beards...

i was texting with my sister the other night...

is it bad that a single girl is drinking wine in bed watching friends re-runs with a purring cat?

 

before i could answer she writes...

 

who am i kidding, you're knitting beards. LOL :)

 

true story.  i was at home wednesday night crocheting (not knitting) a beard.  yes, i am a 36 year old woman who sits at home crocheting beards.  i have a cat named oscar.  i wear granny panties to bed, because i'm sorry they are just more comfortable.  oh and i like puzzles.  maybe i should flip those numbers around and add 30 to it, because this sounds more like a 93 year old lady. 

 

there was a really good reason why i was crocheting a beard.  besides the fact that it is frick-fracking awesome, it is for the st. pattys dash.  yes, i realize it is quite a ways away, but i have several to make.  oh no, my old lady hole is getting deeper.  this was my first take at it.  i didn't know how long it was going to make one of these (about 30 minutes) and like i mentioned i have a few more to make, so i had some extra time and thought why not? 

 

so here's the gig.  my girlfriends and i run in the st. pattys day dash.  we have done it two years in a row.  i swear this year i will be better prepared for it.  anyway, we have been adding to our ensembles each year.  last years addition was stick on green mustaches.  they were awesome and i think we were the only ones sporting them. 

 

this race has the worst weather ever.  it is always pouring.  it really doesn't matter how well dressed you think you are, each year i look like a shivering wet cat.  it's not pretty.  true to form it was pouring down rain at the start of the race, but it started snowing towards the end.  yes, you read that right, snowing!  needless to say our faces were cold.

 

since, we are ladies and do not possess the ability to grow our own beards, well i do have those two hairs that grace my chin, but that doesn't count, i thought i would make beards.  sometimes men have it better.  sure would be nice to grow a cozy warm beard for the winter months.  short of collecting all the hair that falls out of my head, the hair i shave off of my legs and pits or the hair that is waxed, yarn beards is the best i can do.

 

there you go, the official story behind the yarn beards.  i will be keeping the first one with all the mistakes.  hopefully by the end of this escapade i will be an expert beard maker.