How did this happen?

 

 

This is one of my best friends from college, Laura.  She was, note the emphasis on was, an amazing graphic designer in her day.   She has 4 girls and as a result hasn’t worked in 15 years.  I have been bugging her about my logo for my blog, because I don’t have one and my name hangs outside the frame on the header.  She has so kindly pointed out my name hanging outside the frame, which of course I already know and it drives me crazy.  When I am not writing my blogs, I am trying to figure out how to design my own logo with photoshop and I can’t seem to figure it out.  I have always been mesmerized by graphic design and I really want to learn but I don’t have the time.  She knew I was getting really frustrated because every time we spoke on the phone, I mentioned my nonexistent logo.  She offered to have her amazingly talented daughter help me, but as she is in high school and on the cheer team, she doesn’t really have any time.  So, last night Laura called and said she would be on my side of the bay for a  hair appointment and she could swing by and try to help at 9:45 am.   At 9:15, I am loading laundry into my garage when in she walks through my gate looking like a million bucks in her heels, and makeup.  ” What are you doing here already?  I haven’t even brushed my teeth yet!”  “Do you want me to leave and come back”? she said.  “No, just come in and watch me brush my teeth and get dressed before the couch delivery guys show up.”  That is the great thing about having a friend who has known you for 25 years.  They can show up a half hour early and you can look like a horror and neither of you care.  

 

Once I got dressed, Tiara came and sat on the leather sofa and started doing her coloring while Laura and I went to work on the computer.  Within 5 minutes the doorbell rang and it was the couch guys, 15 minutes early.   Seriously, why is everyone early today?  Of course they knew me as this was there second delivery to my house in 3 months.  I think I mentioned in a prior blog that I bought a white leather sectional from Macy’s in November with a WARRANTY.  Every time Tiara gets a pen mark or stain on the couch, I call them, they come out and try to remove the stain and if they are unsuccessful they replace the piece of furniture.  Well to date, they have had to replace 3 pieces of my sectional.  Luckily the sectional is made up of 5 different pieces.  Unfortunately they sent me a letter stating every time they replaced a piece I would have to buy a new warranty on the new piece.  UGH… So I have been stressing, as I only have 2 original pieces left on the warranty.

 

After the guys carried out the 2 ruined pieces,we discovered a huge pile of Tiara’s crayons.  I mean I think there were 100 crayons under the 2 pieces of sofa they took out.  So Laura started helping me pick them up and it was then that we realized the 2 new pieces were so much whiter than the old pieces.  We started alternating dark white, light white so it wouldn’t be as noticeable.  At this point Tiara decided she needed to go back to bed as she was tired from all her medications.  I put her in bed and then Laura and I went back to work on the computer, only to realize she couldn’t figure out how to help me at my house.  We did figure out how to email her the image I had purchased so when she got home she could try and figure it out on illustrator, or of course ask Amber.  As we were talking and catching up I decided I better finish cleaning up the den before Tiara woke up. Another plus of having a friend forever, they don’t care when you have to clean in front of them.  

It was then that we both noticed 3 huge blue pen marks on the last 2 original sectional pieces.  “WHAT!!!  How is that possible?”  Where did these pen marks come from? ” Did they take the wrong pieces?  Laura then replied ” I think Tiara got up when we were on the computer and did it”.  “No way, she is dead asleep and we would have seen her walk directly by us.”  I exclaimed while  flinging my arms in the air.  I then walked into the bedroom to check on her and she was in the bed, dead asleep, just like I knew.  We then checked the floor and only found one pen that must submerged from underneath the couch, but it was black, not blue.

So I had 3 huge new pens marks on my remaining 2 pieces of warranted furniture, made buy a mystery visitor.  Clearly I know Tiara is the culprit but I can’t figure out how the heck she got the pen.  I literally hide all the ball point pens in our house up in a kitchen cabinet by the wine glasses for this exact reason.   When did she make the marks?    Prior to Laura’s arrival the sofa was fine.  I guess maybe when I was carrying out the laundry, she got a hold of a pen and went to work?  And so another mystery in the Goff house.  There is never a boring moment here, as this all occurred by 10:00am.

The good news is, I never run out of stuff to talk about….

Have a great day!!