snow and swaps

I am so cold I can't stand it. I try and look at the positive things in life and learn from most of them, but seriously what good comes out of a blizzard? My husband and I had to dig out of the house. We had some friends stop by and help so that was nice, I made homemade cocoa and then later we all took a shot of tequila our neighbor had to "warm up." Not my idea of fun. I really don't enjoy snow.
As all of this was going on I thought I would go out and take some pictures... nope, cant. Camera is broken. I have no idea what is wrong with it so it ends up just making me want to throw it up against the wall. It's sorta sad too because when mail finally started back today I got some wonderful packages I would have liked to share. Of course I had to go pick them up because poor Joe is not to be found under the snow. I do hope he's ok.

Anyway, my wonderful mommy sent a massive care package to us. My son got art supplies, a transformer (an obsession) and more candy than he needs. My daughter tore into the box and found half of my stuff and a cute little puppy toy. After I chased her down I noticed she had things that were meant for me and had to rescue them. Johnny Depp socks. Yep. No Joke. Capt'n Jack on my monkey toes, gotta love that. My sister also made me the cutest earrings ever.
Down toward the bottom were "love dice." I didn't think much of it and set them down. Later I went into the kitchen and saw my hubby licking his arm. Strange. Then noticed he had the dice in his hand. He then looked up at me and asked... "how in the world am I going to kiss my back?" Always good for a laugh.


In swapping news I got 3 great packages. The first was from a few days ago for the good luck swap. Boy did I need it. I had such a wonderful swap partner and everything was great. I wish I could get pictures.

The second one was the rest of the thrift store swap. I find it interesting what other people seem to find.

and the third was for the magic yarn ball swap. I have to admit that the reason I decided to join swap bot was for a swap just like this and ended up not doing it. I should have because it is so much fun. I had a blast making mine to send out and didn't really think about getting one in return. My partner was great. She sent me 2 balls of bright green and blue cotton yarn and a pattern to make a scarf. Being that I am not the quickest at using the stuff and wanted to know what goodies were stuffed inside I decided to unroll them. My goodness, so cute. Cupcake/bonbon type goodies, cute post-it notes, socks, lipgloss... I loved it.

I guess that is all I have. Gotta go wake the man up for work. I hope to have pictures up soon. If all else fails it's a good reason to buy a new one ;) Later!