Hello again

I'm still here! Taking a short break from cleaning up the disaster area that our house has become in the past two weeks when we've both been doing too much work (and too much WoW, I admit it) and not enough home stuff. Also not enough knitting, but I did finish a sock and start its mate today. The urge to knit is pretty quiet lately with heat and humidity and just general brain exhaustion; I don't want to do anything that requires thought. But there is light at the end of the tunnel of craziness, and if it's a train, it's only a wee one. :)

Speaking of trains (Hogwarts Express?), I did read Harry Potter 7 this week and it was pretty good. I won't go into detail because spoilers suck, but some parts made me react quite strongly and others I wanted to fast-forward through. On the whole, a good last book - so many series end weakly, I think (just wrote "tink" - ha! Newfie Knitspeak!) Rowling did a good job.

In other news, all the work and WoW time gave me tendonitis in my arm this week so I had to be good a couple of evenings and just rest the wrist. Got a good strap for it - brand name "BandIt" - that helps.

And now, because I'm a crazy person with too much to do already, I'm taking Wilton cake decorating classes. Today I made a lemon cake with raspberry-ginger filling and decorated it with a pale green "interpretation" of our backyard garden. Peter declared it pretty, and tasty. Next week, I'm making a 3D ducky and a sheet cake for the Masons duck race. I may need to take a day off work for that, and I just might. Sorry, can't come in today - I'm putting little icing feathers on a rubber ducky cake. That'll mess with their heads. :)

And in a couple days, July is over. I am now 21 days from my 36th birthday. I think I should get three dozen of something, don't you? But I don't know what...