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What not to do…

January 11, 2005

Can you identify what happened here?

How about a close up:

Using your best Maxwell Smart voice: "Would you believe I was trying to dye my yarn with red wine?"

The truth: I am a fairly easy going person. I take things in stride. When I get frustrated I find that winding yarn is an excellent way to burn off those feelings. I was EXTREMELY frustrated tonight. Mostly angry, but I’ll spare you the details. So off to the winder I went accompanied by a large glass of red wine. My winding stuff is on a pull out desk and the wine was carefully placed on the desk’s hutch. I wound for a bit and paid attention to make sure the glass was not moving. Not enough attention as when I hit my stride rehearsing the conversation I would love to have with the object of my anger, off the glass jumped, shattering into two million pieces including the ones that embedded themselves into my hand and foot as I tried to clean the mess. I would have had far less mess and far more satisfaction had I thrown the glass, but I’m not that kind of person.

The solution:

These products have come to our red wine rescue on more than one occasion. I know someone, whose husband is a supreme court judge who wouldn’t allow company to drink red wine in their white carpeted house. If they had only met my two friends pictured above, life would have been more pleasant for them.

Moral: Drinking and winding don’t mix.

I’ll be back on Thursday.

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8 responses to “What not to do…”

Rosie

January 11, 2005

Poor Li. What a bummer. Why not take up my stress reliever an exercise bike. It burns off the stress and those ferry muffins too. I am going to Las Vegas with Tony on Feb. 8,9,10, 11 and staying at the Venetian. I will take different tours of the area while he is in meetings all day. It should be fun. I would love to take the nighttime helicopter tour of Las Vegas but it is a too expensive. We are celebrating 21 years of marriage on the 14th. Tony is buying me a sterling silver bracelet that is all silver dog bones. It is really cute. I mentioned it at Christmas and he remembered it (I didn’t think he was listenening) and so now he wants to get it for me. We are both into our dogs and he gives them their nightly dog biscuit when he comes home from work.

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Lisa

January 11, 2005

Oh dear. I, too, turn to the red wine when I’m angry. Hmmm…. wait…. I turn to the red wine more often than just when I’m angry (teehee). I’ll remember not to wind while I do it. Course if I knit, my stitches are always tight and my hands end up hurting. Hope today is better for you!

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Emma.

January 11, 2005

Oh dear !
Hope you poured yourself another big glass. ;-]

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lori

January 11, 2005

yikes! I hope your hand and feet are all bandaged up and neosporin-ed! I concur with the above comment. more wine is called for as remedy 🙂

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Karen

January 11, 2005

Ooops! I hate it when stuff like that happens… I hope your yarn is ok…. oh and your foot and hand too! 😉

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Sandy

January 11, 2005

You need to be congratulated on one of the best reframes ever…from frustration (too mild a word, perhaps?) to blog adventure! I really admire that.

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Caryn

January 12, 2005

Ahhh….no good. I find that anything yarn related and drinking just don’t mix. Only bad things can happen! 🙂 Hope you feel more relaxed soon!

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Lorette

January 19, 2005

And the worst is that you wasted all that perfectly good red wine!

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