Happy Birthday to Me

It's now official - as of yesterday, I'm in my last year of my 20s. Weird. I guess I thought it would feel more ominous, but it doesn't. [I suppose it doesn't help that I told someone I was 29 like 3 months ago, and didn't even catch my own mistake.] I've always been told I seem older than I am... I guess that's good? There are only a few gray hairs, and they're far outshined by the beachy blonde ones, so I'm not too worried.

I didn't do too much fantastic for my birthday, but that's okay. [In the past week we did buy a house and plane tickets to Hawaii. Ouch.] I slept in late, lounged about watching football for a bit, and then the boyfriend and I went furniture-shopping. We're trying to decide whether to keep our current living room furniture or find something different. We'd been leaning toward same, but then I sat in this and am now thinking, hmm, it would be nice to have a wide cozy chair to curl up and knit in. We shall see. [I think if I get this chair, the boyfriend gets a leather couch... you see how it all spirals out of control.] We ended up postponing any major decisions in favor of dinner at one of my favorite restaurants.

Not too much knitting over the weekend, largely due to a morning wedding on Saturday. [Surprisingly, drinking a goodly amount of champagne at noon will completely wreck your ability to be productive for the rest of the day. Also will give you a horrible headache by late evening.]

I am, however, pleased as punch to present the final, completed Retro Rib sock:

I love it! I finished it at Late Night on Wednesday and am really glad to knock this off my to-do list. It's so cozy and sproingy, it feels great on my feet. Hooray! And the ribs are nice and sophisticated:

Now, if I can just find its mate... I fear it's in the depths of the knitting basket, with who knows what else...

And, I've spent some time on the Sunrise sweater sleeve - only about 20 rows from the sleeve cap shaping:

I realize it's a bit unorthodox to do the back and then a single sleeve, but I need to gauge how much yarn I'll have left out of half the total yardage. If it was a standard sweater, I'd be fine, but there's the issue of the hood... fingers crossed that I'll have enough to do the hood. Time will tell.

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Postscript: Celebrating this week the return of two of my favorite TV shows, Arrested Development and Lost. It's starting to feel like fall....