Happy Turkey Day

So tomorrow we are off to enjoy Thanksgiving at my parents'.

Today I did all the things I have been putting off too long (wrote the NIN newsletter, mailed a scrapbooking swap, went to the cleaners) and some things that needed to wait for today (baked a pie, started the yeast rolls). I'm waiting now to send out another NIN e-mail. Yahoo only lets me send to so many people each hour or something like that, to prevent me from being a spammer, so whenever I send out the newsletter, I have to do it in batches.

Here is what I did weekend before last:

A while ago somebody donated a huge amount of tapestry yarn to our NIN chapter. We can't use wool for the babies, so I took it to try to distribute it to charities I know of that use wool. I've unloaded quite a bit, and an NIN friend is with a group that knits scarves for the needy, so it was a good way to unload the bulky wool. Thing is, the skeins are very small...so in addition to winding them up so that ladies without swifts and ball winders can use them easier, I decided to wind four skeins into one ball. Eight skeins makes a good sized scarf.


I started out without about 2/3 more than this:


And ended up with balls like this, which I then bagged together in sets of two matching balls for a scarf. Some of the colors were a bit difficult to match, but I did my best.
Okay, I've had that MTV show "My Super Sweet Sixteen" on tonight in the background, and they are doing a marathon countdown of the most expensive parties they've featured. They are on number 5, I think. This gal's parents flew her to Paris to shop for her dress. These people have some serious money, and while I think that if you have that much money, then you can spend it how you want, I don't really understand how spending $400,000 on your kid's sixteenth birthday party is doing your kid any good. I mean, really...where do you go from there? What are her expectations going to be of life? I guess there are men out there who share this lifestyle and they can all just continue to be extravagantly wealthy together, but it just seems like bad parenting to me. These girls (and the occasional guy) run around the whole time talking about how everyone is going to know how great they are based on how much they show their wealth...how they get whatever they want (and most of them do) and some of them are truly bitchy about how they are better than others because they have all this money. I know a lot of that is immaturity, but at 16, I think these teens should be coming to the realization that the world does not revolve around them...and all this does is reinforce the exact opposite.


And will any of them ever be satisfied when their DH brings home from the grocery store the perfect set of pink roses for their birthday? They're no BMW, bit I love them anyway...they opened perfectly and are just now beginning to wilt before we head out tomorrow.