It's because my friends are comedians.

Dear Patrick,

What? Have I disappeared off the face of the planet? Nooooo. I've just been doing mom crafts. Which is pretty normal for me. I like moms. I dress like moms. I hang out with moms. I'm a shorter, less-cool version of my own mom. The only slight glitch I see is that children completely terrify me. But that's not a huge deal, right? Right.

But, back to the mom crafts...I've been cross stitching. But in my own, rule-less kind of way. I think the people around me are the funniest people in the world. I really like taking bits of conversations or messages and pulling them out of context to make them a little funnier.

Examples? Okay.

I know that giving you the story behind this will defeat the purpose a little, but it's too funny not to tell. Darci had been working on transferring all of her extended family's home movies to DVD while working full time and going to school full time... living and working in Provo and going to school in Logan (2 hours away). Needless to say, she slept almost never. As she's handing out the DVDs, she looks down to read the label she wrote on one and says to me, "Lamp birthday. What does that mean?"
We'll never know. And that's why I'm friends with Darci.


Margot felt like she needed to be part of this picture. She's so selfish.
This came from the paper that Alex and Heather wrote from my perspective... or at least their perspective of my perspective. I should probably cross stitch the entire paper.

And finally, the most recent...
This one deserves the story. My brother-in-law, Phil, is out of his mind. All the time. When he and Brooke first got married, he'd say, "You promised when we got marrried..." in his whiniest, just-about-to-cry voice to Brooke every other minute to talk her into whatever it was that he wanted at that moment. Luckily for him, it's the funniest argument he could make and she usually gives in. This particular quote came from our recent California trip when he wanted her to go into the water with him. Not one bit serious. Not one bit sappy. Only hilarious.

I wish I had pictures of my most favorite quotes I've used-- at Christmas time I made a pillow for my cousin, Nicole, who said to me over chat once, "Yeah, well, I'm looking for a black boyfriend so... I've been trying to learn the language. I got one of those Rosetta Stone software cds." Or the lovely little shrinky dink that, of course, went to Ashlee saying, "I can't talk right now. I have a lot of tv I need to watch." And okay, maybe I was the one that said that one. But maybe it was only the most perfect way to combat her birthday present to me.

Love,
Adrienne