Something useful? . . . not. And crocheting

Hmm, I know I was going to blog about something. But now that I've logged in and gotten here and everything, I've forgotten what it was. So I'll just talk about my blanket.

I'm currently crocheting a blanket for my sister, mainly because I thought the pattern looked cool. Then, after starting it and telling everyone I was making it, I checked the actual size. It's meant for a queen sized bed. Yeah. . . this could take a while. Thankfully it's all granny stitch, so it's pretty easy, except for the color changing in a few of the squares, which is merely tedious.

Let's see, has anything else happened in my life? I went shopping with my mom for a few hours today, which was fun, except for the whole Saturday before Christmas thing. We first went to Michael's so we could get yarn. A lot of yarn. Eight skeins of it. But it's very nice yarn (called Simply Soft), and is apparently made of 20 percent recycled plastic bottled. Cool. Then we went to about five other places. My legs hurt! And the snow and other drivers made it terrible for driving, but we got it all done with and came home and now we're watching Stargate. :)

Sigh. I really really was going to blog about something useful. Really. Well, when it comes to me. . . .

Contest poetry

I feel better now after logging in and having seven messages and 35 notes. Lots of people appreciated my comments (even if allpoetry didn't *pout* :), and many commented on my poems as well.

The real reason I'm posting is for another interesting phenomenon of mine. It seems that most times I find a cool contest and enter a poem I really like, it gets an honorable mention or (more often) nothing. But whenever I kind of halfheartedly enter something just to enter it, it will do well.

Yesterday I entered this contest with a really cool picture, but I just wasn't doing that great on the inspiration, and kind of cranked out what I saw as an unoriginal and boring poem. I sighed, but entered it anyway, thinking I might as well try. And I got silver. :P I've decided the universe likes to torment me. . . .

Are you KIDDING me?!

So I'm fairly active on allpoetry.com, and I enjoy having all the perks of being a gold member. Problem: I don't have a job right now, so I can't do even the fifteen a month that it costs. Solution: if you're the top commenter of the day, you can win a week of gold membership. I did this on the seventh, and thought the whole "problem solution" thing should end there, but apparently not.

I found out today (the hard way) that you can't win twice in one week. I wasn't sure how much internet time I would have later this week for racking up the comments, so I was going to take the extra precaution of getting another week of gold right now. So I've been on most of the day, commenting and entering contests, like I normally do, slowly working my way up to first, which I accomplished around 12:30 (11:30 Pacific Time).

I thought I was in the clear, but when I checked back the person in second place was still gaining. I then entered into a desperate battle of numbers, but I knew I would win, I just knew. I really quickly read some short poems, gave some good comments, and, yes, managed to slip ahead just before one (midnight Pacific Time). Then, as I'm waiting to celebrate, I get the message "Congratulations on your great comments today! Unfortunately, you already won the top commentor award less than a week ago (on 2008-12-07), so you aren't eligible for an award today. Sorry for the bad news Thanks for being such an active member, and keep up the good work!"

I am not a happy person right now.