Rough Morning

Nothing like getting to work and trying to turn on your computer only to realize it's still sitting at home.

I have a laptop that I'd taken home so I could complete a project. And yesterday morning as I rushed out the door, I just plain forgot it. Sadly, all that rushing didn't do a lick of good because I had to turn around and drive home to retrieve my computer.

Half an hour later, I tried to turn on my computer again. And since it was now happily docked in its docking station, it booted right up. Amazing.

Driver's Ed

One of my responsibilities at work is to empty the post office box each morning. One morning last week, I climbed into the office vehicle and tried to head off to the post office. I sucessfully backed out of the parking spot, however when I put the car into drive, it abruptly died. Dead. Wouldn't do a thing when I tried to start it, no sound at all. I couldn't even get the key out of the ignition!

I couldn't just leave it sitting in the middle of the parking lot with concrete mixer trucks and dump trucks coming through. So I stayed with the deceased, in the snow, and called the shop. I told one of the guys what had happened and he trudged accross the parking lot to see what he could do.

When he arrived, he calmly climbed into the driver's seat and.................. shifted the car into park. Wow...did I feel dumb. It hadn't even occured to me to put the car in park, I didn't even realize it wasn't in park, I didn't even look. Ugh...

Naturally, the key came right out. He then reinserted the key and the car started up without a problem. After calmly climbing back out of the vehicle, he headed back to the shop, no doubt rolling his eyes the entire way. At least he was really nice about it...he claimed it was nice to get up and walk a bit. But I have a feeling that putting a car into park for an occasionally airheaded co-worker wasn't really high on his priority list for the day...

Miracle Brownies

Sunday night I made a batch of brownies from a new recipe I found on Kraftfoods.com. First ingredient: Miracle Whip. I just had to try them. Surprisingly, they turned out great. Really moist with rich chocolate flavor. Without a hint of Miracle Whip flavor. I didn't tell my family what was in them until after they'd eaten them...surprise!

My only question is this: When thinking of making brownies (and writing a new recipe), who looks at their jar of Miracle Whip and thinks, "Oooh, Miracle Whip would be a great addition to chocolate brownies!"

10 Dresses

This morning I spent some time packing up old dresses that I can't bear to part with. My very talented mom made them all and I just can't let them go, but I wanted to clear up some closet space, so they're now in the basement. As I sorted through them, I was amused at the styles, and appalled at how bad my memory is! I can't remember wearing some of them!

And now, a tour of 10 dresses.

My mom finished this dress for me the day before I moved to Indiana. When I put it on for the first time in Indiana, I found some money pined inside one of the pockets. I have the best mom!
Can't so much remember why, but I really wanted a Hawaiian print dress, so my mom made me this one. I loved it, it was so comfy! And the buttons are little silver fish!
I wore this dress under my robes as I graduated from BYU.
A bridesmaid dress for one of my best friend's weddings.

An ode to floral prints and wide lace collars, with shoulder pads too! I must have been shorter then.

This dress made me look pregnant--not because of anything my mom did, it was just the style. I never wore it, I thought I'd save it for when I was pregnant... Obviously I've still never worn it...

Oh...drop waist dresses...

More floral print with a wide collar, although I do remember it was very pretty at the time.

I believe I wore this dress to a Preference dance in high school...can't remember anything else about it...

I know I wore this dress to a Preference dance in high school. The dance was at the Provo Marriott and as we were having those cheesy pictures taken, my date fell through the paper backdrop...what memories! I also had my senior pictures taken in this dress.

It's amazing how styles change! I wonder what I'll think of the clothes I love now in ten years...

My new car!

Last weekend I became the proud owner of this 2008 Jeep Grand Cherokee Laredo. So far I love it!

Creative Genius!

Okay, so calling it genius might be a little much, but I thought I'd share a couple of my recent projects...

I made these turkeys for one of our Thanksgiving dinner desserts. They're made out of cake and they were yummy! They were a bit time consuming, but I think they turned out well and everyone (especially the kids) loved them! I found the recipe at www.bakerella.com.

These are my "crazy crayons" as Martha Stewart calls them. I wanted something cute to tie to the top of the gifts for my niece and nephew. I found this project on Martha Stewart's website. You just chop crayons into pea sized pieces and bake in the oven. I used a heart shaped cake pan. This would also be a great project to do with kids, just make sure you use Crayola crayons--other brands don't work as well.

Someone should have paid more attention...

...during those grammer lessons in English class... checks excepted?

And during those spelling lessons... this ficture?

Couldn't believe it when I stumbled across these...just had to share....

I can't seem to upload the best one I found. I was looking at a hotel listing and one of the amenities was listed as an "outdoor poo." Juvenille maybe, but I laughed out loud!