the hoarder and hider of many things.

whitney likes to clean. especially before a party. this one party, she had cleaned the night before, the day of, five minutes before. mainly the kitchen because that is where the folks would be.

PAUSE: AS I'M WRITING THIS, I HAVE JUST BEEN TOLD THAT COURTNEY BRASHER HAS NEVER SEEN PRIDE AND PREJUDICE. 
WHAT. IT'S LIKE SHE HASN'T FOUND LIFE'S MEANING. THIS IS UNBELIEVABLE. 

the morning after the party, i'm leaving to go to work. it's about 7:30 and no one else is up. i go to get my last blueberry bagel. these bagels were so good. i go to where the bread usually is. no bagels. i look in the pantry. no bagels. i look in the cabinet with the flour, sugar, etc baking goods. it probably isn't in there but i just decided to see. no bagels.

 i know it's whitney caroline. i know she had to have put my bagel somewhere and it is not in any place that would be an acceptable alternate place for a bagel. so i relent. i go wake her up to ask her.

carlie: whitney, where is my bagel?
whitney: it's in the drawer below the coffee pot.

it's in the drawer below the coffee pot.

people should take note that this drawer is what we had labeled the "junk drawer". there are instruction manuals, lighters for candles, sharpies, etc. A PLACE TO PUT YOUR ODDS AND ENDS NOT BAGELS.

so this week, we had family stay with us for thanksgiving so naturally whitney, me and court(mainly whitney) made sure the house was presentable. wednesday morning, i'm showering. this is after whitney had cleaned. i do the shampoo, i move to grab my conditioner. it's not there. i can't find my conditioner. i literally say out loud, "whitney caroline." i get out of the shower and look underneath the sink, in the cabinet, look all around the shower to see if i just haven't seen it the first time around, nope. no conditioner. my hair is thick and i am SCREWED if i don't get conditioner in my hair.

i almost give up when i look down on the ledge of the bathtub and there it is, in all its glory, sitting in the middle of the ledge. we have a clear liner and then a shower curtain so you don't necessarily see things as clearly on the ledge of the bathtub. when i asked whitney about it, she said she WAS cleaning (so in some way i was right in that it was her) and moved it to the middle from its original place on the corner and decided that it was funny how it was in the middle and decided to leave it there for me to look frantically as i did. in some sad way, she defeated me.