I don’t know what happened. I used to be so good at communicating online and through other mediums like texting. I’ve compiled a list of screenshots to prove my case. I am pretty sure my voice mail is full too because people keep telling me they can’t leave messages. How odd. I am pretty sure most of the stuff is junk and spam hence why I don’t even bother checking anymore. The internet used to be such a fun place before spam and the technologically illiterate.

Exhibit A

Exhibit B

Exhibit C

Anyone else stop checking their mailboxes? Voice mail is completely understandable as most people just say “call me back” and I don’t usually need to know who it is because I have caller ID. I mean, I probably didn’t answer your phone call for a reason, right? But what about email? At least with my normal email I have spam filters to filter out the crap but I just cannot bring myself to check MySpace and Facebook messages anymore. I will admit I have no excuse for not checking text messages but I guarantee that most of those unread ones are crap and spam too.

My youngest cousin will be turning 2 in just a few days and her party will be in a couple weekends. I made invitations for it. I got the lollipop invitation idea from the internet. It cost less than $4 to put 25 of these together. Most of the materials that I didn’t already have I got on sale at Joann’s. These were cheap, super cute invitations and I enjoyed making them with help of course.

This is the year for home decorating.. I think. It is always nice making your house feel more like a home. I still call the house my parents live at “home” maybe one day I can think of this place as “home”.

I recieved this great piece for Christmas and just got around to putting it up. It holds pictures and what-nots. I didn’t have any small pictures to put in it just yet but I’ll get around to finding some!

I was walking through Target the other day picking up so CRAZY coupon deals and I spotted this gorgeous oval-shape mirror. I have been looking for a circular shaped mirror for this one wall in my house for a long time. While it was not circular, I was intrigued and I looked all over but I just could not find a price tag for it so I left it there. Today, I happened to be in the exact same Target and they happened to still have the exact same mirror. Again, I wanted the mirror. This time I found a price tag that said $19.99. Not too bad but I still wasn’t sure that was the right price tag so I asked one of the clerks nearby to price check it, $9.97 on clearance. Now, that is a deal I cannot pass up. The clerk looked like she was about to ask me if I was going to buy it or not and likely would have snatched it right off the shelf if I’d have put it back!

Have you ever noticed that people tend to remember criticism better than they do compliments? We also put more weight in criticism. I am more likely going to remember one negative insult for a lot longer than I will remember an instance of flattery. Now, someone may or may not be insulting you when they use criticism, but have you ever notice how quickly we will go into denial? So when the clerk at the corner store tells me that I am bitter (yea, I thought clerks were supposed to be nice too) I had to think about it for a moment.

Bitter
adjective
- resentful or cynical

Really?

Don’t ask what came over me this year and why I wanted to do this because I honestly don’t have an answer. I have plenty of Christmas themed wrapping papers on hand but the newspaper on my desk was screaming at me, “I’m bored!” So I decided to wrap my Christmas gifts this year in newspaper instead of the traditional Christmas themed paper.

Newspaper Wrapped Presents for Christmas

Afterwards, when I looked at all I had accomplished, I felt good about recycling and making something semi-creative. I’m quite certain that they aren’t the loveliest of gifts and that at least one person in my family will scoff at them but I’m pleased. It should be the gift that matters right? Or is it supposed to be the thought… Either way, I’m happy with the result. I added ribbons, cord and hand-made tags to each gift to give them that extra sparkle.