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Long live three-day weekends. It means I can maximize vacation time and do a quick run back to Minnesota to visit family and surprise friends on their actual birthday. Because of a snowstorm getting ready to hit the Mpls/St.Paul area on Friday 01/17 when I was supposed to land my family travel agent moved me to a red-eye so I got to mom's house at 6:00 a.m. Friday instead of 12:00 Friday. We had lunch at Coalition in Excelsior which I highly recommend their take on street tacos and their house salad is delicious. Lunches with mom are always fun because we are champion day drinkers. Which results in naps when we get home. Especially for me have only 3 hours of highly interrupted sleep on my flight where my seat mate got really drunk on red wine and started rapping outloud whatever f'bombing gangster rap was playing in his headphones. Could not walk away fast enough when the plane disembarked. I digress. Naps. Where I fell asleep in the chair in my bedroom and ...

We've had more like SNOW DAYS!  Monday though was the day I stayed home because of the snow.    We knit finished my Twistmas Hat for my January KAL and I attached the most beautiful pompom.  We snuggled on the couch.  this is Theo's 'rub my belly' move We made homemade tomato soup.  We made a really sad loaf of bread that still tastes good just looks ridiculous.  We played in the snow! Theo enjoys eating it. Phoebe enjoys racing around like a demon in it.  We watched the West Wing on Netflix.  I really like watching the West Wing when it's an election year.  The show really breaks down how the government processes work.  Whatever party you swing towards I highly recommend binging all 6 seasons.  Then Dale came home. :)  Tuesday was snowy but my roads to and from work were great.  Wednesday coming to work was great.  Coming home was a nightmare....

I'm running two Knit A-Longs this year for the America's Knitting Ravelry group . One is designer focused.- January is focused on patterns designed by Espace Tricot The other is toy focused. January's toy focus is Mochimochi Land Toys by Anna Hrachovec. So Saturday I knit a bowling ball and pin , Koala , and a Dragon . (the purple one is new and has been adopted by a friend) The little Black Heart Dragon I made a month or so ago. He loves Box Cat. Sunday morning I did A Cat in a Box   Followed by a football for D. Then I knit a Squirrel . The cutest little squirrl you'll ever see. So tiny and sweet with a big squishy tail. He loves our nut bowl. It feels like home. Then he needed a friend for adventures so I knit a tiny dinosaur from her book Teeny Tiny MochiMochi. This is where the adventure begins. I should have never played with Theo with them. It was just too damn cute to stop though. Meeting Fred Then Dino   ...

Is it just me or did the last months of 2019 whip out of here like a birds heading south? Maybe it's just me. Thanksgiving BOOM Christmas Eve Christmas Day I should point out the day after Christmas all my decorations came down.  BOOM BOOM BOOM Then financial year end, New Years Eve. a food blog I follow said the perfect New Years Eve food and wine pairing is takeout fried chicken and sparkling wine so that's what we had. Now it's just a normal Friday. So I know I said a couple blog posts ago that I was going to have some big news after Thanksgiving. I didn't post right away because I need to process all of it. All of you know I was adopted as a newborn by my parents who picked me up and took me home to Washington State. I was born in Basin Wyoming May 1974. I have always been curious about my biological parents but never pursued it. Then a couple years ago I did a 23 & me dna test. Nothing really hit close to me. Not that...