Weekending

I took advantage of the gorgeous weather this weekend to get my autumn on! Saturday was The Boy's high school homecoming game. It was a great day to watch football! The trees and National Cathedral made the perfect backdrop. They even had the president mascots from the Nationals race during halftime!

Today we drove to a corn maze in Maryland with some friends. There were a lot of pumpkins, farm animals to pet, and dead ends in the maze. Again, the weather was perfect! It was great to get out of the city for a few hours.

A Dream Come True

I'm unbelievably lucky. Recently my LYS back home asked if I would be interested in knitting samples to display in the store. Since I have an abundance of free time (and I love knitting), I said yes! I am getting paid to do something I love. It's awesome. Even more awesome is the fact that both projects I was given are made with really nice, soft, expensive yarn. The kind of yarn I can't normally afford to work with. It's making me knit more quickly, because I don't want to put it down!

I'll put up more pictures when I'm done! Hopefully there will be more sample knitting in my future...

A Visit from Australia!

In case you didn't know, I spent spring of 2009 studying abroad in Brisbane, Australia. When I got back, I kind of talked about it ALL OF THE TIME. Because it was amazing.  I made some incredible friends, had a lot of fun, saw some amazing things, and even went to my college classes (mostly). I'm pretty crappy at keeping in touch with people, but I've managed to keep up with one friend, who stopped by during his month-long visit to the States.  Duncan was nice enough to come to school with me and answer all kinds of weird questions about Australia. We hit up the Pennsylvania Farm Show on one day, and then drove down to Washington D.C. and went sightseeing.  Ohmygosh, it's exhausting to be a tourist! Walking around for hours in sub-freezing temperatures counts as a workout, right?