Mostly confused

It seems like me and my new colleague don't work very well together, I seem to be getting on her nerves a lot. She tries to be nice anyway, but I'm not that good at not letting it affect me when people are annoyed around me. Especially when I'm already tired. It will get better as summer goes on.

I finally went to a music quiz again! It was football themed though, because of the world championships. And I don't care for sports so it didn't go very well. But I got to hang out with my friends so I'm happy. Hopefully I'll be able to go to more quizzes before summer's end.

I've been doing less crochet, as predicted, but not so much because of work as because it started being unbearably squeaky, and I can't be fucked with hearing that for too long at a time. I'm finishing up with colourway #3 octagons though.

I've also done less crochet cause I've finally gotten my hands on my patch pants again! I decided to make use of an old sock to patch up a hole. They're not proper patch pants yet, but I'm mostly having fun with it all. I will not be putting patches on there just to make the pants look cooler, instead I'm letting them develop slowly as I make repairs. I'm happy with the latest sock-patch, it turned out cute and I took extra time to secure the edges and make it look nice.

It looks very pink on camera next to the blue jeans, but it is white. My next project on the pants will be sturdy-ing up the seams around my nirvana patch. I'm having a hard time figuring out what other bands I can make patches for, but I might make one for The Smith Street Band

Me and my friend are now on season 2 of Twin peaks, and all the silly little plot lines are coming back to my memory and I can't believe how they're all gonna fit in the season. I'd completely forgotten about Dick Tremayne, for example. God.

La naissance de Vénus (1879), William-Adolphe Bouguereau

I for some reason turned into some crocheting machine during the last week, how I had time with it between all the packing I don't know. It's probably that I was too antsy to read. But I've gotten quite far with the colourway #3 octagons and I have also come almost as far with the colourway #2 octagons. I am completely finished with the fans and it feels very good to know I don't need to do any more for this blanket. I might finish the whole thing by the end of june if I keep this up, but then again I am going back to work this week so it feels unlikely. Here's where I'm at with #2 and #3

I did give up on Fauna by Donna Mazza, but I had misunderstood the premise and it wasn't going to fit in my bags anyways so I gave it to a charity shop. I brought Pessoa back home with me though, and Lost Souls I left behind with my partner because I have my other copy here at home. Not sure when I'm going to get back into reading again.

I've also made progress on my Persian Tiles, I actually finished colourway #1 of the octagons on the train earlier this week! I was meeting a friend for some op-shopping and I had an hour or so to kill. It was a very cozy feeling to get to sit there in the sunshine with the ocean out the window.

Making several of the same tile at the same time is going so much faster than doing them one by one like I was doing. It took me about a year to finish the first 5 tiles, then the next 3 only took a few weeks. But then again it's probably because I'm crocheting more often and it's more motivating to continue since I don't need to be inspecting the instructions for the entire process.

That being said, I have made some headway on colourway #3 of the octagons. Don't know why exactly i skipped #2, but I'll do that one next. Maybe I'm saving the prettiest for last. I'm working on the fans at the moment of writing, they are a bit pesky to get through but as long as I have something to watch meanwhile I'm happy.

Speaking of watching: this week me and the roommates are trying to finish up Twin Peaks: The Return. We have one episode left and if I'm honest I was kinda losing my grip on it by the penultimate episode.

I do social dancing and I go thrifting a lot (which will change in a few weeks when I go back to work). I have a wheel of hobbies that turns every few months or so. Upon the wheel are, among others, reading, crocheting, cross-stitching, drawing, sewing.

I'm into bassline-heavy music and goth and grunge music and clothes. My favourite artists are not goth though. I occasionally do tarot for myself.

I am in a reading slump for the moment but I'm in the middle of reading Fernando Pessoa's The Book of Disquiet, Donna Mazza's Fauna, and William J. Martin's Lost Souls. The latter I am reading aloud to my partner as it is one of my favourite books/authors. I also have two books I am planning to read during my upcoming 20-hour-flight, Wasted by Marya Hornbacher and The Marbled Swarm by Dennis Cooper. I am quite nerdy about my books and may post about what I'm reading.

I'm currently crocheting a Persian Tiles blanket in the Sandalwood colourway (pattern by Janie Crow). It's slow going but I am not in a rush. I will probably post about it as I go. I also enjoy jigsaw puzzles but I do not get to do them very often.

My blog will be mostly about myself, I guess. I will try to post fun photos when I take them. I won't post on any regular schedule but I'll try to post once a week.