Pushing Pedals

Oh, what a day!  I got on my bike for the first time today.  Well, I did pedal around a parking lot for a little while yesterday, but no helmet so I didn't do that for long.  Today, Bill & Betsy came over and whee!  We took a tour of the neighborhood.  I overdid it, bigtime.  But it was so much fun!  Perfect weather, sunny but not too hot, dry roads, low traffic levels.  Lots of people were getting out and about, doing yard work or playing as we pedaled past.  The route I chose was probably less than a mile.  Ugh.  I'm still so out of shape.  Next time I'll do more.  Tonight, I'll try to salve myself with Tylenol and Benadryl.

I was very proud of myself, though, for making it to bookclub.  I really just felt like curling up in a ball of pain and coughing after the ride (and a shower) but I pushed through that and got myself over to Amy's place.  And what a good time I had!  All five of us finally made it at the same time, there was loads of food, I think a couple of us even read the book.  That's a great group of gals, really.  Plus, Amy had finished the zipper on a felted bag I've got.  Thanks, Amy!  Now all it needs is a nice big button and a new strap.

Speaking of knitting projects, I just had to take a bit of a break from the Tardis socks.  So, for the weekend, I let myself work on the Shapechanger Shrug from my Vampire Knits book.  Really, I'm not into vamps and werewolves, but this book has some really nifty projects, so I bought it.  Here's the shrug so far...

 It doesn't work so well to try and show off the ball of yarn, project, book, and knitting basket all at the same time.  At least that second pic shows the stitch pattern nicely!  This yarn is wonderfully soft, but I bet it'll pill like crazy.  I don't think I'll care, as soft and beautiful as this shrug is gonna be!

Oh, and you can blame the slowness of this post on all the wonderful people in the Doctor Who themed swap.  They post only a few hundred things every day, and for some reason I feel the need to read them all before I move on to other internet stuff!  It's so fun to assemble my spoilee's package, though.  Hopefully I can get it through airport security without too much problem in a couple of weeks.