Our house is under an Emergency Laundry Warning today. In other words, nobody has clothes to wear. And that’s because I spent my entire weekend scrapbooking.
The good news is that I’m just about finished with Annalyn’s first year album (yes, only six months late). The bad news is that two out of the three of us are in winter wear today, despite the Weather Channel’s insistence that spring has sprung.
Laundry issues aside, I had a fantastic time scrapbooking with friends. Yes, I was productive and more importantly, yes, I took the opportunity to eat many, many tasty snacks. (And why not? Heather promised that she’d removed all the calories from both the tortilla rolls and the cookies.) But the best part of scrapping for 12 hours in a 24-hour period? Laughing my head off with my girlfriends.
Remember when I talked (whined, okay, maybe I whined) about how hard it is to make friends as an adult? Well, for me, one cure has been working part-time at a scrapbooking store. The girls I met there made working that second job enjoyable and even now that some of us no longer work there, they’re still sweet friends who I enjoy so much.
Actually, it’s possible I enjoyed them a little too much. Because I’m not sure I would have stopped my cutting and gluing to bust a rhyme with anyone else. But on Saturday morning, Debbie, Melanie and Heather got quite the treat when Vanilla Ice blared out of the iPod speakers. I couldn’t help it. They all talked a good game about knowing their 90s white rap, but when the time came, my funny friends became shy.
So what could I do? I had to help them out. Or show them up. Or…okay…crack them up! And I don’t mean in a “we’re-laughing-with-you” sort of way, either. No, my dear friends were most certainly laughing AT me. But that’s okay – I was laughing at me, too.
We laughed a lot more that day. From our husbands’ driving habits to early-morning malt beverage to the virtues of canned chili, we talked and laughed about everything under the sun.
By the time I got home Saturday night, I was exhausted. I told Mark that I felt like I’d worked all day. Because I’d already informed him that Annalyn’s album was almost completely finished, he said, “Well, you did work all day.”
Yep, I sure did. Rapping’s harder than it looks!
How was your weekend?
I need to do laundry too. But I'm so jealous that it's spring there! It's cold & blustery here today! (but they expect a high over 80 on Friday — that's Iowa for you;)
Your weekend sounds so fun! It makes me think I need a hobby like scrapbooking. ;) Only, I don't take pictures and can't afford it. Hmm… what's a cheap hobby that a lot of women my age like?? Anyway, I'm glad you had such a good weekend! We need to get together and have a good laugh once in a while! (I had some of that this weekend too, but also some crying or at least close to it.)
I have scrapbooked M’s first 7 months and he will be 8 years old in a month. I helped the backlog by taking significantly less pictures of my second son. I will probably just have to scrapbook our Christmas cards for baby three…
Scrapbooking for 12 hours?! That’s nuts! Glad you got so much accomplished though. And it sounds like you all had a blast. I’d love to hear you rap someday. :)
Sounds fun! We had an emergency laundry day also, but I don’t remember doing much this weekend… hmmmm
i don’t know my 90′s white rap. i think you’ll have to teach me sometime!
sounds like you had a great weekend!
Well, I didn’t bust out any raps while I scrapbooked, but mine was still nice =) It sounds like you had a really fun time!
Oh that sounds like fun! I literally have almost a whole scrapping store in my craft room…now I just need to make myself go use all of it! I need to get inspired…
It is so hard to make friends as a grown up! I’m glad you found some;)
I still can’t take mustangs seriously thanks to vanilla ice!
Maybe if a group of friends got together I would finish a scrapbook…MAYBE. I’d be much more likely to rap for my friends’ enjoyment.
So funny.
We had the best little scrapping store here in Cincy long ago – Hap’s Memories – but it closed a few years back.
I’m in awe of the fact that you’re only 6 months late. P is 2, nearly three and that puppy is just mounds and mounds of unorganized photos. Oy!
Im with you are the laundry! I have 3 sick little ones and I can see the laundry piles from the street! I love scrapbooking, you are so much better then me, I have not finished my youngest 1st year book and he is 3…
Oh man I LOVE scrapbooking nights – nothing is better! oh and laundry is so overrated. except i guess you have to have clothes to wear! :-) My favorite job ever was working at the scrapbooking store!