Random Musings for my Morning

Okay…my friend Sarah sent me the funniest website… http://www.lineuponlinecards.com/ It’s an entire site dedicated to greeting cards with a Mormon tongue-in-cheek style. The cards themselves are quite attractive…lovely colors and interesting graphics…even classic pretty styles that us girly-girls love. Then you start to read some of the text, and it’s such a contrast of funny to the pretty that you can’t help laughing. The first few cards I wondered if it was for real, but then I kept scanning down and there are dozens and dozens more and they get funnier and funnier the further down you go. There are several that I want to buy…or at least plagiarize! I know half a dozen couples that we’re working with in the wedding business that would find, “Families are forever…Hope you like your in-laws!” entirely hilarious. I’m so glad when daddy comes home has a whole new meaning to me now, and the sentiment of Way to Begat! makes be grin. Good stuff. Thanks, Sarah!

I talked several times yesterday with a girl in my office who shared that sadness with me about the dog my boss just lost. Denise has dogs of her own and has lost an adored pup herself, so she really felt for Kristy losing Boston this way. Denise pitched in some cash and we agreed that I would put together a flower arrangement for Kristy just to let her know we were sorry for her loss, but knew the sadness fades a little bit as time goes on. Something sorrowful and hopeful at the same time. Hmm. Okay. Jon and I had to go shopping anyway, so I spent some time in the flower department at Costco while Hannah sat patiently in the cart. I knew that Kristy didn’t like routine flowers, and I wanted to do something interesting and different, so I got a bunch of sunflowers…half of which were RED…because I figured that you can’t get much more hopeful than sunflowers, and the red ones just looked awesome. I also got a bunch of long-stemmed calla lilies which seemed appropriate for a sad occasion. I had to track down a vase to put them in, and then I had to figure out how to put them together in a way that looked intentional and cool, but wouldn’t be too odd as a, “sorry your dog died” sort of momento. I think it worked. Kristy said that she loved them when I put them on her console table at the back of her office. I passed her door a few minutes later, and the flowers were front and center on her desk for everyone to see. Hmm. I don’t know if she felt like an explanation was in order for the flowers, but an email went out with a picture attached of Boston and Kristy mentioned that today would have been the dog’s birthday. Aww. I’m even more glad that I brought the flowers. A little while after that, Kristy stopped at my cube to thank me again and mentioned that she’d just talked to her sister on the phone and told her about the flowers. She told her sister how talented I was and that the flowers were just so sweet and thoughtful and beautiful. They both wondered why I didn’t do flowers for a living. Uh…well…kind of do…at least I’m trying to…which is why working here 5 days a week is getting tough… Kristy amended to say that, Not that I wasn’t doing a good job as her secretary, because I was, but I was just so good at the flowers and she wished I could do that too. He he he. Thanks. It’s nice to be able to be creative and still get compliments for it. Maybe it won’t be such a shock someday when I quit to go full-time at the wedding biz. I hope that it’s not years from now.

It was such a nice quiet night last night after shopping. Jon grilled some steaks we’d picked up at Costco, YUM!, and Hannah fell asleep in her new feety jammies with the dancing hippos on them. I’ve realized that she sleeps better if her temperature stays a little more constant. That’s been hard to do in an air-conditioned house where she would sleep in a onsie, and then kicks blankets off while she rolls. Feety jamies it is. She cries out a couple of times in the night now, but a quick binkie plug and she’s back out for the count. Jon and I got to cuddle on the couch for a while and watch clarification on the JFK assassination conspiracies. Ahh. Now I see. No zig-zagging bullet. That’s always confused me. Glad to clear that up. They played clips from the Oliver Stone movie too, which was quite funny because they used it as an example of how completely fabricated the whole movie was when most of the U.S. believes it totally. Jon says that most documentaries just skip the whole movie thing, but this one had the guts to spell it out point by point as a total lie. It added a little flavor when we saw Newman in one of the scenes…makes the whole ‘second spitter’ episode of Seinfeld that much funnier for Jon. Good times.

A friend of ours sent us a Scentsy. Several family members already own them, and a girl at work was selling them a while ago, but I never felt like $30 for an air freshener was quite appropriate. As a gift though!…it’s fabulous. We set it up and dropped in some blackberry wax and when we got home from the store my whole house smelled fantastic. Ahh. We may need to get a few more of these…maybe the little ones…and give them away to brides and grooms as a thanks for working with us…flipping through the catalog I saw that they even had a section of scents titled Romance! If that’s not a sign, I’m not sure what is! Guess we’ll charge a few to the company and see how well they’re received. Thanks, Andrea! It’s awesome, and we love you!

~ by bylorena on September 9, 2008.