Birthday Birthday

So, as I'm sure some of you probably know, I recently celebrated my 25th birthday.  Thanks to all of those who sent me happy birthday wishes!

I must say I had a pretty good day.  I got my nails done on Tuesday...they didn't have any appointments on my actual birthday.  Don't they look nice?  I love the super light pink, it's almost neutral and goes with everything...and it has the tiniest sparkle, which every girl needs for their birthday.  Shellac manicures are the best invention ever.  I will never pay for a regular manicure ever again.  By the way, I'm doing pretty good at not biting my nails, having them done really helps.

Well, on my actual birthday I went to work in the morning.  Erin was very excited that it was my birthday.  As soon as she woke she came skipping out of her room holding my birthday present.  I got a gift certificate to the local yarn store, River Colors Studio.  I was extraordinarily excited about that.  Erin and Megan also coloured Strawberry Shortcake cards for me, they're adorable...both the girls and the cards.

After work I went to the yarn store, of course.  I also got an online gift certificate to River Colors from my mother-in-law, that I used when I got home.  Brett also have me $40 to spend on yarn as part of my birthday present.

So here's what I got at the yarn store. Three beautiful skeins of Madelinetosh Tosh Merino Light. It's 100% superwash merino wool and completely gorgeous. I got the colourways Calligraphy, Heuchera, and Logwood. I bought them to knit up one of these.

Color Affection by Veera Välimäki

Online I ended up buying 5 skeins of Cascade 220 in the Rainier Heather colorway.  I don't have it yet, but here's the colour card.

I am going to make one of these with that yarn.  Everyone needs a good plain sweater to go with everything.  I used to have one, but not a hand knit one...a plain chocolate brown v-neck from the gap.  Then, in high school, someone thought they were being nice by moving my clothes from the washer to the dryer, and, it got shrunk...I won't say by who.  But no worries, I'll have a new one soon.



Ladies Classic Raglan Pullover by Jane Richmond

 After coming home I talked to my momma on the phone for a while.  Then I got a giant package that ended up being a new orchid plant from my family!  Isn't that sweet!  They bought me flowers.  And not just cut flowers that will die, but a plant!  And it came in an adorable pink polka dotted tea cup!  I cried a little, I won't lie.  So then I had to call my mom again to say thanks.  Aren't they lovely?

Brett had to work late so he didn't get home until 5:30ish.  I opened my gifts from him, the Skyrim and Oblivion soundtracks!  Very excited about them.  After he showered and got all ready to go, we went to Melt for dinner.  I got the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Pizza Roll Melt.  It was pizza rolls, pesto cream cheese, homemade marinara sauce, mozzarella, and romano cheeses.  It could have had a few more pizza rolls on it, but it was good.  Then we shared the Oreo cheesecake for dessert.  Yumm!

So, that was my birthday.  I liked it.  So, I'm going to go work on my Color Affection before Brett gets home and we leave to go spend the weekend with my wonderful family!  Have a good one ya'll!

Landon's ROTN

As promised here are some things I've been working on for my soon-to-be-here nephew.  They're super adorable...or at least I think so!

So we've got 3 adorable hats and a pair of booties.  By the way I love Jack sniffing the hat while I was trying to take pictures.  Jack loves my knitting.  He especially loves to nest on everything that finished or mostly finished.  Luckily, I kept these out of his reach.

A special thank you to my friend Christine for giving me a card with a picture of a baby wearing that third hat!  I looked for a pattern for this hat everywhere and it doesn't exist, so I made one up myself and I think it turned out super cute.

But anyway, now I have to go get these put in a box and shipped out to my wonderful brother and sister!

What Have I Been Doing Lately

Apparently, I have been seriously neglecting this blog.  It has been over a month since I posted last!  Apologies....

The truth is, I had every intention of posting last week, I even got some pictures together of a bunch of things I've been knitting, assorted other things I've been up to...but....I've been so tired recently, I haven't gotten anything done that I've intended to.

For the past week-ish, I have been soooo tired.  I go to bed early, I sleep in a little more than I should in the morning, and I'm still completely exhausted.  Maybe I'm sick or something.

But anyway, I did start exercising again last week.  Our lame apartment building has been constructing an "Amenities Center" for the past year and a half, and the part with the gym just finally opened last week or so....after being delayed by 3 months, and then by one more....lame-o.  Well, it is really nice, so I've been trying to walk an hour or so a day on the treadmill.  I admit it's not much, but it doesn't hurt me, and it's better than nothing.  I've been doing the hill training option so I'm still getting some cardio.  Yesterday I even lifted some free weights for the arm region.  I'm not a fan of my semi-flabby triceps, so maybe that'll help.  I'm also working on trying to be able to do a real push-up...which I've never been able to do in my life.

Since, I'm at work right now while the girls are eating lunch, I don't have any knitting pictures to post.  Hopefully that will be coming soon.  I'll also try to get an update of some of the 101 in 1001 I've done recently.  Most of it isn't exciting enough to warrant a post by itself, but if I put like 10 together, you shouldn't be too bored, right?

Hope all are doing well and having a good week so far...and HAPPY MAY!