I heart my iPhone

7 Small Shawls: T - 27 days and counting down.

You know how it is; the recently converted are always the most devout. :) I love the camera, because the quality is astounding! I love the iPod function. And I love that I can check out downloadable audiobooks from the library and play them on my phone while I work. This is the life, I must say.

Courtesy of my iPhone, you can see where my family took me for my birthday last Friday! We went out to Bodega Bay to eat fresh, just off the boat, crab. Here they are, in fact, loading and unloading a boat (most of the boats were still out though).

We stopped by the Salt Water Taffy shack that I remember from my childhood (yes, it's always been striped).

And we had an amazing meal of fresh crab. OMG, it was good. I really tried to like the butter with it because Mr. Romi loves it so much, but I couldn't. The fresh crab just tasted so good without anything on it!

I'm still recovering from dessert.

It was a lovely time. And the kitty even gave me a little gifty. She deigned to sleep in her kitty bed.

I'm pretty sure it was, indeed, a gift, since she hasn't shown any inclination since. I thanked her as befits her royal nature, of course.

And I am really enjoying my current shawl. It's a fabulously relaxing knit and one I love working on while watching Christmas movies. Like the Alastair Sim version of A Christmas Carol, with which we ended the day on my birthday. It was a fabulous day from beginning to end, and how could it not be when it started out with dozens of the nicest birthday greetings ever, from the Internet knitting/crafting community?!?! I feel so fortunate for you all! Thank you! :)

Then on Saturday? I got to go hang with my local knitting peeps! And I started on the lace section of my shawl.

See how fabulous my little iPhone camera is? I'm really quite smitten.

btw, Kristine of A Verb for Keeping Warm currently has a sale on the yarn I am using for this shawl! The colors above are Magic Bean and The French Monk's Finest. Enjoy!

In which Chez Romi is adopted

...and the bunny runs away with the yarn.

7 Small Shawls: T - 38 days and counting down.

Last Friday night there came a pitiful mewing at the window. I thought it was a neighbor's cat in heat, so I really didn't pay attention. But then it continued through dinner and well after dinner. And finally, unable to help myself any longer, I opened the front door. There, I met the new mistress of the house, all six and a half pounds of her. She was hungry and thirsty, but I didn't want to let her in because I was afraid she might give the house rabbit (more on her) something. I ran into the house and came back out with some water and roast beef cut into small pieces. I had been afraid she might have despaired of me and started to wander off to find another easy mark person to feed her and love her, but no! She was waiting patiently. We were all smitten, so Mr. Romi and I decided that, if she was still with us on Monday, we would take her to the vet and get her checked out.

Well.

She was still here.

And she had quite taken over all of our hearts.

And Mr. Romi's shop.

So Monday I called around and asked if any kitties of her description had been reported missing (no!), and then I took her to the vet: no microchip, no viruses, a slight case of ear mites (now cured), no pregnancy. Yay! We have now been officially adopted. I think her name is Musetta, but the boys differ. Mr. Romi wants to call her Friday, #1 Son wants to call her KittyKitty; only the Bear agrees with me (or is good at sucking up; one or the other). She is the absolute sweetest, purr-iest little thing. We had just been talking about our old kitty Emma the weekend before. She was the best kitty ever in the entire world, and when you are lucky enough to be owned by the best kitty in the entire world, you feel that you should just quit while you're ahead. We're pretty sure Emma was listening in to our conversation, disagreed, and sent Musetta.

Sadly, other animals in the house were not so wonderful. Rabbits: another good reason to have interchangeable needles.

And yes. She chewed what was on those needles too. You can just see the little bits of Timothy hay in the Malabrigo.

:sob:

By coincidence, I was swatching the same pattern in another yarn (Jamaica Farewell from Royale Hare) and had just decided that I liked the Malabrigo better.

:sigh:

But! There was more goodness! I got an iPhone. Yes! I have joined the 21st Century (well, almost). After waiting and waiting and waiting to upgrade from my POS old phone, I finally made it to November 20th and we all piled in the car and headed down to the AT&T store to get my iPhone! It's fabulous. And there are kitteh pics on it. :)

I love it!