And now the van overfloweth.

Much as Cheryl loves how this picture:

"makes it look like Julia only ended up with one lonely skein of yarn", I love how this picture:

makes it look like Laurie ended up with all the yarn in the store.   Look how happy she is. Go ask her about her Noro revelation this weekend.  It was a beautiful thing.

It is, however, the only photo I have of the entire day.  The hole darned perfect day.  There's a word for that, right?  Camnesia or something?  I'd like claim camnesia, but I suspect that it had more to do with full hands than anything else.  Lucky for me, there were better bloggers along as well, and some of them even have pictures.  All I'm sayin' is that what happens in Noho, stays in Noho.

There are also no photos of the yarn yet because it is all in the deep freeze.  There was a brief but excruciating dilemma when I realized that new yarn (which MUST be kept quarantined until post-deep-freeze) would have to be in the very same room with fiber fresh out of the big Q. that had not quite made it upstairs to the stash room.  There was indecision and a deer-in-the-headlights moment while calculating in my head the speed at which a moth larvae might wriggle out of it's wrapping/bag/yarn and scurry the 12 or so feet across the floor to the fresh-from-the-freezer fiber, which would naturally be more desirable and tasty.  Then there was the lambasting of the self for so irresponsibly leaving the lovely fiber open to such indignities.  Then exhaustion won, and people, I broke my own rule. No, it's true. The (allegedly) filthy, disgusting, parasite-ridden, impure fiber was alone in the same room with the chaste, purified, knitters'-herpes-free fiber. 

For at LEAST 5 minutes.

Hi.  OCD much?  I have worked all day to just.let.it.go. because I know with absolute certainty that this is insane and that it's FINE. Really it is. I KNOW this to be true.  So now I'm sharing it with y'all in the hope that maybe I can then forget it. Or maybe it just helps to include you in the petty made-up drama of a crazy-assed hoarder with nothing better to worry about.  Like, say...world peace, or starving children, or the myriad assaults against basic civil rights in our very own country....

There.  Now I feel better.  How 'bout you?  Oh shit...did you see that?  Was that a moth? Was it?

Comments

[Cara]

oh my god I WISH my obsessional thoughts were about yarn!!! LOL! Life would be so much easier.

(Of course I know that's not true, really, because OCD is OCD and it sucks no matter what. But still. Yarn would be nice every now and then. ;-) )

[Carole]

That is SO like Laurie to hog all the yarn.

[Laurie]

I can't stop laughing. I'm laughing and laughing and I can't stop. I SO understand the OCD. I spent part of Sunday scooping through all my *ahem* previous bags and bins to check for moths.

And then I had ALLLL those Webs bags to go through.

[PumpkinMama]

You made me totally paranoid when once I would leave it to the fates. I'm thinking black garbage bag on my hot hot deck for a few days like today and they'll all be toast.

[julia fc]

The mister thinks we should get a bigger chest freezer because there's always more yarn than food in there, and we actually EAT the food, he says. I think that was a hint.

[Kathy]

Please tell me that Rubbermaid container kept out the "m" word, yes?

[maryse]

i've been going to all of your posts and commenting "um... why wasn't i invited?"

[maggie]

I'm here at work reading your blog and now find the sudden urge to go check on my stash. I will be thinking about this all night...must go home to check stash.
Glad you had fun over the weekend! :)

[Marcy, Not Blogless]

Yeah! What Maryse said. :(

[Cheryl]

That's not OCD, that's good common sense! Believe me, if one of those larvae can wriggle its way through the inner workings of my digital camera, it can scrurry a few feet across the floor with no trouble at all.

[mamacate]

Oh hon. I had no idea.

So, you know, most if not all commercially spun yarn is chemically mothproofed. Chances are you're not going to get moths from Webs, not because they're all clean and fancy (you saw the warehouse), but because any larva that chomps that yarn is going to D-I-E. You really only need to worry about the fleeces. I know you'll do fine with that. heh.

[Juno]

You want to hurt me. I get it now. Because the pain of not being there is EXQUISITE.

Hey, was that a mot.....

[Beth S.]

It was NOT a moth. Close your eyes. Breathe deeply. ;-)

I like Cate's idea, and I want to believe... probably because I have the world's tiniest freezer, and it's already full of vodka, I mean frozen vegetables, anyway.

[Chris]

Have a big glass of wine. :)