Zsiráf - Giraffe

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

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...

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

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

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

"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 ;)