10 Days Later

Wow, so it's already been 10 days since my last post. Well, in case you were wondering, I did run that 5K the next morning. Even though I've been a slob for the past 2 weeks, I still managed to finish in under 28 minutes, which is very good for me at this point. I finally signed myself up for the bridge run this weekend, my first official 10K. I may be slightly doomed because even after that last 5K, I have reverted to my slobby ways atleast I ran once over the Thanksgiving break.

So me and Soluman, my boyfriend of 4 years, just got back from visiting my family in Ohio. We spent Thanksgiving there, I made the dinner. It was that or let my dad eat out on a day that epitomizes family togetherness. I liked making dinner for everyone and making breakfast in the mornings for my dad while we were there. I don't see us as guests when we visit, we're family and family takes care of each other.

I didn't do a bit a homework or research over the break, which I'm sure is about to bite me in the ass, what with finals around the corner. Plus I have a physics test tomorrow night, lab finals, this research paper to write, etc, etc. It's so close to the end of the semester and I just want it to end now.

I did get quite a bit of knitting done. I finally finished Soluman's scarf, just in time for the warm spell to hit both Ohio and Georgia. I made Troy a beanie, my dad a coffee cup cozy, and made some headway into the basketweave stitch scarf for my mom. Plus I helped Olivia, my niece, with her knitting. I hope she keeps up with it. I hope I keep up with mine as well, seeing as I just learned this summer. I also got some lovely yarn in Ohio, much to my surprise. There was a yarn shop in N. Canton and there I fell in love with Mountain Colors! I just had to get a hank of the Twizzle in Juniper, even if it was $22 per 250 yrd hank. The verigation is such a gorgeous blend of colors and the silk seems to make it shine and twinkle. I also got a great deal on some Noro cotton/silk blend as well, 50% off. I nearly bought up all 6-7 skeins! At the Hartville Market I even found some exquisite alpaca. Turns out there was a local alpaca farm and they sell there own handspun/ handdyed yarns as well as imports. After the indulgence at the Artist's Gallery yarn shop, I stuck to the less pricey imports. They had a beautiful brown/black tweed like I had not seen before, so I bought 3 balls/ 109 yards each. And to top it off, when we got home I saw that my cashmere that I ordered from ColourMart on Ebay finally came in! Boy, I can't wait to show the girls at the knitting group this Saturday!

What's a Bint?

Hi, my name is Rachel. I am a 26 year old college student / future scientist/ crocheter/ knitter/ Army veteran. This is my new weblog. So I am going to tell you what is up in my life, what I'm into these days. But first off, I'm sure you'd like to know just what bint means. It means "girl" in arabic. I was an arabic linguist in the army. I use the word bint as a part of my internet persona. The reason why I chose the word bint is because I think it sounds cute, simple, and a friend of mine at DLI used to call me it all the time. When I join a new forum, I like to tack on the appropriate noun as a prefix to bint, so on herp forums I'm snake_bint, knit forums its stitch_bint, health and fitness forums, fitness_bint and on MySpace, I am simply The Bint. The great thing about it is I never have to worry about my user namer already beingin use, forcing me to add digits until the name is original again like cool_chic12345678901.

So that's it for now. It's very late and I might run a 5K in the morning.

-the end for now