Not Dead

I'm actually not dead. I'm just a bad blogger. Naughty, naughty blogger!

Anyway classes are finished for the semester, so I've succumbed to lurking around the forums on Ravelry so I can at least pretend that I'm doing something productive. (But I'm really not!)

There's been a lot of threads on there in the past little while about "stashing" yarn. Now, I'll freely admit that I've been a packrat since I can remember, so seeing that I'm not the only person obsessively hoarding yarn and other knitting crap makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. Anyway, there have been posts about quantities of stash, quality of stash, queueing of stash and general stash organization, and just looking at pictures of all that yarn in one place got me to thinking about mine.

Admittedly, I haven't been knitting nearly as long as a great deal of the people on Rav, but in my defense, I'm making up for lost time with my tax return and my battered Visa. It's impressive, really, how much "stash" you can acquire in a relatively short time with proper use of the internet and the nice people at Canada Post (who are like camels, packing boxes of yarn to my door almost every day, and then packing it back to the post office because we're never home, anyway). Those little parcel slips that they slide into my mailbox when the packages won't fit just make my day!

Speaking, also, of making my day, we just got back (well, when I say "just", I really mean at the beginning of the month) from our annual "family vacation" in which the husband and I pack up and spend two weeks galavanting in the hot sun with my parents, siblings, cousins, aunt, uncle and some friends of the family. Needless to say, travelling from Northern BC to the (gorgeous) west-coast of Costa Rica was damn worth it. We sailed on a catamaran, zip-lined through the jungle, hiked through a cloud forest and sang drunken karaoke like a bunch of foreign businessmen in New York. Doesn't get any better than that. :)