Working On A Blankie

 I have been working on this blanket for what seems like forever.  Not because it is hard, but because it is easy to set down and start something else.  I have a bad habit of starting more than one project at once.  I finish them don't get me wrong. I seem to get the harder projects done first.  Or the projects that I make for other people.
  Well I found this yarn. Lion Brand Amazing in Violets colorway.  I love it and wanted a throw for myself.  Well I started an easy two by two seed stitch and I haven't finished.  Why haven't I, because it is for me..
  I will get it done.
  I have heard of yarn talk of yarn snobs on a group that I belong to.  Well I say to those better than thou people you haven't lived until you had to do without.  I grew up where if you didn't grow it you didn't eat it.  You worked for what you had and you didn't complain.  I am proud that I grew up with those values.
  My sister and I cleaned the pastors house twice a week for a whole $.50.  Then when I was 16 I went to work in a nursing home.  That was hard work.  I had change my share of baby diapers but when you clean up and elderly person it is a different story.  It is a sad place to work.  From there I went to build horse barns in hot Texas weather.  Then I got married had babies and was a stay at home mother.  After my kids were big enough to take care of themselves I went back to work 60 hours a week at a bar-b-que restaurant. Then I went to work in a grocery store deli that served breakfast, lunch, fried chicken, burgers and stuff like that.  A case of chicken weighs about 45 pounds.  I lifted a lot of chicken every day.  Six days a week because it was hard to keep help.  Nobody wanted to work.
  One day I woke up and I couldn't move.  I was in so much pain I thought I was doing to die.  I went to specialist that told me," You have scoliosis".  I was 37.  Who doesn't know they have a crooked back.  Well I didn't.  They couldn't do anything for me.  It was too advanced.  And guess what they wanted me to do?  Go to a pain management specialist.  They wanted to pump me full of drugs and send me on my way.  Not me.
  I was told don't go to a chiropractor, they will mess you up.  Well I found one and he didn't mess me up I was up and walking again.
  I know what you are thinking what does this have to do with yarn.  I love the fact that I can find yarn that is not expensive and is really pretty with a nice feel.