My mama got me a French Press!
I went a little bit insane and ordered some coffee from Community Coffee, a New Orleans based roaster. They have a special menu with trial size coffee things and like a dozen flavors so I got a bunch of the dessert coffees (Vanilla Almond, French Vanilla, etc) Vin picked out a House Blend so I made that for him this evening.
I can't believe I actually had to solve for x to figure out how much coffee grounds to add to my water. I think that's the first time I've used algebra outside of school since Bush was president.
It was a medium-dark roast which I wouldn't have picked myself, plus Vin
finished off the French Vanilla coffee mate so it wasn't as sweet as
I'd like. I am ashamed by the amount of heavy whipping cream and sugar
and chocolate sauce I had to add to make this palpable.
I did get to use my new knitted coffee cup from Caribou Coffee. (RIP awesome coffee chain)
Did I mention it's mid-April and 43 degrees today?
It was SO nice last weekend though, we had the house open and the doggies outside and the umbrella up.
Ah perfect day with wind and sunlight, Lu lounging in the shade, glass of pink lemonade and my fat pants on, watching a documentary on The History of Computers, putting the last few inches on the mohair wrap.
Later that evening I finally finished it! I've been knitting this fiddly thing since October 2012.
It took me about an hour and a half to kitchener stitch (black ops knitting) the ends together.
The weather has been so shitty since I finished it that I haven't had a nice bright sunny afternoon available to take finished photos of it so those will have to be forthcoming.
I got a new desk at work.
