Birthday Week Wrap Up

i'm a great proponent of the "birthday week" as opposed to a birthDAY.  and my birthday week began with the boy friend and i meeting up last friday.  i was tired and intimated that i might not drag my sorry ass all of the way to quincy, but there was a promise of presents.  and well, i love presents. 

well they weren't lying. 

2 skeins of artyarns supermerino from melanie (who looks fabulous for a pregnant lady with 2 buns).  she was generous enough to gift us all with our own special colorway.  i got this color, that we called mexicali because well i'm hot and spicy.  cha cha cha.  and then the girls all pitched in and gifted me with a very generous gift certificate to a good yarn in honor of the birth day.  THANK YOU LADIES!  YOU ROCK AS MY BOYFRIEND!!!

next in the birthday celebration was cake with the inlaws on sunday.  i share a birthday week with a niece who turned the tender age of 17 and was ready to fight me to the death for all over control of the month of december.  considering that i've had 43 years of december being all about me (and the baby jesus) i figured in the name of world peace that i would let her think that it was all about her.  so young.  so trusting. 

then there was the actual birthday.  j forgot.  and didn't remember until he heard me humming the birthday song while making coffee.  "i swear i remembered last night!"  yeah whatever.  tell that to someone who cares.  since i'm getting a big ass christmas/birthday present, i didn't expect a gift.  but he surprised me with a table top tripod.  yes, i wanted one.  and a mushy birthday card.  he loves the mushy birthday cards.  no birthday dinner though as i was too tired.  yes, i'm officially old.  spent my birthday evening with my ass on the couch, knitting.

finally last night, a friend of mine took me out to dinner and then we shopped at home goods.  sometimes i leave that place empty handed, but not last night.  along with other things, i picked up this lovely.

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my friend asked what i was planning on doing with that ... she doesn't know about the blog ... and i had to lie.  um... for decoration.  not  .... for hanging scarves on and stuff for taking pictures for my double secret blog ...

all in all, this birthday week was a great one.  and all of you who stopped by to wish me a happy birthday are a big reason for that.  thank you so much for your good wishes.

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saturday before last, elisa had a few of us area knitters over for some knitting and drinking and eating.  and yankee swapping.

i think i totally scored.

because in exchanged for a nose (poor keiko) ...

i got me some yarn.

yes, 2 skeins of claudia (not that claudia)  hand painted merino wool sock yarn and some dpns from the sock yarn hoarder, elisa.  i'm going to have to learn how to knit socks.