Anniversaries

Dan and I celebrated our first anniversary in typical fashion. We did whatever came to mind. Originally, we had planned to pick up a couple of steaks at the butcher shop and feast at home, but then we went for a drive to look at a condo open house.

Open houses are always interesting. I like seeing how other people have decorated (or as they say these days, staged) their homes. And while I love looking at places I could never afford, Dan is more practical and looks only at stuff he might actually be able to buy when he's ready.

This time, we went to the only high-rise in the U-district and looked at a couple of units. One was very well-maintained that despite having wallpaper in every room (I kid you not; we may go back just to take photos of it as it's unbelievable how much wallpaper is in this place), we thought it was pretty cool. The other unit was updated and on a much higher floor. Both had splendid views as construction that high is no longer allowed in the area.

Then we looked at an early 80s nightmare condo in Bellevue before having dinner at the same restaurant at which we ate before we decided to give dating a go.

And then it started snowing again. Right now, our backyard is a lumpy blanket of white. It snowed rather fiercely yesterday, too, but the weather warmed up such that it didn't stick to the streets.

In other news, I finished the second Twitterpated sock. Yay! And even though the yarn has lightly tinted my size 2 needles a pale blue, I am going to wear the socks today without washing them first because I want to.

Blarg, blarg, blarg

The week starts off with planning, which is always a stressful time for Dan. I belong to just one scrum team, but he is scrum master for more than that. It's a lot of data to track.

Especially when, as happened to our team, someone else doesn't realize that "save until 3/3" means don't erase all the information on the white board...and so they erase it before we had entered our data into our database. Aiee!

Dan and I will be attending GDC at the end of the month. We'll board Butch and let the cats fend for themselves (or maybe get Jose to peek in on them; lord knows, I've watched his cats often enough). As usual, I can't wait to head into Chinatown to eat! Muahahahaha!

We plan to stay over Saturday and come back Sunday so we have four days of conferencing and a day of milling around aimlessly. I'd ask if any of you guys are going to GDC, but since no one's updated their links I doubt you'll see this. Heh!

Twitterpated

Finished my first sock using actual factual sock yarn and itty bitty knitting needles (size 2 sock needles). It's a pattern called Twitterpated, which I figured would be perfect for my skills...plus the name's really cute. It's an easy to memorize stitch pattern. And although I decided at the last minute to graft the toe, the pattern itself calls for a simple draw-through-the-center closure, similar to making a hat. All in all, I'm very pleased. It's comfortable and pretty.

Of course as I was trying to lay out the sock to take a photo, a cat appeared to sit right where the sock was going to be. You can't necessarily get a feel for the cuteness of the sock pattern when distracted by Mittens, so here's a close-up of the pattern.