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December 15, 2005
oh baby
Not as much progress as I'd hoped on the Gift for Someone Very Special. It's actually really hard to knit, too tight, brutal on my poor soft fingers and also made of Red Heart, which means it squeaks like a little baby banshee on the cheap needles I'm using. But that's okay, Someone Very Special won't mind if it's not ready for any certain date that's not my holiday anyway. Especially when there are so many important things to do right now, snow to be shoveled, friends to be visited, tea to be drunk, kitties to be petted, doodles to be. . . doodled (doos to be dled?).
If any of you smarty-pantses out there think you can guess what the Gift is, please do me a favour and don't leave a guess in the comments. I want Someone Very Special to be surprised.
Not much else is getting accomplished, other than the aforementioned doodling and tea-drinking. I promised Sandy that I would finish at least one of the cardigans I brought home with me (that would be the Must Have, of course, since it's the closest to being done), but now I have some design swatching to be done on a really short deadline, so I'm not to be held responsible if there's still no Must Have come January. Trying to find a way to pay the rent on the Athens shack I'll be paying for all summer even though I may not be living there and won't be getting paid is more important, and that means swatching and designing. More news on that as it breaks.
Today I shoveled my way out of the house and slogged my arse many, many blocks (okay, only about four, actually) through the rude wind's wild lament and the bitter weather to visit Mita, who's housebound with a brand new baby. And finally, finally! I got to meet beautiful Mats, who is an absolute doll (of course). He pretty much slept on me the whole time I was there, which was really nice because babies usually hate me. And his head smells so good.
Today is the Rob-and-Jodi birthday limbo day; Rob is two years and two days older than me so in the past we've averaged our ages and had a joint party. Today RobandJodi is 35 (which means, in case you miss my dumbass logic, that yesterday Rob turned 36). Since it's too late to say happy birthday, go wish him a happy RobandJodiday instead, and tell him to get off his arse and start posting on the blog again. Oh, and happy birthday sweetie, sorry it's a day late but I'm a slackass that way. You can get me back for it tomorrow.
Posted by jodi at December 15, 2005 04:55 PM | categories: self-absorbtion : sticks and string
Comments
Happy birthday, Jodi!! :D
Posted by: Mandy at December 16, 2005 04:40 AM
Happy Birthday!!!! It must be so great to be home for it!
Posted by: Rebecca at December 16, 2005 06:40 AM
Happy birthday, Jodi. Hope your day uncovers something delightfully unexpected!
Posted by: Bob at December 16, 2005 09:12 AM
Happy b-day Jodi! For your birthday I'm giving you a snowflake. You'll find it outside on your doorstep. Seriously, that was me. I've got connections in the atmosphere.
Posted by: Steph VW at December 16, 2005 10:22 AM
So I have a guess as to what that is, just looking for the shaping, but I would think that it would negate the specialness of it with Red Heart (not because I'm a yarn snob, because I'm not, just because....well, I won't say). I'll be curious to see it when it's finished!
Posted by: Cathi at December 16, 2005 03:00 PM