I feel like I took a nap for a minute, woke up and it's December. I'm still waiting for the start of summer! This is a problem. It's more of a problem because Amy's wedding is right around the corner, Christmas will be hot on its heels and the suddenly BAM! it'll be 2008. I'm so unprepared. I am looking forward to the change in year, however. I prefer even numbered years to odd numbered. I pretty much prefer even numbered everything to odd numbered anything. I can't really explain it, I just feel more balanced. I have no idea what to do about Christmas presents and I'm pretty confident that I'll totally forget about them until like the 22nd and then it'll be panic button time (that's what happens every year). I start out in January telling myself that when I see something that I think someone I know would really love, I'll buy it and then hold onto it for their birthday or Christmas or whatever. I think this is a brilliant idea in theory, but the execution is still pretty elusive. Oh well, I guess it's not really supposed to be about the presents, is it? I think I'm all set for Amy's wedding, I'm just excited and nervous (weddings always make me nervous, I'm not sure why. I become a ball of anxiety until the actual wedding has taken place and it's picture time. And it's not like I have any reason for this, I've never been married. Figure that one out).
I had a jam packed weekend of excitement. OK, maybe not, but keep in mind it doesn't take a lot to keep me entertained. On Saturday Sacha called and said that he had just purchased Rock Band for XBox 360 and would I like to come over and play it? Rock Band (for those of you who may not know) is a video game that comes with a guitar, a drum set and a microphone. You can have a person playing each instrument (or singing) and then you play actual rock songs and get scored on accuracy. It's incredibly fun and highly addictive. We played it for 12 hours. No, I'm not exagerrating. When I went to sleep on Saturday night I was dreaming of little Rock Band notes running through my head. I can't wait to play it again. :) It's a very good thing that I don't have Sacha's entertainment system because I'm pretty sure nothing would ever get done around my house (well, even less than what gets done now). Unfortunately for the boys, they decided to give me the microphone at one point and that was pretty much a disaster. I love to sing, but I have a tragically horrible voice (anyone who has seen me do karaoke can attest to this). It doesn't really bother me, but they had to listen to me for like 3 hours. They might develop an inner ear problem, but I did warn them so I refuse any responsibilty for it.
Sunday I just watched movies and knit a pair of mittens for Grace. I think I'm coming down with a cold (thanks, Sam) and my plan had been to spend my whole weekend in bed letting my immune system do its thing (alas, the Rock Band), so Sunday that's pretty much what I tried to do. I believe I watched 3 and a half movies (the half was South Pacific, that's one of those movies I only watch up to a certain point and then I imagine the ending I would have preferred in my head. I have several movies I do that with). One of the movies I watched was Waitress which I had from Netflix, that movie was very excellent. I definitely recommend it! It made me want to eat what I believe was the Bad Baby Pie... rent the movie and find out what I mean. I'm seriously considering looking for a recipe. Which would lead to cooking. Whoa.
Anyway, about the mittens. I've never actually made mittens before, but I figured I can read and follow directions (mostly) so I could probably figure it out. I found a pattern online somewhere for bulky mittens (because I was knitting them out of Malabrigo Chunky, which I'm having a little love affair with at the moment) and read it and proceeded to think that it was a little bit silly so I used it as more of a reference guide to my own pattern. The finished result is this:
Which I hope will fit the intended recipient, despite a slight disagreement between us on the size of her hands. She thinks she has these giant beastie hands and I think she has hands quite similar to mine, just a little bit longer (because not everyone was "blessed" with short, stubby fingers like me) and probably narrower. So I made some mittens that are just a little bit too long for me and I imagine they should fit her. Time will tell, I have to mail them out today so I probably won't know the actual sizing until the end of the week.
On a completely unrelated topic, in an effort to avoid rush hour on the T Friday night I decided to go check out Enchanted right after work at the theater a block away. I. Loved. It. It was so cute and fun and it's one of those that I could just watch over and over. I wouldn't have thought this was possible, but Patrick Dempsey's cuteness factor went up even further after watching it. That's tough to do.
Finally, this weekend brought with it the return of my knitting notebook so I can finally finish the projects that I had already started. I left it at Toni's a few weeks ago and I feel like I've been without my security blanket. But all is right with the world now!
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