About me

How much do you really know about me?

A lot, a little, none??? Well last night I found a bunch of questions on Katie the Scrapbook Lady's typepad. I thought wow, that would make a great page, then I see she says these would make a great page. Well they most certainly did.




I wonder how many actually knew any of these answers.

Hope you learned a bit more about me.

Ok no more torture

I'll tell you those 4 little words I heard last night that I thought I would never hear.

They were...."I got a job."

Doug is now the cashier at Nancy's Pizza. A job he applied for in early June, they never called, he went in to talk to the owner after a week and a half, in which she said well they aren't really looking for anyone right now. WHAT???? Then why have the sign up in the window??

Well yesterday he went to my mom's house and when he came out to the car, he had a missed call, no message so he called back saying someone from this number called me, and viola, he got the job over the phone. He even worked last night for 2 hours.
He works tonight for 2 hours, tomorrow for 2 hours and Friday a full shift!

Yipee now I can hear those words Ursula thought...I don't need money!
He can buy his gas, pay his insurance, and pay us for the car. Well the money was his from an inheirentance, but he will pay himself back. Shhhhh don't tell him that!

Ok, I've done two loads of laundry and a page. I'll show you. This was start it, leave it, come back and get some inspiration kind of layout. Not my best, but definetly a done page! Well no I can't, again blogger is funky with photos. I insert it and only get html code, not the picture.

Here's a stress reliever

It's bubble wrap. Go and pop some. You know you want to. You know you love to pop those little bubbles when you get them in a package. You know you've even thought about buying a package of bubble wrap just to have them around to pop!


bubble wrap

It is quite fun actually...I've had to save them into my favs!

My son said something today...

that I thought I'd never hear him say.

It was four little words that was music to my ears.

Can you guess what they might have been???

Huh, can you guess...remember he's only 16.
No, there wasn't any profanity involved.


Oh come on you can guess!
I should see lots of comments with your guesses,

Is the photo option working??

Yesterday I just wanted to add one photo, just one and after several attempts it just wouldn't work. I'm trying again today.
These are a few layouts I got done yesterday and today! I love "The D's" most of all.

Busy weekend

Wow, I didn't realize how busy I was until I got up today and had absolutely no energy.

Thursday I had a splitting headache, but had to work on cleaning my house and make a batch of homemade waffle cone bowls for our Saturday night party. Then I picked up my girlfriend Pam from the airport. We met up with Margert and had dinner. Wow what a fun night. I even showed them how to do the "pencil sharpener, the sprinkler, and the lawn mower" dance moves. I doubt they've ever laughed so hard in their lives!

Friday I met Pam, Margert, Ursula and Suzie at CHA, the craft and hobby industry's trade show. I walked around, made a new pin for my id lanyard, and a bracelet. When I went to Polar Bear Press's booth, I was the first to say "I saw your paper on your blog" and got a whole set of Ursula's new paper. There is a link to Ursula's blog on my sidebar.

OMG I walked around so much that my feet were absolutely killing me. I even wore my Nike walking shoes. Saw Jen Wilson's great paper at MME. OMG I may have to get me some even though I've gone digital.

Ran into Rhonna Farrar. She is so cute and talented. I've seen her there each of the past 3 years.

After I came home, I wrote my last 2 papers and then I was really, totally finished with my summer courses.

Saturday the boys helped me finish cleaning the house. Doug actually mopped the bathroom, kitchen and the living room. Well I'm so grateful and you may be thinking wow, but really it took him 15 minutes. My house is tiny. So even though it was small, it was a big help. He also went to the grocery store with the promise that I would let him pick out the cereal and the cookies! Oh and that he could get what ever he wanted for lunch. He got hot chicken tenders and tater baby potatoes. LOL

So I came home, unloaded groceries then started cooking & cleaning. Oh I found this most delicious and fast salad. Romaine lettuce, drained black beans, corn, salsa, shreaded cheese, ranch dressing then put some restaurant style tortilla chips on top. Seriously 15 minutes, start to finish. Next time I'm going to add some chicken before I put on the beans & corn and make it a meal for my family.

