Twenty-six
My birthday was yesterday, May 2. I am officially 26. I really don’t know how to feel about this. This means that I’m 4 years away from 30. I handled 25 pretty well, but not gonna lie, there was some kicking and screaming with 26. Most of it was mental, but I spent the week leading up to my birthday in kind of a funk, which is odd for me – usually I can’t WAIT for my birthday, but this year I had a lot of shit going on, between my car acting funny (turns out it was the battery, but I don’t know how long I can keep getting off easy with these car repairs) and being sure that certain people would forget my birthday (they did). None of it was directly related to getting older, but I’m sure that was part of it. I’m trying to get over myself there, because this is shaping up to be a good year for me in a lot of ways.
A little yarn and some good company never hurt anything, though, and I perked up when it was time to go to Maryland Sheep & Wool. Amanda (who is not Lloyd and who needs a nickname) and I schlepped it down to MD to meet my friend Lizz, who was not a yarn person, but who is interested enough that she’d brave the 90-degree weather and the crowds with us for the second year in a row. We had a really good time, despite the heat. Lizz had such a good time that she came in “just to watch” and left with 2 felting kits, 2 skeins of yarn, and 2 weaving looms. I’ve converted another one. :D I myself didn’t get too crazy – I only bought a 4 oz. purple/blue cloud of fiber from Loop and 8 oz. of see-it-from-space pink/yellow/orange cormo, both of which you can see in the photo mosaic farther down the page. I also got two Sheep Incognito prints: Firefly Ballet & The Odd Couple. Those prints are dangerous; I had a hell of a time deciding on those two, and I saw at least five more that I wanted.
Amanda and I came back from MD just in time for me to watch the Kentucky Derby with my family and pick my second Derby winner in a row. :) Scott took me to dinner at Friday’s, where I had the aptly-named Ultimate Mojito, and was a little silly by the time we got home. Between the sunburn, the exhaustion of being up at 7 and running all day on 5 hours of sleep, 4 hours of car travel, and alcohol, I was done. I just crashed.
Sunday was my actual birthday, so I got up and made cupcakes using the Hello Cupcake! book Lloyd brought me in October. :) Scott took me to see How to Train Your Dragon, which was adorable, and I highly recommend it. We had steak dinner – my favorite! – and did presents. My big gift was the tickets for Bon Jovi later this month, but I also got some birthday money and some Disney money.
All in all, it was a nice, quiet birthday. I’ll leave you with some photos. Full versions are all on Flickr, if you’re interested.:
