Had an early start to my day today - my first foray into everyone's favorite expression of democracy; jury duty. Aside from rising at an un-holy hour (people, getting up before 8am is, to me, cruel and unusual punishment - so you can imagine how I felt when my alarm went off at 6am...), scrambling at the last minute to find childcare for the kids (thanks, mom!!), and risking a parking citation on my mom's car to park in the lot I was instructed to park in (which, turns out, was under construction and not exactly, really, especially OPEN to the public...), really aside from all that it wasn't too bad. Oh, except that I wasn't actually selected for any kind of jury and therefore consider the whole experiment a gigantic waste of my time. Now, I'm all for our country's hard fought judicial process -hence the reason I chose not to defer my summons to a later date in the first place. But really, there must be a better way. I did get paid a whopping $17.50 for my 5 hour time commitment, though!
So, with all that hard-earned money burning a hole in my pocket, I stopped at an antique shop on my way home and scored 3 of these cute little jars:
So all was not lost, I suppose. Not sure yet what I'll put in them - likely ribbons and other doo-dads. I just love the little closing mechanism on them and, at $3 a pop, decided to give them a new home. Welcome home, little jars!!
