too much food

i can't believe that the weekend is already over. it feels like it just started. well yesterday i spent the day wandering around by myself. i actually got my car washed (bye bye dead bugs) and went shopping for birthday gifts. i also went to a showing of mr. and mrs. smith. man the line to get in was super long, but since i was by myself, i didn't really have a problem getting a seat. i really enjoyed it. publicity and tabloid aside, brat pitt and angelina jolie have fantastic chemistry, the writing was clever, and the action was very stylish and well shot. i like doug liman a lot and i thought the film was fun, smart, and entertaining all the way through. i would definitely watch it again. i would still like to see cinderella man, lords of dogotown and saving face. so many movies and so little time. i still have my netflix i need to watch, too. i popped by borders on the way home from the movies and i really wanted to buy a book, but nothing caught my fancy. i ended up buying a couple of fashion mags and that was it. there are a couple of hardbacks that i want to read, but i am too cheap to shell out for them. i gotta go paperback all the way. plus it's really hard to read hardbacks lying in bed. i am looking forward to the new batch of fall knitting mags. fall- ha, summer's not even started but fashion is always ahead a season.

tomorrow is my friend jana's birthday so we took her out for dinner. we went to a restaurant in pasadena called xiomara, which is supposed to be latin fused with pan asian cuisine. it was mostly latin with a bit of asian thrown in there but it was interesting, to say the least. i had some yummy paella which jana and i shared and a really cool souffle for dessert. they were even cool enough to put a candle on the play with "happy birthday" spelled out in chocolate. jana also just got engaged to our good friend kevin. i made her hold out her hand so i could take a picture of her gorgeous engagement ring.


that's kind of a bad picture of it next to my brownie cake, but you get the idea.


look how cute they are. yay!

and lest you think i haven't been knitting, here is a picture of the front of my rebecca chevron tank. it's coming along.. hopefully it won't take me too long to finish this baby up.


and i have yet to receive my yarn from kaleidoscope for my dad's vest or my order of rowan cashsoft. i got a call from the handworks gallery saying that they didn't have the color of rowan cashsoft dk in the shade i wanted (mirage) and to call them back. i might just have to cancel the whole thing because the colors that they gave me weren't too appealing. the mirage was just the right amount of pastel without being too cutesy for me. i am going to try and call them tomorrow while i am working and see what we can come up with. if nothing tickles me then i might just cancel. sad i know, but i could use the cash.

hope you all had a fun weekend!