Tuesday, June 26, 2007
What's with Rain and Flip-flops??
So...here is my lesson for the day!! DO NOT wear flip-flops in a rain storm!! If you have read my earlier blog about our Target trip, you see that this is a problem for me. Well today, against my better judgement I ventured out to the mailbox...in the rain...in flip-flops! My driveway has an ever so slight slant to it, but when one adds water....and flip-flops....it is not suitable for the upright! Of course I was running, and I swear to god, I hydroplaned like a mother....and DOWN I WENT!!! Not one of my better moments, but atleast everyone was at work when I did it! NO WITNESSES. Anyway, now my rear is sore, and my pride alittle bruised, but otherwise just fine. There will be no more flip-flops in the rain!!
Saturday, June 23, 2007
Holy Heck...can you believe it...
Oh My Holy Heck!!! Let me just tell you the high that I am on right now.....So, you know I have made it my mission to get published this year...right?? Well, I was on a huge scrappin role, as you can see in my earlier blog....Well, I submitted so stuff to some pub calls this week and......drum roll please...........2 of my layouts were selected to be published in an online E-zine!! WOO HOOO! Now, this is not quite a print publication, but you know what, I will totally take it. Every little bit helps get your stuff out there! Once it's in there I will put the link here, so you can see it.
Then today, after a very long day of painting, I get home and check my e-mail.....there, waiting for me since 10am this morning is an email from Kelly Goree. For those of you who don't know who she is, well....she is a scrap Goddess!!!! She has an impressive gallery at SB.c under mama2my3princes...check out here work! BUT....she also works for Basic Grey....which brings me back to my point.....she has selected my "SOAR" layout to appear in the Basic Grey July newsletter!!!!! HOW FREAKIN' COOL is this!!! I am flying high right now!!!
Seriously....I know this is just a start, but hey!!! Whatever it takes baby!
I am totally excited about all this and it is just fueling my fire to make my publishing dreams come true!!
Then today, after a very long day of painting, I get home and check my e-mail.....there, waiting for me since 10am this morning is an email from Kelly Goree. For those of you who don't know who she is, well....she is a scrap Goddess!!!! She has an impressive gallery at SB.c under mama2my3princes...check out here work! BUT....she also works for Basic Grey....which brings me back to my point.....she has selected my "SOAR" layout to appear in the Basic Grey July newsletter!!!!! HOW FREAKIN' COOL is this!!! I am flying high right now!!!
Seriously....I know this is just a start, but hey!!! Whatever it takes baby!
I am totally excited about all this and it is just fueling my fire to make my publishing dreams come true!!
Thursday, June 21, 2007
All is right with the World..
Do you ever have those days when everything is just RIGHT with the world?? When no matter what is going on, it all seems to be good. Today has been one of those days for me. I went to my WW meeting this morning and found out that I had reached my first goal already!! I was totally stoked about that! It has only been 7 weeks and it is going fantastic! I can't believe how great I feel now...I can't imagine what it will be like in another 7 weeks!
In the last 24 hours I have been a scrappin' fool. I have done 4 layouts and a circle journal page, and they were almost effortless to get done. That NEVER happens. There is always one that hangs me up, makes me mad, or that I'm just not feelin'. Not this time...the mojo was flowin'. I posted a few samples so you could take a peek. I have submitted some to pub calls and a couple Design Teams as well. I am serious about trying to meet my goal of being published! I also submitted to Basic Grey and they have accepted all 3 that I sent them.....woohoo!!
I have been trying to sell this blasted bed that we don't need anymore for a few weeks, and today a lady called to come see it....and bought it!! woohoo!!
My kids, for all intensive purposes have been really good today. They have helped out folding the laundry, taking out the trash and the recycle...all without complaining! Not sure what they want, because they never do this stuff without throwing in a little bit of whining.
I got a phone call today from Michelle that just made me happy (sorry M, that's your word). This journey of new friendship has really hit home for me! It has been a looooong time since I have reached out and made a friend on my own, without some sort of crutch. I may sound crazy, but it has renewed a strength in me that I haven't seen in a very long time. This is right in line with my goal for myself this year. So far I seem to be on track.
I now have enough money saved to have custom....yep, CUSTOM, cabinets built for my scraproom! I have been waiting forever to get enough, and now....finally! They are in my sights! I can't wait to get them going!
Good Karma today!! Maybe I am finely over the struggle to find happiness again!
