07/15/2006
The dirty 30. The big 3-0. Wowza.
So, today is my 30th birthday. Life looks a little different than what I'd planned when I thought about where I'd be at 30. But life is good. I've had a great 24 hours.
Last night, went to have my hair done at my friend Ann's salon. When I went to pay... FREE. She says "I'm sorry--this is cheezy that I didn't get you a gift. I'd like to give you your hair for free." Wow. A $130 cut and color for free? Are you kidding me? Then we went to BW3's and met up with our 2 other friends, and sat on the patio and drank martinis (I'm loving cosmos lately... call me Carrie Bradshaw, I guess...) all night. When we were ready to order more, we'd call the bar on our cell phones and ask for another round...
This morning, I woke up to my very good friend and a handmade card. Apparently he called my house twice and yelled up the stairs, but I didn't hear him (on account of I was passed out from the 7 cosmos and random shots from the night before).
Then I went to cheerleading practice, and my entire squad was waiting with balloons, cake, and these: 
Too sweet. One rose for each year.
After that, I knitted at my LYS with my great friend Andria. I worked on this: 
Orangina. Someday I'll finish it.
And I got frustrated with this: 
Starsky. I hate knitting cables on the wrong side. I'm thinking of how I can make this sweater more enjoyable. I'm going to rip out what I have.
So then I started on this: 
Pasha the penguin. For my tiny friend Kayla, who is painting her room like Antarctica.
I popped home for a bit to visit with Zoe 
and found these in my mailbox. 
My grandma sent them.
Then I decided that since my phone has started to cut off and die during about 3 out of 5 conversations, I deserved to have working communication devices. So I went out and bought myself this: 
Good, huh? Happy birthday to me. 
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07/13/2006
You old blockhead.
This is the scene at my dining room table. I am blocking 3 (count 'em, 3!!!) FO's as we speak. Wrap tank in Plum Patina Cotton Fleece. Somewhat Cowl in Olivette Cotton Fleece. One Skein Wonder in Rue and Truffle Cotton Fleece. Anybody see a theme here? Time for an intervention. I mean, really. Someone needs to cut me off of the Cotton Fleece. STAT. Remember the last FO? The halter top. What did I knit it with? Cotton Fleece, people. What else am I working on? Orangina. In Cotton Fine. Which is like switching from Lamb's Pride Burly Spun to Lamb's Pride Worsted. Not that different.
So, I am thinking that it would be fun to do a stitch marker swap. Any takers???? Let me know. I'll set it up.
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07/12/2006
Back from the last frontier!
Hey!! Hey y'all! I'm back from the greatest vacation EVER!! My dad and I met up out in Vancouver, BC to hop a cruise ship up the Inside Passage in Alaska! Big fun! We saw amazing things and had incredible adventures. Went on a zipline tour over the canopy of a temperate rainforest. Took a helicopter ride to do some dogsledding on a glacier. Chased our sled through the snow when our dogs decided that break-time was over. Went through the Denali National Park in a six seater plane in some pretty bouncy weather. Saw some magnificent wildlife (grizzlies, moose, caribou, wolves, foxes, porcupines, bald eagles...). Sat on my veranda and knitted while the ocean went by... Picked up some Lorna's Laces sock yarn in "girly stripe" for some girlpower Jaywalkers.
Here's what I knitted on my trip: 
It is a little fake-wrap tank. The recipe was concocted by Sandi, the owner of my LYS. I knitted it in Cotton Fleece (my favorite yarn ever) in Plum Patina. I wasn't sure about this color--it didn't look like much in the skein, but knitted up? I. LOVE. IT. Can't wait to wear it. Still working on Orangina. Sporadically. That is usually how I roll when it comes to lace. I'm ready to start something else. Next project? Starsky.
So when I returned home, I had a short run of REALLY bad luck. The highpoints: majorly flat tire (two times) on the way to pick up my dog from "puppy camp." Of course I was on the phone with the man who is now my ex-boyfriend when the tire ceased to be a working component of my vehicle. He INSISTED that I allow him to rescue me. Urgh. Once we got that sorted out, I came home, pulled my car in the garage, and attempted to close the garage door. It got halfway down, then refused to budge. Stuck halfway, hanging at a 30 degree angle. Terrific. One of the coils had come unwound. Right, and I'm going to be able to fix this. My super marvelous friend Joe came to my rescue and fixed it (much to his own surprise). I love needing to be rescued twice within a 3 hour period. Give me a friggin' break.
But all was well Monday morning when my postman delivered all of the mail from the 2 weeks I was gone, because I got my colorswap package from Dana!!! 
My dog loved the treat that was in the box for her. Dana, thank you! You rock!
Ok, so is anyone else having trouble with comments that are spam? WTF??? I have been deleting them when they show up, but I had one that showed up on my blog, but not when I went to my comments list. I ended up just deleting the post, because blogspirit is not interested in assisting me in managing my blog. Am I the only one having this problem?????
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