I’ve been BUSY, OK?

Busy doing what, you ask?

Busy turning 32, that’s what.  It’s harder than it looks!

Yes, it was mah birfday on Friday.  We celebrated rather low key that night - Kev made me dinner and bought me cake.  CAKE!

strawberries and whipped cream!

I guess I don’t have to tell you that he got very lucky that night.

Saturday night we went out with friends Claudia, Sandy, and Bob.  We had dinner at the Melting Pot, which is a fondue restaurant, and stuffed ourselves silly with cheese and meat and chocolate.  And also alcohol…but that was mostly me and Sandy.  I started out with a regular sized blackberry margarita, which was SO GOOD I decided to have another.  Kev suggested I get the large, which comes in one of those giant novelty-sized martini glasses, so that he could “share.”  HA!  Share.  He had about 3 sips.  The rest was left to me and whooooa, I was drunk.

I don’t have pictures - the pic they took at the restaurant was already deleted when I went to the website to get it.  Damn!  So stupid.  Claudia took some pics, though, so hopefully she’ll put them up at some point (*cough*HINT!*cough*)

Sunday I knitted with friends and then came home and put up a slightly gimpy christmas tree.

The base of the stand fell out of the box somewhere in our storage unit, so we used the base of our george foremen grill.  It tilts a bit…but you really hardly notice it!

Because I have the nicest friends EVER, I got some lovely presents for my birthday - all fiber related, of course!

From Jane, who couldn’t come to dinner with us because of her husband’s stooopid work Christmas party.  She made the knit pouch herself, and the fiber is Spunky Eclectic

BMFA Icelandic wool from Claudia.  This will be a scarf soon!

Handyed superwash by and from Sandy.  She’s going to teach me how to spin for sock yarn!

And lastly, with some money from my parents, Kev, and Kev’s mom…

new camera!!! chapstick added for size reference

Isn’t it cute and tiny?  My current camera (Sony DSC-H1) is still awesome, but it is big and clunky, and tough to just casually throw into my purse when I’m running out the door (hence, no melting pot pics from me), so I wanted something more portable.  Voila’!  The pics of my gifts were all taken using this camera, and I already love it.  I can already tell that it’s MUCH better at taking crisp photos without a flash and no tripod. It’s got a lot of very cool…and kind of creepy (”smile detection”) features as well.

An accessory pack that includes TWO tripods should be arriving tomorrow (the camera just came in today) so I will have a nice set of extras - carrying case, additional battery, etc.  Then WATCH OUT everyone!  You’ll never know when I’m going to whip this baby out and capture the moment!

Thanks everyone!  You made turning 32 almost comletely pain-free.  Now I’m going to go take my pills and hobble off to bed, after I yell at some kids to get off my lawn.