  Last night Dave and I did another cooking class. This one was on Foolproof Cheesecakes, and he picked up a lot of tips and hints to make his cheesecakes come out better. I don't know if I've mentioned it before, but I don't cook, it's not that I can't I just don't really enjoy it at all and Dave does, so he does all the cooking.
I must admit I was a little bored during class. This class wasn't a hands-on, so there wasn't anything to do besides watch the instructor put stuff in a mixer and then pour it in a pan. I go to the classes for the food, and because it's something Dave and I can do together. She showed us a savory crab cheesecake, which would be used as an appetizer.
It was delicious, I've already requested it be made at home. Next week I'm thinking of heading over to the local parks department yoga class. I've never done yoga before, but I've heard good things, and I really need to get into a low impact exercise routine. I liked the description of the class as non-competitive and suitable for beginners. The price is right, twelve bucks, and I don't have to sign a contract.
Works for me! Someone on one of my knitting lists made an offhand comment about people feeling the need to "manufacture knitting crises" for their blogs, just to have something to talk about. Well, I don't know about you, but I have more than enough crises without having to manufacture anything. The thing is, I'm not that experienced as a knitter, I learned when I was seven, made a few things during my childhood and young adult years and then stopped completely until last year* when I decided I wanted to make socks. I had no idea that knitting had become the new yoga**, or the new black. I had no idea that companies had come up with self patterning sock yarns. All I wanted to do was have something small and portable that I could carry around and do with my hands.
It just snowballed from there, now I have closets full of yarns, and patterns and ideas coming out of my ears. I don't sit still well with nothing to do, and I don't follow directions blindly. Even when working from a pattern, I change things, be it short rowing the underarm area, or three needle bind off the shoulders or just plain tweaking. That means that there are plenty of times I have to rip back or redo something that hasn't come out as planned.
*I turned 36 last September if that helps with the timeline. **I hate that I decided to pick up knitting again in the middle of a knitting revival that I knew nothing about, and I hate that I'm finally deciding to pick up a yoga class in the middle of a period where everything is being called the "new yoga". I'm hoping that the fact that I am so incredibly untrendy is going to make both yoga and knitting uncool again. 
