So I made this card for the big NSD celebration at Scrapbook& Cards Today waaaaaay before it's due, right? You know, get ahead of
the curve, amaze the boss (if that could possibly even be achieved), knock one
more thing off my ever-breeding list of things-to-do, and hey, if she needs
instructions, I'll even have time for that. Right?
Off I go to locate the card last night to photograph it this
morning and … hmmm … no card. I searched high and low, behind piles of paper,
inside cabinets, all over my desk (what little is actually visible), under
Libby the Wonder Dog (who, I might add, could hide a cat if she were so
inclined), and even ventured out to the shipping box graveyard in the garage, hoping I
accidentally picked it up while taking empty boxes out to stack. Yeah, no card. And dude,
do you have any idea how scary a cold garage is at 11 o'clock at night?
Creeeeeeeepy!
Stay with me, this gets so much better.
So I get this email from a good friend of mine this morning,
thanking me for the beeeeeeautiful birthday card I sent her over the weekend. She's
gushing how much she loved it and how thoughtful it was of me to send it, yada
yada yada (no insult to your small novella, Tracy, it was lovely -- but seriously, 26 exclamation points in one paragraph??).
Okay, so a light bulb didn't go off. Oh no. An entire arena
of lights blazed through to my pea brain, burning my cerebral cortex.
Yeah, that card.
I forgot to photograph it before I sent it to her.
So, what's been your blonde moment of 2013? Share here on this post and we'll draw a random name on Sunday who will receive a fresh copy of SCT's spring issue AND the amazing CardMaps 3 special issue!
And if you top mine, I'll throw in a BasicGrey collection pack. 'Cuz you know, I'm just cool like dat.
Have a great day, sketch peeps. I'm off to make ... *ahem* .... another card for NSD.
Becky
That's too funny...I've had entirely too many blonde moments to recount, so I can totally appreciate your situation! You have to just laugh at these things.
ReplyDeleteMy blond moment was when I had called my husband from a department store and he told me to look up something on my phone. I freaked out because I couldn't find my phone! He said, "honey, it's in your hand." I literally put my phone between my ear and shoulder to hold onto it while I looked in my hands! I felt so embarrassed that it took me so long to calm down and realize that the reason I didn't see it was because I was talking on it!! ugh. I really enjoyed your story too. I could definitely see myself doing that! P S. I agree, garages are creepy at 11:00 at night!
ReplyDeleteI think this one tops yours but happened about 6 years ago ... My son needed lunch money so I wrote him a check to take to school (junior high). After getting ready for work I decided to pay a few bills since my checkbook was still out on the counter. I opened it up and noticed the carbon copy of the check I had written for my son had a payee of Costco! Horrified, I flipped through my other carbon copies hoping this was the check I written the previous night when I was out shopping. No such luck. I had to make a trip to the school. When I got to the school, I had to explain to the office staff what I had done and could I please put some lunch money in my son's account so he could eat. They all had a good laugh and sent me to the lunch room. The lunch ladies and janitorial staff were having a coffee break. Again I had repeat my tale. Again laughter and guffaws. So one of the lunch ladies looked through the checks that had been turned in that morning. Luckily, my son noticed my mistake and did not turn it in. Then I wrote another check (this time to the school district!) so he could eat lunch.
ReplyDeleteIn my defense I will tell you I am not a morning person and I had not yet had my coffee! ...and I am not even blonde ;)
So funny! I have made cards with DT assignments in mind and then given them away, too...so you are not alone!
ReplyDeleteSo funny! My biggest blonde moment was when I crashed a friend's wedding. Yup. I am that girl, well me and my best friend. I received the invite while the hubby and I were away for an extended vacation. I saw it when I was flipping through the mail, but didn't actually look closely at it. My best friend called and asked me about it and wanted to know if I was going and I said yes! So she let our friend know we were definitely planning to come. A few weeks later, I was visiting with some other friends and the topic of the wedding came up. I mentioned that I was going and they said, oh, we just got wedding announcements....uh oh.....I went back and looked and sure enough, it was a wedding announcement, NOT an invitation. My friend was so gracious she told us to please come, and at that point we didn't feel like we could back out, so to the wedding we went. It was REALLY awkward though because it was a really small venue, only family, and really small tables - most were 2-4 people tables, and yeah, best friend and I sat at our own table.....
ReplyDeleteMy worst blonde moment happened not long after my first daughter was born so I use that 'no memory because of the hormones' excuse.
ReplyDeleteIt was my sister-in-law's surprise baby shower which was being held at her sister's house. Having never been there, my other sister-in-law asked me to wait for her & her mom so they could follow me to the location. Well the time came to leave and having successfully managed to get my baby taken care of I just rushed off completely forgetting to wait for the others. I was finally relaxing at the party when I got a very chilly call from my sister-in-law who had shown up at my door only to find I was already at the party. I had to give them directions and they finally arrived just in time to yell surprise! My sister-in-law was not too happy & her mother was down-right mad at me all through the party.
Uhm..the time I told a deaf lady we'd play it by ear? Twice. While Brader was doing the slice-throat gesture from across the room...that blonde moment?
ReplyDelete...and just for the record, I would have "your welcomed"Tracy and gone back to searching for the card...ju'sayin. <3
ReplyDeletemy blonde moment of the year is when my boss asked if my shirt was inside out-and it was... humiliating!
ReplyDeleteMy blond moment was while at a wedding out of town. We were all staying at the same hotel & I tried to call my cousin, but I asked for her by her maiden name...she had been married over 15 years. I thought the hotel was so unprofessional until I told her & figured out what I had done.
ReplyDeletegood thing you qualified it to 2013, some of my past blonde moments are too embarrassing to repeat.
ReplyDeleteI went into Staples with a coupon from Office Max and was driving the sales clerk nuts looking for the item ... I kept saying but it is on the coupon - the sales clerk was very polite and did not point out that it was not their store, I did not realize it until I was back in my car totally frustrated that they did not have the item that they advertised ..... I check my coupons carefully now.
Sandra ltb
I made a 40min trip to go over to a Scholastic Book Fair last week. Too bad that for some reason I decided it was last week instead of next as called out on every email and print piece I have. *sigh* Guess I'll schlep over there again next week.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was in college, I was frying something on the stove when it got to hot and caused a small grease fire. I couldn't remember how to put it out so I called 911 and asked them what i should put on it. They wouldn't tell me but would only send fire trucks. I didn't want fire trucks but they insisted. I tried to put it out with a towel and the towel caught on fire and then singed a few cupboards so i stomped it all out with my foot and my shoe lace caught on fire. Put my shoe in water and then as I was taking the pan outside cause there was so much smoke there were 3 large fire trucks surrounding my condo and neighbors everywhere. Fireman used the a little fire extinguisher to put it out and had a good laugh as they put in fans to blow out the smoke. So embarrassed.
ReplyDeleteI made a card once, only to discover that I put everything on the wrong side, so the card was upside down...♥
ReplyDeleteSince I retired this year, I have missed 3 Dr.'s appointments and they are on the calendar. Nothing else only Dr.'s.
ReplyDeleteMy most recent moment...was I thought I left a message on my sister's phone- but it was actually my mom's phone. I'm glad I didn't say anything embarrassing!
ReplyDeleteI sent my seven year old son to school on hot lunch day (they have pizza buns and cookies and cupcakes and stuff they have to buy) without lunch, or money...pretty cool! I think I got the mother of the year award on that one! Poor kid had an apple for a snack, then didn't eat again until he came home from school because he's too shy to tell anyone that he had no lunch! I felt HORRIBLE!!! (I almost just put 26 exclamation marks there I felt so bad!! lol) Needless to say, he got McDonald's for lunch the next day...lol
ReplyDeleteMy most blonde moment was definitely here this Easter, where we were invited to my oldest girlsfriends wedding. And ofcause I had said yes to come, as I´ve known her since our first day at school. She has moved pretty far, so we went of very early saturday morning, as we had to drive 400km to get to the church and we wanted to have good time to drive and we also got there in good time before the wedding, so didn´t think much about, that we were the first to arrive at the church. But after we´ve been sitting there for quite a while, we began to wonder, why noone else showed up, and were talking about, what could be wrong, as it was almost the time for the cermoni and we wre still all alone there. Then suddenly a man came in and looked at us and asked, if he could help with something, and we said as it was, that we were there for this wedding, and couldn´t understand where all the people were, and he looked at us with such a funny face and said, there was no weddings in this church today, so if we were sure it was here, and asked for the names of the couple. And when I told him, he looked like he was bursting of laughter, and told us, that then he was afraid, we had got everything pretty wrong, cause it was right it was the same pastor, but it was in the church in the neighbourcity, and besides, the wedding wasn´t until the next saturday, so first we drove to the wrong place and next on the wrong date, and finally my husbond almost killed me, when he found out, that I even had tucked the invite in my purse, so I just had had to look to find out, instead of sitting there and wait for over an hour now. UPS.
