JW True Christian Academy

After liv­ing in Louisiana for many years, I’ve come to real­ize that the hotter-than-the-Devil’s-home tem­per­a­tures in July are as ungodly as the hotter-than-the-Devil’s-home tem­per­a­tures in August.

So, what does this all mean?
Well, I made it one full week into my yarn diet. I was doing good! REALLY!
I went to Wal­mart last week­end with the fam­ily, and walked RIGHT passed the fab­ric depart­ment!

Yes­ter­day, the girls and I went to get sup­plies for our home­school, (which I’m very excited about, I must say!), and I went down the clear­ance aisle.
Yeah, our WM has an aisle ded­i­cated to clear­ance — and the last time I hit it, they had tons of Cot­ton Tots! I love Cot­ton Tots!

Any­way, they had 3 skeins of Home­spun. I picked 2 of them up, but the third one had got­ten tan­gled around all kinds of stuff. I wres­tled with it for a bit and decided to let it go. It wasn’t meant to be.

Then the image on my right shoul­der( :afro: ) said, “Now you know you’re not sup­posed to be get­ting this!” and the image on my left shoul­der ( )said, “but you can buy it and give it away! Yarn swap — Hello!??” She had a point, so, I agreed.

Then, I hit the fab­ric dept. and lost my mind!!! All the Cot­ton Tots that had been in the clear­ance sec­tion was in a shop­ping buggy in the fab­ric dept. marked down EVEN MORE!!!!!!!!
It was $1/skein!!! I pil­laged! (is that how you spell that?)
They had one skein of Fun Fur. I have wanted to try it, but not at $4.80+ each… but, then :afro: said, “Uh — it’s only $1!!!!!!! That’s not a pur­chase, that’s a res­cue. It doesn’t count!!!!!!!” :yay:

So after all was said and done, I walked out with 12 skeins of res­cued yarn.

It’s a shame, too — cuz I didn’t stop at just 12.
Later in the day, I went to the Good­will. I found a pack­age of var­i­ous vin­tage yarns, and scarfed it, too.
So, all tolled, I am now the happy mommy to 18 “new” skeins of yarn.
But since more than half is going to be swapped…

Curses, who am I fool­ing? My diet is busted! I’m weak! I can’t han­dle ‘no fiber diets!‘
I should aim for LOW fiber diets! WoMAN can’t live on bread alone!

Now — after all that, and the guilt pounds that have already started to appear, I used some Cot­ton Tots to make E a ker­chief.
She absolutely loves it!
I’m work­ing on R’s right now.
DH helped me sort my stash into ‘col­ors that would go well in an afghan together’, to help in my low fiber diet!

I have at least 5 ghans that I can make with what I’ve cur­rently got.
I just need to start them, so I feel like I don’t have a need for more.

Addic­tion sucks… some­times!!

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