Valentine's Day

Happy Valentine's Day! (AKA Singles Awareness Day, as Elena calls it) It has been a pretty eventful V-day for me here. First of all I got flowers yesterday (see post below for pics) and we had terrible weather last night which lead to the office being closed today! Yay! So I got to work from home, which was nice. No commute! Think of what I could do if I didn't waste 3-3.5 hours a day commuting! It was soooo wonderful.

Plus H. was home so we both worked from home which was quite a nice bonus for valentine's day.

It warmed up enough and stuff melted for a little bit that we could get out to eat at Ruby Tuesday's which is where we met (with Susan! It would have been better if she could have magically gotten here and come with!)

So it was a super nice day - I even got a card from my Mom and Dad!

I'm just dreading trying to get out of the parking lot tomorrow - you see everything that melted earlier is now (as I type) freezing. It's supposed to get down to the teens and we have winds up to 40MPH! Yuck.

I was thinking of Valentine's Days past... and some of the best ones... I remember from when I was little with Mom and Dad... they always did a good job of including me and making a nice memorable day. I also remember the V-day after I was dumped by my first boyfriend and I met a friend of mine for some drinks in the bar (she got her divorce papers a few days before) and we watched the dog show on TV in the bar. It was pretty fun. Another Valentine's day after a breakup with a different person I ate sushi and had my first sake with my friend Heather (hey if anyone knows Heather's new address let me know! I can't get in touch with her!)

So see - I have a lot of memorable days from when I was single, and a lot of them were better than when I was with someone! I mean the first V-day when I was married? H. was halfway around the world, the florists delivered the flowers at 4pm - way after I left work and I thought he forgot about me. Then when I got to work the next day they were all dead since they were not in water! Then the second one when we were married? He had so much work that he didn't even eat his dinner when it was warm- he spent most of the time on the phone.

So Happy Valentine's Day!!! I wish you all the best!

Tuesday the 13th

I went on a business trip - here is a picture out my hotel window and the second picture is out the window of the office building in Philly.



And here is a picture of the room. We were wined and dined because it was the new orientation.



Well if you are anywhere near me - you know it is not pleasant outside. Yuck. It took me two hours to get home today and I left work early. Bleck.

Anyway, on a plus note they delivered these to my work a day early. I brought them home to enjoy them. It was not fun taking them on the subway. But since I thought maybe the weather would be bad and I might leave early - I drove to the subway stop today instead of taking the bus (my bus is a commuter bus and doesn't operate until 4).



I finished these for my co-worker. They are from "Last-minute knitted gifts" as well.



They are pretty fun - I made them from the Noro Cash Iroha yarn I had gotten the other week.

One more square

Well, I finished another square today - this time it was the mosaic style of knitting - and I have to say This Pattern Rocks!! I love it to pieces. I am thinking someday making a felted bag with this pattern, wouldn't that look neat?

Anyway - I may get another square or two done - I have to travel to Philly for another business trip. They have our days packed from 7:30am to 11pm so we'll see how much knitting I get done. At least I'll have the train ride there and back!!

I didn't have any of the weaving-in trouble as I did yesterday (see post below). And I love mosaic knitting - since you only deal with one yarn at a time and used slipped stitches to get the other color involved - it is really simple and looks really fun. The reason is is so curled is because it is in stockinette stitch.

Happy Superbowl Sunday!
Go Colts (gotta root for my man Dungy, loved him when he was with the Bucs, he is a good man)!! Hubby is rooting for the Bears since he used to live in Chicago... so either way we'll be happy in this house.

Help Is needed

There are several things to report here...
1. Bought some yarn from Supercrafty and it came in two days - all the way from CA! If you haven't read about her and her dear son on CrazyAuntPurl's blog or on KB's blog, you can read about her here.
and her store has lots of awesome yarn and notions. You should check it out.


2.I started the afghan as I said in an earlier post - and this is my first square. I decided that the green was just a no-go. There needed to be a better contrast.