ReplyDeleteSo we could just take the long drive back home and make the trip again the following week, but at least we made it to the weedding, and it wasn´t the week before LOL.
I guess you know, I have had to hear about this a few times since now he he he.
And just for the record, then I´m not blonde at all either, but I sure had a blonde day ha ha ha.
I have all too many. But thankfully I am blessed with a pretty bad memory, so I'm not thinking of any truly embarrassing stories off the top of my head.
ReplyDeleteBuuuuut, on a much smaller scale... This morning I'm being pretty absent minded. My 17-month old daughter woke up about an hour earlier than usual, and I blearily fed her some baby yogurt as usual for breakfast. Just now, I got out some of my own yogurt to have for my breakfast, and on auto-pilot, I got out a baby spoon to eat it... and I didn't even realize what I'd done until I took a bite!
~Natalie (QSOgirl)
Haha one of my many blonde moments is when I called my twin sister and left her a message, but I accidentally left it with our names reversed, so it went like "Hi Mai, this is Lan" - my name is Mai and HER name is Lan! My sister was sooo confused when she was listening to the message, she thought she had the wrong phone (it was even more confusing for her because our voices actually sound alike on the phone!)
ReplyDeleteHa... too many blonde moments (and I am a brunette) but lately I seem to forget everything the moment I hear it. Last night I innocently asked my husband during dinner while friends were over why the phone in my office was not working and when he was doing something about it... and everyone laughed all the way to tears. I was baffled, he explained that this is the fifth time I asked (and he answered, long complicated answer that involved changing all our home phones). The funnies part is that apparently we have had the same discussion one of the previous five times while the same friends were here on a different occasion. So not only was he right and I was forgetful, he had witnesses:-) I blame my multiple meds....
ReplyDeleteTo be truthful, I cannot recall a "blonde moment" in my life at the moment, though I am sure I have had many! But I did have a laugh at my two adult children who had booked flights to visit their grandparents. My daughter could not figure out why it would take six hours to fly there and only two hours back. My (21 year old) son then suggested it was probably just strong tail winds. She phoned the airlines, who then told her there was a two hour time difference between the two provinces. She said she felt very, very stupid!!
ReplyDeleteHow's this for blonde: I create cards all the time for contests and for Operation Write Home, but can I get cards made for local friends to celebrate their birthdays on time? You guessed it, the answer is no! There are two friends whose birthdays were in September that I still owe cards! And they were even kind enough to celebrate my birthday with me in March...thank goodness for their forgiveness!!
ReplyDeleteLAST NIGHT! I am flipping through shows on NetFlix, looking for something good to watch. I find it really strange that they have somehow changed their scrolling so that when you click the left it goes to the right and when you click to the right it goes left. Realize there is nothing I want to watch on and turn off the tv. Look down as I am setting the remote down and realize that I have been holding it backwards, so that it is pointed at me and not the tv.
ReplyDeleteMy husband and I are getting along in our years and decided to take some a concoction that is suppose to help with memory and issues of aging. So that we would each take one of these miracle pills, we put a M on the top and a P on the bottom. M for my name and P for his. When the M is on top, it's my turn to take the pill and when the P is on top, it's his turn. This worked well for the first day. On the second day neither of us could remember if we had taken the pill that day or not.....Not necessarily blonde, but "old timer's" for sure.
ReplyDeleteWhen hubby and I were in Vegas recently I really wanted a picture of us together as I was tired of taking photos of just him and vice versa. So I stopped the first person I saw to ask if he would kindly take our photo. He politely said yes. And THEN I noticed he only had one arm. So my husband and I awkwardly posed while he fumbled with my camera and attempted to take our photo. Lets just say we don't have a single photo of the two of us together in Vegas. And yes, you assumed right. The one armed man fumbled but was not able to accommodate my request.
ReplyDeleteI like to use my airbrush for painting chipboards - I love the smoth surface it gives.
