One Nation, Under Stickers
I am easily amused. It’s true and verily documented. One of the many somethings that causes me to grin with glee? Stickers. Call it childish if you must (and I shall not be offended), but stickers make me happy. Especially when they say things like “Revolution between the lines,” “Talk nerdy to me,” and “The Internet changed my life.”
Jump back! right? There is an actual sticker that says “THE INTERNET CHANGED MY LIFE. Which, well, it surely did. And I didn’t just add all caps just then for emphasis. It really is written like that. Someone was quite excited about the statement. I get that.
Some of you may remember how naked my new bike helmet! was just one week ago?
Behold the not so nakedness:
Just in case you are thinking your eyes may be deceiving you, that sticker does indeed say “Juke Box Hero,” and (how awesome is that?) if you need me to sing it for full effect, I totally will. Also I will dance. Badly.
I did end up ordering a few more glee-producing stickers than I had remembered, which, I will admit, was half the fun of opening the envelope this afternoon: the sheer surprise! of it all, because I think sometimes I suffer short-term memory impairment. Or buyer’s remorse. Or both.
For the sticker-laden record, the “I left my heart in the middle of Oregon” sticker, the “Pirates rule Cannon Beach” sticker, and the reading is sexy sticker were all purchased up and down the Oregon Coast on our honeymoon. The pink skull-laden one came with a notebook I recently purchased, while the Birmingham Alabama sticker was bought years and years ago, when I first started doting on Chris, and before I understood geography that just because a city is in the same state as the one your boyfriend lives in doesn’t mean it’s “basically the same place.”
Not that we’re bitter or anything:
Nope, not even a little bit:
And I even ordered Chris some stickers, too, because I’m addicted to online shopping thoughtful like that:
Ah, sweet irony:
Oh, and then there was Flower, who is, as it were, not a sticker at all, but rather a button that reminded me of how enraged I felt when Bambi’s mother was shot by that heartless hunter so many Disney pictures ago, and well, nothing moves me to online purchase like angry nostalgia:
Also: One bonus! picture that has nothing to do with stickers in the slightest, but if it did I think it would be a sticker that read: “Free Balling.” And then maybe someone on background vocals could sing it to the tune of Tom Petty’s “Free Falling,” but that would not be required, of course, only heartily celebrated:
i have the “reading is sexy” tshirts.
love the stickers - i need to stay far far away from whatever website you got them from!
i was about to scream out “me, too!!”… but i realized, you’re into a whole different world of stickers than i am … i like the cute, innocent ones that you can buy in bulk [like with winnie the pooh and stuff] to put on my letters :)
oh btw… if you should sometime in the near future receive something in the mail that resembles stickers and that you haven’t ordered… that is from me :) it will probably not have my name on it anywhere.
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I will definitely keep my eye out. : ) I like those stickers, too. I just like mine BIGGER, and more statement-y. Definitely not a word, statement-y. But it should! be.
Kerri is to Sticker obsessed as Aly is to Threadless obsessed.
We also have matching doggy genital pictures today. We are completely awesome.
Now I want me some STICKERS!
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Do we? How did I miss that?! Am going back to look right.now.
OOOH! I need stickers for my helmet! I only have a few right now (my favorite one is “You’d look hotter in a helmet.”). Where do I get them? Where
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I got these at stickergiant dot com. If you can navigate through The Ugly that is their site, it is actually filled with quite an assortment of affordable stickers, most of them grouped categorically for easier discovery. I’m still on the lookout for some rad star stickers to fill in the blank (pink) spaces. I’ll keep you updated. : ) Oh, and also: I have a secret coupon code for free shipping from stickergiant if you want. Not that I just wrote that for all to see (anyone? anyone?) or anything.
You’ve reminded me about my sticker collection, which resides on the rack case that holds the my PA amp. I’ll have to photograph it and post the pictures later this week when I’m in an L-tryptophan-induced blog lull.
That’s hilarious about thinking some place is close by because it’s in the same state. That thought is not lost on us Texans :) Houston is five hours from us… so when people ask if I visit Houston much, I always think: About as often as I visit east Louisiana.
Those stickers are great. All of them.
Oh my gosh, those are awesome stickers! I love stickers too, but I only have the stupid girly ones to put on snail mail.
The “sorry I missed church” one had me literally laughing out loud. For at least 30 seconds. I also LOVE the Columbus one! Those are hysterical.
Sweet stickers!
And you? Crack me up :)
I love the Got Context? one.
I love the puppy more though!
This brings back memories of the sticker book album I had as a kid. My favourites were always the weird ones of food products or hygiene products like this:
http://www.wackypackages.org/bestof/liptorn.html
I was (and still am) kinda weird.
hee hee … you crack me up, in the best possible way!!
Hee! I love most of these, ESPECIALLY the one with the typewriter. Holy cow, that one’s cool.
When I was cleaning up our spare room last week, I found some bumper stickers I bought long ago, and one of them said, “I have animal magnetism. When I go outside, squirrels stick to my clothes.” Man, do I ever need a place to put that one.
I love this post. I love those stickers!
Love the stickers. I snorted at the Juke Box Hero cause I was singing that song earlier today.
Love your dog. He’s such a ham.
You have a LOT of stickers. But they certainly look fun! :)