3. However I realized really soon that I am not so good at the weaving in of ends. People have tried to explain to me how you can knit the ends in as you go - and I just can't get my head around it. Any advice?? Because I don't want an afghan that looks great... until you pull it over your head and you see the world through this:

4. I think I know what I want to make Susan for Christmas next year. But I can't buy the yarn for it yet. Not that it is expensive or hard to get or anything. But I know if I make it, I'll immediately want to give it to her. I have no giving willpower when it comes to Susan or Harland.

Thirteen Things Things I hate about the Washington DC Metro (one thing I do like is that it gets me to work!! Maybe I'll think of 12 more for next week) 1. When they only have 1 train every 10-20 minutes during rush hour. 2. When they say a train is coming in X minutes and it turns out to be one of those empty trains that don't pick up passengers - they should just not put those on the sign and get our hopes up. 3. When (for whatever reason) someone who weighs upwards of 300 pounds sits next to you while you are knitting and there are EMPTY seats where they could have TWO seats to themselves to sit in!! 4. People who don't get out of your way so you can get off the train even when you politely say "excuse me". 5. People who run down the stairs at Courthouse station in the morning on the wrong side to try and catch a train where the doors are already shutting. A) People are trying to go up the stairs, please let them go to work and B)The doors are already shutting, you aren't going to make it, folks. You're just not. 6. People who sneeze or cough without covering their nose/mouth 7. People who jump on the track to commit suicide. If you must do that, there are better and nicer ways. Think of the poor driver. Think of the passengers that will be injured. 8. The Metro buses that are on my route leak. I mean buckets. I have seen people put on their hoods, I have seen people put up umbrellas, and I have had to move several times. I think it could probably fixed with some duct tape or something. 9. Young men (and women) who don't give up their seats to seniors/disabled/people with casts/etc. 10. On a similar vein as number 8, buses that have windows that don't shut and subway cars whose doors stick open. 11. People who talk (very loudly) on their cell phone really loudly about nothing. 12. Drunk people who try to hit on people, and when unsuccessful literally move down two seats and try on the next single person. We are in a car. You are talking loudly. The next person knows you just tried the same pick-up tactic. We all do. And we all know it won't work this time either. 13. Subway drivers who don't inform you why you're stopped if you're stopped for more than 5 minutes. Links to other Thursday Thirteens! 1. Amy 2.Susan 3.Brony

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Knit, Knit, Knit

So Brigitta is now tenured! Hip Hip Hooray for her. And, believe it or not, I mailed her her Christmas present and it got there on the day she received her letter! Yay Dr. Brig!

Here was her present:

In other knitting news...
Here is what is on the needles right now:


That is my first square from the "Learn to knit Afghan book" by Barbara Walker. It is called the Rose Fabric. I think it is a tremendous book for beginners or intermediate people - or people like me that are in between!! (also apologies to colorblind people, those colors will probably be hard to distinguish. I should have used more contrasting yarn shades)

Also - great to use up some of your leftover yarns laying around! Harland's sister kindly bought it for me for Christmas. I'd been eye-ing it for several months before Christmas. It's my new thing to do in between projects. Right now I am trying to learn how to do stripy things better before I start my cousin's scarf.

Once the scarf is done - I am seriously considering joining the Salina-along if I can get my hands on the book in time. It'd be my very first sweater! Check it out!! Salina-along

until the last flick of the hockey stick....

Well I just got back from my Christmas present - which was tickets to a Washington Capital's game!!
WHOOOT!!
Lucky for me they won 7-3. Oh, I love hockey games!! This time I didn't even have my favorite combo - beer and cotton candy. In fact I totally went crazy and had soda and soft pretzel instead.

Anyway it was really fun and taking the metro worked out really well. It was a really good day - the loud crazy neighbor upstairs was gone so it was sooo quiet and we got to sleep in until 8:30!!! And then we had a really yummy breakfast and then we walked to the library and then we watched some taped episodes of "The Office" that Dad sent to me (thanks Dad we got them today!). And I had the chance to mail out the hat I finished and I started my second to last Christmas present I have yet to make.

So all is well!! I am excited because after I finish my Christmas presents I think I will try to make a sweater.

Cheers!
And Go CAPS!