a lovely weekend

sorry i haven't been blogging much lately, but there hasn't been a lot going on. this weekend i went to a knitting meetup and had a wonderful time! i've been to two so far, but this one was the best. they changed the location to kelly's french bakery, which is a simply lovely den of baked goods temptation at swift street courtyard. kelly's has a great patio and about twelve of us knitted and gabbed and had a great time, and i was so good - only a cup of tea! the other thing that makes the new location so great is that a yarn shop, the swift stitch, is two shops over from the bakery, so if you need to buy needles or some such supply, or simply want to go drool over the yarn like a pervert, you can do it! can't remember what i did saturday night (isn't that sad?) oh, wait, i must have done some knitting, because i realized i needed some double point needles. alas, i had none, and was stymied until the following day.

drew and i had a yummy lunch (thai - ummmm!) and then we hung out at kelly's again. i got my needles, and we hung out some more. i think we were there for like two or three hours, just knitting and reading and eating goodies (yes, i totally fell off the diet wagon with a little raspberry chocolate mousse thing, but it was little!) i eventually gave up knitting and read my book too, and drew managed to meet the only germans there (from munich, where he has lived before and quite likes.) eventually we had to go inside because it got cold and while it's a little noisier it's still nice. i hope next time we get to sit next to the stove... i guess it's gas, but it looks like a wood burning stove. all in all, very cozy. i suggested we have kelly's be a sunday tradition, and it's right near natural bridges park, and a few miles south of big basin, so we can take a hike and eat our goodies with abandon!

otherwise, nothing is new. the stupid car needed fixed and cost a grand to do so (ouch!) but we did get a cool rental car. don't laugh too much, but it was a kia rondo; we sheepishly admitted to one another we liked it right about the same time. i'd never even heard of a kia rondo but man, it was a really nice car! well, we called it a var, as drew was insisting it was a mini-van, and i was insisting a car. according to kelley blue book it's a micro-mini-van... thus var it is. anyway, we loved it! so much so it's on our short list of cars to consider when we buy a new one sometime this spring, and wouldn't it be hilarious for the happily childless people to own some sort of mini-van? we thought so. then again, we're both pretty easily amused. keep a rondo in mind next time you have to rent a var - you just might like it!