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   I’ve been trying to think of things to fill my time while my husband is away and of course one of those is knitting.  However I am also a student but i have a little time off before fall classes start, and thank goodness its my last semester! Well for now anyway.

   So of course I’m knitting away and once I joined ravelry I started looking at their features and saw that one was a stash feature.  So I started looking through my stash and realized no one should have all that.  In my own defense most of it was given to me.  I have a gran that if she hears you have a hobby then watch out because she loves auctions and yard sales and so on, and if she thinks you can use something your going to get it.  Which really, is a nice thing to do because I’m dirt poor and would have much otherwise. 

   But alas it is taking up too much space.  So I’ve been knitting away and yet the piles dont seem to be dwindling.  Now if you are a non knitter and bumped into this blog because of tags like Iraq, then you wont realize a stash is something in the fiber arts industry that is pretty well universal among these hobbyists.  We will have closets or drawers just full of fibers and yarns thinking some day we will get to them. 

   Some of us (not me) even try to fool themselves into thinking that well “I only buy what I need for a particular project” Ya right, no one has enough years in their lives to be able to do that many projects.  Which coincidentally is why I have such a stash.  Other people stashed away so much that they died before they could use it all then my Gran picked it up at their estate sale and gave it to me.

   So, now, out of concern that I may die before i use it all and force some other young girl into being the 3rd or 4th owner, I have decided to try to use it up, as much as i can, before my husband comes home from Iraq in December!

   But anyway…

   Ok so some other ways to fill my time that I wanted to talk about:
I’ve been attempting to begin learning Spanish. And with any foreign language it seems its nearly impossible to learn with no one else either learning with you, or no one else able to correct you.  For example I started learning sign language a few years ago and took a couple classes at college, I wont say where because the classes were a joke!  They were sooo bad, but just taking them helped me meet other people that were interested in the same thing. And one evening while practicing with a classmate I met a hearing impaired guy.  While he was able to hear with hearing aids for whatever reason he didn’t have them in.  So we got to “talking” and hung out quite a bit after that, so just using the language helped me to grasp it quite quickly.  I should have prefaced that with the fact that i had a deaf friend in elementary school and had a bit of a background, however when she left for the state deaf school I lost most of my ability to remember the signs.  Either way, when you use something like that it stays with you.
   Thats where I run into the Spanish problem. I do not know a single soul that knows Spanish.  Thats where you come in dear readers… (well that is if i get any) Feel free to leave me Spanish comments.  I would love to add to my lessons with actually trying to read in Spanish.  I really feel like in the future i will be able to use it but for now I only know enough to embarrass myself.

Hubby’s on the phone, be back later.