Mystery of the Missing Hoops

Well, mystery of the missing hoops has been solved--not really--I don't know what happened.  Remember I wrote about how I thought I may have lost the golden hoop earrings I bought at the store the other day?  And, how I went back to the store where they gave me a new pair?  Well...  I was taking out the trash in the bathroom, and I found one of the gold hoop earrings!  I recycle my store bags and use them in my waste baskets, and it looks like one earring made it's way into a bag.  I then went into the garbage can to look for the other earring, but did not find it.  I figured..  Oh well..I then decided to take some laundry out of the dryer when behold, there was the matching gold hoop earring still attached to the store card with the price tag!  I have no idea how it got from the bag into my laundry, but I've been struck by guilt.  I was so sure that it got left at the store.  I called the store, and those poor people went looking for it, and I even assumed the lady who took my cart may have taken them.  Oh the guilt! 

I called the store this morning.  They all got a good laugh out of it anyway.  I can't even return them.  So..  Oh well..an extra pair of earrings for my dear mother!  Damn do I feel pretty stupid.  Oh well.. 

I just got back from the ghetto potluck, and I must say, it was pretty fun.  The food was good, and everyone enjoying eating my store bought cookies.  Some wanted the recipe but I told them I bought them, although some people said I shouldn't have said that.  Anyway, they were good, chocolately and chewy.  I personally liked the frosted sugar cookies I brought better.  The chocolate cookies get stuck in your teeth--as I soon discovered when noticing my fellow co-workers chocolate stuck on the tooth hillbilly smiles...  Anyway, the funniest part was the gift exchange.  The funniest lady I work with got stuck with the last present, which happened to be a "love whip."  Ironically, she supervises the sex offender caseload.  So, she got on a chair, and danced away with her love whip and proceeded to do a little dance.  It was quite entertaining.  I was suprised my other co-worker Dennis didn't get up there and join her.  Oh, how I wish I brought my camera!  The receptionist is here today, but was a no show at the party.  She doesn't do parties.