Things To Do: Scrapbooks!

The response was sent a couple of days ago...via email.  Now it's time to wait, again.

I'm not a patient person so I have to stay busy to keep myself from climbing the walls so I have created a list of things to do while impatiently waiting...


Things to do: Scrapbooks!  

I'm not talking just one, I'm talking 7 scrapbooks, each one just alike.  I started this little (more like overwhelmingly HUGE) project at the end of August.  These scrapbooks are actually Christmas presents (one of them is mine).  Back in 2009 my Mom, Aunt, Sister and I drove straight through to California to get my Uncle who my Mom and Aunt haven't seen since 1963.  His health was failing and we weren't going to let him be alone so we went out there to pack him up and bring him to Texas.

This road trip was certainly an adventure!  My Aunt handed me a journal and told me I had to write everything down.  Well, I didn't want to do it so I ended up writing about the off the wall stuff...like how my sister and I were wearing matching PJ's while on the road and how we ended up in a field of prairie dogs, giant arrows that I threw myself in front of so it looked like my sister was stabbing me, giant fiberglass dinosaurs that my sister and I were underneath pretending like we were about to be eaten.  I even wrote about the Kamikaze Butterflies that were attacking the truck when we were on the highway.  I wrote about the crazy stuff and I had pictures that went with most of the entries.

We still laugh about some of the crazy things my sister and I did on this trip.  My half Uncle who had been packed up and thrown into a truck with 4 women for 3 days was certainly a good sport.  He passed away 7 months later and during those 7 months he talked about how the trip leaving his home of 35 years and coming to be with his sisters was the best trip ever.

So I thought it was a brilliant distraction for me to put everything together in a scrapbook, for each of us to have.  Why should I be the only one to have the journal and the pictures??

I drew the little picture for the front of the scrapbooks.  It is a little skull with sparkly eyes and a tiara.  The skull sits above a pair of panties and each pair of panties has a different saying (mines says "I miss the internet").  The words in the circle say "Pirate Princesses", that's what my sister and I kept calling ourselves.

When I started the scrapbooks I thought it was a good idea to put in a warning since there are some "colorful" words and references in the journal.  At least this way I can say they were warned!!

Yes, I did mention prairie dogs, small yap yap dogs, naked sheep and fiberglass dinosaurs in the warning.  I thought it was best to cover all of my bases.

Each journal entry was re-written...seven times!!  When I originally wrote the journal I used different colored ink for each entry, why use the same boring color for the adventures that were waiting for us??

Because I am a little OCD I had sharpies to match what I used in the journal.  I also "created" notebook paper out of card stock.  Hey, I want the scrapbook to last and I was trying to stay distracted!!

(that is the picture of me laying spread eagle in front of the arrow and my sister behind the staff pretending to stab me.)

I tried to match up all of the pictures with the journal entries.

The scrapbooks are just about done.  Thanks to this project I have been able to keep myself from obsessing over my email.

Thankfully my Aunt and a Cousin are coming in for Christmas so I don't have to ship these scrapbooks off...that would cost a fortune!!!  

So there you go...something to keep me from climbing the walls while waiting for Ashley to respond to my email.  And it is something that my family would love :-D

Things to do: Wear pointy hats

My 4th Birthday.  Does this picture scream 1974 or what?

Still no word on the message I sent to my First Daughter on August 17th...or the follow up message I sent on October 10th.  I am stubborn enough to not give up hope and I have a quirky enough personality to come up with a random list of things to do to help pass the time.  I know as long as I can keep my sense of humor then I should be able to keep from climbing the walls!!

Things to do while you patiently wait for some sort of response from your First Child...

Wear Pointy Birthday Hats

Why wait for a birthday party?  Wear pointy birthday hats all year round.  Sure, you will get funny looks from people at first, but they would end up smiling!  Those pointy paper hats usually bring up those happy, warm memories of birthdays past...well...maybe for my generation.

So go ahead.  Put that silly pointy birthday hat on, make a random person smile.

***Thank you Jenn for the suggestion.***

Things to do: Knit a sweater for your Koi Fish

Still no word on the message I sent to my First Daughter on August 17th...or the follow up message I sent on October 10th.  I am stubborn enough to not give up hope and I have a quirky enough personality to come up with a random list of things to do to help pass the time.  I know as long as I can keep my sense of humor then I should be able to keep from climbing the walls!!

Things to do while you patiently wait for some sort of response from your First Child...

Knit a sweater for your Koi Fish

Okay, I know, this is completely ridiculous.  If you think about it the fish remain outdoors, they don't get the luxury of staying nice and cozy indoors during the winter.  They are stuck outside in the cold water hibernating.  So why not help them out a bit by knitting sweaters for them?

To be totally honest, I have never seen a Koi Fish swimming around wearing a cozy little sweater and this certainly would be an odd sight to see...especially when I can not knit to save my life.


