Nice to meet you, 2007!

I'm happy to be spending the first day of the new year at our temporary home here in St. John's. The three of us got to experience the ups of last-minute holiday travel (seeing everyone) as we took a last-minute trip back to Edmonton over Christmas. We also experienced the downside, namely that our bill for airfare, car rental, and crib rental was roughly the cost of our trip to Australia a couple of years ago. We didn't win the lottery this past Saturday, but there is always next Saturday to hope for ...

I knit a lot while we were out of town, and once we were back home I went out to purchase two more balls of each of the yarns for my scarf, which I decided needed to be longer. I am a little surprised at how much yarn costs (and thus, how much my scarf cost to make). I guess that's the price of being able to choose my fibres and colours.

I've spent the last two evenings fervently putting together a blog book via Blurb - they had a promotion for Typepad users awhile back, and Dec 31st was the last day to use my coupon.  I'm kind of grumpy because the book-assembling software kept crashing when I tried to access Page 18 of my blog book, and then when I tried to place my order, it told me that my coupon has already expired. Argh! I sent a note promptly to technical support, so hopefully this story will have a positive ending instead of leading to a rant.