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Right now we're sick. Most people in the family have felt missed a day or two of school and felt better after that, one of us hasn't seemed to be affected at all, and I have just felt a low-grade crummy all week.
It's not just my family, though. On Wednesday I coordinated a shift at the temple and everyone was out sick. Even the substitute for one of the people out sick texted me in the morning saying she got sick.
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As the Primary secretary at church, I've been assembling teacher appreciation gifts to hand out at the end of the year.
How cute are these little succulents??
The part about these succulents that I can't wrap my head around was that I ordered them online from Home Depot, who shipped them to me. They came a week later in a box marked "live plants" and they were, surprisingly, still live plants.
I can hardly get plants to survive when I'm attentively taking good care of them, I don't understand how they can be just fine after several days of manhandling by UPS workers inside a pitch-black cardboard box, but okay. I'm definitely not jealous and thinking there is something wrong with me.
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The United States Postal Service, on the other hand, seems less adept at handling packages:
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| Just photos for the walls, it's not like anyone will notice the crease running through the middle of my kids' faces. |
This is the second time the mail carrier has looked directly at an envelope with an all-caps DO NOT BEND notice, folded it in half, and shoved it in our mailbox.
I'm not a complainer, but what are my options here? I could call and ask the company to reprint the photos, but (1) it's not their fault and (2) the mail carrier would just smash up the new ones if I did!
Which is why I took it in to the post office and talked to a very unhappy postmaster general who asked if she could keep the envelope, I assume to threaten train the new mail carriers.
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Exciting news from my 21-year-old: she got a summer internship! It is so perfect for her. Not only will she be doing research that is relevant her neuroscience degree and helpful for getting into grad school, there's also a huge cultural immersion component for the six Americans getting sent over there and she is just about the most curious person in the world and loves learning about other places and cultures.
In fact, she's been doing that every summer vacation for her whole life. She would gladly pay for this experience, but instead she gets a stipend to do it. In fact, according to her math, she's going to make more this summer than she would have at her normal summer job. I am so thrilled for her.
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My family had a craving for BLTs one night for dinner, but we're going to have to take out a second mortgage if we want to do that ever again. When did bacon get so expensive?? It's extra terrible that we prefer the uncured kind, which you can buy in a pathetic pack of seven strips that costs $7.49! I just about died.
My 14-year-old, who was helping me grocery shop, looked over the price tags on the various packages and said, "Mom, my kids are never going to know what bacon tastes like! They'll be like 'Mom, tell us about bacon' and I'll be like 'I don't remember sweetie, it's been a looooong time.'"
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In my email was an Evite for my son to a classmate's birthday party. I was smiling from ear to ear reading it, because the birthday boy had obviously written it himself without parental oversight and it was hilarious. The "host notes" section simply said, "For presents just like robux and lego stuff and just something i don't know." I was dying laughing.
I went back to the Evite when I was writing this post to remind myself of exactly what he'd said, but apparently his parents had realized what he'd done. The "notes" section now read "We'll be celebrating [name]'s 10th birthday at our home. No presents please. We would love to see you there!"
Now I'm not really sure what to do with the Robux gift card we already bought him.
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My local stores? Not so much. They're pretty much as unconventional as you can get this year.
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| I might joke about it, but I would pick "Snoop on the Stoop" over Elf on the Shelf in a heartbeat if I had to choose one. |
This epic Christmas display at another store took someone a really long time to put together. I mean, someone came up with the "what if Santa was on WWE" concept and took it all the way home. The longer I look at it, the more details I notice.
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| Oh my goodness, the chair. They put a metal folding chair in the ring. |
I just don't think anyone every could've predicted that this one day this would be how we as a culture are commemorating the birth of our Lord. People are wild.
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