Caught in the Rain

Yesterday, I woke up at 3am with a severe headache. A couple of Tylenol 3s later and I finally managed to sleep again, but didn't feel so great for the rest of the day. I did manage to feel better in time for Cynthia's Green Couch launch/housewarming/birthday party which was a good thing. I met lots of very nice people and imbibed in their famous punch.

Since I did nothing yesterday in the way of exercise, I knew I had to get moving today, so Jazz and I headed out for our morning walk. At the end of our walk, about 1 km from home it started to rain, and then it started to rain hard. Poor little doggie, her head was all wet and she no longer wanted to explore the scents (or pee-mail as I like to call it) but walked right beside me probably wanting to get home as much as I did. When I arrived home, there was a yummy cup o' tea waiting for me on the counter- aww, thanks babe, just what I wanted. Which brings me to this question: is that romantic? When I mentioned to friends and family that on my birthday JP brought me a cup of tea in bed and then brought me my presents to open, a couple people sighed and told me that was romantic. JP was surprised by this and said he didn't think anything of it. Even he wants to know, was that romantic? What do you think? (does it make it more romantic when he wasn't trying to be romantic? and have I used the word 'romantic' enough in one paragraph?)

And now one for the Finished Objects department, a completed set of socks:

(gee the feet look so short, but really these socks fit me fine). These are the ones I took with me on the trip that I had hoped to finish while I was away, but couldn't. They will also be the last pair of striped socks I do for a while. I have purchased a couple skeins of plain sock yarn and would now like to graduate to ones with a stitch pattern - and leave the k2p2 + stockinettes for a while. I will most likely start with the Monkey or the RPM patterns from Knitty unless you tell me your favourite non-stockinette stitch patterned socks. Any suggestions?

And now since it's a rainy Sunday, I am going to knit and read... and make some banana bread for the boys in the house.