So far, we’re 5 days in

Executive Actions:

• Gag Orders for the EPA and USDA: Employees are now no longer allowed to speak publically, included social media, to the public or the press. They are barred from awarding new contracts or grants.
  • https://www.apnews.com/55d484c19c28463e95c3b7c674d20bab?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=AP [see 12:45pm]
  • http://www.theverge.com/2017/1/24/14372940/trump-gag-order-epa-environmental-protection-agency-health-agriculture
• Freezing all regulatory actions until reviewed by the Trump administration.
  • https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/01/20/memorandum-heads-executive-departments-and-agencies
• Allowing Agencies and States to waive sections of the ACA as they see fit, to the maximum extent permitted.
  • https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/01/2/executive-order-minimizing-economic-burden-patient-protection-and
• Mexico City Policy: In which no funding can go to an organization that mentions the word abortion, or has anything to do with abortions, not just providers.
  • https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/01/23/presidential-memorandum-regarding-mexico-city-policy
• Approval of DAPL and Keystone Express Pipelines
  • https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/01/24/presidential-memorandum-regarding-construction-keystone-xl-pipeline
  • https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/01/24/presidential-memorandum-regarding-construction-dakota-access-pipeline
• Federal Hiring Freeze: No vacant positions may be filled, and no new positions may be created for any Federal civilian employee, military excluded.
  • https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/01/23/presidential-memorandum-regarding-hiring-freeze

Portal Song

I’ve finished my first semester back in school, so I have some time this summer to get back into writing more often. (For the record, I got straight As)

Currently working on a Hitofude cardigan using Tess Designer Yarns’ Raw Silk on wooden size 5 needles. I foresee this project taking quite a while to complete. Might end up working on some smaller projects when I get bored.

Papallacta Hot Springs

I’m also very recently back from a family trip to South America (as of the time of this writing, I am munching on Huevitos chocolates. So good!) and I think I’m still pretty sad about it, and leaving so much of my family behind on another continent. However, it was a wonderful trip & I wouldn’t trade it for anything.

Quito seen from Pinchincha

My next tuition payment is due in about a month and a half, and it’s going to be a scramble to get that paid off as quickly as possible. (It’s a local community college, so not *too* bad, but still enough to hurt.) Things are going to get budget friendly.

Currently on my kneedles.

I currently have 3 projects in progress right now, which is a lot for me. Usually, I like to start a project and finish it as quickly as possible to start the next project. However, the projects I currently have on the needles are something else.

1. Olive Sweater. I bought 1700 yards of fingering weight Miss Babs Katahdin last Rhinebeck, which I intended for this sweater. The sweater is almost entirely stockinette stitch. 2 months in, I have just gotten down to my boobs. 
   
2. Socks. You know what? I’m going to frog these. I hate the way the colors look together, and I’m pretty sure they’re too big. They were going to be a project I worked on during jury duty, but that ended quickly.
3. Surprise sweater for a baby. Not a baby surprise, which I believe has to be the ugliest sweater ever designed for a baby. Sure, it’s a marvelously clever way of putting something together, and looks lovely laid out. But it looks like absolute shit on a baby. Details to follow. Eventually, probably. 

 

No photos, because it’s nighttime, and I don’t want to drag out my lightbox just to take pictures of wips.