We'd been watching the weather all week because we wanted the party outside. After the beginning of the week being as hot and humid as the tropics, it cooled off and it was beautiful all day. Seriously just as the guests pulled up, the clouds opened up and started storming. After the terrential downpour, it did slow down enough to get the tables & chairs into the garage, dry them off, get the food outside and move the grill and umbrella over so we could cook. It actually cooled off again and wasn't bad. No bugs! So although it was rainy, it wasn't all lost. It just would have been cramped if we had been inside.

Ok, so after a busy weekend, I totally had no energy to move my butt off the chair. So I found the cord to my older digital camera, downloaded a bunch of pictures. Before I did that, I did this layout.

Ok, so I lied...blogger won't upload my photo. Grrrrrrrrrrrr

Tiki took the funk away!

I can't say for sure, I do really just want to stay home and do nothing, but I have gotten things done the past couple of days.

Yesterday I had to convert my teaching certificate from an initial to a standard teaching certificate. That means I've officially gotten the nod from the state that I'm not a loser teacher and I've successfully completed teaching 4 years. This is the year I'm up for tenure. UGH that means 2-3 observations this year. Even better than that, we found out that our principal was transfered and our assistant became principal. Not sure yet about a new assistant, but things will definately change this year. I guess I should feel confident because she observed me last year and things were great. Just the fear of the unknown and this year holds a lot.

Ok, enough of my tangent. So yesterday I also stopped at the bead store. I decided I was going to take apart my Heidi Swapp badge holder and the flower that was on it because the flower was way beyond wilted. I had planned on making a beaded badge necklace last year but got the HS one so I held off. Well this year I did it, I made a new badge holder. I also bought beads to make a second one. The girl at the bead shop showed me a way that I could put the rings on the holder, and use 2 clasps on the end of my wires and make the beaded part interchangeable. That girl was smart! I love that option! I have only made the clear one, and I don't feel like getting out the camera right now but I'll put a picture of it up soon.

While there, I also decided I was going to make a couple beaded bookmarks, one for me and one for my mom. I also found these cool little stone tiki head beads and some little budda beads. Now I know what a combination. Well the story goes like this. One year, my oldest found a pair of boxers at Old Navy that had tiki heads on it. Well I found another pair and kept them for his stocking. Now each year, he gets something "tiki" for Christmas. Well sometimes it is difficult to find tiki stuff, especially at Christmas so I decided to make him a tiki keychain. Something simple and not too tiki apparent, but something I knew would make him smile. So now Brian has always gotten something Elmo related since he was a baby, but now that he's 14, it is getting a bit babyish to keep up the Elmo gift. So this year, I thought we'd give him an Elmo gift and a Buddah gift and then switch him over to Buddah. He already has 2 Buddah figurines so I think it's appropriate. So he'll be getting a little Buddah keychain.

Well I finally made it to Target too. I felt like I was going kicking and screaming, but it came down to dire necessity. We did not have any, yes I mean ANY toilet paper in the house. Not even one square. So I had to go. Well while looking for some shampoo, I saw this lady carrying a 4 foot high, black, resin Tiki man! OMG I thought my eyes would pop out and I didn't want her to think I was staring, but I was. So when I made it to the back of the store, I found them! There were the tiki men. 12 of them sitting there with a red clearance tag on their foreheads. I'd just found the ultimate Tiki gift! Doug would DIE! See sometimes he says he doesn't like tiki but I know he does. So here I am pushing my cart with 24 bottles of water, detergent, toilet paper...triple roll ;), a huge bag of dog food across the top of my cart and a Tiki man! They helped me out to my car and while taking the cart down the ramp, tiki shifted, the dog food fell off and OMG I thought tiki was a gonner. Thank heavens for a 40 pound bag of dog food, it saved tiki's life! He rolled off the top of the cart and fell onto the dog food. Although there were 11 left in the store, they were all damaged. They were tacky tiki's. This was the best one. So now I'm driving around with a 4 foot tiki in my trunk covered by a blanket.

So I guess I'm sorta out of my funk, wouldn't you agree. It's kinda scary how some beads and a tiki could wipe away the funk. Oh well, I must go clean my leather furniture, company comes in 2 days.

