Year In Review
In fiber:
1. Peacock, 2. Bear Spins!, 3. Romney, 4. Washrags!, 5. Peapod With Buttons!, 6. Merino/Tencel, 7. Hat!, 8. Hebrides Overture, 9. Sweet Baby Cap and Thumbless Mitties, 10. Octopus, 11. Sweater for Baby Lingo, 12. Tiny Stockings
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In daily life:
1. Magnets!, 2. Stitches West, 3. Magnets!, 4. Love, 5. Melted, 6. Sitting, 7. New Couch!, 8. Rose, 9. Camel, 10. Ray Gun After, 11. 1960 Ford Thunderbird, 12. Barcelona Red
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Notable events:
January - Move into a new, awesome office at work.
February - Travel to the Bay Area to hang out with Kelly and my doppelganger and meet the fabulous Yarn-a-go-go Rachael.
March - Pretty absorbed with wedding crafting, made a million buttons.
April - TheBoy turns 28, we went to Mt. Pisgah at the end of the month to smell the flowers.
May - The iPod car power adapter shorts out and melts, causing me to abruptly stammer "guh, uh, smoke" while gesturing at the dashboard from where said smoke was emitting.
June - I turn 26 with little fanfare, and I marry someone who has proven to be the best husband I could ever ask for. He's the love of my heart, of my life, and I face each day gladly with him next to me.
July - We buy a new couch, which proves to be the best thing ever for napping.
August - We bid a very unexpected goodbye to a dear Knitter, TheBoy's grandmother. We realize how fortunate it was that other events had placed several happy visits with in the short time between our wedding and her passing.
September - At Oregon Flock and Fiber, we meet a camel.
October - A steampunk vs. cyberpunk themed Halloween party gives me cause to break out some spray paint and modify this awesome toy into one of the best props ever. October sees me fail a quiz for the first time [don't worry, I made up for it!] October also brought the birth of our great-nephew, joyfulness abounds.
November - Estate sales are crazy. People want to buy the crap they can easily get at costco, like trash bags and paper plates. We sell enough to mostly pay for roof repairs. The house goes on the market.
December - We, somewhat unexpectedly purchase a 2008 Prius. Christmas never really felt like Christmas, but we had a lovely time. For only the second time in his life, TheBoy gets the experience of a White Christmas. We spend the last week of the year together, off from work, lazing about like we haven't done in over a year. One of my dearest friends from undergrad has her second baby, a little girl that I cannot wait to meet.
In some ways I am very thankful 2007 is over. We've got a lot of exciting things on the agenda for 2008. Stick around, it could be quite the ride.
Merry Merry.
Merry Christmas to all. May your holidays be blessed with love, laughter, magic, glitter, butter, sugar and all other things that make holidays so special.
Red is the Color of Desire
So says Lola anyway. [Kinky Boots is a movie that never fails to make me smile, Chiwetel Ejiofer makes a wonderful drag queen turned boot designer.] And red is the color of our happy new car:
A new car was a necessity, as the old one was on it's last legs. A '98 Ford Taurus bought second hand just before I moved from the Great White North, it was in need of new tires, new brakes, and had several other issues including a melon-sized dent in the back bumper where a woman backed into TheBoy on the 4th of July. No one was hurt and her car was barely scratched. It was mostly just irritating because she was totally at fault because she was backing up, going against one-way traffic in a Target parking lot. At any rate, we hit that precarious point where we would need to put more money into the car than it's Kelley Blue Book worth and it was only getting 20 miles to the gallon on a good day. We felt like we would have just been pouring money down the drain every time we filled the gas tank.
We had no intention of buying anything when we went in to test drive. In fact, we were planning to drive the car and then head to the mall to get some of the last of the Christmas gifts that we needed. Instead, the folks at Kendall Toyota were so stellar and bent over backwards to get us into the car we wanted immediately, and made it afforadable to us. And now we're the proud owners of this lovely Barcelona Red 2008 Prius. We've already seen a drastic cost reduction in the amount of gas that we need to put in the car, and TheBoy loves to drive it. I also have to admit that while I have been staunchly anti-driving, there's something about how fun this car looks that kind of makes me want to. We'll see. Apart from this, we've been busy busy with holiday preparations, more on that to come later!