File Folder Frenzy!

Who would have thought that Mercury would have continued to improve my life even post-employment? Certainly not me. And yet here we are! I'm writing a whole blog about it. Doesn't get more life-improving that getting a whole blog dedicated just to you. So thank you, Mercury Insurance. Thank you for going paperless and leaving a bunch of unused file folders laying around needing a home. The home they found was with me.

And what use are they now? Weeeelllll, who would have thought that file folder paper is just thick and pliable enough to make the PERFECT blank cardstock for making notecards? Not I! But I am not the proud parent of a potential 600 blank notecards all courtesy of good ol' Merc. Here's an example below. Is it bad that I got a weird sense of satisfaction chopping up all those file folders? It's funny, I got more of a sense of nostalgia looking at those than I have remembering anything else about Mercury thus far- I was weirdly flooded back to my file clerking days, 5 of us in the files shoving them in as fast as possible, pulling mail asap, just knowing drop would soon follow and we had not a second to lose! Ohhh how the times have changed. Now I'm desecrating these beloved folders. Boo hoo.

So here's a card I'm making now, sets of notecards in a few different colors I think. Dark blue, dark purple, burgundy....we'll see. For now, it's blue. Also don't judge, this is clearly not perfect....I was ripping and retaping stuff for like an hour trying to figure out what I wanted to do. I would never sell a product that looks like this!

Recycle, Reduce, Reuse! Enclose the loop! Yep that's me. Just doing my part for good ol' Mother Earth. You're welcome!

Oh- and I started watching Veronica Mars while I craft (I know, can you say 12 years late anyone?). That show is inTENSE! I just finished season 1 last night. The most fun part I think is seeing all these "guest stars" popping up......JTT was an FBI agent. Parks and Rec's Adam Scott played a teacher accused of sleeping with a student (spoiler alert- he was GUILTY! She had the lovechild belly to prove it!)......Max Greenfield (Schmidt, New Girl) even has a recurring role as her love interest in Season 1 as well (he has this weird sideways talking mouthy lispy thing going on and it's sooooooooooooooooooo annoying- thank the lord he had the common sense to cut THAT out before he got a real staring role in something). 

Anyway, I think I made like 100 Mercury cardstock bases while watching the last couple episodes of the season last night...it was like a nervous habit....chop trim fold, chop trim fold....that show just makes you so tense you don't even know what you're DOING other than screaming and gasping every 14 seconds.....the plot twists just keep coming! 

I'll start season 2 tonight probably. I hope Logan doesn't hate Veronica too much for accusing him of being the killer and getting him thrown in jail temporarily. Among other things. He's kind of a douchey douche but also pretty much the best so they really should continue non-dating. Tonight we shall find out! 

Week One- even lazier than expected

I've become a product reviewer.
Yes. My sad life has become even sadder.
I just went through my Amazon purchase history and I think I reviewed like 18 things in a row. Who does that? Bored retirees, I suppose. Restaurants, watch out!! I've only yelp reviewed once (it was NOT nice..... http://www.yelp.com/biz/espa%C3%B1ol-restaurant-sacramento-2?hrid=EdwfnsmPRhZOJqqcTsb3Kg) but this is quickly going to go on my list of passions in my future as a retired crafty housewife. I can feel the need for voicing my rude opinions on a regular basis....it's boiling in my bones just waiting to come out!

The purpose of this blog was to show you recipes, crafting ideas, diy gifts, etc as I did them in the hopes that you'd believe I was having a great time being unemployed and all alone with my cat all day long.

The unfortunate fact of the matter is that I haven't done any of those things during my first week of "freedom" hence the lack of blogs thus far. I've been incredibly, embarrassingly lazy and I feel it's only going to get worse. So here's what I've done so far. Maybe sadly writing it all out will make me feel sorry enough for myself that I will actually do something useful......

I've read like 6 of our Love Stories, a set of YA books that Abbey and I used to read when we were younger, and decided last summer to re-read our way through them all. We even made a blog, where we were going to mock each book as we finished them in an uproarious amazing rendition that would excite and amuse all our many, many followers.
Unfortunately, we fell back in love with them :( how freaking embarrassing! But it just brought us back to that time in our lives, at 13 when these stories were so real and wonderful to us and somehow, we were re-touched by the Love bug. So, we're still getting ourselves through them all, buying used ones from Amazon and trading off as we go, and I am weeding my way through the most recent set I got from Abbey. I think we have about 15 or 20 more to go. I will probably finish 20 in the next week :( and THEN what will I do?? Read ADULT novels with actual substance?? ICK! where's the adolescent reminiscent fun in THAT? Maybe I'll have to bust out the Boxcar Children next.......

On Tuesday, David had the day off and we had to Dexter to the vet for yet another nasty breakout. When we got home, we randomly on a whim decided to check Giants ticket prices and lo and behold, a steal of a deal was waiting just for us! Field club, row N, right above the visitors dugout for only $40 apiece. It was like a sign from the heavens. We must go! Was the outcry. From me. Luckily David agreed, and the game was amazing. Not only was it the shortest game we've ever been to, but Petit made history and Panik had his first major league 5 hit game of his career. Great to be a part of that standing ovation- I love that lil fella! The best part was, really, that we even had the ability to just GO to the game at all. If i was working that would never ever happen. We would never have a day off together. So that in itself confirmed for me that while I haven't been to Michaels in a WEEK, this was still the right decision.

Not being at work and seeing all the people I've seen 40+ hours a week for the last 8 years has definitely been strange. Especially since the things I normally would talk to them about are no longer applicable to me, so it's harder to even have a conversation with them at this point anyway.....oh what? Endorsements? lol I don't even remember how to do those. OT? But....The Middle always comes on at 5 and 530, why would you stay late when you could have your pjs on and watch those instead.....ohhh, right, you need to get your directory cleared out- forgot all about that thing. It's an odd, lonely feeling, but I am glad everyone will at least be seeing an increase in productivity without me there bugging them all day long! Although, I did just have to share a dream I had with Melanie even though I'm sure she was thinking "omg, really? I thought i was done with you!" Jeremy Affeldt was the IT guy at my new job and Emmy Rossum (Shameless) was training me in her wedding dress. I felt that was worth a share. Probably not. I did anyway.

Tonight I'm trying a Pinterest recipe, most of these are disasters but this particular one has a LOT of positive reviews so I'm really hoping it works out better than the normal ones I find on there. It's called "no-peek beef tips" and I'm homemaking some mashed potatoes as well. That way if the beef is gnarly we can just eat our body weight in mashed potatoes instead. I'll let you know how it turns out.

I saw a commercial the other day, I think a Ford or Subaru commercial, and they were pulling a travel trailer- my first thought was UGH TRAILERS!!! followed quickly by- wait- I don't ever have to add a trailer again, I love trailers!! Hooray trailers! Insurance company commercials that spin normal underwriting procedures to be special still bug me though. "if you're a good driver, we have a VERY special discount for you! Distinguished driver!" oh wooowwww, that sounds amazing, I sure can't get a discount for being a good driver anywhere else! UGH. Hopefully my irritation with those will go away next. We'll see.