Showing posts with label Sox Swappin 2008. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sox Swappin 2008. Show all posts

Saturday, June 07, 2008

If You Can Value The Worth Of A Person By Their Birthday Gifts Then I'm Exceedingly Valuable!

Unexpected Presents From People Whom I Adore......I'm Not Sure If I'm Deserving Of Such Niceties But I Sure Do Love It!

The talented Melissa from Mejojac's Memos used her phenomenal jewelry making skillz to craft this lovely bracelet and earrings set specifically to match my new dress.

And as if that wasn't enough she fed my sox addiction just a little bit more with this bevy of sock beauties. Thanks Melissa!

Aubrey sent these scrumptious orange gloves just in time because they'll look amazing with the gown I picked out to wear to the Mean Mommy Ball. Gloves are important when reprimanding children, husbands, competitive clearance rack hags who won't shove off even when you subtly elbow them, and annoying dogs that bark all night because they won't leave any tell-tale fingerprint marks. Thanks Aubrey!

My favorite Arizonians of all time Nancy Face and her stunning bride-to-be daughter, Lauren Face sent this happy little(and VERY generous) Target gift card featuring an oozing, slimy blob. That's right, I'm no longer a blogger. I'm a blobber now. Not pictured is the ginormous bag of Skittles also mailed alongside the card.
If you ever need someone to make candy evidence disappear my mini-Infidels can and will get the job done. There's wasn't even a discernible trace of rainbow colored streaks left behind when the mini-Infidels wrapped up 'The Skittles Hit.' Thanks Face Ladies!

Jean Knee proved conclusively the theory I scientifically hypothesized after watching Saturday Night Live......A Party In A Tube Is WAY Better Than A Dick In The Box. Truly.
The best part was the envelope stuffed full of enough funds to pick out any one thing my heart desires at the dollar store. Jean Knee knows and understands the real me. She also sent balloons with a warning that they aren't to be used as contraceptives. I might have read the note a little too late. Ooops. The tube was also jam-packed with lots of polka dot confetti. I opened the tube while sitting on my bed. I'm now sporting an all-over polka dot look for the Summer 2008 season. Thanks Jean Knee!!!

And in Sox-Crazed Maniacs News I thought you all would be interested to note that almost half of us received or gave a variation of the ever popular faux Converse high-top socks as modeled by my daughter. Several received socks that look like cowboy boots and I noticed a LOT of frog motif socks popping up at Sox Exchange participant blogs. At least two people received the exact same pair of pink-striped seahorse socks and another two received knee-high socks with flames on them.

Maybe Alice can work her graph magic and come up with a funny chart for us to signify the final sock duplicate tally. Think about the enormity of the soxy swap situation. The 22 ladies who participated represent different religions, different ages, different geographic locales and yet we all demonstrated a scary sense of like-mindedness when left on our own to blindly pick out socks for our buddy. Weird.

If you haven't received your socks yet, e-mail me and let me know. I had a great time organizing this, ladies. Thanks. It went so smoothly that I'd really like to get a Christmas Ornament Exchange together in November. :)

Saturday, May 24, 2008

You Can Always Rely On Me For Frank Sox Advice And Sox Pictorials

Yesterday, May 23, 2008, was the shipping deadline for the Sox-Crazed Maniacs Sox Swap.

If you did not/could not get your packages brimming with sock happiness mailed yet, have you contacted your buddy and/or contacted me? You have? Awwww, who's a good little sox swapper? Why, you are!

Not to seem overbearingly naggy but did you put on fresh underwear before leaving the house today, you know, just in case you get into an accident? Good! Did you remember to feed the dog and turn off the oven? Excellent! Have you sent Elastic some chocolate for all her hard work and as a reward for being such a wonderful person? You are just too sweet!

As you receive your socks, let me know and I'll publish your blog post link in my sidebar for all to gaze in wide wonderment at.

And now let me direct your attention to my most incredible Sox Partner, Jami, who sent me this fun little soxy threesome.
I really enjoyed the soxy interchange with you, Jami.........THANK YOU!

Monday, May 12, 2008

Are You Looking For Hot Sox In All The Wrong Places?

Then that probably means I made some sort of Sox Exchange Buddy mistake!
As much as I'd like to think I'm an effusive omnipotent being reigning supreme over the whole sox-swappin Universe, I do still make errors. True, they're divine errors, but errors they are, nonetheless.

If you haven't gotten an e-mail from me with your Buddy information yet, let me know.
If for some reason you can't make the May 23rd shipping deadline, let me know!!!!(This one is really important so we can avoid any potential Sock Orphan problems)
If wild dingos ate your buddy's socks, prank call Meryl Streep using your best faux-Australian accent and let her know.

