At Least SEVEN Freakin' UPS Trucks ...

... that's how many service my neighborhood. At least SEVEN!! How do I know this, you ask?? Well, that's kind of an embarrassing story ...

I stayed up (like so many other diehard SU demos) on Tuesday night to wait for the new catalog preorder/sneak peek. It didn't go up until just after midnight on Wednesday ... had to peruse the merchandise and make semi-intelligent decisions/choices. Finally got my order submitted at 12:29 a.m.

Amazingly enough, my order shipped out on Wednesday evening. Which means it was due to show up on Thursday!! HOOOORRAAYYYY!!! And I didn't even hafta expedite the shipping, baby!! One of the many wonderful perks of living across town from Stampin' Up ... this is, however, the FASTEST I have EVER received a catalog pre-order. Happy-happy-happy!!

My BFF, Cheryl, also happens to be a Stampin' Up demo ... who also happened to stay up late with me to place her preorder ... who also happens to work right down the street from my house. Soooo ... we had planned to get together at lunch time and peruse my catalog so that she wouldn't have to wait 'til she got home to look at HERS!! Only problem? My UPS truck doesn't usually come around 'til about 3:00 p.m. My UPS driver (Steph) also delivers to our business, which is right down the street from my house. Very convenient. I also know that she is down there MUCH earlier than she makes it to my house. So, instead of listening to the Jeopardy theme song and going stir crazy, I decided to get in my car and take a little cruise around the neighborhood. FedEx, USPS ... they were MUCH easier to locate than UPS. First driver I found? NOT Steph, but close to my house. No dice .. Second driver I found?? NOT Steph, but ALSO close to my house. Third driver??? STEPH!! HOORAY!! Alas, she informs me that her truck was too full, so they split some of her stuff up onto another truck. NOT GOOD!! "No problemo," she says. "I'll just take your cell phone number and then call the office and find and who has it and where he is right now." "GREAT!," I say. In the meantime, I drive around a little more. Then I get a call from Steph. "The guy with your stuff was on 400 East and South Temple about two minutes ago. Go get 'im!" Drivedrivedrive ... only took a couple minutes. Saw the truck. Felt like a dork waiting for the driver. Guess what?? NOT the same truck as the one that was there two minutes ago!!! Double drat. Nice UPS Driver points me in the direction of the OTHER driver. Go to where he says ... see a truck in moments. Very carefully accost the driver. Guess what??? NOT the right truck!! The truck I want services the NORTH side of the street. He services the SOUTH side. Five down and NO luck!! Soooo, I see another truck going in the OPPOSITE direction on the NORTH side of the street. Follow him for a while ... guess what??? It's driver #4 again ... don't even stop to talk to him and hope he does NOT see me pass by stalking him AGAIN!!

At this point I give up. Called Cheryl. She says, "Good news!! MY order is on my porch!! My husband put the catalog between the screen door and front door. You can just go pick it up!" So I do ... and on my way back to where she works (or rather, the park by where she works), I see ANOTHER UPS TRUCK!!! Do I follow him? Do I let it go??? What is a good SU Demo to do??? FOLLOW THAT TRUCK!!! Which I did ... AND it turns out he was the RIGHT DRIVER with my box safely tucked inside his truck!! YAY!! HOORAY!!! SUCCESS!!! He happily turned my treasure over to me, as it saved him a trip up my street ... which was actually WAAYYY off his route!! I {{HEART}} UPS!! So, Cheryl and I had a lovely picnic in the park while we DROOLED over our new catalogs!! So, I guess there were only actually SIX trucks in my area ... but who's counting??

See what I made with some of my new goodies???

Stamps: Precious Butterflies (Hard to believe one of the first things I got had butterflies in it, right??)
Paper: Wisteria Wonder, Lucky Limeade, Calypso Coral, Whisper White
Ink: Wisteria Wonder, Lucky Limage, Calypso Coral
Accessories; Lace Ribbon Border Punch, Wide Oval Punch, Perfect Polka Dots Textured Impressions Folder, Bitty Buttons, Whisper White Baker's Twine, Dimensionals