So I was planning on helping out at ten thousand villages today with unpacking (apparently they had a huge shipment, I think they're holding another off site sale) but the brakes made a weird noise as my mom turned on the car and when we got to the end of the block she said she was taking the car in now, took me home, and I made my apologies via ( Read more... )

Unwrapped plenty of other things too but I do sympathize with my cousin who works in Hallmark now (thank god we weren't playing Christmas music though, I'd go mad if I had to hear that from July to December). So yes, volunteering with the Ten Thousand Village people went fine, lots of unwrapping, some pricing and we did spend about 3 hours just ( Read more... )

Ted actually has a story about how as a kid he was playing on someone's lawn when it started to rain. Said someone had just gotten back from Vietnam where the showers really were showers so he heard him yell "SHOWER!" and run out stark naked. So glad that wasn't me ( Read more... )