Yesterday John and I spent

Yesterday John and I spent a lovely evening with friends of ours from Boston. Sue and I both post-doc'ed in the same lab in Chicago before it moved to Harvard. She's here for a conference so we got a chance to catch up over a lovely dinner at Red Light -- one of our favorite Asian restaurants. "Asian" is really the only way to describe Red Light since it combines Thai, Chinese, Vietnamese and other Asian styles of cooking. It's also one of the few Asian places that we know of that has a tasting menu!

Unlike me, Sue is a PhD sticking it out at the bench -- she's got much better "hands" for molecular biology than I ever did. Sue and Martin are also expecting a baby girl in April! Hmmm.... I feel another knitting project coming on....

Over the weekend I also reached my "weight goal" of 124 lbs! I am so pleased with myself over this whole weight loss thing. It's so nice to feel good about the way I look. I treated myself to a pair of wonderful black leather pants from Banana Republic. Should be fun to wear at our Holiday Party!

I also got a little bit more knitting done on my felted bag. It's going slowly because I am trying to knit with the correct "style". One thing I am finding about holding my yarn "the right way" is that the edges of my fabric seem to be coming out much neater. I am still struggling a little bit with keeping it from getting too tight and with keeping the yarn moving around my pinky, but even that is getting a little easier.

I think this is just what I needed to get better tension on my Debbie Bliss project, but I am going to keep working on the bag for a while before I cast that project back on, just so I can be sure I've gotten the hang of things.