Out of the swing of things

There hasn't been much knitting in my house lately. The hanging dish towel that matches the dish cloth from the previous post is just so boring..and is therefore still sitting on the needles. However, Ravelympics begins on Friday and I will be knitting my little heart out on a cabled purse and another pair of fingerless gloves.

So, if there has been no knitting, what has there been? Well, a couple of weeks ago on my husband's birthday, we took a trip up to Anaheim to see the Red Sox play the Angels. It was my first time at a pro baseball game and it was utterly awesome. The Sox lost, unfortunately, but it was a fun day anyway.

And last weekend marked the first time that I ventured out into the big Pacific Ocean past my ankles. I've always kind of had an unreasonable fear of the ocean in the same manner that some people are afraid of heights. Okay, so it's really not that unreasonable. I mean, there are plenty of things swimming about undetected that wouldn't mind to bite or sting me out of curiosity or spite. And I figure that if I were meant to swim in water I would be equipped with something other than obvious land-dwelling accessories such as legs and lungs. Anyhow, the trip out into the water was preceded by a lot of Frisbee throwing, catching, missing, and chasing on the beach. That was a pretty good day.

So I still haven't gotten a job yet and as delightful as staying home all day can be, I don't have much interaction with other people these days. My goal this weekend was to temporarily fix that problem. We invited over some friends, I made dinner, they brought libations, we listened to an array of 80's music, then somehow ended up at the karaoke bar down the street. We sang, I danced in cute but horribly uncomfortable heels, and, well.....the day after was an unpleasant one. Today Husband and I both seem to be fully recovered, though.

That will teach me to cram a bunch of fun into one night to make up for all of the other long boring days at home.

Oh yeah, I just found out that Jason Mraz is going to be playing locally on Oct. 31. Totally going.