Happy New Year!

Wow, it's 2009 already.  I can't believe how fast the years have gone.  In some ways it only feels like last year was the beginning of 2000 and everyone was worried about the end of the world as we knew it due to the Y2K bug - wasn't that the scam of the decade - computer companies made millions and then nothing happened.   But that was 9 years ago!  

I was thinking last night how this year (2008) seemed to be the year I really started to feel like an adult.  Up until now, i've still felt a little like I have been almost pretending to be an adult - or at least felt like a really young person doing adult things.  But now, I have become comfortable in the fact that I am in my 30's and well and truly an adult.  I don't even understand teenagers these days - what the hell is wrong with them, especially those emo ones?  

Then I started thinking about how I have been married 13 years (ok, so officially I have only been married 12 years & about 4 months, but Lach and I moved in together on 1st Jan 1996 and agreed on that date that we were married even if we didn't have the paperwork yet) and have a child who this year will be 10 years old.  That means I have been a mother for a decade and a wife for even longer!   Ahgh, scary.    I was a bit freaked out about that, but then I told myself to get over it, enjoy it, be glad I am still married and not a divorcee at 31 like a lot of other people and went to sleep.  

No, I didn't have a big one last night.  I just went over to the in-laws for dinner, watched a bit of TV for a while then went to bed in the air-conditioned room about 10pm.  Bliss.   I'm telling you now, I wish I could have stayed in that room all day.  It is a scorcher here today and so humid I reckon by the end of the day I'll have produced my own weight in sweat.  YUK. 

So, Christmas!   We had a good one.  Very quiet and relaxing really.  The best presents I got were:  A rice cooker (Thanks Dave and Em),  2 nice and cool cotton tank tops that are very stylish (thanks Carol) and the best one of the lot I bought for myself:  A Knitpicks Harmony Wooden Circular Knitting Needle Set - Absolutely awesome.   I have already knitted half a cardigan on them out of the 14micron Superfine Merino I spun up over a year ago.  It has been waiting in my stash until I had both a pattern and some needles to do it justice.  And these needles are just the ticket.  I love, love, love them!  What the picture in the link doesn't show, is they also come with a fantastic needle sizer/gauge measure tool and little label rings to hang on the cables to tell you what size needles you are using on that section.  Fantastic!   They are so wonderful to knit with, I swear my knitting has become a bit faster with them.  

Whoo, I think I'm a bit too hot to type anymore.  I hope everyone had a good Christmas & New years and that your 2009 will be filled with happiness and peace.  Mwahh!