Super Amazing Week

So this was one of my favorite weeks ever. I suppose I should detail the whole week, but according to FCAT essay writing styles I should provide an overview of my week in my introduction. But I am rebel. So it basically started with a birthday and ended with a birthday, both of two very important people in my life.

So what I am calling my "Phantasmagorical Week of Epicness" started on last Saturday with the celebration of my godbrothers birthday. He is essentially family and he is currently going to college in Tampa. We ate at this super awesome(and expensive) Japanese place called Samurai. It is really cool, they have the chef's prepare the food in front of you on a heated stove, it probably isn't real Japanese food, but it is still really delicious.

Here is a little message to my readers made out of fried rice. Yum.
After that I saw wreck-it Ralph, and it was super amazing, one of my favorite animated movies of this year. I have to say Jane Lynch and Sarah Silverman are both perfect people.

Monday was an excellent day, school was very relaxed and since I have election day off, I went out to the movies and I saw The Perks of Being a Wallflower, which was absolutely amazing. I really cannot handle how amazing it is. It is raw and emotional and touching. It really hits you at your core, and discusses teen issues refreshingly and clearly without being cliche. After that I got some amazing frozen yogurt, and it was absolutely amazing.

Tuesday was quite a day. I guess I should stop talking about politics, it is just kind of hard when so much is riding on this election. I usually am not very partisan, but when it comes to our President I am in full support because he is the first president to openly support equality for the LGBT community. Of course that isn't the only reason. I am also a very hard leftist when it comes to economics, and to be honest, President Obama hasn't been far enough to the left. But this is another issue that I don't think my blog that is mainly about knitting is appropriate to discuss.

Speaking of inappropriately discussing politics, one of my conservatives friends was complaining about how she feels scared to post her beliefs on Facebook for fear of people attacking them, because most of my high school is very liberal. Since when has the internet been a good place to have thoughtful discussions, especially Facebook when it is filling with hyperbolizing and melodramatic teenagers, and this is coming from one of the most dramatic of them all. Now that the election is over I can finally relax.

Not to mention...WE WON...the liberals won some things, like marriage equality in two states and legalized marijuana in Colorado. Plus we have the largest number of women in the Senate in all time. All of this is awesome, so I am pretty damn excited for me. But now that the election is over I can talk about my knitting and crocheting.

So finished a sleeve two weeks ago for my Southeast Village sweater, and I started on seaming up the sides, and as I was nearing the end of the right seam on the body, I realized I did one less repeat on the front than I did on the back so I ripped it out and now I finished the body I am working on the armhole shaping.

So I started working on a scarf a while back, and by started, I mean I cast it on and knitted two rows. I decided that I wanted a really masculine longish scarf. So I thought the most masculine would be a grey tweedy scarf in garter stitch, and thus I created the Hetero-Scarfual, I haven't taken any pictures of it finished, but it is for sure done, and it is super warm. When I was watching Perks, the theater got super cold and I needed something to keep be warm, and lucky for me I had my scarf.

The real fun starts with the afghan I started this week. After I finished my pride afghan, which absolutely everyone loves. I actually brought it to school the day after the election in celebration of Maine and Maryland legalizing same-sex marriage. But anyway, after I had finished it I felt a little lost without a blanket on the hooks, so I headed over to Joanns and picked out yarn for my Circley Blanket of Wonderfulness

It is basically a stripey circle of double crochet increasing 12 stitches every round. I am using Lionbrand homespun because I like sharing my blankets with my friends and acrylics are the best for that in case of wool allergies.