The day after…

Thanks for the birthday wishes, everyone! They played a big part in making yesterday a really great day.

At our birthday dinner last night, my brother’s fiancee and I tried to convince the waiter we were fraternal twins, and flashed our IDs as proof of our joint birthday (my former marriage being the excuse for different last names). Since she’s Korean and I’m a half-English, half-Russian redhead, it wasn’t an easy sell and he wasn’t buying. He gave us free green tea ice cream with birthday candles in it anyway. They were trick candles, though, dammit. You just don’t expect to find trick candles at a nice Japanese restaurant. I took advantage of the trick to make my wish three times before finally dropping the thing into my water glass.

The plastic bag behind Diego’s chair turned out to be a decoy to distract me from the big plastic bag in Billy’s closet containing the real gift. The real gift was a new meditation cushion. My old one was recently destroyed in a dog-related incident too ugly to recount here. Suffice it to say, the dry cleaners pronounced it uncleanable. So now I have a lovely meditation cushion again instead of a throw pillow from the couch. What a guy! 🙂 Oh…and of course the awesome Hanne Falkenberg kit. I’m going to swatch for it this weekend, though I probably won’t start it right away. Big knitting plans now that the gift ChicKami is done include buckling down and finishing my brother’s sweater, ditto for my mom’s sweater. After those are done I’ll jump into either this Tokyo kit or my Season kit.

I also got a way too generous gift from the very wonderful Andrea. A gift certificate for Threadbear. She’s way too good to me. Having her as my eternally patient and knowledgeable knitting mentor is gift enough.