P.S. Whichever one of you that keeps outbidding me on the glittery silver Playboy Bunny socks at ebay, you better knock it off. After all, I know where you live!!!

Sunday, May 11, 2008

And Then Their Mother Suddenly Ran Away To Join The Up With People Cult......

Sox-Crazed Maniacs Sock Exchange Update:
I'll be making every effort to get your buddy information e-mailed to you by this evening or early morning. I still haven't decided what system I should use to pair everyone up.
I was going to consult the always mystical and always amazing Magic 8 Ball for help but my Christian heritage warned me against using such a powerful force of divinification.
That means I'll be playing 'Matchmaker, Matchmaker Make Me A Match, Catch Me A Catch, Find Me A Find' using more scientific means.

I know I promised Sock Buddy info. by Saturday but my Mom unexpectedly scored some free tickets to an Up With People performance last night and really how could I turn that down?
Sing it with me now......"Up, Up With Peeeooopppllee!"
Not only has the Up With People movement traveled the world since 1965 bringing messages of peace and assisting in various community projects but the founders are also the sons of famed actor, Anthony Quinn and they themselves are the fathers of our absolute favorite Infidel group, Hector On Stilts. It's all connected, people.
Here's a sample of the musical finery that Hector On Stilts is packing.

Watch for the e-mail from me. That's your checkered flag to begin the Sox Swappin Action!

Sunday, May 04, 2008

The Smiling Infidel Is Looking For A Few Good Sox-Crazed Maniacs!

Okay, the first rule of SOX Club is that you DO NOT talk about SOX Club. The second rule of SOX Club is that there are NO rules.......

I'm just messing with you. Of course there's rules because anything worth doing has a plethora of rules and regulations attached to it. It's just a necessary evil to make sure that you all know how the sox game is to be played out and we don't end up with any sox-starved individuals out looking for sox in all the wrong places.

Let's Practice Some Safe Sox, Shall We?:
1. Send me an e-mail(elasticwaistbandlady at yahoo.com) with your full name, mailing address, and blog address. I know some of you are leery about revealing personal identification so I'll try to pair you with an online buddy you already "know." I want to keep this somewhat domestic to save exchange buddies on exorbitant shipping fees. Canada and U.S.A only please. (except Infidel blogger favorite, jams o'donnell from England :)

2. Your mission is to scour the ends of the earth to find two pairs of the funkiest, goofiest, gnarliest socks chock full of the most pure, unadulterated WTF?-ery known to mankind. Ummm, not to be snobby, but please make sure they're NEW socks. I mentioned "funky" as in footwear design not in mailing somebody used socks with built-in toe funk.(Feel better about swapping some steamy hot sox with strangers now, Jean Knee?)

3. Sign-up Deadline: Friday May 9, 2008
Shipping Deadline: Friday May 23, 2008
Look, we all have moments when things go unexpectedly craptastical but please make sure you can fulfill your end of the exchange before signing up. Nothing is sadder than seeing the tear-streaked faces of your buddy looking out at you from the windows of the Sock Orphanage. For the love of humanity, don't allow your exchange partner to become another hopeless Sock Orphan statistic because I'd really hate to send out my rogue band of Sock Terrorists to enforce compliance. Yeah, my terrorists may be wearing Hello Kitty socks and socks with dancing chickens on them and maybe even glittery disco ball socks....but don't let the wussy socks fool you. They are a fearsome bunch!

4. We want to see your soxy goodies! When you receive your socks, stage a provocatively soxy photo shoot, then whore them up on your blog for all the world to see.

Remember you have until Friday to sign up. I'll e-mail you your sock buddy's information on Saturday. Now, get out there and have you some fantastic sox experiences.........so fantastic you won't even have to fake it. Yeah!



Self-Proclaimed SOXAHOLICS(So Far):
Jean Knee (Put Some Polka Dots On It!)
Alice (Honey Pie!)
Aubrey (Aubrey Annie!)
Jami (Sadly, Jami has not given in to peer pressure and joined the bloggy revolution just yet)
Bee (Bee's Musings!)
Melissa (Mejojac's Memos!)
Diana (Diana's Dumb Stuff!)
Lori (Garbled Gab!)
Randi (Just Randi!)
Suzanne (Suzanne Loves Roses!)
Elizabeth W (How's That Workin For Ya?)
Glittersmama (Random Thoughts!)
Nancy Face (Nancy's Nonsense Of Nothingness!)
Jennifer (I Live At The Circus!)
Lisa (A Backstage Pass!)
Rhonda (The B.S. Cafe!)
Lola (Lola Again!)
Reina (Kingdom Of The Birds!)
Tracy (The Neverending Mind!)
Lauren Face (Busy Bee Lauren!)
Tricia (123 Check Out The Family!)