A weekend! of knitting!
(ames! Always in green-ish, aya types in black, oh the fun of the shared blog)
It is Sunday of a fun fabulous looooooooong weekend of ames and aya being in the same place at the same time. HOMG. I flew in Wednesday afternoon and we had dinner at aya’s parents’ house (mmmyum roast beef) and picked up the car that her mom was graciously lending me for my adventures on Thursday. Then it was home to aya’s, where we did nothing. Possibly there was a little bit of knitting. Possibly not. We were tired.
Thursday! Poor poor aya had to work, and was very sad about it. Oh, the pitiful text messages I got! I slept in a bit, then hopped in the car to drive into the city and meet my friend Jo for lunch. Jo and I haven’t seen each other in six years, and it was like not even five minutes had passed. <3 <3 <3 She looks exactly the same, and we laughed and gossiped and giggled for almost two hours. Also – the lobster bacon macaroni and cheese at Laurel is possibly one of the most amazing dishes I’ve ever eaten. Aya came home, we played with her cute little bunnies, and started many tv watchings, beginning with The Plan, which is the Battlestar Galactica miniseries where everything is told from the Cylons’ point of view. Very good, but holy cow does Edward James Olmos like to throw in totally gratuitous (and fake) t & a. ANYWAY. Moving on.
Friday was yaaaaaarn daaaaaaay. We bought these!
Sheep Shop Yarn Company, Sheepfeet DK Merino, very pretty, and on SALE. We both have this, and need to pick a sock pattern. We’ll be all matchy-matchy.
Trekking XXL, my favorite sock yarn for gifting socks. I love it, I can’t wait to use it, and it will be fabulous.
Artyarn Handpainted Merino, Colorway 110 (wtf with the numbers, how hard it is to say pink, for pete’s sake). These are aya’s, and they’re so pretty. Artyarns does good work, man. Pretty pretty.
And there has been knitting! I started a new pair of socks on the bus to the airport Wednesday, and I’ll be finishing them today. No pictures yet, but it’s this sock . Mine is an odd but pretty slate grayish blue. Very nice, and I’ve almost finished the first one. Woo-hoo, I will finish it tonight. I’m loving this pattern, and raved about it so much that aya decided she needed to knit it as well. HA. Anyway, it’s the Mock Wave Cable from Interweave Press’s 25 Favorite Socks book. (I am chipping away at my goal of knitting every pattern in the book.)
We went to see The Book of Eli yesterday, which aya really enjoyed and I didn’t totally hate, and capped off the evening with three hours of Sanctuary, my current favorite tv show. (Last week’s episode, and then the two-hour finale of awesome from Friday night.)
Today? We stay in. Most likely. Who knows. We’re low on milk for lattes, and aya has a fancy new espresso machine, so we may be crawling out of the house at some point. I go back home tomorrow, sadness. I miss my kitties, though. Rabbits are cute pets, but they don’t snuggle.
aya says “type, minion!”
January 18th, 2010 13:57
i didn’t know about the plan. gonna have to look for that!!!
January 18th, 2010 13:57
p.s. did you guys go to woolcott and co? i used to work there!
January 21st, 2010 12:56
I miss you. *sigh* I just want us to all get together again, like NOW. But I’m thrilled you had a fun and relaxing and enjoyable trip. I miss Boston too.
And yay for new yarn. :D
January 21st, 2010 13:06
We didn’t – aya lives outside of the city, so we stayed in her area for the yarn store. It was a cute one – one of those small LYSes with an amazing amount of variety in their stock. I liked it.