Thursday
Jan222009
Thursday, January 22, 2009 at 4:39PM And in the 28th year, she had blue teeth
It's my birthday! Happy birthday! Today I am 28, and I do indeed have blue teeth from a cookie-cake with blue icing. It is delicious. It's been a wonderful day, one that started out with lots of present opening at 6:30 a.m. and will end with gnocchi, new candles in the fireplace and my two homies, J and G. Justin is very ill - I think he has consumption or tuberculosis, maybe even cholera, so you can bet I'm not taking him anywhere near the Oregon Trail - and Gracie has been waking at 2 a.m. to party. She stares and stares and stares at us and then goes back to sleep by the humidifier. She entertains me to no end.
I haven't quite finished my 28 Things to Do in my 28th Year list, so instead, please enjoy this knitted awesomeness:
These are my Anemoi mittens, designed by the incomparable Eunny Jang. I knit these out of Koigu and they're very warm and lovely. Alas, this journey has yet again reinforced the fact that I think Koigu kind of sucks. I think it's something to do with the yarn sourcing, and maybe the Koigu I've used (which has, ahem, been marinating in the stash for quite a few years) isn't as good what's being put out there now. In any case, they're pretty. And my stash is 350 yards lighter.
See? Gracie loves them, too.
Reader Comments (5)
Happy birthday!!!! The mittens are fabulous!
happy birthday! josie and gracie must have gone to the same charm school. although when staring doesn't work, josie will rub her entire body back and forth on the foot of the bed.
happy happy birthday ;)
Happy Belated Birthday! Great mittens...
Happy Birthday, belatedly! Them mittens are lovely!