Gift bags my friend, gift bags.
Oh! I love your new blog icon. It is fabulous!
Glad you are feeling better.
Hahah…I am laughing WITH YOU. being sick sucks donkey nuts and tying bows suck even harder. That’s why I buy mine at the dollar store.
But a little trick since I am queen at scrapbooking the shit put of anything…make two loops (like bunny ears) and tie them without making the initial knot. Like cross one bunny ear loop over the other and then pass it through hole. Did that make sense? It’s hard to explain but if you google bow and scrapbooking together something should pop up.
Is this not the most random comment ever? Sorry.
Hope you feel better!!
I’m okay wrapping. I don’t do bows. My son loved his grade four buddy soooooo much I love remembering it. The Holiday Date-Rape song? Thing I might have literally laughed my ass off — going to check right now.
I am with Kimberly here on the buying bows. I can’t make a pretty bow to save my life! I love wrapping though!
Glad to hear you are feeling better! We have all been fighting it here. Happy Holidays!
I don’t do bows anymore, either. A lot of our gifts get shipped and the bows always ripped off, and those that go under the tree stack better without a bow. Plus, no bows allows me to continue my Grinchy Christmas this year. NO BOWS FOR YOU.
I’ll never listen to Baby It’s Cold Outside the same way again. SHUDDER.
Oh gosh…what a week. Sorry to hear you were sick.
Wrapping presents is not my area of expertise either. 🙁
It sounds like the public school system gets as much accomplished (in terms of education) on a Friday afternoon as I do w/ my boys’ Friday afternoon homeschool lessons.
I second the gift bag suggestion. I hate bows & wrapping paper so much that I just make gift bags of scrap fabric that I get at thrift stores or garage sales. If I assembly line the bags it takes less than 5 minutes of sewing.
Have you heard the Michael Buble & Anne Murray version of “Baby, It’s Cold Outside?” It’s the best version of the song, b/c it sounds more like coy flirtation than sexual coercion.
I’ve lost my voice twice in the past year, so I know the pain of parenting while being silent.
My cats go crazy if they see ribbon and will eat it and eat it and eat it until they puke it all up or tiny bits of it stick out the back end requiring a wee tug from me. I’m sure you’re not surprised to hear that I’ve completely banned anything ribbon-like from this house until the cats breathe their last.
I’m so sick of “Baby It’s Cold Outside.” We use Pandora for Christmas music and they play that song at least 3 times every hour. Whatever happened to the oldies, but goodies? Bring on Elvis’s Christmas music – now that’s fun to sing along!
Thanks for the laugh! You crack me up!
I`d try Muppets` Christmas with John Denver instead (grin). Forget the bows; I second the gift bag option. And I found it interesting to read of your symptoms, which match mine EXACTLY. I dragged my boys to the doctor today and was diagnosed with croup, of all things, and a side of laryngitis. If the wine doesn`t help, apparently honey will. The warm flannel sheets also sound good.
Ha, ha, ha. I so suck at wrapping but I love every minute of it.
I hope everyone feels better. And oh, the date-rape song. So true, so funny.
LisaDay
You may try Nin Jiom Pei Pa Koa (ninjiom-hk.cwahi.net). i know alot of people use it, its also non alcoholic, though it’s effectiveness is not as good as alcohol based cough medicine, but it’s still good to use on not so serious scratchy throat.