Apologies, apologies...

My computer hates me. It really really does. But that isn't what stopped me from putting up my drawings. It's because I'm a lazy bum. Well, technically, no, I have been busy. As in, my schedule goes something like this.

6:00 A.M. Wake up for choir practice (Tuesdays and Thursdays)
7:00 A.M. Get to school and sing for an hour.
2:45 P.M. School is over if we don't have a science lab or my teacher doesn't want us to stay late
3:30 P.M. Head on over to the athletic center for fencing
4:45 P.M. Get out of fencing
5:00 P.M. Get home and start homework
6:00 or 7:00 P.M. Eat dinner
7:30 or 8:00 P.M. Do more homework
10:00 or so Fall into bed, not even bothering to change into pj's.
You'll notice, nowhere in there is there knitting time. Occasionally, if the fates smile upon me, I can knit some after homework is done and before I fall asleep, but by then, I'm too tired to even do my clapotis, which takes energy and brain power. But I'm really sorry about not posting in awhileand not putting up my drawings, I even have a pretty cool one of a panda, but I will do that. Anyway, onto more cheerful topics! I am going to blather on and on about fencing for most of the rest of this post, so if that doesn't interest you, go look at the pretty yarn at http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5083940







Are they gone now you think??

I hope so.....

Anyway! Fencing! I love it, adore it, worship it, live it, breathe it, eat it, want to have babies with it. Well, maybe that's going a little too far. But I still idolize, revere, and venerate it. Okay, so there are three types of swords in fencing. The foil, the saber, and the epee. (pronounced ep as in schlepp and ay as in hay. Put it together and you have schlepphay! I mean epee.....) We started off with the foil, and learned some basic footwork and parries and such. Now, in our last fencing lesson, we got to choose whether we wanted to work with epee, foil, or saber! The day before, coach had been watching me fence, and she was talking with one of the older students about how I scored like an epee. So when I walked up, coach looked at me and just told me epee, which was pretty cool. And with epee, you can score a point on any part of the body, even the ungloved hand, but your main target is your opponent's sword arm. And so, we all split up into our groups and we had Scotty, who is really good at fencing, and has been to real fencing competitions and has his own equipment, uses the epee, so coach put him in charge of our group. Also, Scotty, whom I enjoy calling leprechaun man because he's short and has red hair, is really funny,and he was explaining that with the epee, you don't have as many rules, and all, and about beats, which are, and I quote, "man parries", which I thought rather humorous, and it was just alot of fun. And apparently I don't bruise because a couple other girls on my fencing class were talking about how they had all these bruises from fencing, and I had none..... but, while we're on the subject of injuries, let's have an injury update! I have two current bruises, and both are rather nasty. One is on my upper arm because I tried to slam a car door on my arm. Not a good idea..... kinda painful..... and the other is on my foot, where I dropped my freakin' HUGE history book. And I managed to drop it so that the corners would hit my foot, so although most of the bruise has faded, there are two little dark spots where the corners hit. Yes, I do posess mad skillz. But that's really all my current injuries...... but now I have more excitingness! I was bored this afternoon, so I decided to make some lip balm, the Soft Honey Lip Balm from CraftBits.com because I always have really bad chapped lips in the winter and I was feeling independent and creative..... oh well, it wasn't that messy, and it turned out pretty well! But I'm going to go eat now so I don't faint on the keyboard and accidentally delete this entire post and then cry..... lol so I'm Chandler, signing off!