November 26, 2012 11:34 pm

Ate the taxi?

My mom had minor surgery on her foot today and Daniel got nominated to drive her home from the hospital because he has Mondays off. We had joked earlier about hoping she didn’t say anything inappropriate while coming out of anesthesia, and fortunately she didn’t, but she did send Daniel this text:

Hi. Not ready yet but will be soon! Did you remember you ate the taxi?9

…which he proceeded to forward to me at work. Cue me, shaking at my desk trying not to audibly laugh in a quiet room.

Turns out it was a mere typo (“ate” instead of “are”) but it still made me giggle.

Apparently, while she was under anesthesia, she vaguely knew people were bustling around her and she was “so happy that all those people were helping clean her house.” I laughed at that too, mostly the idea that there would be a team of professionals all cleaning the house together while she slept.

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November 25, 2012 11:27 am

Thanksgiving #3

Tonight was spent at Daniel’s mom’s house eating falafels, and then coming home and watching Once Upon a Time. Nothing else to report!

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November 24, 2012 10:50 pm

Tiny Christmas Trees

I spent the afternoon at my parents’ house making these Christmas tree decorations.

These night-time iPod pictures do not do them justice – they are actually pretty cute in person! You take a cereal box, cut it into the sort of shape that folds into a cone, hot glue it together, and then hot glue some trim to the cone. Honestly, the hardest part is not burning yourself with the glue gun while you’re trying to make the cone shape.

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I used ruffly white trim, green mini-tinsel, red feathery trim, silver sparkle ribbon, red sequins, green bendable glitter ribbon, and ivory and gold lace.

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The one with gold lace looks horrible in these photos but I promise it looks cute and vintagey in person.

If you decide to make these yourself, fair warning that you’ll probably need a lot more trim than you expect. The smaller trees are about four inches tall and the green one took a 3yd roll of tinsel trim. The red feathery one was one yard but I could space the wraps out more because it was fluffier. The red sequin one was a yard too, but that sequin strand was elasticized so it could stretch a bit. The tall ruffly white one was just shy of two yards, and I probably could have used the whole two had I not been so freaked out that I was going to run out by the time I made it to the top.

This is a great craft project for several reasons – the supplies are easily obtained, they’re reasonably inexpensive, reusing the cereal boxes makes you feel virtuous while crafting, and the trees look good with minimal effort. Two thumbs up from me.

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