At Last!

At long last, the hat is finally finished!  

Except for the gajillion ends I have to weave in, I mean. 

It was at this point I began to wonder why I didn't just use the two biggest balls of yarn to begin with.  But whatever.  What's done is done, and that's how it's going to stay. 

It got me to thinking, though.  This hat is a perfect metaphor for our lives sometimes.  When I bought this yarn, it was beautiful, pristine, and perfect.  Then life happened.  Moths got to it, and when I got ready to cast on, I discovered it had been cut to pieces.  

My first inclination was to just throw the whole thing away.  Well, my first inclination was to cry, then to throw the whole thing out, but I didn't.  I picked up the pieces and began putting them back together a bit at a time.  Yes, it was a lot of extra work, and a bit of a pain, and quite tedious when you get right down to it. 

In the end, the hat still turned out beautiful, even with all those joins in it.  You may think your life is in pieces, but with a lot of hard work, you can still put it back together and it will end up being a beautiful thing. 

In other news, today turned out to be a cleaning day.  What since I'd put most of my food into the deep freeze, I took advantage of the situation to give the small freezer a good cleaning.  Boy, it needed it, too.  Apparently, I have a habit of spilling things in freezers.  

Oh, well, it's all nice and clean now, and I think I'm going to have one of those pot pies for supper.

Then I took a few moments and cleaned off my desk. 

I know what you're thinking, "Becky, that's not clean!"  No, but it's a lot better than it was.  I really need to clean that whole desk off and sell it, so I can replace it with a proper writing desk.  It's an old computer desk, and since I don't even have a desktop any more, I never use it except to pile junk mail on.  I'd thought about using this as a writing desk, but the top is just a little too high to make writing comfortable.  

And finally, I think I found the one!  I really like this house.  

It's got a nice big kitchen and living room, a master bedroom that's not directly off the main living area, lots of storage, and two bathrooms.  Plus the large front and back porches.  And it's got a cute facade.  

Now, I just need me a sugar daddy so I can afford it.  They say say Elon Musk has all of our SSNs.  If he wanted to open a bank account with mine and deposit a few hundred thou into it...well, I wouldn't ask him to, but I wouldn't argue either. 

Except that I'd be the one stuck paying the taxes on it.  Speaking of, I need to get mine done to pay for the Adirondack chairs I bought...

Which I'm not looking forward to...the taxes, not the chairs.  I love the chairs.  

OK, I'm rambling now, but it's because I stayed up watching Ryan Hall's live stream until after the storms had passed, so I'm a mite tuckered.  

And I've got a new hat to cast on.  

Laters.