1. I think I might be the luckiest person in the world.
2. I love what I do. Every filthy, sweaty, frustrating moment of it. I love working sheep. I love dyeing yarn. I love blogging. And I love my readers and shareholders.
3. Although I am a contender for the Kittenhead of the Year Award, I am getting stronger every day. Now I only tear up at Lifetime movies and when reading your comments. And when that Folger’s Christmas commercial comes on, the one with the handsome college boy in an Aran sweater coming home to surprise his family and making them all coffee. Kills me every time.
4. I drink way too much Diet Pepsi.
5. I am grateful for each and every one of you. You make all this worth doing. Thank you.
P.S. Googling that Folgers commercial lead me down a little bunny path. I’m 99% sure this is the Aran sweater actor now. I thought you’d want to know that he still seems to be working. I know how you worry.
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God! Peeeter is just as handsome now as he was back then….Bet he still has the sweater, too.
I am luckier because I can call you my friend, see you at Rhinebeck
Hahaha! I instantly knew what commercial you were talking about. The sappy Christmas time one that gets me is one for a phone company. There’s a young woman who’s clearly living on the streets and she phones her mom and says, “Mom? I want to come home.” while “Amazing Grace” plays in the background. Ugh. Gets me every time.
Amazing that commercial is still shown and it still has the same impact. This is why I’m certain that Sarah McLachlan ASPCA one is NEVER going to go away. It comes on and everyone in my house starts scrambling for the remote saying “turn it off, turn it off” because they know it flips my waterworks button.
I love that commercial. Yeah, there are commercials that I love. Most of them are from the past. The current crop of commercials frequently make me guess at what they are actually trying to sell me. Click, off goes the television.
1. I totally cried too watching that just now, dammit. Even while I was thinking “my, there’s quite an age gap in that family – that man is at LEAST 25.”
2. I thought I was the only person who ran across familiar actors and thought, “Oh good, I’m so glad they’re working!”
3. I love your blog and what you’re doing, and can’t wait until I’m employed again and can join your CSA to be even more a part of what goes on at the fiber farm.
Anyone have the pattern to that Aran sweater?
I just watched with the sound off and it still got me.
Can we start Diet Pepsi Anonymous? I will come to meetings if we can have them on MVI (and if Dimples can come).
I thought you were going to cut down the Diet Pepsi intake, girl?!?
Dang, I just looked at AranSweaterGuy’s website, and he’s still a HUNK!
FWIW, any Budweiser xmas commercial with the Clydesdales gets me going wah!
You guys crack me up. Me? Too many years doing morning radio. My first thought was – “Dang, he’s got the whole family addicted to caffeine. What is IN those wrapped packages? Espresso machines? Ethiopian blend? Starbuck’s Gift Cards???”
BTW, Mr. Aran Sweater is looking WAY better than he did back in the day…. mmm-hmmm.
Oh, my god/dess…I cried every time that commercial came on too – as well as the MacDonald’s Christmas commercial called “Little Sister”. Remember that one?
I’m glad the Aran sweater guy is still working. Gives us all hope.
hey susie!!!
your the bomb!!!
hey kids rock and roll rock on…
xo
rona