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

Csütörtökről - About thursday

Yesterday i left work two hours earlier and went to the Civic Centre to ask them if i could receive some help for my rent. And yes. I will get 44 pounds housing benefit a week, 'coz i live alone and i'm on minimum wage. This is really great, it means i don't have to accept the first anyone who wants to rent the other room, plus i won't live up all the savings i inadvertently made with the tax code thing.

And we strated the day with a little fire alarm at the factory :D Just about 10 minutes after we came back from teabreak (our section is the last to go, 11:20-30 - way too late, btw) so we just started up again, when the alarm went off. Nobody cared for a while because we actually have firealarm test on thursday, just not at 11:30 but at 12:30. It just didn't stopped after 5-6 seconds as it used to - so after 8-9 seconds, at roughly the same moment, everyone realiezed what's going on. There was no smoke, so i wasn't woriied a bit, and it was actually fun - all smokrs started to smoke right after we gathered at the fire point :)
We already had a fire alarm, about two years back, at winter; also on a thursday, but around 9 o'clock, and that was a real thing, we could smell smoke (only faintly) while we went outside - into the could, no jackets... Than the fire trucks arrived, and we stood there freezing for about 20 minutes.

Magyar - Hungarian

Valamelyik nap bóklásztam a jutúbon és találtam néhány érdekes dolgot. Pl ezt:
The other day i was surfing on youtube and fund this:

(It's a hungarian folksong performed with nearly perfect pronunciation; i recon when foreigners ask us to sing something in hungarian, we usually choose this. It's like Auld lang syne for the british i guess :) )


Aztán meghallgattam őt - Egyházi Géza; anyu kedvenc musical-énekese.
After that i listened him - he is Géza Egyházi (erm... no, i cant write out how to pronunce it in english...) ; he is my mum's favourite musical singer.

(The aria is from the opera Bank ban, title is My homeland, my homeland and it's a very famous and beloved patriotic song for hungarians. Very easy to sing badly, very moving when sing well.)


És utána azt a Simándy Józsefet akiről azt mondta anyu, hogy szép az ahogy az Egyházi énekel, de azért őt sosem fogja utolérni.
And afterwards that József Simándy about whom mum always says that Egyházi is a good singer, but will never beat him at this song.



Már értem.
Now i understand.

OH csoport - Post with OH content

OH as of alcohol molecules. I really don't know wich one has the more serious effect, a pint of 5% beer or several shots of 40% herb stuff (as in Jägermeister) - tried the first on friday (with live music, mmmm) , the second today/yesterday, well... one month 'till me b'day, always the crazy time of the year for me.
Both feels dizzy, encouraging, and slightly, chocking with tears. Throw in a (still) heartbroken cousin with a pain bigger then this little blue dot planet called Earth here; and a still single myself, and i'm really not nagging, just saying stuff, coz there's freedom of speech in this country, right? I mean people fought for this! I should use it and respect it, whit getting the courage and saying stuff out loud.
I know those with kids but no proper sleep, or those without kids but demanding jobs have they own share too, and they would say, "don't complain" to me, but hey. Don't look down at me just because i don't have neither and my "only problem" is calculating the alcohol effect once a month, otherwise just knitting around absent-mindedly and doing some brainless job, and care for myself, no one around. No, i'm really not complaining. I'm just telling facts, 'coz this is my blog, so that's why it is around in the first place, 'innit? And what if i'm not as happy as i could be, is it a sin not to feel whole being alone instead of "being a strong, independent woman" - hell, i want to be a weak, dependent woman on someone's side for goodness sake, why would i want to be alone if i could have someone to share with?! - but what i want is just a thing. Not something that matters when i could been living in a place where i have no job, or no food, or no rights, or no peace (peace meaning no war here not quieteness) and i i'm thankful i have all those things i have, it's just sometimes i miss the things i dont have and honestly, dont seem such big things that they ought to be denied from me until i'm worth for them, when others who look much less whorth have them and dont give a thought . Just human nature, to be constantly unsatisfied and unthankful with what we have and longing for things we dont have.

And i really dont mind wich one is heavier, the lots of beer or the few herbs, the only annoying moments are the people who think they have so much bigger problems than me, and the silly little me who knows exactly how little my silly problems are.

And cricket is dead boring, and makes rubish football look like the exitment of your life.

Also english guys are rubish. I mean, two beers in four hours, then going home whithout chatting up some girls at the nearby table?! Come ooooon!!!

:D

Pakkot kaptam :) - I got packet :)

Bezonyám, méghozzá Olaszországból :) Már tegnap ideért, de a postás mindig akkor jön, amikor én már dolgozok.
Ezek voltak egy aranyos kék-zöld dobozban: sokszínű, mosógépálló zoknifonal - 100g, elég egy párhoz :) ; két 100% merino gombóc , kékek - csupa olyasmi, amit szeretek :) Plusz egy fincsi mogyorós csoki, amit már le is teszteltem, két pici tusfürdő (hm, randira tökéletesek lennének, már csak találnom kell valakit aki el is hívna :D ) és két tégely méz, rozmaringos és narancsos. Ez utóbbi kettő nagyon tetszik, bár az a bajom a mézzel, hogy nem bírom se az illatát, se az ízét tisztán, de sütibe/teába/kásába keverve szeretem. Úgyhogy majd keresek valami finom, különleges keksz-receptet nekik :)

Legszívesebben rögtön nekiugranék a zokninak, de ahogy magamat ismerem, legalább két hétig fog tartani, mire kiválasztom a mintát. Plusz jó lenne, ha haladnék valamit anyu mellényével, és a saját adandó ajándékommal se ártana foglalkozni - no majd meglátom.

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I got packet!!!! Yeah :) From Italy - grazie assai, Dear Pal :)

It arrived yesterday but i was already at work... so i picked it up at the post office today, and these where inside a nice blue-green box:
A multicolour mashine-washable ball (mmm) enough for a pair of socks , two little balls of pure merino (ditto :) ; Hazelnut chocolate bar (tested already, yummmy); two little bottle of shower gels - they'd be perfect for a date, i just have to find someone to take me out :D And two jars of fragrant honey: rosemary and orange. I really love these two, my only problem is that i cant stand raw honey, nor taste nor smell - but i like it in cookies/tea/porridge, so i will look for a nice biscuit recipe and make something special from them!
Oh, and the card of course from my secret pal :) Thank you, thank you very much :)

Cant wait to start some socks with the multicolour - but knowing myself, it will take two weeks to decide on the pattern :D And i want to get a bit further with mum's vest and my presents, but who knows...

^_^