A personal moment of mushy thanks.

I'm not an all inclusive blogger. I don't share many details about my personal life, because my focus is on my knits, and I like to keep it that way.

However.

I have the best girlfriend in the whole world. She secretly watched ebay all day and won an auction for a camera. It's brand new in the box and the same kind as the one that was accidentally flushed. She emailed sellers all day to find one that wasn't refurbished or a grey market item. I'll be able to update my blog with pictures in about a month when I get to Florida. I know that it seems quite rash and frivolous to simply replace an expensive item when it's been lost, but I don't take it for granted. Money is tight for the both of us. That camera meant a lot to me, and I was quite upset about the whole ordeal.

Suffice it to say that I will be very, very careful.

A funny thing happened on the way to the toilet...

The other night, I didn't have a test to study for, a paper to write or a couple hundred pages to read. So I sat down to write a blog update, only to discover that the dorm internet network was down. No problem. Instead, I completed the toe of my first Pomatomus sock.

This morning, I brought my digital camera to school for an art project. After work, I planned to take my Potamomus sock on a field trip to the park. It was bright and sunny, and we were going to take pretty, outdoor blog pictures together.

That never happened. I had the camera in the front pocket of my track jacket, because I'd been taking pictures in Fortunoff Hall, the building I work in at Dowling College (It was one of the Vanderbilt's Mansions , and I'm a sucker for turn of the century architecture). I stopped in the bathroom cause... well, I drink 16 ounces of soymilk and 8 ounces of orange juice for breakfast in the morning. You know why!

Anyway, get this:

I flushed my digital camera down the toilet.

Oh yes. The whole damn thing fell in and went straight down the toilet, along with its 512 meg memory card and 500 or so pictures.

I'm rather devastated about the whole issue, but I admit, it's rather funny. You can laugh at me. It's ok....


Okay, stop laughing! It's not that funny.

Sigh.

Luckily, almost all of the pictures had been uploaded to my laptop. I didn't lose the pictures from the Crafterpillar meeting at Efrat's house last Sunday. I braved the rain to go out that day, and I was very happy I did. It was a blast. We made marble magnets, like the tutorial here. It was a fun, quick, project that was very satisfying to complete in a few hours.

Here we are a-crafting:

That's Leila on the left, Talin on the right and Efrat in the back. Sarah also joined us, but she'd already left.

Here are my magnets:


To see how amazing everyone else's magnets look, go see the set of pictures on my flickr account.

I'll probably take a bit of a hiatus from blogging my knits, although not more so than school forces me to take. I intend on replacing my camera as soon as I have the funds. Until then, I'll be assuaging my laments with some Cherry Tree Hill and Mission Falls Wool.