robot culinaire

If you're looking for serious knitting content, you're out of of luck once again. Too much time has been spent studying as of late. I have updated the link for the Falling Water Lace Scarf pattern from two posts ago.

Thank you for all the birthday wishes and kind get-well wishes for my grandmother. Her health is improving, which is a real relief. My birthday celebrations were low-key but quite nice. The only downside is that Paul developed a nasty case of food poisoning. I blame it on the take-out pasta we had for dinner.

We also learned that our cats do NOT like toddlers. There was plenty of hissing, hiding, and terror. The peanut butter cupcakes were delicious, but the milk chocolate glaze didn't turn out so well. I learned to trust my instincts rather than the candy thermometer on that one.

Paul surprised me with this:

A new "robot culinaire," as the French call it.

I think a "robot culinaire" should be able to do far more than chop up veggies and whip up some pesto. It should more closely resemble Rosie, the maid on the Jetsons, and cook up entire gourmet dinners! We're going Kitchen Aid this time, since I managed to wear out / break my Cuisinart (which was a wedding present less than 4 years ago).

I have added a few more items to my very long knitting queue:

- Buttony - Heidi just finished a really cute one; Leah knit a great, slightly less buttony version a while back.
- Button Me Up
- Cozy - Bobbi's knitting a gorgeous red Cozy right now
- Knotty Hat
- Manitou Passage Scarf
- Persephone Scarf
- Wild Flower Shawl

The cats, fully recovered from the toddler encounter, though still slightly suspicious

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Today's reading material:

Cupcakes! by Elinor Klivans

That's right, I'm turning 29 today, and I'm having a tough time deciding between Peanut Butter Cupcakes with Milk Chocolate Glaze and Mississippi Mud Cupcakes. I'm thinking either choice will be fine one.

I'm making a head start on the April/May colors for Project Spectrum. I'm one skein into a Falling Water Lace Scarf (by Bonnie over at Toward the Blue Peninsula), and I am seriously in love with both the pattern and the yarn. It's Elann's Peruvian Baby Cashmere, a fingering-weight alpaca/merino/cashmere mix, and it is unbelievably wonderful to knit. The best part? It's very, very affordable. :-)

Paul came home from work with some beautiful purple tulips for me, but we're going pretty low-key on the celebrations today. My rather frail grandmother is in the hospital, and I'm waiting by the phone to hear how her emergency surgery went.

In lighter news, have you heard about the NIT champions? Check out this T-shirt logo. Just think, some people don't think spelling is very important.