Color Affection Shawl and Date Night

Ok, I officially love this knit. 

Might be one of my all time favorite things I have made, not only because the yarn (Plucky Knitter Primo Fingering) is so soft and squishy with glowing colors, but also because:
- the pattern is very well written.
- I love the colors I picked (gray, yellow, and a difficult to describe and photograph hot pink/red.  I swear it does not read McDonald's, even if the pictures sort of do).
- the thing is knit in all garter stitch which is so easy and relaxing, with results that make it look more complicated than it really is.
- it is soooo freaking cozy and warm.

The weather in San Francisco for the past week and a half has been miserable.  It was dreary, rainy and cold.  Actually, it still is.  Wearing this shawl as a really big scarf around my neck has kept me warm and makes me look like I am wearing those big cowls that are so in fashion these days.
People are knocking this shawl out in a few days on Ravelry, but since I have limited time to knit, it took me a little while to finish it.

In other news, husband and I went out on a date without the kids for the first time in months.  We ate fondue at Fondue Cowboy.  Yes, a weird choice for food, but think about it, can you ever really eat fondue with kids around?   Not, really.

 French comte, white wine and mushroom fondue.

Dark chocolate and cayenne fondue.  This was unbelievably delicious - let's not think about the calories, ok?  Hey, there was a lot of fruit to make this a balanced dessert.

And we saw a movie - the first one since May 2011!  We went to see The Hunger Games.  I have read The Hunger Games trilogy, husband has not.  I loved the books, and was really excited to see the movie.  This was opening week, and I swear the line for the ticket holders went around the lobby and out the door, and we even arrived 30 minutes prior to the screening time.  I was reminded why we rarely go see movies on opening weekend even before we had kids.

In my opinion, movies based on books are never as nuanced as the actual books, given the constraints of time and format.  However, I thought this movie adaptation was really good.  I admit when I saw the actor cast for Peeta Mellark, I was initially disappointed.  From the books, I imagined a much taller and overall bigger person in the role.  But, by the end of the movie, I was convinced that the actor fit the role and did a great job.  I would recommend the movie to friends, and I wasn't sorry that we chose this movie as our date night movie (unlike the last one which was Pirates of the Caribbean).  Oh, yeah, husband enjoyed it, too and he says he will read the books.  Which means these books might be among the few things he reads that isn't 1) about baseball, 2) about samurais, 3) about work related computer stuff or 4) about Jeremy Lin. 

The Biggest Troublemaker in Our Home

Meet Gohm (it means "bear" in Korean).  He is such a bad boy.  If you ask Emma where all the crayon, marker and pen on the wall and couch came from, it came from Gohm.   If you ask Emma why Ethan might be crying and why his head might bear an angry red mark on it, well, it was Gohm again.  Gohm strikes at random and he is not very discriminating in the type of trouble he causes.   He might spill something on the floor, he might throw something across the room or he might just take away toys from Ethan for no good reason.  Sometimes, I think that Gohm should be thrown out of the house.   But, then Emma would be sad because who would she take to bed at night or make snacks for or put in her baby stroller? 

Look at Mr. Chubby Cheeks, so innocently sleeping, so unknowing that Gohm is coming to get him soon to wake him up from peaceful slumber because he is "lonely, and wants to play with Ethan."  That Gohm, such a troublemaker.