The Sad (and pricey) Saga of a Scarf....

I started this scarf over a year ago. Just worked on it here and there over the months...other projects kept getting in the way....  I think the scarf felt like it wasn't being paid enough attention to. So about three weeks ago, it decided to unravel itself.  No fault of my own, of course. Not that I was watching tv or anything and not paying enough attention (or so it thought) to it.  And when I did deign to turn my eyes back to it (hey Scandal was on - what can I say)!, it had unravelled all the way down - over 50 inches...  I sat there looking at it for awhile, hoping against hope, that my eyes were deceiving me....but alas, I was wrong.   To put the cherry on top of the ice cream, I couldn't save the yarn. (don't ask - that is a whole 'nother story)...  So I went back to my LYS and found the one color, but they didn't have the other.  I waited a week or so - went back, still no go. So I bought another color, one I knew probably wouldn't look right.  And I was right - it didn't...  So back I went to get another color - knowing it probably wouldn't look right...  I was right...it didn't.  By now, I am into this scarf, the scarf that "isn't" at a price of over a hundred dollars!  I'm almost embarrassed to even say that here...
My sister will be happy - in her Xmas box of yarns - she will get these yarns that the scarf and I deemed were not right!  So all isn't lost!  I figure I would have spent money on yarn for her anyway, so I'm ahead of the game. That is my story and I'm sticking to it!!  The scarf and I wanted the original colors and darn it, we will get them!  I gave up on my yarn shop getting it in, so ordered it online!  And as soon as it comes in, I will be starting again.  I promise scarfie I will pay more attention to you this time around!  And look forward to wearing you "next" winter!