I woke up this morning and I immediately found myself in a dilemnia. How does this always happen?
You see when I wake up, Molly wakes up, and that means even if I just need to “go down the hall” I must also go down to the side door so Molly can “go down the hall”.
And then she wants breakfast, and so then I want coffee, and then the “not gonna go back to bed” reality sets in.
So I made my coffee and grabbed my laptop and figured some news reading, pinterest surfing, maybe a game or two would kick off my day.
I settle into the couch, click on the light….and find Paul’s reading glasses sitting on the table along with his eyeglass case. No big deal. But lately Miss Molly has begun to act like” Dora the Daschund Explorer” and now I look at everything that is left out and think “how can she break this or hurt herself”.
(Yesterday we returned home to find my stitching box was tossed like she was searching for valuables…err edibles. Needless to say someone spent a few hours in her bed and I considered a shaming sign.)
So I fold up Paul’s glasses and go to put them into his case…and then I see it. An Ikea receipt laying next to his eyeglass case. It’s not folded, well it was at one time, but it is in an open state when I find it.
Then it clicks. When I brought my suitcases in on Sunday I put them in the studio…and something was missing in the studio. I couldn’t figure out what. But immediately when I see the receipt I remember the four table legs from Ikea that we bought for a project but they didn’t work out and thus needed to be returned. They were gone. I put my suitcase where they had sat for the last two months awaiting a visit by us to Ikea.
hmmmmmm.
I just sit and look towards the receipt.
Sip of coffee.
hmmmmmm.
On Saturday night when I was out of town I didn’t hear from Paul at all. To be honest I was hoping to return home to the new – old light fixture hung in our bedroom that has been on the “to do” list for awhile. But when I went upstairs upon my return the fixture was still the yucky old one.
hmmmmm.
Yesterday was a pretty crappy day in the afternoon due to some Village government wrangling and honestly I woke up still feeling like I had been punched in the gut.
hmmmmm.
I think I might know that the receipt is for. I have been wanting a jewelry/accessories cabinet that matches our bedroom furniture now that we have the larger bedroom there is space for it.
hmmmmm.
oh look when I placed my coffee cup down the receipt is right there and ………..
yes!
Ok it’s 9 days ’til our Anniversary. You would think after 26 years someone would know better than to leave a receipt out on the shared end table between our respective morning coffee seats.
Did I mention that suddenly I am smiling ear to ear.
I am a very happy (and only human) girl.
And I won’t tell him I found the receipt until he reads it here.
But I will begin to gather jewelry and accessories that will be living in a new home soon.
hehehe….happy dance.
So some might think me wrong to look at the receipt but I am who I am and I will tell dear hubby he should learn to “hide” things better…like in the back of a closet…behind a stack of pj bottoms…where his gift is. 😀
