Stuck, stuck stuck

I have been working on this )(*&*)(*& lace shawl since August. It is using sock thread and is the most BORING thing on the face of the planet.

It takes me 1/2 an hour for one row going at super speed and the pattern is so simple that it makes my teeth hurt to knit for more than an hour at a time.

BUT on top of that the )_)(*&)(*&&&*^%$% thing got a pull in it near the beginning last week - I can't seem to work it back into the lace. I nearly chucked it but I am on my 6th of 6 balls of sock yarn. I will not throw away that much yarn and I don't want to give up on the obnoxious thing. It will rest.

I want to knit small things that are interesting. But if I don't keep after this piece of you know what, it will win.