In the last 24 hours I have been a scrappin' fool. I have done 4 layouts and a circle journal page, and they were almost effortless to get done. That NEVER happens. There is always one that hangs me up, makes me mad, or that I'm just not feelin'. Not this time...the mojo was flowin'. I posted a few samples so you could take a peek. I have submitted some to pub calls and a couple Design Teams as well. I am serious about trying to meet my goal of being published! I also submitted to Basic Grey and they have accepted all 3 that I sent them.....woohoo!!
I have been trying to sell this blasted bed that we don't need anymore for a few weeks, and today a lady called to come see it....and bought it!! woohoo!!
My kids, for all intensive purposes have been really good today. They have helped out folding the laundry, taking out the trash and the recycle...all without complaining! Not sure what they want, because they never do this stuff without throwing in a little bit of whining.
I got a phone call today from Michelle that just made me happy (sorry M, that's your word). This journey of new friendship has really hit home for me! It has been a looooong time since I have reached out and made a friend on my own, without some sort of crutch. I may sound crazy, but it has renewed a strength in me that I haven't seen in a very long time. This is right in line with my goal for myself this year. So far I seem to be on track.
I now have enough money saved to have custom....yep, CUSTOM, cabinets built for my scraproom! I have been waiting forever to get enough, and now....finally! They are in my sights! I can't wait to get them going!
Good Karma today!! Maybe I am finely over the struggle to find happiness again!
Tuesday, June 19, 2007
I, SO ROCK!
OK, right now, I SO ROCK!! I just walked 5 miles!! I am usually lucky to get 1 or 2 in...but 5!! Never happens!!
Now, before you get all excited for me, you might want to hear the back story.....today I my kids have been demons! There has not been one minute of the day that they have not driven me completely up the flippin' wall!! Maybe it was me, maybe it was them, but whatever it was, it was not good. I barely made it thru dinner tonight without throwing forks at my oldest son! All day he has been throwing those pre-teen tantrums...here's an example....today we were at Target (yes, we go there alot). He didn't have enough money with him to buy what he wanted, but had the money at home. So, I had a 20 on me and gave it to him....I told him he could pay me back when we got home...no biggie right....OH NO!.....he spent 16 and change out of the 20. When we got home, he brought me 16....I said, honey you owe me 20! TOTAL freak out...WHAT.....THAT'S NOT FAIR.....YOU'RE TAKING TO MUCH MONEY....and so on! These were all the things he was yelling at me....Like I was trying to cheat HIM???? He got so mad, that my hubby had to intervene and settle the boy! I swear he should have been female! UGH!
So anyway, by the time dinner was over I had had enough, so I grabbed the i-pod and hit the road!! I kept walking, and walking and all I kept thinking was I SO DO NOT want to turn around and go back there to those monkeys!! But, then I decided that would be bad! So, 5 miles later I am home....and the kids are in bed! THANK GOD!
Now, before you get all excited for me, you might want to hear the back story.....today I my kids have been demons! There has not been one minute of the day that they have not driven me completely up the flippin' wall!! Maybe it was me, maybe it was them, but whatever it was, it was not good. I barely made it thru dinner tonight without throwing forks at my oldest son! All day he has been throwing those pre-teen tantrums...here's an example....today we were at Target (yes, we go there alot). He didn't have enough money with him to buy what he wanted, but had the money at home. So, I had a 20 on me and gave it to him....I told him he could pay me back when we got home...no biggie right....OH NO!.....he spent 16 and change out of the 20. When we got home, he brought me 16....I said, honey you owe me 20! TOTAL freak out...WHAT.....THAT'S NOT FAIR.....YOU'RE TAKING TO MUCH MONEY....and so on! These were all the things he was yelling at me....Like I was trying to cheat HIM???? He got so mad, that my hubby had to intervene and settle the boy! I swear he should have been female! UGH!
So anyway, by the time dinner was over I had had enough, so I grabbed the i-pod and hit the road!! I kept walking, and walking and all I kept thinking was I SO DO NOT want to turn around and go back there to those monkeys!! But, then I decided that would be bad! So, 5 miles later I am home....and the kids are in bed! THANK GOD!
Sunday, June 17, 2007
The Garage
OMG I am wiped out today! It was already 95 degrees out this morning at 10am and it only got hotter. I bought my hubby a garage organizer thingy, so today we spent the day in the garage putting it all together and ORGANIZING.....for those of you who don't know me...I have a little of an organizational issue...I LOVE to do it!!! I love all thing containers, and I REALLY love a good organizer system!! Hence, the reason that "I" was in the garage sweating like a pig putting all the stuff up....I think most women would be like....no honey, it's YOUR garage....YOU do it. Not me....I will organize anything! Now we are done, and it looks wonderful...and the bonus is I can get my car back in there again.
