Randomness

[oyceter]

hermionesviolin, I got the books! Thank you!

Wargh. I found a non-BPAL perfume I like: Clean. I only tried the signature line and none of the spin-offs, but whoo! Lemony! Of course, this means it is crazy expensive!

More jittery than usual today, thanks to the Paxil. It's a side effect, but not one that bugs me that much, because I usually am jittery anyway. Of course, I don't help this by drinking coffee!

I want to watch Mr. & Mrs. Smith again (and again and again) because female assassin with gun never fails to please me. I am so easy. Definitely a DVD movie, not because of inherent quality, but because of the sheer joy derived in seeing things blow up. Also, Brad Pitt being funny! And have I mentioned Angelina Jolie as an assassin? Guh. Want more movies with female assassins/spies/thieves!

And I am happy because I got to play a fun new card game today! Fluxx is very weird but very cool because the rules and goals keep changing. I adore the fact that I have people to play games with me now.

Also, I am caffeinated, it is Friday, I am eating dinner with an auntie and probably seeing friends on the weekend and maybe even playing mahjong, and as such, I am insanely cheerful and bouncy.

*bounce bounce bounce bounce bounce bounce*

I am now crocheting a lap blanket! My sister's friend gave me her leftover yarn (three skeins!), so I am crocheting them a blanket for their NY apartment. It's fun! So odd though, having just one live stitch. I suspect I'm getting a funny groove in my finger from the crochet hook though.

I also finished the heavy knitting portion of the hooded sweater of doom! Unfortunately, this means I still have to seam the entire thing, make little pockets (mom's request), crochet on a border and sew buttons. Alas, I finished it during the heat spell last week, and let me tell you, that is not the time one wants to have a giant winter sweater in one's lap! Also, seaming bores me.

So I started me new knitting project! Cotton tank tops galore for the summer! Current pattern is Sexie from S&B Nation, except with cotton instead of stretchy ribbon, so I worry that it will be too small. Oh well. I also want to modify the pattern so I can use my newly learned tubular cast-on skill, as said cast-on only seems to look good with 1x1 ribbing and the pattern has 2x2 ribbing. Since it's only a few rows, I might just change it to 1x1. Must think. Probably need to study the pattern a little bit more to see how it is. I am irritated, though, because I've already spent several hours just doing the tubular cast-on and knitting a few rows already. Oh well. I just figured out yesterday that I have enough yarn to do the next size up, which is good, and I've already made some mistakes in the previous rows, so I think I'll just frog the whole thing and start again.

Man, I love reading patterns! I am such a dork ;). I've got to crochet myself a hat!

I was sort of scared I'd lose interest in knitting because I have a magpie mind and collect hobbies at the drop of a hat. And I hadn't gone to a knitting group for a while because of the busy-ness surrounding the family visit. But I went this week, and it was of the good, and now I am all interested again!

ETA: I need a knitting/crocheting/yarn-is-my-friend icon. Must investigate this.

Comments

[oyceter]

It's strange, because I used to get anxiety attacks, but for some reason the jitteriness isn't connected to those I guess. I think the extra energy doesn't bother me because the lethargy of depression is so not my natural state. Plus, ingrained advice from my mom makes me continually think that sleeping a lot and not having energy and not being able to do things means I am lazy (ergo worthless ergo useless, cue depression vicious cycle), so having all this energy usually just makes me extra bouncy.

[livinglaurel.livejournal.com]

If you are not prone to anxiety attacks, maybe, or at any rate not prone to them any more, the bzzt-quality of some SSRIs might not bother you -- I didn't start having anxiety/panic attacks til I'd been on Prozac a long long time, and got shifted to Zoloft to deal with the anxiety attacks on their own more than getting off Prozac to deal with them that way, if that makes sense.

ingrained advice from my mom makes me continually think that sleeping a lot and not having energy and not being able to do things means I am lazy

Oh yes, that's my dad. "You'd feel much better if you just got out of bed and into that nice sunshine outside!"