Meh.

I finished the bag I was crocheting. I'm not happy with it, though. I made the body waaaaaay too long. So I'm going to make a few changes and crochet another. Luckily I can just re-use the flowers and strap I made. They bag was really the easiest part. =)

Went back to work on Monday. Promptly started feeling sick on Monday evening. I don't know what was setting off my allergies. Maybe the construction they're doing on our patios. Maybe the construction they did inside one of the classrooms. Maybe just something in the air ducts. Regardless, it's now a full-blown infection and I am SO not liking this. I hate going to the doctor for it because there really isn't much they can do besides give antibiotics. And if I took those every time I had sinus problems, they'd probably end up ineffective or giving me a different kind of infection. Making friends with my tissue box, Mucinex, and a neti pot.

The worst part of being sick is having to stay away from my husband. =( We sleep in separate rooms if one of us is sick because I catch everything too easily and when he does catch something, he gets it BAD. Ly. Badly.

I'm pretty excited about this next school year. My two co-teachers are wonderful in every way. We are going to be laughing a lot this year! Our room is set up a little differently than usual and I'm curious as to how the children will react to it. I like it, though. =) We have a lot of older children this year. That should make it a little more challenging... in a good way.

Ugh, I'm pooped. Hasta la pasta.

Project Crochet Bag Beginning

Um, hello. Three months have passed since I last updated. I've been wasting a lot of time lately doing... nothing much. Facebook, game apps on my phone, watching movies. I came to the realization that I've been lazy as all heck lately and am trying to get out of the habit.

How? Projects!

I got a new crochet pattern book full of super cute ideas, some yarn, and a few new hooks and started on a new bag today.

I don't think I've ever crocheted anything so... 3-dimensional before. Obviously it's not done yet. The bottom is a circle and, well, I'm new to the whole crochet language (5 ch then 3 hdc in 3 ch sp... confusing, huh?), so it wasn't what it was supposed to be. At one point, I should have had 10 loops, but I had 15. Oops! But it's not really noticeable unless you reeeeeally examine it. The other part of the bag (the body?) was supposed to have this fancy pattern of random spaces and it looked pretty neat. However, since I wouldn't have even been able to get past the first row by following the pattern, I decided to just make it a double crochet the whole way up.

Unlike this picture, it is actually a really pretty mint green color. When I finish it, I'll probably crochet some little flowers or something to make it a little cuter and less plain. It's going a lot faster than I thought it would, though. I did all that in about three hours.

When I'm done with this project, I'll start another. Anything to keep me from wasting my life away.