
I gotta surprise!

I gotta surprise


Since we moved, we get everything but my beloved Medifast delivered to a mailbox store a mile or so from our new MakeMeThinner Cottage.
We go up a couple of times a week to collect the bills and the junque mail and this afternoon Terry slogged thru the torrential rains in my Slug Bug to check the mail and to hit the local Starbuck’s for his afternoon caffeine hit. After visiting with Jan and Paul he arrived home with a cup of Joe for me and in his hands was a Priority Mail box addressed to


Man! I just


it’s not Mother’s Day, I


I have been in a total

We have had rain for a month – icky, dreary, drippy,

It is dark and gray and I have had my nose to the grindstone,
I have a list of things on my “To Do or Else”

and out of the blue (er…GRAY!) comes a box for ME!!!
And yes, it IS all about ME...

I daintily ripped open the box and found a nest of BUBBLE WRAP!!!


Oh, boy!

I mean BUBBLE WRAP is like therapy for me when I am over my limit with sensory input!


You know - Pop ‘em and take out all your aggressions?

I

THAT’s for the time I passed by the gourmet hand-tossed thick-crust pizza with extra garlic! Pop! Pop! Pop!

Whoooosh! THAT’s for telling the waiter, “I’d prefer steamed broccoli than garlic smashed potatoes with real butter, thank you…”
Terry grabs the digital and hangs out,

Anyhoo…inside the nest of BW is a white envelop with my name written with a red felt-tipped pen and the capital 'N' in Nancy is swanky & curly and the ‘y’ has a fancy swirly tail. Just the way I like it.


“Oooooh!” I am getting


I unwrapped the layers of paper toweling and pulled out the BUBBLE WRAP packet, carefully removed the scotch tape to reveal
half a dozen rolled and cutout sugar cookies, each one iced and carefully outlined with white icing and hand-sanded with blue or teal chunky sugar crystals and a googly eyeball!


These are aardvarkian delights!

Yes, I said aardvarks! Unbelievable!
That Gwenski is a hoot!
She makes me giggle, roar and snort!



So there ya have it…
at just the right time in the evening of rainstorms and melancholy,
Gwenski, you rescued me from my mundane life!

Thanks, Gwenski Girl!
You are amazing!

...and the Leopardy One wipes the crumbs off her chinny chin chin
and slinks back to the keyboard with a grin…

