I have the bestest best friend!  I got my (albeit very early) birthday box in the mail today (2 days from Snarkville to Knitnikland – a new record!).  There were birthday goodies galore!  Gorgeous heathered felting wool (just screaming out to be a bag), Trekking sock yarn, Wick sock yarn, curly mohair, and SOCKS THAT ROCK!  Oh my goodness oh my goodness!  I own a skein of the famous STR in the Titania colorway, and it is yummy!  Cool beyond cool was the Museum of Kitschy Stitches book by Stitchy McYarnPants – I have been waiting to see this one.  And some yummy lotion and lip balm and muscle rub – hmmm, think I need a back rub tonight!

Since my bestest friend (The Queen, if you didn’t know) is currently out of the country and out of touch (can we hate her just a little bit?), I’ll have to rave about her just a bit here.  I met her just a year and a half ago, and it was like finding my long lost twin.  We talk alike, we snark alike, we think alike (mostly), and occasionally even dress alike (like the time she came to visit and got out of the car wearing the same outfit as me – lime green capris and a white t-shirt). And I taught her to knit, and she’s now even crazier about it than I am.  Once upon a time, she told me she’d never knit socks.  I knit some for her, and guess what?  Now she’s knitting socks.  It’s funny that 2 years ago, I didn’t even know her, and now I talk to her nearly every day.  This week apart may just kill me.  I decided I’d find some cool friend quotes, just for her (as she’ll appreciate the cheesiness of it all).

A true friend is one who thinks you are a good egg even if you are half-cracked. 

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

It is the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter. 

Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness blow the rest away. 

OK, sap is over.  Also included in this awesome package was my long-awaited Lorna’s Laces.  When we visited The Queen back in March, I saw lots of LL at Warren’s shop, and fell in love, but there was only so much yarn I could bring home with me.  As it was, we had to buy an extra suitcase to get the yarn home.  But Warren told us that if we would pick out colors, he would special order some for us.  I picked favorites, then Tricia winnowed them down for me, and 6 months later, here it is.  Not like I have run out of sock yarn to knit in the meantime, mind you.  But I’m so excited it’s here!

I finished my autumn Trekking socks last night, and they are so cute.  I’m plugging along on the Lombard Street socks, but my heart is really not in it – I want to dig into this new yarn so badly!  I’m trying to keep myself from digging out the swift and winder.  Must…show…restraint.  Must…maintain…composure.  Must…go…knit.

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