Welcome To The Dark Side

today j turns 40.  i'm not all that sure how he feels about this milestone, since he's not much of a talker.  i've asked, but he's the strong, silent type and usually just replies "eh, fine" when i ask.  no change in the normal routine today (other than pie for dessert -- j loves apple pie), but this weekend there will be a celebration with his family.  and since he's the youngest in the area (he has a younger brother who lives in VA) there will be mocking.  and that's always fun.  happy birthday love. 

and now for olympic progress. 

it doesn't really look like much.  i haven't made much progress it seems, but it's not a portable project so i think i'll work on this mostly on the weekends.  right now, i'm obsessing about a blemish in the orange section where i knit one stitch using only one strand so i've got this loop hanging on the rev st st side.  i'm contemplating ripping and redoing that section.

that's all.  not very exciting.

UPDATE: i decided to frog everything through the orange bit to fix that loop that was driving me bonkers, only to notice that i had cast on 52 instead of 51 stitches for those sections, so i frogged some more.  it's really for the best  -- i would have bugged the shit out of me.