Selina’s craft world

it’s weekend. The only two f***ing days I’m off from work and guess what?!?! I must have hurt a nerve in my left hand, so I can’t do anything. Not talking about the pain. IT HURTS! I can only type wit one hand

It just figures :(

Oh yeah, baby. Thank God It’s Friday - for more than one reason. I only have two more days to work until my vacation. Yesterday, when at work, my foot started hurting and it got worse during the cause of a couple of hours. At night, I was so in pain I had to take pills & things and could hardly sleep. It still hurts pretty bad - even today.

Day four of the adventskalender:

I have been really busy with getting things ready for which I will not have time when work starts on Monday. Yep, I found a job less than two weeks ago. It had a rough start with some unknowns, but it all got worked out and I will start on Monday with a paid schooling time. I am excited

I did not get to do much stitching or knitting either. I worked a bit on my MS4 and am almost half done with clue 3.

I do not think I am able to finish clue 3 before Monday. It’s a big clue and I cannot knit more than a few rows before my concentration breaks off.

Wow, it’s been a while since my last post. The last few days were crazy, but I hope I will have more time now to post again. I was offered a job and had to do lots of traveling, but after a series of events I am not too sure anymore. We’ll see.

Anyway, here’s my flutter scarf blocked. I hope it dries on time for my godmom’s birthday party.

Dog is coming closer to being done, so here it goes:

I also received something really cool. Something I wanted since a long time and now finally got from my lovely DH. A DSLR from Nikon! I always wanted to take real pro photos, but just never had the money or when I had the money I did not have the interest at that moment. Either way, when I wrote my thesis and got used to DSLR, I knew I had to have one.

And one of the first photos I took with it were of Snoopy and Andy. Most did not turn out so great as I am still playing and it is different than the Canon I used for college, but I did manage to get a really pretty photo of Snoopy - who already blogged about his day here.

No kidding. I am serious. See:

My job search is going bad, alas my mood is pretty lousy  …..   Nothing better to cure a sadness than a shopping therapy, right? Right. I got yet another new cell phone. No, I do not need more than one, but a certain father was unable to operate his new cell phone and then took mine.  My new one is a Nokia N82. I especially like the built-in Maps which I can also download for free to the phone, the GPS built-in and the camera. Oh, and it can do the telephone thingy, too.

Meaning that I will not reach my goal of spinning the 8oz I have Ah well. I am still proud of spinning and plying around 1500m of nicely, 2 plied yarn. Yay. So actually … it should be multiplied by 3, as I had to spin two singles and then ply them Anyway, here’s my third skein that sadly still needs some more plying, but it should be done before the tour ends tomorrow.

I also had my graduation yesterday, but still no diploma only a standard thing everyone else got to. I did not know one had to fill out a form in order to get it so I need to wait. Kind of upsetting, though, as I could have gotten it a while ago. No job in sight yet, either. Ah well.

.. my job search is going horrible. All I get are no’s and it puts me in a bad state of mind. Not that they only do not want me, but they actually reject me without even any invitation - which means they do not even consider me :’-(  Not even my medicine really helps anymore   And without job, we cannot move. And we want to move so bad. This apartment is driving me crazy for various reasons.

I am not sure what to do now, so any warm wishes, good thoughts and crossed fingers sure would be appreciated.

Sometimes I truely believe the universe hates me. Seriously. Sorry for this personal rant, but I thought I’d share it on here.

Today, I went to my parents to get my thesis from the printer. It was utterly, 100% terribly made. Not only was it not a book, it also was horribly cut as well as ugly printed. Well, I hope you can somehow see the horribleness of this version in this photo below.

To make a long story short, I drove home to a copy shop here, met my aunt and uncle by a luckily accident, got money to get my copies and got home with beautifully thesis books. Aren’t they yummy?

I just sent off my thesis to the printer after a having a nervous break down yesterday (had to work 12 hours, ate nothing, drank hardly anything - do not ask). Making the final touches was a real pain in the b##t. I do hope I caught all errors and everything. Either way, it’s off now and will be nicely printed and turned into 122 pages books. I need 6 copies (one for us, one for my parents and the rest for school), which will cost a big fortune.

Tomorrow will be my day off. On Monday I will start doing the presentation and Tuesday I will pick up my books and give them to the profs.

Thanks everyone for all the lovely comments you left the last few posts Now that most of my work is done, I will be able to comment and talk more again

Oh .. and I went the doc last Monday and got antibiotics - which is always very troublesome for me as I have allergies to 99.9% of them. So far, this time I am lucky and nothing too bad happened yet. So hopefully it’ll stay like that.

I think I am finally getting the cold which germs bugged me since Christmas, so my throat and head hurts. Not even ice cream helped me really. It’s only 8AM and I am pretty tired.

Other than that, not much up. No job news so far. I will meet the Prof tomorrow as I fixed most of my thesis. Hope it is approved now and I can do the presentation in 2ish weeks. Can’t wait to be done and to be able to move.

means missing in action. And that’s what I am - missing in action. I am messing with my thesis all day and hope that I am able to give it away tomorrow. I cannot wait. I am so tired of it.

I lost something important. I do not know where it is, but I am sure it is somewhere. Hope I will find it soon. And I also forgot the cable for my laptop, so it’s dead until we or my aunt can pick it up. Great

ETA: I fond the important thing! Thank goodness. I felt so bad about it.

I am still pretty upset about that job not being mine, but ah well. Sure something else will come up. Thanks Heidi and Sonya for the heads up

Yesterday was my granny’s 78th bday. We celebrated by going with her to breakfast as well as taking her to my parents and spend the day with her, eating cake and BBQ. It was a nice day. I spun a bit and she was very interested in that.

Here’s a long term project I am working on. I want to spin enough yarn to knit a Snoopy bunny that will be felted. Needed is around 330 meters of yarn. This skein took two days to do and has about 19 meters .. you get the idea of the time frame for this.

. I did not get the gov job I was hoping for Pretty sad and down at the moment

This morning, hubby and I decided to go somewhere. The two places would have been the Zoo in Landau or the Rhine in Speyer. Hubby decided for Speyer, so we took the car and the business navigation system and left. I know the way to Speyer, so it was a good test to see how the system would be. It was pretty cool and even beeped when speeding

Once there, we walked around the Rhine - which was lovely. Photos are here.

After an one hour walk, we walked back to the car and saw a mini golf place. I hesitated, but DH wanted to. Turns out it’s only 2 € each, so we played. It was much fun, but took almost an hour to finish. DH won, though we both did horribly. I only warmed up at he 17th hole Ah well. So we spent 5 € for over 2.5 hours of fun - that’s great

Since it was an open Sunday in town, we bought some bunny food and tomatoe plants for my mom. We also could not pass this. It was cheaper than my parents’, but still has it all Cannot wait to try it when we drive home tomorrow.