May 2012 in pictures

Getting a bit behind in my photo wrap-up of 2012. Or maybe it 's just that i was avoiding blogging about the month that I turned the dreaded 3-0. Still pretending to be "over" it. I guess we all have to deal with the inevitable. Since I started off discussing the birthday, lets get on with the pictures of the birthday.
We were crammed into a tiny part of one of my favorite bar/restaurants here in Utrecht (Cafe Olivier) so I could only get a picture of the whole group (that remained by 23:00) by taking two pictures.

Among other awesome gifts, Jamie bought me these chocolate brains skulls

Lots of other things happened besides my birthday. For instance, I finished the blanket for my nephew:

Also our amaryllis bloomed:

a smidgen of happiness

Been having a tough time lately with my impending unemployment and deportation.... It's not easy to never buy anything and be poor.... Too many things I dont want to go into here or now BUT i did see this wonderful yarn in the most fantastic colors and for 2euros a ball, i can afford to buy some for socks.

Also, i've been fiddling around, trying to figure out how to take good pictures with my new camera and this is the best picture yet. Maybe I just got lucky.

Without further ado, here is the fantastic circus sock yarn (click on it to see a bigger version):

April 2012 in Pictures

In April we had to come back home from the most amazing trip and go back to reality (e.g. work and PhD life). We finished some work on the roof-terrace, started our graden, and I did some knitting (of course).

Here is a neighborhood cat surveying our changes to the covered bit of our roof-terrace:

The start of our new garden

A close up of plants we would eventually manage to kill (except the aloe, that one is still miraculously alive)

A nearly finished mitered square blanket for my nephew