Those Damn Shirts!!

Where do I even start???!!!

This upcoming Thursday a group of 10 girls and I are going to the Britney Spears concert. We are all such big fans of the brit brit roller coaster and are crossing our fingers she actually shows up to do the concert. Last friday we all came up with the idea to make matching t-shirts for the concert...so I told everyone to be at my house at 11am on Sunday...BAD IDEA!

First of all, I completely forgot we had a birthday party the night before so we didn't end up getting home until 3am, so 11am was pretty early. We stayed over at our friends house in Shoreline that night, and by 10:30 I was trying to wake up the beast (Mark) and he doesn't even move. I told him to wake up because I have girls coming over to make Britney shirts...he laughed and rolled over. Then Jessica suggested we can take her car over to my house and the boys can come over later... DUH...why didn't I think of that! We get all the way over to my condo in Bellevue, get out of the car and get to my door step (everyone is already there) and I remember that Mark has the house keys in his pocket!! Fudge!! Finally 45 minutes later the boys arrive with the house keys!

After already spending over $200 at Jo-Anne Fabrics and $100 at Big 5 for the t-shirts the project was about to begin! Quick note: my unemployment checks are $315 a week. I now have 15 dollars for the rest of the week. ANYWAYS...I get a couple of girls on diamond gluing duty...a couple on pizza making duty...and couple on printing the brit picture and myself on ironing duty. I light a couple of candles to set the mood and were off! After about an hour looking for the perfect picture to iron onto our shirts, my job has finally begun. I put the picture down on the shirt and grab the hot iron and start ironing..."TA DA" I yell....no one says a single thing but stares at the shirt. I had ironed Britney's face on upside down on the shirt. My job was now down sized to pizza cutter. Then Jordan steps into my iron duty position. She starts to iron and gets the face on perfectly straight and right side up, but has pressed the iron so hard onto the shirt she took the varnish right off of our kitchen table and onto the shirt. The back of the shirt was completely varnished. She starts to cry...30 minutes of comforting shes back on ironing duty. This time she asks for a piece of glass so we can put it in between the shirt and the table...DUH...why didn't I think of that! I grab a piece of glass that was embedded into our coffee table..it was a perfect size!! Meanwhile the pizza is ready...I (pizza cutter duty) start my job...the pizza was burnt on the top and raw in the middle. At that point I could care less! We eat and get back to work...by this time we had been working on these shirts for 4 hours. We had one shirt done and two shirts two throw away. Time to get going!! Finally Jordan gets the hang of ironing and completes another two shirts...then all of a sudden we hear a crack...the piece of glass from Marks coffee table had shattered. I place me hands over my mouth and lean back onto my chair and repeat over and over every swear word ever invented. Jordan starts crying (again) and is now scared Mark is going to come home and kill her. I'm thinking in my head, where will I go once Mark drops me off on the streets tonight. Then I hear my sister yelling "OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD" she tackles me to the ground and starts hitting my head...my pony tail had gone into the candle and my hair had gone up in flames! Let's just say I now have bangs. By this point I call up Mark and told him to pick me up 4 bottles of wine and whatever the other girls wanted to drink. By 9:00pm the shirts were finally done!! They turned out great but I will never ever do another craft project in my life!! Britney better appreciate this!