pieces fell into their places.


Watching: i'm afraid i will watch the HP movies again. Have Bridget Jones now too, but it's too... erm, close to home? Single girl drinking... oops :D I'm not that bad though as Bridget. I drink much less :D :D


Thinking: being bilingual(ish) can be tireing. Sometimes the words only come in just one language, and it's a real pain to translate them. The lines i type out effortlessy in one of them just doesn't sound good, clatter, break on the other... I'm already losing the nuances of hungarian, composite words start to sound strange, some expressions i cant find a true match for - and on the other hand, my english grammar is faulty, my vocabulary still not wide enough, and the pronounciation- well, thats simply troll. Yesterday i told one of my british collegues that i once worked at McDonalds - and he heard "mental ward" instead. Okey, they are not that far from each, but still...

And once i knew german too :) Danke schön :)

Képes szombat - Picture saturday

Warning - long and picture-heavy :)

Well, i started the morning at 6.15, when i sit up, turned on the pc, and then tought "why the hell i'm up?" and went back to sleep. Then got up again after 8am, posted my sp package picture on the forum - finally, i kept forgetting to do this for 2 weeks now - then popped my head out the front door to check mail and I GOT PACKAGE!! Again!!! Lovely way to start the weekend :)

After knitting a bit for breakfast, i started to sort out all the things laying around in the room, so now it is really, truly messy, so much that i realized i have to go and buy some boxes for all the magazines, colour papers, yarns, and other thingies i own. So i hit the high street - and only managed to not buy anything 'coz i know how filling italian food is and i could not eat anything of it alone, and throwing out is not an option, i feel terrible when i have to do that. It's a sin(-like thing). We usually have food stalls on the highstreet over the weekends, mostly locals, but sometimes we get french, german, and now, italian ones. Green-white-red everywhere, even the Tomassi (italian restaurant on the other end of the street) were decoreted.
I only bought a vanilla latte in my fav starbucks, and walked down to the seafront to check out the ship. Should've arrived yesterday, but we didn't see it then - but now it was there! Can't wait for tomorrow to go on board :)

Owl Man was out there too, with a new owl - the fair one whit it's head down - plus the big eagle owl who is always there and a very windblown one with a i-wanna-get-outta-here expression. I see them regularly for four years now and still keep stopping by and just watching the birds for a while. I like the most when they have the little one out too - it's really small, a real life Pigwidgeon :)

I went to the little market off high street as i wanted to by some fabrics but didn't liked anything well enough to pay for it. I walked around though and find a flea market shop with some seriously cute and ridiculously cheap things - lamps, china tea-sets, figurines, victorian silver spoons, and a brilliant chess-set with knights, dragons and wizards on it - for less then 20 pounds. The queens dresses where the only downs - painten with made-for-guys, show-everything costumes :D If those would've been ok, i would have bought the set right there.
Then popped in the LYS too, bought some aida, beads and... sock yarn... *weak grin* I just had to buy some monochrome ones! I got two 100g balls of dark green Regia. The sellers asked if i really want this much, two big balls and not two 50g balls? I said yeah, as i will make socks for my brother from them - he has big feet and is commuting a lot and goes to concerts all the time, so if i make him socks, they ought to be thick and long. They louhged. (Oh and the lady who sold the Noro for me last week, she gave such a longing sigh when she saw it... :D couldn't help thinking about this when i walked past the Noros)

Back on the highstreet i found a booth where they collected for a kid's charity, and had a lottery; the price was a real Mini - and there were some minis around too, but... well, the italians not only took their food and wine - apparently they took a Ferrari too. It's italian day, it is.
Then i walked back, through the food stalls, and i really don't know how did i missed it out on my way out, but in the square in front of the cinema there were about a dozen Ferraris and a same amount of Ducattis. Wow!!!
I drooled, and gazed, and snapped pictures as i walked around - made two full rounds :) And i'm no car enthusiast. But these things are just beautiful!! There were 7 Ferraris, a Lamborghini and some Alfa Romeos, but really... i don't know, on pictures, they - the Ferraris - aren't that impressive for me, but in real life... it just feels good to even look at them. The shape and colour together i think just makes them perfect- at least for someone like me who doesn't really know about cars, and just goes about the look. But they outlook really says something like " i can do 300 kmph and that is good for you" or something like that. :D
Ah and there were the bikes too, one of the Ducattis just left and had a crazzzy sound :D

All in all, a very nice saturday morning. Cousin K is working - making pizza :D - so we will go only tomorrow anywhere else - we plan to go to Basildon to the Hobbycraft store (yeay) and after coming back to Southend, i will take the cousins to the pier. They never went there before - and hopefully we will be able to see the ship too, if the weather is cooperative. Here's hoping.

Talán elég - Maybe enough

A zokni-fonal gyűjteményem. :)

My sock yarn collection :)

ETA on 29/08: the hanks are two Jitterbugs, Frangipani and Red Parrot - the Fresco is in detention for coming out too big two times already :P Then three Easyknits skeins: Nymphaea and Jacky, 100% BFL; and a Luau, a bamboo/merino mix.
The balls are a Noro Silk Garden Sock, colour S8 - i intended this for my downstream pal, but it blew the budget so had to keep it. Seriously! This is not an excuse, it is really what happened! I actually am a bit put off by the harshness of the Noro though i loooovvve the colours of course - who not? :)
The other ball is from Italy, received it from my secret pal spoiler - i really love it, almost perfect colours - just missing a bit of red, but still had a fantastic character so its good - and its superwash and a proved yarn, so i'm happier for this then for the Noro. I will dread that yarn until i made it up for something and washed ten times and it still looks good. If.

