Self Control is Overrated.

This week has been crazy stressful.  We are being inspected at work. An inspection so epic that it only happens every three years.  It takes 1 year to recover, 1 year to relax, and 1 year to prepare for the next inspection.  It’s that huge.

Now, during stressful situations, my willpower goes down to about zero.  I start eating pasta every night for dinner and my exercise schedule gets postponed.  All self control gets funneled into work to impress the inspectors.  I plan for this.  I eat healthy and run before the stress starts so that I can drown in comfort food for that one week.  This works for me.  I’ll reboot my personal self control on Monday.

What I didn’t plan for was yarn.  Specifically Knitpicks yarn.  They send these enticing little e-mails directly to you with pictures of soft squishy yarn that would look lovely in my home.  And then, there are the kits.

It’s a Diatom shawl in blue!  It combines yarn, biology, and blue.  I love it.  And it’s a kit.  A yarn, biology, blue, kit.  How am I to resist?  No, I don’t actually wear shawls more than once a year when I’m doing an historical reenactment.  But I COULD wear this yarn, biology, blue, shawl kit.  

One more click takes you to their new sock yarn samplers.  There are 6 of them:

Earth

 Campfire

Lake shore

Evening sky

Summer Sunset

And Sunny Day:

The best part about these samplers?  Each one makes about 4 pairs of socks for only $30 AND they stripe themselves.  I could have no fuss hand knit stripped socks.  I could toss out all my old socks and from now on only wear hand knit socks in all their squishy goodness. 
 

I can see it now….

My co-workers will stand in awe of my beautiful stripped socks.  They will envy these socks and beg me to knit a pair for them.  Just one pair each… after all, they aren’t greedy.  These socks will make me popular and pretty.  These socks will make me loose 15 lbs and my hair will behave – even on high humidity days.  

These sock samplers… contain orange.  I hate orange.  I hate orange so much that I have removed all traces of it from my office and my boss’ office down to the last paper clip and sticky note.  

::sigh::  Perhaps I shouldn’t be yarn shopping in my stressed out state.  At least I should wait 1 week before spending $210 on a shawl I might wear once a year and 24 pairs of socks in yarn form.

One inspection day left and this me, knitting from the stash.