Birthday Conquest.

Ever since I can remember I've had shitty birthdays. Something always goes wrong or some terrible thing happens... So this year I was apprehensive and sad, just waiting for the wretched day to come. I made plans to have a party and then cancelled them and decided to stay at home and try to avoid disaster.
But.
Doug was amazing and threw me a suprise party. He bought me a birthday dinner [fie on Midland for not having a Red Lobster], I got to pick up some new knitting things [needles and organizers for my needles/hooks], and then we headed into Mt. Pleasant to "go to the bar". I had some serious suspicions, but I really didn't expect to find the combination of people when I got there. Heather and Andy were there and that was fantastic! We got really really wasted and had excellent breakfast the next morning. It turns out that Doug dropped FOUR HUNDRED DOLLARS on my party, mostly in booze.
All that happened on the 3rd, and I had plans to hang out with Heather on the 6th, yesterday, my actual birthday, so James came and picked me up and he and I hung out and then he took me to Heather's, where there was even more excellence, and I owe some brownies or something to Mike and Nic for their EXTREME awesomeness. Last night was completely insane; I have never been to that place before and it was so amazing. I had days of intensity squished into only a few hours time...
Even better, there was a warm bed waiting for me when I was spent and a laughing carful of friends to transport me to said warm bed.

In other news, Hipster is nearly complete, I just need to finish the belt and felt it. I REALLY need to knock off some WIPs before I start more, but I'm really anxious to knit Bamboozled, though it won't be that wide, it shall be knit with Alpaca on size 4 needles. I think I'm going to make a whole handful of them, because I want one and I want to gift some. I love to knit cables, though, but I also love variegated yarn and only rarely to I like variegated cables, so that's somewhat of a dilemma. I also still have some kiddos to knit for, neices and nephews and this adorable little boy Danny that I wish I could keep forever. The poor boy's mother died awhile ago and his Daddy is a crackhead I hear, so he spends his time shuttled about. He spends a lot of time with my sister, who tends to take care of everyone's kids. I really think I need to make him something... Like a hat. I make everyone hats. I love making hats.
Last night I was the Hat Maker, and I devised paper bits for all to wear, labelled appropriately. It was not until I named Nic Sharpie Lord that I realized I had prevented myself from labelling further, and then became labelled myself. My right arm is "left" and my left arm is "wrong", which makes sense.
I suppose.
Anyway, I'm going to hope Odin stays asleep and update my links and whatnot, change some stuff up. I've Facebook and MySpace-d up some of my new pictures of Odin, and frankly, I fucking hate Facebook for it's upload idiocy, but it's way better than MySpace networking-wise. Too bad I don't really care about networking.


Here's Odin!! Isn't he a cutie? This kid's gonna be a heartbreaker when he's older.