Also not on the picture aside the fresco: a Lorna's Laces, colour (girl's name)'s Garden which i cant find, the muddy planet yarn (detto) and the brand new 2x100g dark green Regia - the only single colour sock yarn i ever had.
Now, this ought to be enough.

(Lets move on to aran... Autumn is coming... :D )

Azért még mindig kötözködök - Still knitting

Azért kötök is még mindig - de mivel többnyire esténként van csak rá időm, munka után, a félhomályban nehéz képet csinálni, és kép nélkül meg nincs sok értelme írni róla..
Szóval, miután múlt hétvégén csináltam másfél párnyi zoknit, hét közben elkezdtem egy keresztszemes mintácskát is, most hétvégén hajtogattam...

A múlt hétvégi termés: felbontottam a túlméretezett Fresco zoknit, és újra próbálkoztam. Megint túl nagy. Grr.

Úgyhogy elkezdtem egy másikat, szintén Jitterbug gombolyag, Ischia - ez már jó lett méretre, csak a színei jöttek ki kicsit szerencsétlenül, az összes mocsár-szín az egyik oldalra került, kicsit úgy nézett ki, mintha leöntöttem volna a mentol-zöld fonalat spenóttal. Kicsit félreraktam, és ezen a hétvégén már nem tűnt olyan szörnyűnek, úgyhogy elküldtem.

Anyu mellénye is alakul, bár most épp a kék szöszökkel díszített piros halom állapotában leledzik. Elbűvölően ronda.

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I'm still knitting as well - usually i am able to do it only at the evenings, after work, and twilight isn't the best time to make pictures about progress. And without pics, that's not much sense to write about it :)
So, at last weekend i made one and a half socks, started a little cross-stich project during the week, and did some origami at this weekend.

The socks: i ripped back the oversized Fresco, and started a new sock - again, too big. Grr.
After this failure, i started the another Jitterbug, colourway Ischia. This turned out all right size-wise, but i had problems with the colours. It's a bit like someone spilled spinatch onto the mint-green yarn. So i put it aside. Didn't looked so bad this weekend though, so i sent it out.

Mum's vest is going on well, albeit it is in a state of big red lump with blue thingies on it. Charmingly ugly.

Káosz - Chaos

Még jó, hogy nem lakok már otthon, anyut már a gutaütés kerülgetné, akkora rumli van a szobámban. Még jó, hogy a mosogatnivaló nincs itt bent.
Hát igen, a lustaság... azért igyekszek összekapni magam :)

Ma feladtam a csomagot is Olaszországba, bár sokkal kisebbnek érződött, mint amennyit babráltam vele. Azért remélem a címzettnek nem lesz csalódás...

Szombaton kimentünk egyet a városba. Délután, olyan kettő körül. Miután végeztünk mindennel, és már majdnem elindultunk hazafelé, K felvetette, hogy igyunk egy sört a parton, a sörkertben. Paulaner-t meg jäger-t árulnak, hétvégéken élőzene van, van egy virslisütő is, egyszóval nagyon otthonos, nagyon szeretjük. Túlságosan is. Mindig úgy megyünk oda, hogy csak egy pohárral iszunk - most, délután lévén, úgy tűnt, hogy ezt kivételesen be is tudjuk tartani. Csakhogy összefutottunk egy magyar párral, akik a mi gyárunkban szoktak túlárzni/északásban dolgozni.
Plusz a zenekar - egy londoni banda, Lucas - is extra jó volt, nagyon jól játszottak és nagyon jó volt a hangulat.
Lényeg a lényeg, este 10kor indultunk haza :D Még jó, hogy félpinteket ittam. Unokatesóék nem, meg is látszott rajuk :D Az első hotdogosnál megálltunk és megettetem őket. K hazáig morgott, L meg szokatlanul piszok volt vele. Én meg magamban somolyogtam.
Azért meglett az eredménye, hajnali négykor felébredtem és nem bírtam visszaaludni :P

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Well, it's good that i don't live at home anymore as my mum would be on the verge of a heart attack at seeing the state of my room. Lucky that the dishes aren't in here too.
Laziness... i will have to get a grip on this situation.

I also posted the pacage to Italy. It turned out quite small despite the amount of fiddling i 've done with it - i hope the recipient won't be disappointed... I know i went after every item, just the volume of the parcel did not do justice to this.

At saturday we went into the city to do some shopping and other stuff, at around two o'clock. After we finished, and nearly went home, K suggested to go and have a drink at the beer garden on the seafront. They sell Paulaner and Jägermeister, have a german sausage booth, live music at the weekends, and overall, has a very homely - as in hunagrian - feeling, so we like it very much. Bit too much. We always go there to have only one drink - being only afternoon, we had a good chance that for a change we could stick to this. Problems started when we met up with a hungarian couple who used to do overtime at our factory and started to chat.
Plus the music was extra good - a london band was playing, Lucas - so the mood was very good. We ended up going home after 10 pm :D Lucky i was drinking half-pints - unlike cousins; K was all moody, and L was a jerk with her, while i was just smirking. I had to drag them to the first hot-dog seller and feed them :D
Of course i had some after-effects - woke up at 4 am and couldn't go back to sleep. :P