Crafty Kitty

Alright - yes I haven't updated since November.  No, I have not died.  I'm just a bad blogger and have been swamped with school (who knew learning about divorce could consume so much of ones time?) and other miscellaneous things that seem to eat up all my time.

So what interesting and fun things have I been doing since I last updated?  Well, let’s see.  I did manage to get to the Orpheum to see Atmosphere, and my boyfriend who totally doesn’t know he’s my boyfriend Slug.  The boy jokes that when we go see Atmosphere he has to wipe the drool from my mouth.  Man, that Slug can say everything I want to say AND with a tight beat behind it:

I’m a chapter in your text book
Read my like a checkbook
Mistook love at first sight for a sex look
Enough of the blind mans bluff
I want the good stuff
Trying to hook up a full belly and a foot rub
The modern mans hustle, I dig it, I shovel
Feed me your troubles then need me to cuddle
Bundle up in my mitten and coat
As cold as it gets I’ll keep your winter afloat
So let the snow fall (its coming down)
She doesn’t want to understand why I still come around
She looks at the mirror she don’t see what I see
She holds no history of how precious she be
Lay your head on my chest, speak of the stress
I hate to see you upset, it cramps the position
And if you didn’t know you better listen

My friend J, who is into all things underground hip hop and has been forever, told me that on the drive home he cried because it was so amazing.  I thought that was kind of funny – I mean here’s this guy who is 22 years old with a daughter and seeing Atmosphere reduced him to tears.  But I understand.  Loving a band for SO LONG and then being able to finally go see them is really a pretty intense experience.

So, Atmosphere was fun and then I thought I would have a nice Thanksgiving while in Oshkosh, it kind of took a turn for the worse when I extended our visit by a night.  So these are the things I learned while in Oshkosh:

+ seeing friends you haven’t seen in at least 6 months is super fun
+ especially when you have a few drinks and start talking dirty
- the sinking, creepy feeling I get in the pit of my stomach whenever I go back there
+ the Water City Grill still has the best $8 steak night EVER
+ and the best cream of tomato soup on the planet – SERIOUSLY
+ seeing my parents and my brother who I don’t talk to enough
- seeing that nothing ever changes there and that alcohol still plays way too much into what goes on in that city
- small time drama on a big time scale
- being reduced to having the same feelings I had that made me leave that town in the first place
+ I have the best boyfriend in the world

Basically, what really upset me the most was that my friend asked to me to stay an extra night then proceeded to be too busy at the bar to talk to me and I was sick of sitting in the smoke watching all these drunk people play out their petty little soap operas.  It was my third night of drinking in a row and it was 1 or 1:30 and I just wanted to go back and chill out at my friend’s house and have a few PBRs.  She, however had other plans, did not bother to ask what everyone else wanted to do and then became VERY passive aggressive about it later on.  Which just pissed me off because you’re 24 and the whole world no longer revolves around you - GET OVER YOURSELF!

So the whole experience may have left me a sobbing mess during the car ride back to Madison and I think the boy thought there was something seriously wrong with me.  I think for me it’s just learning to let go of Oshkosh and what I expect of it.  I don’t go out drinking every night and close the bars anymore.  I don’t get wasted and flirt with guys in front of my boyfriend and then have a blow out fight with him on a weekly basis.  I don’t like to spend my time in smoke filled bars where I can barely breathe and start getting a sinus headache within 10 minutes of entering the place.  I’m not against drinking per se, but it’s different when you go out and have 3 or 4 drinks and then call it a night.  As opposed to drinking yourself into a blackout so you can kill whatever pain is hurting you at the moment - pain that would probably go away if you just stopped drinking because alcohol is a depressant and makes you do stupid shit.  Somehow that news hasn’t made its way to Oshkosh yet.

As for my knitting and crocheting projects:  I managed to finish the star shaped baby blanket that I made for my soon to be second cousin.  I however am an idiot because I forgot to snap a freaking picture of it.  It turned out pretty well, although it took me a lot longer than I initially thought it would.  I did not finish the baby sweater in time but she’s not due until the end of January so I’ve got some time over Christmas and New Year’s to get that finished.  I did get a new peacoat as an early Christmas present from my parents and so I just started the Wavy scarf in red wool to match a little flower pin I made for the coat.  Hopefully that should be done soon.  And, yay for me, I finally made it to Stitch n Bitch which was way fun and I will definitely be going back!