I have SO MUCH laundry to do, and I do not want to do it...but. Lily napped in my bed today, and pee'd in it...NOW, I have to do laundry....TONIGHT!! ugh!
As for this week...I am hoping to take it a little easy and maybe, just maybe get some scrappin' done...that would be fantastic...but, we'll see!
Okie Dokey, I'm tired and wanting to put the kids to bed so I can go to bed...catch you all tomorrow!
I have SO MUCH laundry to do, and I do not want to do it...but. Lily napped in my bed today, and pee'd in it...NOW, I have to do laundry....TONIGHT!! ugh!
As for this week...I am hoping to take it a little easy and maybe, just maybe get some scrappin' done...that would be fantastic...but, we'll see!
Okie Dokey, I'm tired and wanting to put the kids to bed so I can go to bed...catch you all tomorrow!
Saturday, June 16, 2007
Day #2
Day 2 of my new blog...I had oddles of things that I wanted to share today, but they all seems to have escaped my mind for the moment...figures!
So today My mother-in-law had a garage sale and I went to help her...it actually turned into me having a garage sale at her house, and her just throwing some stuff out there...why me is all I can say. But, I made pretty good money today so I can't complain to much!
Levi and I had to run to Target tonight to finish up Brian's Fathers Day present, and totally got stuck in a drenching downpour. It was quite the comedy of errors. First, we both had flip-flops on and the parking lot was completly full of standing water. Now, anyone who has ever worn flops knows.....they don't work well in water. So we take off running thru the parking lot like idiots, and both about hit the pavement!! Levi ended up losing a flop and running back to get it...then, we finally get into Target....soaking wet, and cracking up and then I slip on the tile...in my flops....and give all 326 people standing there at the check-out my best Nancy Kerrigan skating moves.....It was not my finest moment....but my dear son nearly pee'd his pants over the whole thing....I don't think we stopped laughing for an hour!!
Hoping to get some new layouts done this week...we'll see if that happens. I am really going to try and work at getting some stuff published, but it seems that you really need to be commited to the cause...which is the problem right now....I have no time...atleast not the kind of time I want to dedicate to layouts worthy of publishing. BUT, that is my goal for this year, and I am sticking to it!! If it kills me!!
and.....if you get a chance....pop over to
Michelle's Blog and tell her HI! ....and that I figured out the link thingy!!!
BWAA HAH HAH HAH!!!! (giggle)
So today My mother-in-law had a garage sale and I went to help her...it actually turned into me having a garage sale at her house, and her just throwing some stuff out there...why me is all I can say. But, I made pretty good money today so I can't complain to much!
Levi and I had to run to Target tonight to finish up Brian's Fathers Day present, and totally got stuck in a drenching downpour. It was quite the comedy of errors. First, we both had flip-flops on and the parking lot was completly full of standing water. Now, anyone who has ever worn flops knows.....they don't work well in water. So we take off running thru the parking lot like idiots, and both about hit the pavement!! Levi ended up losing a flop and running back to get it...then, we finally get into Target....soaking wet, and cracking up and then I slip on the tile...in my flops....and give all 326 people standing there at the check-out my best Nancy Kerrigan skating moves.....It was not my finest moment....but my dear son nearly pee'd his pants over the whole thing....I don't think we stopped laughing for an hour!!
Hoping to get some new layouts done this week...we'll see if that happens. I am really going to try and work at getting some stuff published, but it seems that you really need to be commited to the cause...which is the problem right now....I have no time...atleast not the kind of time I want to dedicate to layouts worthy of publishing. BUT, that is my goal for this year, and I am sticking to it!! If it kills me!!
and.....if you get a chance....pop over to
Michelle's Blog and tell her HI! ....and that I figured out the link thingy!!!
BWAA HAH HAH HAH!!!! (giggle)
Friday, June 15, 2007
Finally...Jumpin' In!!
So I am finally moving my blog over here! I have waited around for my hubby to get my site up and going so I could blog there, but...no luck! SO, I made a new one here!! Michelle has been after me for a while to get this done and I just haven't made the time...today...making time, and getting it done. Bare with me for a day or so until I can get it all set up. But, for now...here it is...my new blog!
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