KNITTING WITHOUT DOG HAIR IS NOT AN OPTION

I had one. Hope you had one, too.

Saturday I hung out with my colleague Jenny. I like her a lot. She is a fabulous coworker and a great friend. I truly wouldn't know what to do without her at work.

We met up at Mall of Georgia around 2pm, went shopping, caught a movie (Wanted with Angelina Jolie) and I took her to dinner for her birthday at P.F. Chang's. I wasn't here in June when she had her birthday and so I promised her a belated birthday dinner. I love that restaurant a lot and because we got there after 8:30pm, the wait for a table was 1 hour and 40 minutes. YES, you read correctly… But we didn't wait that long. I spotted a space at the bar and we ate dinner within 30 minutes plus we ordered drinks directly from the barkeeper would made a special cocktail for Jenny.

When I got home, I discovered something fun.

Look at the lining of my new shoes - jigsaw puzzle pieces. And I didn't even notice when I bought them… That made me very happy when I looked at the shoes more closely at home.

The plan for today was to met up with my friend Alys from Germany. She and I worked together at some point in our lives in Munich and we were very good friends back then. But you know how life sometimes lets people drift apart. I hadn't seen Alys in probably 3 years, but when she opened her hotel room door this morning for me to pick her up, it was like we had seen each other the last time the day before.

BUT - our plans changed because she was violently ill when I came to pick her up. She is highly allergic to shellfish and somehow last night at the company's outing, she must have eaten something that touched shellfish. We spent the morning in her hotel room instead of going out for brunch. I felt so bad for her. But all we wanted to do anyway was catch up and chat. And we did that perfectly content in the hotel room, plus, I brought my knitting. At some point I went to the pharmacy and got her some stuff which finally helped her stomach settle down. Poor thing - I was really worried because she had to back to Germany and a 10-hour flight laid ahead of her.

But shortly before we left for the airport, she started feeling better. Thank goodness! And a nice security guy at the airport took a picture of us.

Alys also gave me a birthday gift which she bought in Lisbon, Portugal, on my birthday. Look at the adorable cross-stitched cows. ;-)

Have a great week! For me it is back to work tomorrow full-time. We’ll see how that goes. I’ll keep you posted! And so I need to get some sleep now...