Most Embarassing Moment of My Christmas Vacation

Right before Eliza was born, Ben’s grandma bought her a fancy, expensive Christmas dress in size 18-months. When she found out she was probably going to die and her biggest regret was that she wouldn’t get to see Ellie get chubby, I think Grandma Great imagined the future Eliza in that Christmas dress.


We spent Christmas in Colorado with Ben’s family, so of course I brought The Dress. On Sunday morning, I asked Ben’s mom if I could iron Liam’s shirt for church. The Dress was a little wrinkly too, but I knew better than to iron such weird fabric. AND YET…I talked myself into just ironing the inside-back section of the skirt while the iron was heating up. It worked really well, and then suddenly it didn’t. The third time I set the iron on the dress, it totally stuck, simultaneously melting the dress and ruining my mother-in-law’s fancy iron.


In less than five seconds, I won the awards for Daughter-In-Law of the Year and Granddaughter-In-Law of the Year.

You've Got To Be Pulling on My Leg

Is it just me, or is Dispicable Me the funniest movie on the planet? I'm watching it right now for the third time since Christmas.

Merry Christmas!

Employed

Ben recently started a new job where he works from 6 a.m. to 5 p.m., four days a week. I think he might be a little tired, because the other day I found Wheat Thins in the refrigerator.

Mysteriously Murdered

I went to a party last night where my elf character was murdered by Ben's elf character. But at least I had cute shoes for my murder scene.

Counting My Blessings

Tonight I bought a viola off a Craigslist ad. It only cost $150, and it sounds beautiful. I'm totally in love with it. But about 5 seconds after I got home from buying my viola, I chipped my front tooth.


Need a closer look?


Now I can't stop thinking about how lucky it is that my tooth didn't break an hour earlier, because if it had happened in reverse order there's no way I could have justified buying a viola and a new tooth in the same week.

Team Red Vines

After knowing Ben for 13 years, I just found out two days ago that he prefers Twizzlers to Red Vines. And now I can’t stop thinking about it. Faint memories are coming back, like the times he would buy those waxy little cherry-flavored “licorice” bites from the gas station on road trips. I just assumed he was desperate and real licorice wasn’t available. Now I’m starting to question whether we’re even compatible. Honestly, Twizzlers? BLECH.

Community Food Co-op

Utahns! Do you know about this?

Look how much food I just got for $10:


You make an online payment a couple weeks before, and then you go pick up a huge amount of produce from a designated location on a certain day each month. You don't get to choose what produce you get, so I guess it's possible that next month I'll get brussels sprouts and avocados, but this month I totally lucked out!

Happy Bumbleween!

From our hive to yours.

Experimenting with Table Lamps

I found these lamps on Craiglist the other day:


The seller only wanted $5 each and I liked their shape, but he lived 23 minutes away and I wasn't sure they were worth the drive. But then he said he would meet me by the freeway, so I couldn't pass them up.

When I got there, I found out that they were actually lamps for giants.


I couldn't really say, "No, thanks," since the guy had driven so far to meet me, so I gave him my $10 and took them home to dissect. It ended up being super easy to take them apart, and then super easy to paint them and put parts of them back together. I got some embroidery hoops and reshaped the lampshades, and now I'm sort of in love.