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Mom sent me the link to a tour of Marie Osmond's craft room. She warned me in particular to look for the wall of thread but my head still exploded when I saw it! And thank goodness it's arranged by color, or I'd have to email Marie with an offer to straighten it out for her. This, I can - and could, live with!
Bonnie sent me this link to Peter Callesen's website. I think I've seen his work before but even so, I had to look at pretty much every image on his site. My head can barely comprehend how he does this work.
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Mom sent me the link to a tour of Marie Osmond's craft room. She warned me in particular to look for the wall of thread but my head still exploded when I saw it! And thank goodness it's arranged by color, or I'd have to email Marie with an offer to straighten it out for her. This, I can - and could, live with!
Bonnie sent me this link to Peter Callesen's website. I think I've seen his work before but even so, I had to look at pretty much every image on his site. My head can barely comprehend how he does this work.~ ~ ~
So much for my optimism about system upgrade testing at work not lasting 4 hours. It did. It went relatively well. There will be a few bugs left to work out on Monday, I'm sure, but mostly that's over. Good thing - because the Illinois sales tax auditor shows up Monday for the whole week. And of course, I'm not at all prepared, as usual.
Steve and I picked up dinner from Applebee's last night, using their curbside service. We went in our sweats and slippers so we prayed we wouldn't have a car accident. I got the bruschetta burger with onion rings and Steve got a different burger with French Fries. When we do that, we split each side. There were, I counted them, FOUR onion rings. Small to medium sized too, not large by any means. Of course we didn't see that until we got home. We used to like Applebees quite a bit but not lately - and that sort of became a deal breaker for me.
I remember once Simon and I went to Friendly's for dinner. He was very little - 3 or 4. I ordered some chicken tenders dinner thing - that came with 7 French Fries. I'm not in the habit of counting my food under normal circumstances, but clearly this stuck in my mind if I'm blogging about it 18 years later. Me, bitter? Nah.
As I'm writing this, I can't believe I didn't complain either time - I just stopped going there. Must be some dumb kid in the kitchen that doesn't care - and I've let them get away with it. Kind of makes me part of the problem, I guess. Need to rethink this so I'll be prepared for next time to speak up.
Steve and I picked up dinner from Applebee's last night, using their curbside service. We went in our sweats and slippers so we prayed we wouldn't have a car accident. I got the bruschetta burger with onion rings and Steve got a different burger with French Fries. When we do that, we split each side. There were, I counted them, FOUR onion rings. Small to medium sized too, not large by any means. Of course we didn't see that until we got home. We used to like Applebees quite a bit but not lately - and that sort of became a deal breaker for me.
I remember once Simon and I went to Friendly's for dinner. He was very little - 3 or 4. I ordered some chicken tenders dinner thing - that came with 7 French Fries. I'm not in the habit of counting my food under normal circumstances, but clearly this stuck in my mind if I'm blogging about it 18 years later. Me, bitter? Nah.
As I'm writing this, I can't believe I didn't complain either time - I just stopped going there. Must be some dumb kid in the kitchen that doesn't care - and I've let them get away with it. Kind of makes me part of the problem, I guess. Need to rethink this so I'll be prepared for next time to speak up.
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posted by Stefani at 1:15 PM
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I stopped eating at Friendly's when they insisted that french fries came as a side with all the kid meals, including pizza, and that no, they could not substitute anything like apple sauce or carrots for it, and that I could call the main office if I'd like to make a suggestion for a menu change. I used to like Friendly's...
I've seen some of Peter Callesen's work (or something very much like it) in the past, and it is truly amazing!
The Applebee's near us closed.
Remember that it's not too late to write them a letter...they need to hear from consumers....
Love that thread picture! I often fantasize about just buying one big spool of every thread in the Gutterman display....:) Hugs, Shannon
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