Eastburn Adventures

(Clap, clap, clap. . . ) CLAPOTIS! Yes, the Clapotis is finished, finito, stick a fork in it - it's done. Hooray! I actually finished the knitting on it Wednesday evening, and then wove in the ends on Thursday morning. To recap, I used Classic Elite Fame and did an extra 7 repeats of the straight section in the middle. Since I finished before January 31, Zarah honorably picked up the bag of Lizard Ridge squares Thursday night and immediately got to work on seaming. That girl is fast! I had to wait to post, though, so that Kate could take photos - with me in it.

I had another photo taken yesterday morning - for my driver's license renewal. I'm very happy to get a new license since the old one was done 6 years ago. It was almost a bad situation, though. I intended to renew it in December - on my days off around Christmas - but then remember, surprise!, Michelle came to visit. Then I knew that I had a hair appointment later in January, so I decided to wait until after that to renew my license. Must have good hair for the photo, right?

My appointment was originally scheduled for Tuesday, for a cut and color (yes, I've got a little bit of grey to hide). Unfortunately, Ty, my hair guy, got stuck in Chicago at the airport (been there, done that), so we had to reschedule for last night. Except now we've got dinner reservations and I was going to be short on time, so it became for a cut only. Which meant I had to color my hair myself - and I did so on Wednesday (skipping choir rehearsal because it was a hair emergency). I bought some color named "mahogany" which I've used before, and it puts a little red tint in my dark brown hair - just enough to highlight, and when the sun shines it usually looks pretty good. I don't know what happened this time, but when I rinsed and looked in the mirror, it was like a bad after-school special - my hair was red! Oh, and just on top because that's what Ty usually does - no need to put chemicals all over just to cover grey. Poor Robert. He came to my rescue by bravely facing the hair color aisle at Wal-Mart to get me "dark brown" so I could quickly re-color my hair. Fortunately, it toned the red down enough so I could leave the house and face the world. My hero!

Last night we had the joint knitting/birthday party for me and Kate (her birthday was December 29th) and got to hang out with good friends: Sarah, and her husband, Matt; Brianne and her husband, Brian; Kate and her husband, Jerry; Ginger and Steve, and Lisa/Lola. We knitted (not the boys), played pool, played on the Wii, and just had a fabulous time! And, between all the girls, we got the Lizard Ridge blanket completely seamed! Brianne has it now to pick up stitches for the border (Zarah enlisted help). I think I need to rename the project "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Blanket!" Good times. Good friends. I got 'em.