it was my birthday yesterday. i turned thirty. seems okay so far.

yesterday, nathan and i went out for breakfast at embers (i loooove their coffeecake) and then out shopping (without the pesky buying stuff part), back home for a much needed nap, out for dinner at muffaletta in st. paul, and then off to ryan's house for his birthday party. sadly, my stomach was not at it's happiest ever with me, so i came home early from ryan's, but it was a good day, never the less.

today, abby and i went to the american cancer society garage sale up at northtown, and were amazed and aghast at the number and variety of things there for sale. wow, what a lot of stuff. we saw ethel, and i finally got to give her the button that i had made for her. (it says "ask me about my axe wound!" she liked it a lot. yay!) then we drove like crazed maniacs back to the house (having misjudged travel time to northtown) and went off to dinner with my parents, for birthday dinner for aaron and i.

i am now the proud owner of approximately nineteen million new crochet hooks. and a tape measure! and a pair of bird scissors! also, a circular saw, and clamps, and _secret agents_ and a gorgeous blue sweater, and the new dan savage book, and a boondocks collection, and a turkish phrasebook, and the worst case scenario travel book, and a pretty blue porkchop bag, and a very pleasing blue buttondown shirt. yay!

i think that may be it. oh! and a bag to put all the crochet hooks in. and a book about crochetting with some patterns in it.

what a fine weekend this is.