Summer has come to pass

Summer's winding down, and I, for one, am glad. The hot, sticky quagmire that is the weather of June through August is my least favorite, and July may be my least favorite month of all. It's so freakin' hot and humid and it just seems like it will never end. June sometimes has nice days, and August at least has my birthday, but July.....bleargle. Also, crappy things always seem to happen me in July. This year my cell phone was stolen. In years past I've been in a car wreck (though I wasn't driving), gotten poison ivy, gotten poison sumac (a different year than the poison ivy), had the muffler fall off my car, and been lightly mauled by a dog. July can go sit on a rabid porcupine.

We had a shake-up in a our management team at work back at the beginning of August (still can't believe it's already September!). The week before our loaner manager for the summer was due to go back to his regular store, one of our managers decided to take a bus to crazy town when he got written up for being late and walked out. That left just me and my GM, but they transferred in another girl the following week. I was glad we got her as she is awesome, and we get along well. I have no idea who we'll get to cover for her when she goes on maternity leave in a couple months...

I picked up some crochet books from the library a while back to look for some new patterns. I also found this a while back and the sheer awesomeness of the project has inspired me to do some 8-bit crochet, which you can see here. I learned a new stitch, the tunisian or afghan stitch, in order to make the bag. Unlike most other crochet stitches it has a front and back side which works perfectly for bags. I even lined the bag so nothing would catch on the back side of the crochet, go me! I've got some super mario stuff in the works, and a messenger bag for a friend that will either feature the mooninites, or possibly something from invader zim if I can make a pattern that looks good. The old Nintendo stuff is perfect for this sort of thing as it is expected to look pixelated, and the each stitch of the crochet is like a pixel. I've got some legend of zelda pictures that I might give a go at some point too.

Busy, busy, busy!