let's just call him Magnum P.I. from now on.
he checked on my phone through t-mobile & got all the numbers that had been called since i'd lost it friday night.
i had lost my phone 30 minutes away from home.
he called them.
he got names and figured out who took it and was using it.
and then talked to the thief's neighbor!
she said "what?! that is terrible! i will go and get it for you! that is AWFUL!"
and she called back with my phone.
Magnum drove to her house and picked it up and surprised me with it.
we are sending the neighbor a thank you gift!
he is awesome.
like….way awesome.
thanks MAG.
so yeah…….i googled magnum pi and there were over a million results for images.
a million!?!
that is pretty crazy.
and worthy of a picnik collage don't you think??
come on….you know you want THAT on your pinterest!
when i look at those pictures i feel like i am 6 years old.
my uncle had that mustache….my parent's friends had those….everyone!
can't you hear his voice in your head???? smoldery tom selleck…..mmmmm.
but you can't stop there……i had to YOUTUBE him.
and then i found you can find full episodes on hulu from season one!
oh my.
how was that for a monday morning post???
there was NO WAY you saw that coming.
🙂
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answers to the question on the photo collages above the summer list?
i posted about it here.
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chrissie grace has had a FABULOUS response to the fundraiser for Davis!
thank you so much for ordering from her shop so we can get Davis to his mommy!
amy was so surprised and happy.
she was crying and texting me.
loved that!
surprises are too much fun!
well……chrissie decided to be PURE awesome
and give 25% from ANY sale in her entire shop in june to davis's adoption.
what a beautiful heart chrissie has!
she answered some questions you may have about the pillow order on her blog.
i think i may need this….
and these two are really cute…..
25% of chrissie's sales in june go toward Davis's adoption fees through resses's rainbow!
i cannot wait to see davis in amy's arms.
Dianne Avery - Tom lives near me!!!!! And let me tell you he doesn’t disappoint in real life!! He is yummy. 🙂
angie - I think I’ve only commented on your blog once or twice, but I couldn’t resist commenting on a post about Tom Selleck! I grew up with that mustache! No, Tom Selleck isn’t my dad, but my dad had one just like it. But I think it’s the dimples that make it especially delicious.
So glad you found your phone! Your hubby is quite the sleuth!
jessicakiehn - gosh…don’t you just love awesome husbands? You are so blessed!
Kristin S - Never in a bazillion years would I have thought to call through the numbers. So smart! Brave neighbor too.
Aimee - Woot, go Magnum!
Speaking of, have you seen Waterfall-Selleck-Sandwich? I know I got the order wrong, but it’s too much trouble to retype it.
http://selleckwaterfallsandwich.tumblr.com/
Fun. 😉
megan - hahahahahaha! magnum….oh, how my 5-year-old self loved tom selleck and i wanted monica to end up with him so bad on friends! and, wow! that was some amazing detective work! good job hubbie!
blessings to you this day, meg…
megan
Courtney McIlwain - How cool is that!!! You have an awesome husband
deborah@applesinwonderland - i wasn’t ready for that shock. magnum. aw. but, craig? he does sort of rock, doesn’t he? you should fashion him a cape. he’s a SUPERHERO. that would be funny. would he pose for that pic? yeah, i just mustached my whole family on picnik. they didn’t think it was quite as hilarious as i did.
elz - Ah…Magnum. Sigh…So happy you found your phone.
amber - Amazing. Really amazing…
alicia @ la famille - that’s awesome! what a stud!!
Talia - Your husband rocks! And the neighbor who went after your phone — she rocks too! 🙂
Amy Lynne - Yay for Craig! That’s awesome!
jodi @ back40life - way to go magnum & way to go neighbor…you have some rockstars on your team! woo hoo!
kristen b - okay meg – this shows my “real” age, but i used to watch dear Tom EV.ER.Y. thursday night during my freshman year away at college while my roomie and i did our nails. a huge big family room full of young gals watched him too so i wasn’t the only one drooling. AND i hung his poster above my bed so he was the last thing/ i mean man, that i saw at night. ahhh. . .
i’m thrilled to know who i can call in the future for my local detective work!
Janine - Glad you got your phone back. I looove Tom Selleck. Me and my friend were the weird 8 yr olds who were in love with him on Magnum PI. Like it was his poster on the wall along with NKOTB. Loved the mustache. Yeah we were weirdos but he was and still is dreamy!
Oh and those pillows are amazing. I may be ordering 2 for upcoming Christenings. I think they will make a great gift for the girls.
Kimberly Dial - Really aging myself but here goes … Oh how I loved Magnum P.I. Tom Selleck still makes my heart go pitter-patter every time I see him!
