This is a closeup of the cables on the scarf. We also gave Yafit her Glam Coat and both seemed to really like their gifts!

I finally finished weaving in the ends on Bernie’s wedding scarf so I was able to give it to him when he and Yafit were in town over the weekend. I think I posted pics of it already, but just in case I didn’t, here’s the whole scarf (looking remarkably shorter than the full 80″ it is!)

41 centimeters yesterday. What’s that, 15-ish inches? All I know is I was standing in it thigh-high when spending 1.25 FREAKING HOURS digging out my car. Days like that are made for curling up in bed with knitting and TV, no? (Can you tell I don’t ski?) My dad ending up asking me to drive to his house so I could go in with him ‘cus the roads were horrible until they plowed them, so I did, and wouldn’t you know I remembered to bring my sock knitting with me….but forgot the pattern???!!!

41 centimeters yesterday. What’s that, 15-ish inches? All I know is I was standing in it thigh-high when spending 1.25 FREAKING HOURS digging out my car. Days like that are made for curling up in bed with knitting and TV, no? (Can you tell I don’t ski?) My dad ending up asking me to drive to his house so I could go in with him ‘cus the roads were horrible until they plowed them, so I did, and wouldn’t you know I remembered to bring my sock knitting with me….but forgot the pattern???!!!

41 centimeters yesterday. What’s that, 15-ish inches? All I know is I was standing in it thigh-high when spending 1.25 FREAKING HOURS digging out my car. Days like that are made for curling up in bed with knitting and TV, no? (Can you tell I don’t ski?) My dad ending up asking me to drive to his house so I could go in with him ‘cus the roads were horrible until they plowed them, so I did, and wouldn’t you know I remembered to bring my sock knitting with me….but forgot the pattern???!!!

The concert last night was AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Our seats were on the floor in the row MM, so from the stage you have A-Z, then AA-MM. Right behind us was a 3′ wide aisle, then NN through whatever letter the floor seats stopped at. It was great ‘cus there was no one behind us to push or crowd us. My brother and his friend had seats in row G…technically 7 rows from the stage but rows A, B and C were only on the edges, so they were really 4 rows from the stage!

I have been to 3 Bon Jovi concerts, Aerosmith, Madonna, the Offspring, Def Leppard, Michael Jackson and New Kids on the Block. I have NEVER seen a band perform the way they did last night. The concert started at 7:30. The opening act, a local unsigned band from Montreal, sang from 7:30 to 8:15. Bon Jovi took the stage at 8:30 and performed until 11:15!!! Straight!! There were 3 encores!!! Each had at least 4-5 songs, plus one final encore of a single song. I’ve never seen anything like it!!! I was expecting an encore, hoping for two, but four?!?!?!

Jon (like how I’m referring to him by first name, like I know him?) spent at least 35% of the concert IN THE AUDIENCE. I don’t mean on a solo stage where no one could harrass him…I mean actually standing in the crowd hugging people, shaking their hands, kissing a baby on the cheek, all while singing. It was so great, because he went to the crowds where the price of the tickets were lower, kinda like to “give something back” to those who couldn’t afford the $500 front-row seats. It was so great!

My head is still spinning with how great the concert was, so I’ll bullet point what I can remember:

-in the first row of seats behind us (after the aisle) there was a man with a young son, maybe 6 or so. He was so cute, especially when rocking out singing the “Ohh”s in “Living on a Prayer” and pumping his fist in the air.

-it was the first concert Yannick and I have been to together.

-the staging and video screens were amazing, and the screen wasn’t simply a live feed of the concert, it was edited and looked like we were watching a video of the concert, with superb quality.

-I could have taken pictures with my cell phone like 90% of the audience did (some had video cameras). I did take 1 pic of the stage with the video screen lit up all red with the Have a Nice Day wicked smiley face icon, and 1 of Jon when he opened the concert by singing on a stage at the back of the floor, but neither came out very well. I deleted them right away ‘cus I had a crazy idea that guards would stop us on the way out and check our cameras/phones and slap big fines if they found we’d taken pics. Paranoid much? Yes. 🙂

-Oh I can’t stop gushing. I could go on for a really long post about how amazing it was. I know the whole thing was scripted, (well, except for Ritchie laughing at a poster a fan had that said “Aged to Perfection” and had 3 pics of Jon…a young one, one when he started out with the band, and one today. Jon noticed Ritchie laughing and said “You like that? I was twelve.”) I know they come back for the encores with every performance, I’m sure it’s rehearsed down to his little “Wow, you do love us” looks at the camera and his “You guys are trying to kill me” comments to the audience when we won’t stop cheering. But they really had a way of making you feel like THIS night, THIS concert was special. I had a really, really great time.

Thanks Mike, Aaron and Laura. What a great gift.

p.s. Anyone ever notice that from certain angles Jon kinda looks like a chipmunk?

…through the heart, and you’re to blame! Baby, you give love a bad name!

My WONDERFUL brothers and sisters showed up last night to present Yannick and I with our Birthday/Hanukah/Christmas gifts. We’re getting together Saturday night but this gift was kinda time-sensitive…concert tix! This will be my 3rd or 4th Bon Jovi concert, I forget which. Last one was the Crush concert. I can’t wait!!!

…through the heart, and you’re to blame! Baby, you give love a bad name!

My WONDERFUL brothers and sisters showed up last night to present Yannick and I with our Birthday/Hanukah/Christmas gifts. We’re getting together Saturday night but this gift was kinda time-sensitive…concert tix! This will be my 3rd or 4th Bon Jovi concert, I forget which. Last one was the Crush concert. I can’t wait!!!

…through the heart, and you’re to blame! Baby, you give love a bad name!

My WONDERFUL brothers and sisters showed up last night to present Yannick and I with our Birthday/Hanukah/Christmas gifts. We’re getting together Saturday night but this gift was kinda time-sensitive…concert tix! This will be my 3rd or 4th Bon Jovi concert, I forget which. Last one was the Crush concert. I can’t wait!!!

Last but not least, this potted palm is our Hanukah bush. You probably can’t tell from this pic, but besides the silver glass balls, the palm is also strung with a strand of Hanukah lights that have large plastic dreidels over them. :]