I am delighted to report that my prom dress was a success. Prepare for a picture heavy post. (Oh, and blogger is terrible at resizing everything... click the pictures for a large, clearer view.)
I deem it necessary to point out that the stupid flash caused my bright blue shorts to show through much more than they did in real life. My hair, on the other hand, really was that messy. I wasn't thinking very hard when I fixed it into a spiraling, knotted braid at the top of my head with haphazard tangles falling from my head. Needless to say, it promptly fell out into a wild mass of fuzz and barrettes. One more picture, this time sans the mane:
Yeah, yeah, the dress turned out well, but the dance proved to be a total drag. Most of what the DJ played was new rap music, which sounded like ring tones with vulgar lyrics croaked out over them. It was ridiculously boring, and I danced so hard to Sandstorm at the beginning that my stomach hurt for the rest of the dance. Luckily we got there at 9 and left at 11 (the minimum amount of time we were allowed to be there), and had a lot more fun just hanging out in the car in Steak n' Shake's parking lot, laughing too hard at things that aren't funny. Which is the best. (This was only junior prom, so at least now I know not to waste my time again next year.)
Me and the date
Lauren and the date
Putting table decorations to good use
Okay, so I can tell that by now you are all sick of mine and my friends' collective ugliness. Onward! Much knitting is to come after this. Now I can finally dig back into my array of knitted beginnings, all of which I was forced to bury for the sake of this dress hanging over my head. Oh, and I ordered a bunch of yarn from KnitPicks.com this morning, which my mom paid for since I'm a poor, jobless kid. Isn't she sweet?
They're made out of a coat hanger. A coat hanger! I posted a tutorial for them here. Started a sock on them, too. They're size #1's--the smallest needles I've used yet. I was thrilled that they were free.
Dress is 85% finished. Prom is Saturday. I need to stomp on the gas this week.
I've never been tagged by anyone before! So this is what it's like to have friends... Clearly I should read more, or at least more popular books. At least this list reminds me of all those things I've been meaning to check out when I have the time (which is never).
Book Meme! 1. Copy & paste. 2. Bold the ones you've read. 3. Add four recent reads to the end. 4. Tag!
The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Douglas Adams The Great Gatsby - F.Scott Fitzgerald To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter 6) - J.K. Rowling Life of Pi - Yann Martel Animal Farm: A Fairy Story - George Orwell Catch-22 -Joseph Heller TBR (I read part of it) The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon Lord of the Flies - William Golding Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 1984 - George Orwell Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Book 3) - J.K. Rowling One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Book 4) - J.K. Rowling The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter 5) - J.K. Rowling Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut ... I finished it two days ago! Angels and Demons - Dan Brown Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Book 1) - J.K. Rowling Neuromancer - William Gibson Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson The Secret History - Donna Tartt A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Book 2) - J.K. Rowling Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte Brave New World - Aldous Huxley American Gods - Neil Gaiman Ender's Game (The Ender Saga) - Orson Scott Card Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte Good Omens - Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman Atonement - Ian McEwan The Shadow Of The Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath Dune - Frank Herbert The Importance of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde Holy Fools - Joanne Harris The Browning Version - Terence Rattigan The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky Black Water - Joyce Carol Oates The Giver - Lois Lowry Naked - David Sedaris The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
I tag... I don't know who to tag. I tag anyone who wants to use this (quite effective) tool of procrastination.
Good buttons. That, just as I suspected, is what this sweater was missing this entire time. I can sleep happily now.
(And yes, before anyone appalled enough ships one to me, I do in fact own an iron. Ironing is just a waste of time. Honestly, who wears wrinkle-free skirts nowadays?)