**This "thing to do" was suggested by my Japanese co-worker.  The thought of knitting a sweater for Japanese Koi Fish had her cracking up...silly girl!

Things to do: Hug a random stranger

Still no word on the message I sent to my First Daughter on August 17th.  I am stubborn enough to not give up hope and I have a quirky enough personality to come up with a random list of things to do to help pass the time.  I know as long as I can keep my sense of humor then I should be able to keep from climbing the walls!!

Things to do while you patiently wait for some sort of response from your First Child...

Hug a random stranger.

That's right, go up to a random stranger (who is not scary looking) and embrace them.  This might be a little intimidating at first, but try it.  Just hug them, then walk away. 

If you want to make it more fun act like the stranger is some long lost friend.  The stranger will be so stunned they won't know what to say, they will probably try to figure out a polite way of letting you know you have the wrong person.  After you do this walk away saying "it was great seeing you again"


The stranger will probably be in complete shock, but that's okay.  They got a hug and who knows that hug might have made their day.  Plus it will give them something to smile and talk about.

So go out there and hug a stranger, brighten someone's day.

Things to do: Chinese Fire Drill

Still no word on the message I sent to my First Daughter on August 17th.  I am stubborn enough to not give up hope and I have a quirky enough personality to come up with a random list of things to do to help pass the time.  I know as long as I can keep my sense of humor then I should be able to keep from climbing the walls!!

Things to do while you patiently wait for some sort of response from your First Child...Chinese Fire Drill.

Yes, you just read Chinese Fire Drill! To make it more fun try it at 2am while sitting at a drive thru wearing a cocktail dress.

The best Chinese Fire Drill I was involved in was the night of our 20th High School Reunion...I know we aren't kids anymore, but it was hilarious!  It was my old gang from Junior High, we were in two cars.  The gala was over and we were tipsy (except for the two designated drivers).  We needed food, greasy food before heading back to the hotel.  While we were sitting in the drive thru (for some reason Whataburger was awfully busy at 2 am) my car decided to do a chinese fire drill.  We had a blast, the car behind us was part of our group and they were cracking up!!  Nothing like watching a bunch of grown women jumping out and running around the car in cocktail dresses and bare feet.  Our designated driver was horrified, she couldn't believe we did that.  When we pulled up to the window the employees were laughing and our designated driver was so embarrassed she couldn't look at the girl who was taking the money...I think she forgot what kind of people she ran around with.

Ahhh...the fun you can have with girlfriends at 2am.

Things to do: Stare at the ceiling

Still no word on the message I sent to my First Daughter on August 17th.  I am stubborn enough to not give up hope and I have a quirky enough personality to come up with a random list of things to do to help pass the time.  I know as long as I can keep my sense of humor then I should be able to keep from climbing the walls!!

Last week I stared at my boss.  It was a lot of fun for me, even my co-workers joined in.  He knew why I was doing this and he was a good sport about it.

So this week, my thing to do will be to stare at the ceiling in a crowded restaurant, store, or some public place like something is about to drop.  That's right, stare at the ceiling!

Last time I did this was in 1983, I was 13 years old working at Vikon Village Flea Market. I had a friend who also worked there.  We were bored and we had these silly, slimy little octopus' things that you could throw at a wall and it stuck at little and rolled down.  We didn't have a wall to throw them at so we threw them up in the air.  The Flea Market was indoors, inside of a building that was once a warehouse, it had a metal roof and the ceiling consisted of huge steel beams and chicken wire.  We would throw these silly things up in the air and catch them.

At some point I threw mine up too hard and it landed on the ledge of one of the steel beams.  My friend and I kept looking up calling "Come on, jump!"  We kept doing this, we didn't realize what kind of scene we were causing.  People were stopping and looking up.  They had no clue that this ridulous little octopus was barely hanging off the ledge, instead they thought we were messing with them.  A lot of them would walk off shaking their heads and smiling...crazy kids.

Things to do:  Stare at the ceiling.  This should help keep me occupied for a little bit.

Things to do: Stare at your boss

Waiting for Ashley to respond to my message is making me climb the walls.  It has been three weeks now and I am starting to wonder if I am being ignored.  

Actually, I'm really starting to get the feeling that I am being ignored. 

To keep me from climbing the walls I need to find something to keep me distracted, so today I have decided to stare at my boss like he has something on his nose.

Yes, you read me right me right...stare at my boss like he has something on his nose.  Thankfully, I work in a place where I can get away with this and it would be pay back for him picking on me about my silver hairs.  (They are silver, silver is prettier than grey)  The hard part will be doing this while keeping a straight face.  If I can keep from laughing, or smiling then it should be fun to see how many times he runs to a mirror.  I know he will get me back for this, but as long as it's fun and no one ends up hurt or bleeding then it should keep me distracted...for a few hours at least.

I'm glad I have a boss that is a pretty good sport and in the end he would be happy to help keep me from driving myself nuts while waiting for some kind of message from Ashley.