I finished the body of the shawl this morning (woke up early, couldn't go back to sleep). I think you can see from the picture how the short rows shape the shawl. The yarn tail is at the bottom point of the shawl. I've started working on the border/ruffle which involved making two stitches in the space between each short row. That's a lot of stitches. I'm a little obsessed with this shawl because it's so fun to knit - and I'm very happy with how the yarn turned out - so I expect to get a good bit of the border done this weekend... after the canning and freezing of the cherries.
My birthday is in a month and I've started planning my week-long birthday celebration. One of my coworkers, Monika, said she didn't get the whole 7-day celebration thing. Personally, I don't know why more people don't do it, too. It's a perfect excuse to do and buy fun things for yourself. None of them need to be expensive (although they certainly can be) just special or out of the ordinary. For example: going to Borders, buying yourself a paperback and a fancy cup of coffee and giving yourself permission to sit for an afternoon and read. Or going to the grocery store and buying a pineapple or a papaya or some other item that you normally don't buy because they're too expensive. It's basically giving yourself permission to treat yourself. You do know that you deserve it, right?
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