Finished one afghan....YAY!

I promised my son's girlfriend that I'd make her a nice, warm blanket / afghan for Christmas (btw, I meant Christmas 2009.)  Well, I just finished it (finally!)  It was super-duper easy (all knitting) and super-duper boring.  I used Cascade eco-wool in natural colors and it's very lovely.  It's the Moderne Log Cabin blanket from the Mason-Dixon knitting book.  DH is stretching it out...it is really even.

Travelling woman done (in both senses!)

I don't usually travel very frequently.  I go to one professional conference every year and I try to get to Brussels once a year (to visit my BFF).  There are some years when I don't get a chance to go to Brussels.  This year all of my travel happened in the last two weeks.  I went to San Diego a couple of weeks ago for the professional conference and I went to Brussels last week.  Whew!  I finished my travelling woman shawl during my travels (how coincidental!)  It turned out great.  I did add an extra course of the "A" rows (mostly because of several posts on ravelry.) I also surpassed the half-century mark the day before yesterday.  I hope I'm older and wiser and not just older.  :-)