Kimberly Dial - Really aging myself but here goes … Oh how I loved Magnum P.I. Tom Selleck still makes my heart go pitter-patter every time I see him!
jen - okay, that is the funniest thing i will see probably all week.
i have more of the western movies crush on him.
but your hubby rocks as does the neighbor.
that’s absolutely AWESOME!!
but the moustache, it does kind of creep me out a little, there’s too much of it!
rachel - that. is. awesome.
Tiffany - I want to send that neighbor a thank you gift. AWESOME!!! what does she like? how’s that for doing God’s work.
Kate - YEAH, your husband! YEAH, Chrissie (her shop is AWESOME!)! And as for the ‘stache. What is REALLY sad – is that it makes me think of my dad – he still sports on of those…
Chrissie Grace - oh my word…I laughed out loud at that story.
I’m not much of a mustache person…
Michelle from Australia - I’m so happy that your phone came home thanks to your SuperSleuth husband. WAY TO GO CRAIG!!!
Lisa - I cannot believe he was able to track down your phone!! That really does make him awesome. btw my dad totally looked like Tom Selleck back in the day. 🙂
Kacey - Way to go, Detective Craig! That is awesome!!!
happygirl - YOUR HUSBAND ROCKS. the mustache. I met Tom Selleck 20 years ago at the ProAm at Pebble Beach. I got to put a bandaid on his hand. I was twitterpated. He was So Handsome. But I was 20 years younger and pretty cute myself. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.
Cindy - GREAT you found your phone. Last school year an 8th grader walked my classroom after school when my door was open (I teach 6th, so it was just a random drive, I mean, ‘walk-by’) and long story short, I ended up tracking down my phone by having Sprint put a GPS track on it. I found the exact house where it was at, knocked on the door the next day w/my principal next to me and got my phone back. ha ha SUCKA!! and since then I pay $5 a month for contact back up. I wanted to cry when I thought about losing all those numbers!
jenni@talkinghairdryer - We just did that EXACT SAME THING when our son’s phone got stolen on the last day of school. Except we had to threaten to get the police involved before anyone was motivated to help us. They finally did help, though, and we got the phone back. My son dug in his piggy bank and gave the man a reward. He was glad to get the phone back, but bummed because the people who had it erased everything and he lost all his numbers 🙁
dotsie (aka podso) - What a guy (your husband) and T.S. isn’t bad either … thanks for the memories!
kat - Okay, you are seriously hilarious! I love your posts, they always make me smile. I just know we would be awesome friends in real life! 🙂 Your summer list inpires me each year to make one of our own. It is such a great idea. As always, thanks for all the laughs and the inspiration. Thanks for being awesome!
heidi @ wonder woman wannabe - that is so stink’n AWESOME! well done!
no lie, my hubby and i were just talking last week about how fun it would be to have the Magnum P.I. intro as a ring tone.
i think mr. duerksen must absolutely have it! ha! 🙂
miss lynn - to.tal.ly.awe.some.
what a man!!!!
Jenny B. - That’s amazing about your phone! He’s a keeper! 🙂 Love Magnum too. A channel here still shows it at least once a week, and we end up staying up late to watch it quite often. I just ordered the Isaiah 43 print from Chissie Grace. I had my eye on it a while back when you first posted about her shop on your blog. I’m so glad that it will help Davis and his family!
Angel/TaDa!Creations - So glad you got your phone back!
I hear Magnum too. We own seasons 1 and 2 and can’t wait to buy the rest. *sigh*
rachel / cr.e.at.e - that is TOO FUNNY about your thief’s neighbor! 😀 loved that story! also, my son’s name is davis. i know he would LOVE to help out a little boy named davis. he just saw a photo on CNN of a boy named davis who lost his home in the joplin tornado & he still brings it up – it really struck a chord. we’ll have to check out the shop together!
sam - Love magnum! Your post has made my day:-)
Glad you’ve been reunited with your phone – clever husband!!
Jennnifer - my ring tone for a long time was the magnum theme song… it just makes me happy. My dad is still rocking that mustache 🙂 Julie’s story above cracks me up. But it is a little scary. hahah.
stephanie - I LOVE that he tracked down your phone. What a guy. : )
And, I have bookmarked those pillows – I can’t afford them now, but I would LOVE to have one for each of my kids. Someday.
alyssa - my dad had that mustache!!
Kim Barlow - Way to go Craig!! Love the Summer List, the Pillows, and the BOO/YAY recount! Way to Rock IT OUT girl!
Kirsten J - omigosh he’s a hero! I think he should hang his shingle right now…you could be his cute assistant…and then Bravo could get wind and you’d have a series 🙂
Julie - Want to know some of my childhood trauma? My mom had this Tom Selleck poster http://www.flickr.com/photos/caramaya/2038028172/ in her armoire. Scandalous right? And weird. When I asked who it was, she said “if he shows up at the door I am leaving your dad for him.”
