Until he did this, I was all set to write about the time he told his afraid-of-committment friend that it was better to learn to really please one woman than to have akward sexual relationships with lots of them. And I would have made you oh, so jealous. But now? Not so much.

(And PS, just so you can have a true idea of the WHOLE story, I’m allergic to cheese, the store is 4 blocks away, and he bought me fruit punch while I was puking. FRUIT PUNCH!)

I’ve finally got around to taking pictures of a few things I’ve finished (but not my sweater workshop sweater yet! I’m so lazy!)

A bunny hat from the book itty bitty hats. I love this book – I’d love to knit every single hat I think!

I used scraps of Pima Tencel, Cascade Sierra and GGH Samoa.

A baby bib.

This is a super simple knit, inpsired by the bibs in Mason Dixon Knitting. (1 Skein Peaches and Creme, size 7 needles about an hour, ta da!)

The Rutabaga bag

This is from the Spring issue of Knitscene. It’s super fun to knit and make a great re-useable shopping bag.

2 skeins of Cascade Sierra, size 10.5 24″ circs.

And Christina knitted this Rusted Root for a model for the store. I just happened to have her knit it in my size! (Don’t mind the hair, it’s crazy windy here today and the dog decided that he wanted to walk with me to the yarn store today, so I had to chase him down and take him back home.)

We found the sizing to be a little big and Christina ended up knitting the size Medium (36-39″ bust). It took 4 skeins of Cascade Sierra, and it’s SO super comfy!

And just one quick pic of my little photographer.

Monday
Spicy bean and pasta salad

Tuesday
indian spiced braised chicken (thanks Martha!)

Wednesday
veggie burgers

Thursday
Turkey sandwiches (thanks soccer practice!)

Friday
Green Chile smothered burritos – wanna come over?

Saturday
Date night! hopefully sushi

Sunday
Chicken Taco Salad

Something momentous happened to me yesterday – a real milestone in my life.

I woke up with my first ever hangover.

See, Jim was having his monthly “smoke night” with the guys at our house and arranged to get me out of the house. So “his girls” (ha, he always said he’d never work with a bunch of women!) and I went out on the town. I’ve really been in need of some girl time with people my age, so my elation of being out of the house without two yap-o-matics to keep track of caused me to loose all forms of judgement.

While I didn’t think I drank that much, oh. my. God. I have never been so sick in my life. I couldn’t even keep one tiny swallow of water in my stomach. I felt so bad last night that I just sat there and cried. I was very certain that I was on the brink of death.

Luckily, sleeping all day and all night helped tremendously and today I’m functioning. It was definitely a lesson learned (a lesson in humility too!). One that I don’t plan on repeating. Ever.

After our most unusual snow storms last week, the weather around here has finally resumed it’s accelerated spring schedule. (The good and bad of living in the desert, spring comes early, but so does the sweltering heat of summer.) It’s afforded us the opportunity to really enjoy the weather. Yesterday we took a trip to the most windy park (with a little detour to Starbucks) and broke in the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle and Hello Kitty kites. Here are some of my favorite shots from the trip.

(That storm that looked like was blowing in just blew right over.)

We’ve also enjoyed us some soccer games. I’ve added the photos from the last two games to the soccer set. Click the photo below to see the whole set.

And! I finished my first crocheted market bag. The lion pattern turned out to be fat and squatty, so I just used it as a loose reference and made my own bag. And it’s huge! But I think it’s perfect for lots and lots of Kettle Everything Pretzel Chips.

I promise, I’m not letting her watch America’s next top model.

What else? Oh! Use coupon code “free ship” to get free shipping on any Tangle order over $50. And Pima Tencel is on sale too.

And now that it’s taken me all day to blog this, I think I’ll try to get some work done.