I'm more at peace now with my future than I have been in a very long while. I always knew God had something great planned for me, and I knew I was following his will, I just didn't know where I was following it. I know it's bad to worry and the Bible warns against it, but I couldn't really help it. But now, after a year of senseless worry, I think I'm at peace with where my life is headed.

Over the past few days, I've started my last clinical rotation for my Medical Technology degree. That rotation is in Blood Bank. I was a little wary about it at first, but the more I do it, the more I like it. And it's a good thing too because I think there's only two jobs open and there are two of us students. One being in Hematology (I love the people there, hate the job) and the other in the Blood Bank. The more I think about it, the more I like it. It's just a little scary to think that you might be the cause of a death due to a hemolytic transfusion reaction! But God will work it out!

Just wanted to share a bit of my life again.

Goodnight, Loves!

Evan...out

It's been ever so long since I've been on dA and I've missed it dearly along with all the friends I've made here. I think I've just been avoiding it because I have no time to deviate. And when I can't be creative, I just feel crappy looking at all the prettiness that everyone else has created. So I'm stuck between a rock and a hard place. I did just want to let everyone know that I'm not dead, though some days I feel like the walking dead. I'm just hoping that once I get hired as a Med Tech and don't have to work the awful processing job, that I'll have more time. I hope, but I'm just not sure. I also wanted everyone to know that I've been ignoring for the most part irl friends too. The only two people I talk to on a regular basis are my husband and my fellow student. And if I ever get the chance, I'll post on my crochet blog because I finished my first crochet pattern! But anyway, I'll try to talk to everyone as I get the chance. Right now I only have about 15 min at a time, and those are usually spent checking the horrible message boards on my school site because I have to. So I wish everyone who reads this the best of luck and best of wishes and the best of everything.

Evan...out

So, I started my crochet blog. There's nothing on it yet. But here's the address --> [link]

I'm not sure how to give a web address without hyperlinking it here. Maybe this will work --> TheCrochetCutiesYarnWorks . blogspot . com (With no spaces)

Of course I will post my works here before posting them to my new blog. Partially because dA is more user friendly to me and mostly because I like most of you people better. But if you want the pattern you'll have to go to the blog so I'm not infiltrating dA with more unwanted material that what is already submitted. If, however, I do have a pattern, I'll link to it in the comments so you can easily go from picture to pattern. If any of you have any questions or suggestions for the blog or my dA crochet or if you have a request for a pattern for anything or any stitch, just let me know via note or whatever other means you can find of getting to me. Thanks for all the support!

Evan...out

To start off with, for those of you who don't know but would like to, my grandmother passed away early Friday morning. I'm sad to lose my Grandma, but she was so sick and hurting so bad that I'm glad she's in heaven now where she's better off than any of us down here. I appreciate all the thoughts and prayers of my friends here.

But on to my idea...

I've been doing a lot of crocheting lately due to a trip to the mountains that my husband and I are going on in November. I've made a hat from a pattern I found and I've made one mitten from a pattern that I made up. When I've finished the second I'll post pics. And I'm making a scarf that is the bane of my existence right now. I decided to afghan crochet the scarf so I can cross stitch my monogram on it and I'm starting to think it's a bad idea. But enough of that.

My idea is to start my own crochet blog with pictures and free patterns (when I can figure my homemade patterns out). I started my wedding blog, but due to more pressing (and interesting) things, I only blogged once. Of course, my patterns and pics would be open to all my dA friends as well. So if y'all wanted you could go to the blog, but you wouldn't have to.

The reason I'm thinking about doing this is because I've been endlessly searching Crochet Pattern Central's Free Pattern Directory. There are a lot of really nice people who share their patterns there via their blogs. Artisans really are the nicest people in the world. Anyway, I figured I could share my yarn sculpting abilities with the world. So, tell me what you think, and I'll go from there.

PS: Here's the website for Crochet Pattern Central's Pattern Directory --> [link] If you want to get to the home page, just click on the title at the top of the website.

Evan...out

The weather here in the Southeastern US is beautiful. As my Grandma says, the sky is October blue. It's starting to feel like fall. But my Grandma isn't doing as well as what it feels like outside. She has cancer and these are probably her last few days. I'm sad, but if she's going to suffer like she has the last few weeks, I would like for God just to take her home. I know some of you are Christians, and some are not, but you are still respectful of my beliefs. I would really appreciate prayers from those of you who pray and thoughts from those of you who don't. This is my Grandma's favorite time of year. So right now I'm playing my CD of Smoky Mountain Hymns (bluegrass music) and simmering a little bit of cinnamon to make all the happy memories of cooler weather come back. I'm not so much sad as just tired. So maybe things will get back to as normal as they can be in the next few weeks. I'm hoping to go to my Grandma's house and dig through all the old drawings that my cousins and I did with Grandma. I think I'm going to get all of her drawings I can find and frame them, then put them in my house. Grandma's where I got my talent (if you want to call it that). Maybe I'll post some in her memory. And I am happy with my hair. I'm not Mary Jane, like `emmil supposed, but I still think it's pretty hott. Yes, hott with two "t's" Thanks again for the thoughts and prayers, loves.

Evan...out.