Tuesday Tidbits

It wouldn't kill you to comment...I'm just saying.

Last Tuesday Michelle and I were able to meet up for pedicures at almost the last minute (i.e., arranged by text an hour before). We got there 15 minutes after the place opened so the scent of incense was overpowering! I was mouth-breathing immediately and feared I'd get a headache, but I ended up being fine. It must have been strongest by the front doors where we stood for a long time choosing our polish colors. 

After our pedicures I had to go to the Scout Store to get all the awards for the biggest Court of Honor of the year. Technically I was released a month ago from being the Advancement Chair Person but they hadn't called anyone else yet and I told them I'd do this last one. It ended up being quite the run around getting everything taken care of though so what normally takes 10 minutes at the store took 30. 

The lengthy visit at the store made me late for Lori's birthday lunch at Kneader's, but I texted them my order so it was waiting for me when I arrived.

Whitney made this for Lori's birthday.

I spent much of the evening organizing, labeling and prepping the merit badges for the Court of Honor.

We had deliciously Fall-like weather all week with cool temperatures and rain off and on. I absolutely loved it!

Whitney made a Barbie washer and dryer out of Pop Tart boxes (which I bought especially so she could make these). The shelf is an iPhone box. I wish I looked this cute doing laundry!

I finished reading Revolutionary Road and just loved it. Lori had been raving about it for so long that I finally borrowed her book and gave it a whirl. Now I'm bummed that I didn't have my own copy because there were so many poignant passages I would have marked. I think this is one I'll be rereading. I loved all the delicate nuances going on in the marriages portrayed and I felt comforted to know I'm not alone in some of my less than kind thoughts sometimes. Marriage relationships are complicated and we are all such flawed beings that often what's happening in a conversation is not really what's happening at all; this book beautifully illustrated this complicated dynamic.

"Both the Campbells made conscientious little clucks of amusement, and Shep discreetly inspected his watch. But the worst part--the worst part of the whole weekend, if not of his life to date--was the way April was looking at him. He had never seen such a stare of pitying boredom in her eyes.

It haunted him all night, while he slept alone; it was still there in the morning, when he swallowed his coffee and backed down the driveway in the crumpled old Ford he used for a station car. And riding to work, one of the youngest and healthiest passengers on the train, he sat with the look of a man condemned to a very slow, painless death. He felt middle-aged."
 page 71

Landon's "girl friend" Kassidy was sick on Sunday so he made her some Muddy Buddies (his favorite treat), wrote her a card and gave her a bottle of Powerade as well. We dropped it off after church. What a sweet guy he is! She was giddy about it and posted a picture of it on Instagram and then came into the office at school yesterday to thank me for dropping it off.