ummm...knitting

yes, knitting. stop snickering. seriously, stop it. i'm serious. i am TOTALLY ADDICTED TO KNITTING*. i was reading crazy aunt purls blog, purely for the laugh factor, a while ago (and when i say laugh factor, i mean laughing with her, not at her. i love you purl!!). then, i started to really get in to her life, and totally empathized with her divorce struggles. then, i'm in the craft store with my son using a gift certificate he got for his birthday (my son is seven. let's just all take a moment. HOLY CRAP, i don't know how that happened, but there it is.) and i was thinking about purl and i thought, what the hell, let's see what all the fuss is about. oh my GOD, i love it!!! it is so fun and relaxing (once i got over the hump known as how in the hell do you do this???) and i just finished, well, almost finished, my first project. a really challenging item known as a scarf. yes, pipe down, i know it's starting to be summer. and i know that it will be warm and there will be absolutely no need for scarves for the next six months, but dammit i made one anyway. it's for my son, and it's red baby alpaca and it's just so so luxurious and soft and yummy. i went to the yarn store (!!) yesterday and spent $85 on yarn. i know shutup, the point is, i got a hank of baby alpaca yarn and made a scarf out of it for only $12.99. try getting an alpaca scarf for that much in any store. i dare you!! it just won't happen.

*a note from my ass: why can you not get addicted to something cool like exercise?? why oh why are all the things you really like to do sedentary (except sex of course)? reading, computering, knitting, watching tv...notice a pattern here, j? all of those things require you to be sitting still on me for hours at a time. i know you're not really into going out these days, and exercise can be a pain in me, but for the LOVE of GOD, will you just do something about this? i want to be small and cute and perky again, PLEASE. i'm just saying is all. you have the gazelle, so PUT DOWN THE KNITTING NEEDLES and put the damn thing together and let's jump on there and burn some damn calories.