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Got this on one shot... heh

PS

The awesome hoard of yarn I got yesterday when kittywhumpus and I raided yarn stores. hee!

Christmas Vacation Begins...

I'm staying with kittywhumpus for a couple of days and hanging with my favorite Night Fury, Hazel. She's awesome.

Finn has gotten so big! He's a little over 2 yrs old and a great little kid. Gonna try to get some pics but he moves faster than the cats.

Tomorrow, on to Mom's and after Christmas, I'll finally be able to post pictures of all the knitting I've been doing...

Happy Thanksgiving!

Snuggled up with the parade and some coffee with Baileys, remembering many wonderful Thanksgivings past and looking forward to an incredible meal tonight.

Growing up, we always had Thanksgiving at our Grandma's or at our house so cooking the turkey and laying out the huge meal has tons of great kid memories from over the years.

11 years ago was a really memorable Thanksgiving. I had moved out of my apartment and had to spend a month crashing on various sofas around town before finally being able to move into the building I still live in now. I moved everything in the day before Thanksgiving; crashed on my futon in the middle of the living room that night; woke up the next morning, turned on the parade and started unpacking. It was one ofthe most gratitude filled days I'd ever had and I'll never forget it.

2 years ago, I had my favorite Thanksgiving to date and thinking about it a lot today. I spent it with my sister, in Boston, and chronicled it very extensively here with:

Boston Part 1 Boston Part 2 Boston Part 3

Last year, I worked.

And this year, I wish I was with my family but I'm very much enjoying our little traditions here by myself and looking forward to the fantastic events of tonight.

Tonight, Eva and I are going to the home of our friends, K&K. They are chef level cooks and use this day as the perfect excuse to create a fantastic meal. Way back when it was just K, it all started when he wanted to cook but didn't want to do the traditional turkey. So, he invited everyone over for seafood! Lobster... shrimp... fish... it was absolutely unreal. That has evolved into a 10 to 12 course French (or whatever they feel like, with French being the most difficult, interesting and delicious) meal with wine pairings for each course. I had to miss it last year, which makes being able to go this year, even more exciting.

Hope you're having a great day of reflecting on what you're grateful for! I most definitely am and looking forward to many fantastic Thanksgivings to come.

Do I.......

......try online dating again or not?

Part of me figures "what the hell?" and the other part remembers what a huge disappointment it was last time. (Went on many, many, sometimes multiple dates a week, for about a year and a half with no luck.)

Then, part of me remembers that I also had some pretty grand adventures through my foray into online dating, and it also remembers that one of my best friends in the world found her wonderful husband through the same site. (On her second try!)

What say you?

FYI, I would be blogging about all the major knitting I've been doing for the last month or so but, as it's Christmas knitting, no can do. Will update after the gifts are given.

I'm gonna make me a sweater

It's been so long since I've seen a sweater pattern and felt that "ohmygod, I'd wear that every day!" impulse. I felt it today...

Knitty.com's Deep Fall issue is up and I must make this sweater.

Shopping for yarn on yarn.com. (I need to put yarn.com gift certificates on my wishlist) Also, check out the Serenity Wrap from Unwind. Takes 10 skeins but just might be worth it...

Just some stuff goin' on...

1.) Eva is home! Her 6 months in Portland were forever/no-time-at-all. I'm glad she's back.

2.) Season 3 of True Blood rocked.

3.) Eva hadn't seen any True Blood so I loaned her (forced on her and kept bugging her until she started watching it) Season 1 and crossed my fingers she'd like it as much as I do. I shouldn't have worried... She loves a fun, HBO soap opera as much as I do and... Eric is freaken HOT. We just plowed through all of Season 2 yesterday and will probably do the same to Season 3 this weekend.

4.) Finished the scarf last weekend while having a Big Bang Theory marathon:

5.) Yes, I've been watching a lot of TV lately. I'm actually feeling better than I did the last post but yes... spending a lot of time in.

6.) Started this a couple of days ago:

The same scarf I did for my sister this spring. My Mom "ordered" it in this color for Christmas and I'm actually getting a head start. Might even have it done in time for Christmas! Miracle of miracles...

7.) Only working a couple of days a week at the store now and looooooooooooooove that.

.) Actually did go hiking today and saw this:

First autumn leaves.... Yay!

Thank god the summer is over

I know, I know... I suck. Moving on...

I've actually been knitting! A friend of mine from work, Camille, suggested we knit a hat and scarf set for a friend of ours who's moving to Chicago. She's working on the hat and I've got the scarf, which is just row after row of the most awesome, satisfying stockinette. It's been so long since I've had a project that was just straight up knitting that you could do without counting and constant pattern watching etc etc. It's been absolutely lovely.

Not done yet but waiting to get a color back from her so got a head start of the major blocking that will be necessary to keep it from being a big curled up tube:

Malabrigo Worsted in Olive with some stripes of the leftover brown and black I used for the armwarmers I made way back when. Man, how long ago was that? February, 2008... god, going back and looking at old entries sucks right now. Although it's funny... the one that had a great big "I love my life!" in it is just weeks before I broke up with my boyfriend because I was so miserable. Ah, life online...

Is it better to not say anything at all, if you can't say anything nice, or to pretend? I wonder how many abandoned blogs there are out there in the e-world because real life became not very fun to write about?

The ebb and flow of life. Sometimes it flows outward and you want to share it all and then it pulls in and just the idea of sharing it feels draining.

Me, in Boston over the 4th of July.

Shooting a movie this last month. I was the ghost/villain so I looked lovely and then SCARY

And aside from the looks in those two pictures, it's been the look of the Boston pic for months, except in my living room. I'll blog again when that changes.

xo

Ohdearlord!

I am totally in love...

... with my new niece, Clementine!