Just so you know, this post took a long, long time to put together due to the very slow uploading speed, but I pushed through the pain.
{I am a total tape spazz.}
1. I had my own Creative Friday at home on Thursday. Whitney ended up going to play at a friend's house all afternoon (woohoo...I'm happy for her of course) and Landon is always great about entertaining himself. I wrote 8 cards and put together a few packages I'd been wanting to do for awhile. It was super satisfying to spend the day in my room (I'm leaning toward being able to call it a studio) and then go to the post office to send all that goodness.
I started rewatching Season 3 of
Friday Night Lights (seriously one of my favorite shows ever) while working in my room. I adore
Netflix and am totally in love with getting TV shows from them for this purpose. I also love the mess on my desk...that's right, I love a mess! Of course, I prefer it when it's tidy, but since the mess consists of all my stuff (not Whitney's socks or dinosaurs) I don't mind it much. It's always in a state of flux since much of it is either good mail that has come in or good mail that is going out...that's just happy.
I am always making more good mail labels for myself since I go through them so quickly, and love to sit at the computer watching a show while I cut them out (did you notice my mug full of scissors?).
I'm going to give a couple sets away to random commenters who tell me what their favorite TV shows are.
2. Landon and Lucas got to do a sleepover switch this week which meant they spent about 60 hours together. They had such a great time together and weren't ready to say goodbye when it was time for me to take Lucas to meet Michelle. I know what it's like to feel that way, so I'm very happy for the two of them to have a great friend in each other.
3. Friday morning after we went to the Oquirrh Mountain Temple Open House (that will be a separate post) and to lunch we followed Randy back to his office so we could see where he works. He recently moved into the office building Adam renovated (and works in) so it was doubly great to go there and see Adam's great design. This is the door to Adam's office, it is a real blast door he somehow got when they tore down Geneva Steel; he had to get special hinges to hold the weight.
Sadly, Adam wasn't there at the time so we didn't get to see him, but we I did sit at his desk to leave him a note and was amused to see multiple Perrier bottles on it (his desk is the one in the back corner).
4. By the time the kids and I got home I was frazzled. It was far too hot (oh how I wish I could be graceful about the heat) and I was super tired from not sleeping well the night before. I changed clothes, emailed a game-night cancellation (I was in bad shape for hosting a crowd), turned off the phone ringer, and fled to the cozy. The kids were watching a movie and are great about letting me sleep, so I was able to nap for 2.5 hours and then read for an hour before surfacing to find this note from Robyn.
Apparently she got my email about game night (indicating that I was hot, tired and pissy) and came right over to get the kids! That meant I didn't need to feel any guilt for sleeping the afternoon away, had a lovely beverage waiting for me in the fridge and a couple more hours to myself (I cleaned and blogged). Robyn and family recently moved to Cedar Hills so they're now only 5 minutes (instead of 35 minutes) away!
5. I usually listen to audio books with headphones on my iPod and the kids and I use my iPod and speakers for music the rest of the time. I'm rather fond of my music choices and often find myself thinking, "Wow, this is a fabulous mix". But since I make those mixes I think this makes me a genius or a dork...I know.
I was thinking I'd like to share the goodness and send a few mix cds out to random commenters who are interested.**What are your favorite shows to rewatch?
Do you have good mail labels?
Who would you not mind spending 60 hours in a row with?
What object on your desk would reveal who you are?
Do you make great mix cds?
Do you want one of my mix cds?**
