TGIF.............

I don't want to talk about how we got even MORE rain the last couple days so.........moving on............

Okay. So if the wine is the evil and the cork is the island.................what does that make the bottle? HMMmmmmm. I guess it doesn't matter because MiB/FLocke/Esau/Ole Smokey be smashing that shit soon anyway. lol

 SEVEN EPPIES LEFT TO GO!!! :)

  
(Side note: if I had a dollar for every 'I'M ON A HORSE' comment I've seen on ONTD lost postings in regards to this episode this week, I would be a very rich person. And you know what? I laugh every single time I see one. Every.single.time. I freaking LOVE that commercial. IT NEVER GETS OLD.)

Someone remind me again that I'm on a yarn diet..........*cough* supposedly........

Enh. What can I say? It was Fate. Wollmeise is harder to come by than gold chunks (SO NOT KIDDING) and I just *happened* to look at my Facebooks *exactly* two seconds after Sheri at The Loopy Ewe announced she had posted some so I went "oh" and got some. People camp out at their computers for daysssssssssssss (STILL NOT KIDDING) hitting refresh every 5 seconds for Wollmeise. People try for months and months to score the Wollmeise and still come away empty-handed.*** I feel pretty punchy that I had no clue 'bout nuttin' and haven't tried in at least a year to get some and managed to snag three skeins. <-- That would be a whole lot of me justifying the purchase(albeit in a truthful manner) because, once again, the VERY LAST THING I need in this world is more yarn. The sad part is, if this happened again just like this next month, I would fall prey to it AGAIN. I'm never not going to buy the Wollmeise if given the chance. Just saying.

***If this seems strange, empty, and sad to you, I don't blame you. It is rather odd. But such is the power of Wollmeise. Skeins sometimes go for $100+ on eBay for them. Forum fights are fought over it. Certain areas of Ravelry are, right now, completely under water for all the drooling going on over Wollmeise stash pictures. It just is what it is. As long as Wollmeise basically equals one brave german soul doing her best to provide for the masses who love her stuff, it will be this way.

Meatballs, anyone? :)

Most people start off the year with renewed vows or interest in eating healthy, losing weight, going to the gym more often, etc.

Me? I started it off by making lots of meatballs. LOTS of meatballs. Like 100+ meatballs. Using ground beef.............................and pork. Because they just ain't good eats unless they have a little porkiness in there. Though, in my defense, we aren't actually EATING the meatballs just yet. I froze them all in individual food saver packs for when I want a quick supper and/or don't feel like cooking. (I also made quart containers of sauce to go with them.)

I'm not one for resolutions any way other than a generic type of 'simplify simplify simplify' one. Once the Xmas stuff is packed away (done yesterday) I start getting twitchy and look around for other things to simplify. So far, I've simplified my internet 'life' a little by deleting over 1,000 Facebook 'friends'. So if you got deleted recently, don't take it personally. It was all getting to be a bit much and I decided it needed to be brought down to more manageable numbers. Because the way it was, I never looked at a damn thing on there any more because there was too much going on and I didn't feel like wading through hundreds of posts just to get to a few that interested me. So I whacked away at it until I got down to around 240 and I'm still trimming here and there as I go. And I have to say - it feels REALLY REALLY GOOD. (And part of this was the changes FB has made to the newsfeed in recent months. I really don't give a crap to wade through post after post of who friended who, who fan paged what, or hit 'like' on something. Why did they start adding EVERYTHING to your feed? Next up, I expect to see it give you a notice when someone farts! YOU HEARD IT HERE FIRST! So annoying.)

Next up: I have to whack away at the 'leftovers' of the handmade Xmas presents/projects piled up on my hearth. Leftover balls of yarns, loose patterns, etc. And I have a pile (A PILE!!!) of needle worked ornaments that need to be sewn up into something that you can actually HANG from a tree. (A tree that is now packed up until next December. lol)