Week #2 (and a brief update!)

This week's topic for the dishcloth exchange:

Living in Atlanta, I know Summer has truly 'arrived' when it begins to get humid. Blech. When I was a kid, I knew Summer was starting the easy way - School was out!! Share with us how you know that summer has truly 'arrived', or something that signifies the start of Summer in your world.

Well, I'm a student (U of I, woo!), so for me, summer hasn't started until finals are OVER! I would comment a little on the beautiful weather that comes to Northern Idaho when the summer comes around, but this year it managed to SNOW a week ago, so I'm not sure how true that is these days. I live in an area called the Palouse, a flat rolling-hills kind of landscape. There are a ton of farms (let me stress that none of them are potato farms...it's mostly wheat, lentils and canola) that turn green this time of year, so it's like having a huge lawn. :-) I live in Moscow, a tiny college town on the western border (9 miles away from Pullman, WA, home of Washington State University), and I'm living in an apartment with one of my sorority sisters. It's a basement apartment of a complex on a hill, but we don't have a very good view of the fields. Just more apartments. ;-)

Another good indication of summer for me is starting whatever internship I'm doing that year. This year I'm staying in Moscow, last year I moved north to Coeur d'Alene (a resort town about 90 miles north of here). The year before that I was in my hometown: Boise, ID. I visit both often, as I have family and friends in Boise and just friends in CdA. :-)

Flip-flops too. I love wearing flip-flops. And tanning....in the real sun, but not TOO long, because I don't want to get hurt. AND I geocache during the summer...not really during the winter. I haven't this summer, however...my GPS seems to be broken. :-( Add that to my list of things I want to get for my birthday...which, by the way, indicates the beginning of fall for me, since it's at the end of September. ;-)

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Now, on to my knitting stuff! So I am probably 30 minutes away from being done with my dishcloth for the exchange! I am hoping it is a gorgeous as I think it will be when it is all completed...then I will be done with that step. :-) If not, I might have to go to the LYS and find some more yarn, because I didn't get a full skein of what I made this first one with.

I haven't touched the baby blanket in probably a week. Too caught up with the dishcloth and visiting my friend in Coeur d'Alene. Ah well. The baby is getting a little older, but I know toddlers still enjoy blankets. And if Abby gets too old, I'm sure I could give it to someone else. :-P I mostly wanted to make it and was looking for an excuse...Abby is a very adorable one.

Also haven't found a pattern for the beautiful Regalia silk I bought for Whitney's scarf. Soon, I tell myself...her birthday is at the end of August. No pattern for Rainier's scarf either...but that doesn't need to be done until October at the earliest (assuming we don't have an Indian fall...which would be typical after such a rough winter). He's in no hurry and neither am I.

Officially hibernated the backpack, and haven't started on Krysta's bag dispenser. Like I said, I have not done a lot lately! :-) But I did buy an actual cable needle (it was like $2 at LYS and SO worth it!) and REAL stitch markers (those yarn tail markers were driving me NUTS). I'm starting to hoard my stash too...it's now a basket and a bag. Uh-oh... ;-)

Need to make an official Christmas list for everyone too...so I know exactly what I'm doing for whom. I need to stop caring about so many people...it's getting to be difficult! ;-) Just kidding, of course. I will be very busy this fall, is all....especially because I need to start studying for the GRE! And fill out my applications for grad school. *gulp!*