Author: Christine

Christine is an Avenger of Sexiness. Her Superpower is helping Hot Mamas grow their Confidence by rediscovering their Beauty. She lives in the Heights in Houston, Texas, works as a boudoir photographer, and writes about running a Business of Awesome. In her spare time, she loves to knit, especially when she travels. She & her husband Mike have a food blog at Spoon & Knife.

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Crafty Goodness Can Begin…

Post author By Christine
Post date Sunday, August 29, 2004
3 Comments on Crafty Goodness Can Begin…

I returned the busted up table to Office Max today. For some reason, the manager decided to be amusing and make some joke about how he thought I stole it because they had one missing at their last inventory. What is UP with service people thinking that their stupid jokes like that are even amusing? I’m seriously considering calling corporate tomorrow to complain. Hello? Yeah, I stole an 8 foot long table in a box. Just snuck out of the store with it. No one noticed, except your employee that helped load it in to my car.

They asked me if I wanted to exchange it, and after I laughed I said no. I had another plan already.

I called Office Depot to see if they had them in stock. They did, and they were $10 less expensive. So after we made the return at Office Max, I went to Office Depot and purchased another table – in a box in pristine condition. It’s all set up now, just waiting for future crafty goodness.

General

Just What I Wanted…

I’m working on organizing all of my crafty things. I want them all together, once and for all. Easy to find, easy to use. I figure that I’m more likely to use crafty things if I can find them, right?

I went to Office Max today to pick up a nice new table for my crafting room after a long hunt to find the type of table I wanted. Stuffed it in my car, and drove home. It was pouring down rain when I got home, so we left it in the car for awhile, waiting for the rain to let up.

We just went outside to get the table, carrying it in to the house. When we reached the back door, Mike brought it in the house and I went back to shut the garage door. When I walked back in the house, Mike asked, “Are you ok with these corners?” He pulled back the open edge of the box – the part that I never saw when the sales clerk at Office Max put it in my car – to see that the corners are completely mangled. They are all but missing! The trim is there, but then the table itself is missing! Gah!

Now I either get to stuff it back in the Honda or I need to find someone with a truck that can help me take it back over there tomorrow. I can’t even express how annoyed I am. Yeah, I really wanted a table that was all busted up. Thanks.

Media Consumption

The Fine Print…

When I started watching Two and a Half Men last fall, I got hooked on something other than the show. I got hooked on the Chuck Lorre Vanity Cards at the very end. For just a flash, there is a screen full of text. Thanks to TiVo, I could pause the screen and read the cards, some of which are pretty hysterical.

I love the Chuck Lorre Vanity Cards.

Last night, I turned on the TV just as Dharma & Greg ended. Out of the corner of my eye – poof! – I spotted the vanity card. I had no idea that he did other cards! Immediately, I hit the rewind button and then paused it – allowing me to read Vanity Card #5.

Wow! Number 5! The ones I have seen before have always been close to 100, so #5? I felt like … well, like I had discovered something fantastic. Yeah, how cheesy is that? But still. It was like finding a small gem.

Suddenly, Mike announced that you can read all of the Chuck Lorre Vanity Cards online. What?!? That’s just … so wrong! No more pausing the TiVo? No more squinting at the small fuzzy text on the TV? Nothing? Gone? Just like that. Gone.

I feel like my bubble has been burst.

I’m not the only one that has been reading the vanity cards on TV, after the show, like they are meant to be read. Am I?

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Note to Self…

Note to self: Call Crest. Ask profound questions. Get answers.

(That translates in to saying that I need to remember to call Crest. I’m curious to find out if there are corn derivatives in their toothpaste, since Jason is allergic to corn.)