WeekendingBirthday WeekendJust Another Day

• Friday night I dropped by the local spinning/knitting group to socialize.
• It is always an interesting group and never is there a dull moment.
• After that I went to any store that was still open looking for pajamas.
• Funny how the one thing you could swear you've seen everywhere seems to not exist when you are looking for it.
• I may have been easily frustrated.
• I had a vision after all.
• While I didn't find red and white striped footie pajamas in time, I was able to compromise.
• Astonishing really, considering that what I ended up with was a compromise to my compromise.
• Then I turned 50.
• A small thing.
• Somehow the day flew by like any normal day.
• Any normal weekend day.
• Not the momentus event I thought it would be.
• I mean, people! I'm FIFTY!
• I don't have any issues with it at all.
• It just feels weird to say it.

• Trying to avoid adding to the large amount of leftover yarn hanging around here I have gotten in the habit of, when there is enough yarn to do so, casting on for another project immediately.
• When I finished this (no, there are still no buttons on it, but I keep wearing it anyway) I made these.
• And then, while looking for something else, I found this.
• Seriously!?
• This just adds pressure to my life because the yarn is too beautiful and I cannot waste even that little bit*.
• The yarn shown in the photos here is The Woolen Rabbit Grace, leftover from my NaKniSweMo Rene.
• I love this yarn!
• I nearly ran out of yarn for the cowl.
• Thank goodness for gauge swatches.
• Sunday was spent watching lame made-for-tv holiday movies.
• Nothing says Merry Christmas like overused story lines, contrived situations, predictable dialogue, mediocre acting, and schmaltzy emotional endings.
• I mean, what's not to like about Melissa Joan Hart, in a moment of a complete break with reality managing to kidnap a large and fit man like Mario Lopez and somehow keep him hostage in a cabin in the woods with her entire family who thinks it is a joke when he repeatedly tells them and others that he has been kidnapped, but in 24 short hours has a complete turn around and starts to fall in love with his kidnapper.
• They had absolutely NO chemistry.
• But then again, Melissa Joan Hart and Mario Lopez. Two of the world's great actors brought down by a bad script? Or was it a great script.....? Ummm.....
• I finished that cowl, got my Starbucks birthday drink, a latte, (and really-when will I learn to stick to tea!?), performed surgery on a Christmas stocking and was fed by my daughter and her boyfriend.
• It was strange to have another weekend without a Patriots game.
• Looking forward to tonight!

Knitting directly from the swatch. Yes, I went there.

Weekending along with Amanda who writes The Habit of Being.

2012. *What are the chances that the found and discarded beginnings of that sweater are pulled out and knitted into something? I mean, that yarn! I love it. What a waste to leave it like that.....

Comments

[amanda {the habit of being}]

i found myself laughing because we gave up cable years ago and yet each year at this time i want nothing more than to watch cheesy holiday movies on lifetime. true thing.

happy belated birthday!

[CyndiG]

I love the sheep. It is very photogenic! Are you enjoying the game?

[Laurie]

I love the cannibalizing of the swatch! Happy birthday! Who knew 50 could be so eventful?

[Cookie]

Happy Belated Birthday! What kind of jammies did you settle for? Love that sheep. Ya know, that Mario really does seem like a polite young man. Maybe falling for her was the kindest thing he could do? Yeah, I don't get it either.

[Karen]

That yarn is spectacular. The movie probably less so....

[Carole]

I'm glad your birthday weekend was fun even if it wasn't momentous. Using up every bit of that yarn is definitely a good plan.

[margene]

I knew you'd go there, but I never thought I'd SEE it! Now I need Grace.