I may have pigeon-holed myself a bit with my weekly labels for Creative Friday because we often repeat the things we do. I'm calling today "Embroidery Edition" because Michelle was working on monogramming the apron she made me for Christmas. It was a little bit guilt-inducing for me because it took all of her time and kept her from working on anything else, but it's going to be very cute, and it's part of her gift to me so I'll take it. Hee.
When Michelle asked me what I thought we should have for lunch today I just had to request paninis again. I can't seem to get enough, and really, eating them once a week at her house isn't so often. Today we had Red Pepper and Tomato soup and roast beef paninis on wheat French bread, oh so good.
I worked on cutting out more good mail labels (my hand is turning into a hideous claw) and I wrote 5 thank you notes. I mailed those on my way home along with a good mail package and 2 books I sold on Amazon. I even went to the dreaded Pleasant Grove post office and only had to wait like 30 seconds!! What in the world??
Here is our self-portrait for this week. I bought Michelle's Colorstay lip liner "Nude" but haven't had any success with it so far. I had just reapplied my normal lip stuff before this picture, but Michelle only had to put on a tiny bit of lip gloss over the lip liner she'd had on all day (she mocks me!).
I ran a couple errands after leaving Michelle's house (because Randy was picking the kids up from school...weird) and ended up coming home and walking into the house smelling a tad funky. I hate it when that happens, but it seems to happen in the winter since the windows rarely get opened. I don't know why it smelled less-than-fresh, especially because I'm on a constant quest for freshness, but there was a broccoli-type aroma where no broccoli was found. I immediately opened the windows, emptied the trash cans, barked at my family and started wiping things down with my Clorox Citrus wipes (I lost my senses for a bit).
I think Randy feared for his life and for game night (so did I). But then I opened these three pieces of good mail (after my cleaning blitz) and my mood changed drastically.
Carlo sent me this cute thank you note for thank you note for the double set of good mail labels I sent her recently, and I was happy to see that she remembered to put one on her envelope.
Kristi sent me this funny Valentine fire truck guy. Her envelope made me wonder if she's the type of gal the drives postal workers to kill. She had 19 .1 cent stamps on the envelope. It was canceled 7 times that I can see. It's fun to get things from her, but I hope she doesn't get me in trouble, ha.
Wende sent me this nice card with one of her favorite scriptures that comforted her when her husband was out of work. Very thoughtful. Thank you Wende!
So now it's time for game night with the family and I'm in good spirits (it's a relief to them and me). I have a baby shower for my cousin's wife tomorrow and am not happy about having to go to that at all. At what point can we part ways?
**Does your house ever have unidentifiable stank?
Did you send or receive any good mail this week?
Do you embroider?**
Did you send or receive any good mail this week?
Do you embroider?**
17 comments:
Oh Jill, there are too many funny one-liners in here to quote, but I did enjoy it and hate unidentifiable stank, too.
Unidentifiable stank usually ends up being some sort of culprit under my childrens' beds.
Michelle monograms by hand? I am seriously impressed! What a gift!
i have so much catching up on your blog to do, but need to start commenting somewhere so i will start with today.
1. jealous of your nice lunches and fridays. not in a weird get over it jealous, just a healthy you are so lucky jealous.
2. apron - awesome can't wait to see it.
3. yes the post office i am sure does not like me, they won't hold it against you , just me. that is why i don't go to the post office anymore and send all my stuff from home and my mail man always laughs at me. i say do you think they will take this and he says, sure let's try.
4. the fire truck guy was a puzzle piece,
5. when you come to my home prepare yourself for unfreshness. oh i wish i had your cleaning ablitites.
thoughtful good mail from wende!
Jill, it just occurred to me that you need to try cutting your labels out with a rotary cutter. Let me give you a lesson!
Your days sounds great. Sorry about the shower. I think I have a wedding tomorrow. I really don't want to go! I'm getting sick--maybe that can be my excuse!
There can be no guilt over your gift! Plus I am enjoying working on it. Our method of combining efforts for a good lunch seems to be working out quite nicely, eh?
Is it crazy that every time you leave on Friday I wonder if it will be the last Creative Friday? That you'll get tired of schlepping over here just to listen to Eva cry, step over Jack, squint at the brightness, shake your head at my iTunes ineptitude, and talk about American Idol and Survivor when you could cut your good mail labels at home in peace and quiet. But for my own selfish reasons, I am SO glad you keep coming back!