WHO SAYS THAT TO A KID????? Because believe you me, every time the doorbell rang, I was afraid that it was mustache man coming to take my mom away.
Thanks a lot Magnum.
Courtney Walsh - I have such a crush on Tom Selleck. Blue Bloods is one of our very favorite shows and he’s amazing in it. Seriously. Sooo glad you got your phone back! 🙂 I wish someone would steal mine. I need a new one. ha.
Debbie - I love this post! Hot.
And I love those pillows!
Cathy - I love Tom Selleck! Did you know he’s on a show on CBS called “Blue Bloods” right now. Well, I guess it might be done for the summer but you can watch episodes on hulu. I love the mustache and the dimples.
jen - WoW he does have mad detective skills… I am glad you got your phone back unharmed and lets hope you don’t start getting a bunch of calls from the yahoo who found its friends… hahaha Happy Monday!
melanie - wow that neighbor sounds awesome! glad she could help and yay for good husbands who save the day.
BriBedell - This post is awesome. Seriously, can we be friends in real life? Lol glad you got your phone back 🙂
Karen Gerstenberger - What a great “Craignum P.I.” you have! Good work, Craig!
I loved that show…had a BIG crush on Tom Selleck. I was a very serious student in college, but during my senior year, we used to start the weekend early by watching “Magnum” on Thursday nights! Woohoo! Getting pretty wild there! =) – I am wilder now (in my 50s) than I was then. Thanks for the walk down memory lane, and the eye-candy! That guy STILL looks great.
Necole - No man could wear those sexy khaki daisy dukes like Magnum PI. What a yummy way to start a Monday. Thanks
Jennifer - That is really awesome-I love it when people have the stones to stand up and go after someone who does wrong. So very cool!
Jennifer - Yeah. George’s got nothing on Tom! 🙂
SO glad that your own personal Magnum got your phone back for you. That totally ROCKS!
And I’m thinking Magnum P.I. might be the show we watch for the summer with our two older boys. Too fun!
pam - GLORY, what a grand way to start the week! And can I say WOO HOO about HULU! LOVED that show!
Lorilee - We keep our phones “locked” with a password to make it more difficult for someone to use if they find it! My husband once found and returned 2 phones in one week.
Blessings,
Lorilee
robin - I ordered a print from her site when I saw your first email, and was sad that I wasn’t contributing to the 25% pillow discount, but I couldn’t pass up the print. Now I know it counted towards Reece’s Rainbow, too. Awesome!
amy d - it’s gotta be that he’s named craig…they make awesome detectives! glad you got your phone back…i would freak if i lost mine! craig in the stash is creeping me out though… 🙂
Linda - YAY….What a way to start a Monday! 🙂
Terrie G - Blue Bloods…friday nights…just sayin’! You are so lucky to be married to Magnum’s twin! And he could probably have a full time job as a phone locator p.i.!! So glad you got your phone back…unless you did lose it on purpose. 🙂
Siobhan aka Kiwivandal - I have a laundry list of things that have “gone missing” if you feel like lending him out? No. 1 on the list is the powercord to my computer, that my kids swear “got up and walked away, Mom”
Sarah @ Handbags*N*Pigtails - Bwahahahahahaa…Magnum. I used to watch that show every day after school when I was little. Good times!
I just may have to ask for Craig’s John Hancock if I ever meet him in person. Afterall, hes a total hero. Ive lost different cell phones three different times. And I feel like Im missing one of my kids when I do. Glad yours is back. Poo poo on the person who stole it. YAY for the awesome neighbor who retrieved it:)
Holly - ha! That is too funny! Glad you got yoru phone back!
Chelsea - Awesome news all around! SO HAPPY you found your phone and about the fundraising, HAPPY MONDAY!
amy b. - ok, that Magnum montage brought back alot of memories! Loooved that show!! The 80’s were totally Awesome! Glad you got your phone back! That mustache on your husband cracked me up!!Funny!
Gemma @ Musings of a gem - Yay! So glad you found your phone : )
What a hero !
Gemma x
Courtney - That’s great! I got a “lewd” phone call the other day and went totally Magnum on that guy’s butt. Found the “unlisted” number and turned it over to the cops who were looking for him. Felt great! I like to be called Nancy Drew now 🙂
Niki - Don’t you love it when your husband turns out to be your hero!!!!! Awww! That is PURE awesomeness!
Kerry - Wowwwee! Go Magnum aka Craig! thats awesome 🙂
Love the love that is being spread through your blog, the pillows are just too gorgeous and for such a great cause.
LOVE that rainbow book, if shipping doesnt work out too expensive i may just have to order myself one 🙂
Have an awesome day meg,
kerry x
Helen Wall - MAGNUMnumnumnum!!!