Remember when I said Apartment Therapy had the most critical readers?� Well, it turns out readers of their children’s publication, Ohdeedoh, are far more friendly.� Sarah Rae Trover kindly featured my RED SHARPIE OF DEATH incident on Ohdeedoh and no one mentioned my disaster of a living room!� (Thank you, Sarah Rae!)� Of course, it could be that the Sharpie all over my sofa and chair drew the eye away from the clutter, but still.� You don’t even know how happy I was no one asked why I had sunscreen next to a box of kleenex on my secretary because, honestly, I have no idea.� I only noticed it after I put it online for the entire universe to see.
{Side note from The Mister after reading Sarah Rae’s way too nice words: I am many things, but The Queen of Clean isn’t one of them.� At all.� Ten years counting and not a crown in sight.� Ever.}
And the entire universe has seen my sunscreen and kleenex.� THE RED SHARPIE OF DEATH has been twittered about, emailed, and linked to on blogs, facebook, and mom boards in Russia.� Thankfully, everyone has been very understanding about an incident that was, really, entirely my fault.� Yes, if I could sum up all the comments I have read and received, I believe it would be something like, “Holy crap!� It happens.� Better her than me.”
Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to go toss that sunscreen in a random drawer so that when summer comes I won’t be able to find it and I’ll have to buy a new one.
Who knew celebrity could come from a Sharpie?
I must admit I showed everyone I knew. All the girls at work think you’re super woman.
I don’t know about celebrity. Infamy, maybe. Thanks for doing your part in spreading the humiliation, Kendra. ;)
Hey Simply Sharpie Queen, congrats on the double exposure! Looks like you were handsomely rewarded for all of that agony and elbow grease.
Jules-you call that a disaster??? OH my gosh! Your house always looks so nice! Mine on the other hand could teach yours what a true disaster is!!!!!
I thought the solution was brilliant! Didn’t even notice the rest of the house around the RED SHARPIE. I’ll admit I stared in horror, but was super impressed that you got it out. Besides, isn’t that where the sunscreen belongs? ;)
Libby–Absolutely! Everyone knows you are supposed to store sunscreen out in the open, right next to the kleenex and hand sanitizer. That way you can go outside when you have a cold. Yeah, that’s it. O_O
I used to be an avid reader of Apartment Therapy, but eventually the comments got to me. Some of those people seem to be incapable of grasping the concept of varying design aesthetics, and they have no problem pointing out that you’re a huge failure in life because your home isn’t a duplication of theirs.
I’ll definitely check out Ohdeedoh, since they were capable of overlooking your sunscreen and kleenex transgressions, haha.
But Jules, if it says so on the internet then it is true. You *are* (now) the Queen of Clean.