Anniversary!

It's my 4-year wedding anniversary today. It's kind of funny to say that, because I guess it's my husband's anniversary too, right?

I look at it like this - You (husband) need to give me (wife) gifts and take me to dinner to let me know how happy you are to be married to me...and I (wife) give you (husband) a card because your gift is the fact that you are happy and married to me. Makes perfect sense to me!

Actually, this year I am surprising Husband because I have a gift for him that will hopefully be near the top, if not the top, of all gifts ever received. You see, Husband is a Redskins fan, 100% born and bred Redskins fan. Of all the different teams that have played together as Redskins, his all-time favorite player is John Riggins. It probably is this reason that our puppy is named John Riggins, Jr. aka 'Riggo'.

Husband sent me these beautiful roses to my office today (he gets double bonus points because of course all the ladies 'ooh & aah' and then the men feel like they need to be better husbands as well because of course they didn't send flowers to their wives in ages):

For my part - I got Husband THIS:I hope that he loves it, as I suspect he will. He has several Redskins jerseys, but this one is his all-time favorite player. Now he can stop lusting after all the #44 jerserys at the Redskins games when we go and he can be one instead.

You think that I may get bonus points now too? I think that his friends will be quite impressed.

Knitting and Football

Well, it was a busy weekend full of knitting, football and family. Unfortunately, my Washington Redskins lost after they failed to participate in the 2nd half of the game. And my Fantasy Football team with Friend, well, we were doing pretty good there and lost our match-up thanks to last night's game and TO. I am not a fan of the Dallas Cowboys - no self-respecting Redskins fan could be.

But Friend and I lost by 3 lousy points - 3!!! To the guy who is dominiating our league. We were hanging in there pretty good, too. Oh well, there's always next week when we are playing another boy that has a pretty good team. We have to pull out a win and put up a good showing for the women. It's either that, or we are going to have to teach some of our football players to knit because they certainly aren't helping us on the football field.

And on the knitting front - I had started some socks in the Nagini pattern but as I worked up the foot and turned the heel, well I just wasn't feeling it. I loved the yarn - it's STR Silkie and it's beautiful and soft and I liked the pattern on the foot...so the yarn is in a time-out once again until I find exactly what it is meant to be.

Then I started on a multi-directional scarf but the yarn that I was using just wasn't feeling it...

So, after frogging a sock and a scarf, I started The Magic Scarf from Crazy Aunt Purl. And I must say, I am liking it so far...at this point, I do not have to frog it...but it's still in the early stages. I will take pictures and post them soon.

Fantasy Football & Current Knitting

Yesterday was a wonderful day in our household - the Washington Redskins won their season opener at home in overtime, my fantasy football team is up by 40 points going into the games tonight, thanks in no small part to Plaxico Burress and his wonderful showing last night in their loss to Dallas.

And in the midst of all the football and other weekend activities, I did actually get some knitting done on my Slightly Felted Cable Shrug, this great pattern that I picked up at City Knits in Detroit, MI while Friend and I were on a road trip to a wedding. I am about 75% done with the knitting part of it, then I just have to seam the sleeves and 'slightly felt' it. This will be my first excursion into the world of felting, but I'm very excited about it.

Nothing else exciting and new happening at this point in time. Just same old, same old, same old, I'm afraid. It's really funny how when school starts the way that you look at time all changes. My schedules are now according to what is happening at the school, after school and on the weekends as related to school. At this rate Christmas will be here before I know it...I must get working on that knitting!