Usually any stank in my house is easily identifiable. Glad you were able to recover in time for game night.
unfindable smells are never a good thing. In my home that means a preschooler or a pre-preschooler has hidden a banana peel somewhere. A week ago.
My back entrance is in continual stank b/c of the wet snow clothes and boots. I can't even keep the back entrance door open to help things dry out because our dog will eat our shoes. I tried this odor absorbing hanging bag thing, but no luck. I can hardly wait for summer.
I can't abide stank. I have a nose like a bloodhound. I look forward to creative friday reports every week!
Michelle- okay I am so amazed- what the heck -she does everything!
Creative Fridays are some of my favorite posts & I too am jealous in a good way- you know.
I hate stank- I wonder if it's like that around here all the time & I just don't smell it because I'm used to it or something. It's a fear I have... You know how you sometimes only smell it when you come home from being gone. I'm telling you I hope not!! The thought of it is making me sick.
I don't like showers or weddings when I feel compelled to go either-they are really a pain-- in the middle of a Saturday afternoon too!
My daughter doesn't want a wedding reception (we are having dinner after a late afternoon wedding)& I am so glad she is confident enough to do what SHE wants & not worry about what everyone thinks. the grandmothers are ready to have a cow over it. I keep thinking - people are going to be thrilled not to have to go to another wedding reception! but those grandmas-- oh boy, they'll get over it!
ps. skip the shower... really just send a card
You and your bloodhound nose! I usually can find the stank and get out fast.
I am just learning how to hand embroider and it is fun and satisfying. Can't wait to see the finished product from Michelle's talented hands. Her comment is seriously so how I feel sometimes when someone comes here and deals with the craziness and then comes back again and again.
I was thinking on the lipstick- do you think you could talk Michelle into a tutorial and post it? So many would benefit!
And it sounds rude, but I stopped going to baby and bridal showers that I felt forced to go to a long time ago and a weight was lifted. Send a card in your good mail style and call it good!
I woke up to a smell this morning that is driving me nuts!! I can't decide if it's the breakfast Kelly cooked or sweaty kids who need baths or what but at noon- the windows are up, even if it is only 36 degrees today!!
Why does it look like your monogram is JSM? I have seriously stared at that picture for 5 minutes trying to figure it out!
Dirty diapers create plenty of reak around here. It's pretty identifiable though. When the kitchen sink smells weird that's when I get nuts.
Your monogrammed apron is neat. Love the thoughtful good mail from Wende.
Usually unidentifiable stank is coming from the garbage disposal in my house! I just squirt some dish soap down it and turn it on and it usually takes care of the problem. I love your Creative Friday posts-Michelle looks like an amazing cook. That apron is causing apron envy!
I hate unidentifiable stinky smells too!
I did send some good mail this week, and I even got some I think.
I have embroidered, but it has been soooooo long!
i HATE unidentifiable smells! Oh, you and i seem to have the same quest for freshness! it's almost always potatoes in the pantry that were forgotten. yuck! one time though, an unidentifiable stank coming from my boys' room turned out to be a FISH in a ziploc bag that spencer had "caught" at his fourth grade mountain man days celebration, brought home and forgot about! pretty much every other mystery smell that i've ever had pales in comparison to that beauty! whooo!
PS what is up with talented michelle? i'm so impressed, and jealous! is there anythingt his girl can't do? you're so lucky to have a regular friday date, patsy and i keep saying we need to do this but somehow it just doesn't happen.
This is a mega post! I'm glad you do your little questions at the end!
We took the door off our kitchen, so when you open the front door you can immediately tell if there's been any cooking going on. That annoys me. Maybe it's 'homely' to some people, but I don't like it. That's why I'm constantly burning wax tartlets. I think I'm on 'Ginger & Citrus' at the moment.
I've had a glut of Good Mail (including your card, thank you!), so I have to blog about that soon, as I agree it lifts one's mood.
Do I embroider - nope. It would be nice to say I did. I have sheets of felt lying around at the moment, and I'm wondering what to do with them. If I can master what to do with felt, maybe embroidery is within my reach sometime...?
I love that Michelle is making you lunch on Fridays..
I would love to see the apron. You girls are all kinds of talented.
I often fear that our house stinks to others.... I do not want to be one of those houses that has its very own smell!
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