Well I found something this morning in "the last place I looked"... I always find that phrase funny ~~ of course its the last place I looked... I stopped looking after I found it!
I was about to head to CVS to do some damage this morning, but I had misplaced my white envelope full of coupons (this happens often) specifically for CVS. Of course it was compounded because my Free Extra Care Bucks, which is what any self-respecting CVS coupon shopper uses to actually pay for their orders, and thereby earn MORE ECB's, was in that envelope, too. UGH! So I first frisked the car. I found plenty of other things I didn't need yet, but mentally noted, in the front and middle seat including a library book due at the library today. The back of the suburban was full of soccer stuff, rummage items and stuff for the Appleton house (see Next Adventure Blog) so I repacked the soccer bags, took the rummage items to the basement, and while down there found a big box to house the items for Appleton until we go up there. The back now looked presentable, but still no envelope. Back in the house I went & decided to tackle the 3 "hot spots" in my kitchen, or in other words, my paper piles... I weeded through everything & ended up with one bag of trash, one box of kids old school papers to save & a fairly organized kitchen, but no envelope. On to my office, the cabinet under the tv in the living room, the stack of mail on the porch, the back of my bed, on my dresser... all areas where the elusive white envelope could have been, but sadly was not. Garbage bag in hand I kept filling one right after the other with stuff, junk & trash I didn't need. I got the brilliant idea then to call the store I had been at last and ask if anyone had turned in a white envelope... "Just a white envelope?" the clerk asked "anything more descriptive?" she continued. "Yes, just a white envelope, a white envelope SHOVED full of coupons and receipts." No luck. Back to looking. Finally I decided to look under the couch and at this point I need to digress to yesterday...
Yesterday my husband was tidying things up with the kids and Miranda (2) needed a break and asked to watch "Spiderman 2" her favorite movie right now even though "That Doc Ock is Scary". Mike put the DVD in and then asked if I had seen the first movie... he couldn't find it amongst his movies. My husband's vice is movies... he doesn't drink or smoke, but he does have a love affair for his movies. So much so that if a movie is missing he uncanningly knows it and sets out seeking it out until it is returned back at home on the shelf... all discs in their proper spots. "Spiderman" was missing. He looked around for it for a while, but didn't find it and had to go to work, so it remained missing. Which brings us, again, to today...
Today, I was moving the couch and while I found some stray socks, a missing shoe, an almost empty sippy cup and dust bunnies reproducing at will, there still was no envelope. I cleaned it all up and pushed the couch back, when I decided I'd actually look in the couch (by now I'm feeling hopeless). I moved one pillow, then the next and I found "Spiderman" ~ Mike's lost movie. Which, if he had had more time to find it yesterday, he would have found my white envelope hiding underneath it!
I was about to head to CVS to do some damage this morning, but I had misplaced my white envelope full of coupons (this happens often) specifically for CVS. Of course it was compounded because my Free Extra Care Bucks, which is what any self-respecting CVS coupon shopper uses to actually pay for their orders, and thereby earn MORE ECB's, was in that envelope, too. UGH! So I first frisked the car. I found plenty of other things I didn't need yet, but mentally noted, in the front and middle seat including a library book due at the library today. The back of the suburban was full of soccer stuff, rummage items and stuff for the Appleton house (see Next Adventure Blog) so I repacked the soccer bags, took the rummage items to the basement, and while down there found a big box to house the items for Appleton until we go up there. The back now looked presentable, but still no envelope. Back in the house I went & decided to tackle the 3 "hot spots" in my kitchen, or in other words, my paper piles... I weeded through everything & ended up with one bag of trash, one box of kids old school papers to save & a fairly organized kitchen, but no envelope. On to my office, the cabinet under the tv in the living room, the stack of mail on the porch, the back of my bed, on my dresser... all areas where the elusive white envelope could have been, but sadly was not. Garbage bag in hand I kept filling one right after the other with stuff, junk & trash I didn't need. I got the brilliant idea then to call the store I had been at last and ask if anyone had turned in a white envelope... "Just a white envelope?" the clerk asked "anything more descriptive?" she continued. "Yes, just a white envelope, a white envelope SHOVED full of coupons and receipts." No luck. Back to looking. Finally I decided to look under the couch and at this point I need to digress to yesterday...
Yesterday my husband was tidying things up with the kids and Miranda (2) needed a break and asked to watch "Spiderman 2" her favorite movie right now even though "That Doc Ock is Scary". Mike put the DVD in and then asked if I had seen the first movie... he couldn't find it amongst his movies. My husband's vice is movies... he doesn't drink or smoke, but he does have a love affair for his movies. So much so that if a movie is missing he uncanningly knows it and sets out seeking it out until it is returned back at home on the shelf... all discs in their proper spots. "Spiderman" was missing. He looked around for it for a while, but didn't find it and had to go to work, so it remained missing. Which brings us, again, to today...
Today, I was moving the couch and while I found some stray socks, a missing shoe, an almost empty sippy cup and dust bunnies reproducing at will, there still was no envelope. I cleaned it all up and pushed the couch back, when I decided I'd actually look in the couch (by now I'm feeling hopeless). I moved one pillow, then the next and I found "Spiderman" ~ Mike's lost movie. Which, if he had had more time to find it yesterday, he would have found my white envelope hiding underneath it!
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