ReplyDeleteA few weeks ago one of the tips was clogged (I suspect one of kids for using the airbrush and not cleaning the tip properly afterwards. I opened the hole with a needle, put the tip in the right place and pushed down the handle to see if it worked - while I was looking into the hole.
Luckily I tested with water in the container, not paint, but it still hurt. Let me put it this way: next time I point the tip down towards a piece of paper....
I was to make dinner for a very special friend after her recent surgery. As I would be at work all day, I decided on a crockpot recipe that could cook all day and I could just finish it up when I got home. Well, I got all the ingreadients into the pot and double checked to make sure I had turned the crockpot on before I left for the morning; all proud of myself for thinking and preparing adhead. When I stepped into the house that afternoon, there were no delicous smells as I had expected. Upon checking, I discovered that though I had turned the crockpot on, I had not plugged it in. I therefore, had to come up with Plan B for my friend's dinner that night. (By the way, Plan B was my family's dinner, so we ended up going out for dinner that night.) Oops!
ReplyDeleteI was in Durham yesterday visiting with my youngest daughter. She was going thru clothes to take to a consignment store. We loaded up her car and left to go to lunch at a Chick-Fil-A. We go in, have lunch and leave. We cross the parking lot to the car and are standing beside the grey Honda Accord. She is trying to use her key to unlock the doors. It is not working - now what. She keeps trying while mumbling that maybe the battery has gone dead. I finally look in the back seat - it's empty!!! I said something to Rebecca. We then notice that while this car is a dark grey 4 door Honda Accord, this one has a sunroof - hers doesn't and the back seat is empty! We both sheepishly walk away. All the while as we walk to her car -parked right across from the door to the restauant, she is saying that she hopes nobody notices. I am laughing hysterically while Rebecca is telling me to be quite! As we leave the parking lot, the other dark grey Honda is also leaving. We still wonder if the people thought that we were trying to break into their car. Very observant mother and daughter duo here. I wonder if it is safe for us to be out alone without a chaperone!
ReplyDeleteI totally just had my blonde moment! SO I'm on a scrapbooking retreat with some girls, and we've all got our stations set up. We all have cricuts, and I have the expression 2. Well we're cutting away, and I am making thank-you cards for my daughter's 1st birthday party. Suddenly my cricut stopped cutting right. It was going crazy! So I was looking all in it, trying to see if there was something jammed. Finally I got up and went to another girl's cricut, because she also has the expression 2. As I was examining hers, I noticed how clear her touch screen was. I even commented, "Man, your screen is crystal clear. Mine is hard to see anything." She looked over at mine, and said, "Um, that's because you still have the protective cover on it." I went to mine and peeled the cover off that I didn't realize was on there! So this entire time I've had it (six months), I've had this stupid cover on it, thinking what an awful touch screen it was! hahahaha, needless to say, everyone had a laugh about it. And I have a very clear screen now!
ReplyDeleteMe and my friend wanted to see a new film out at the cinema, we arrived late and got our tickets but when we entered the cinema it was dark and the trailers were on. I hate arriving late as you have to hunt for your seats whilst everyone looks at you. So, under the watchful eyes of the cinema we hunted in the dark for our seats which typically were right in the middle of the cinema and middle of the row. We politely asked everyone to get up as we moved to our seats, I was so keen to get out of everyone’s way that I sat straight down.....forgetting they were fold up seats. I ended up flat on my bottom covered in coke and popcorn, the people in the cinema laughed at me and my friend just looked horrified saying "i can't believe you forgot the seat! quick get up!"....need to remember to pull the seat down next time!
ReplyDeleteMy lastest blonde moment was when I wrote a check to my daughter to her maiden name and not her married name. Actually I have done this several times before (although I hate to admit it). She has only been married 16 years! Val from IL.
ReplyDeleteMy kids asked to be picked up after school, instead of riding the bus home. No problem, I would do errand s around the pick-up time. Fast forward to 4pm. I am watching out the window for the kids to get off the bus. See the neighbors kids, but not mine. Call the neighbors home,no my kids were not on the bus. Start to panic. (still not remembering I was supposed to pick them up) The phone rings, it is the school principal,they are patiently waiting, would I mind coming to get them? Mother-of-the-Year award!
ReplyDeleteLOL.....I think you are my long-lost twin!!!
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