Have a great day, I'll be at CHA all day tomorrow hanging with my Tipster girls! Can't wait!

How do I get out of a funk?

From the day school let out for the summer, I was in classes 4 days a week and working on a big project in almost every other waking moment. Last Thursday classes finally ended. I emailed the answers to my final but I still have 2 mini papers to write and have submitted by Friday.

Since the classes ended, I have not really done anything. Last Friday and Sunday I got out of my pj's. But last Saturday, yesterday and today I'm not out of my pjs. Big improvement is today I showered with the intention to going to Target. I mentioned going to Target yesterday, but didn't. I've even made my list, so maybe I'll get up and go. I have a ton of stuff to do but for some reason I cannot make myself get going. I was up early, it's not that I'm just sleeping and not getting up, I've been up since 7:45.

My mom told me I'm decompressing from such a busy year. Last year I took classes too and it took almost the whole month of july to unwind. Well this year, classes went 2 weeks longer and now I have to be back for training at school on August 21. I'm worried that if I don't get out of this funk, I'll spend my entire remaining vacation in my pjs.

We've decided that we're going to Vegas. I'm excited, I've never been there. I'm not excited that we'll be there in August. Well I'll see if there is a difference between a dry hot and a humid hot. I guess I'll be out of my jammies that week.

I'm going to CHA on Friday. Hope I get to see some really great new stuff. I am picking up my girlfriend Pam and we'll get to hang out Friday. My friend Suzie will be there too shopping for her store Scrapbooking Outside of the Box in Bend, Oregon. Thanks to Suzie, I've got my pass. I'll also get to see my other tipster friends Margert and Ursula. Ursula has designed a line of paper for Polar Bear Press http://ursulacpage.blogspot.com/

Ok, please give me some love and tell me how to get out of my funk. Maybe I should have a get me out of my funk contest.

Decisions, decisions

I can't decide which I like better.

Seems my life has taken a turn

to the not so busy life! Quite enjoyable, quite a shock to the system. I need to clean my house, and I've been working on laundry for the past 2 days. About 3 more loads I believe. We are having 1o friends over Saturday night so if I start today, I can have it cleaned and ready
by then. My plan is to make some of the food Thursday evening and go to CHA (Craft & Hobby Association) trade show on Friday to hang out with some good Tipster friends. Then Saturday I can finish up the food and a bit more cleaning and getting the outside ready. Since I moved,
my house isn't really conducive to entertaining any more. It's tiny, it's ok for us, but with 10 other friends it will be cramped if we cannot hangout outside.

I'm looking to grill everything and make some cool salads I think. Quesdillas are in order and I think some kabobs, both sausage & veggies and shrimp kabobs. Anyone have any good recipes for some fresh summer salads?? I'm also making waffle cups and we'll have ice cream for desert.

I have to go to Target, I need tp, detergent, a few other things and the bicycle streamers I totally forgot until today for my friend Susanna. OMG Susanna I'm so sorry. I'll go today or tomorrow.

Ok, here is what I've been working on lately.

2 post 1 day...

UNBELIEVABLE!!!!!!!!!

Not that I have anything more to say, I've just had
one super relaxing day. The kind of day where I'm
sure my butt expanded from sitting on it all day.
Seriously, it's 10:55 and I don't have to get ready
for bed, I've been in my jammies & robe ALL day!!

Well I did 2 load of laundry, changed my sheets and
watched 6 episodes of Sex in the City.

I post a layout that I did earlier, now here is another one.
I love this one so much more than the one I did earlier
today, but the one in the last blog entry is not the one
I am talking about. I love that one below a lot too!

First draft is DONE!

Yesterday morning, I printed out two copies
of my first draft of the case report I have to
write for my class. Technically I'm not done
because I know it will come back needing edits
but I think it is pretty good for a first time ever
of writing it. Next week is supposed to be the
last week of classes. YAHOO!!! But we got
an idication that the research/statistics
professor might tack on a couple of writing
projects because summer grades aren't due until
August..what's that about...done is DONE!

After being super stressed about the dumb
case report so I've not been doing too much
scrapping, but I pulled my laptop into the living
room, sat my big butt in the rocking chair and
turned watched The River Wild which is quite
suspenseful then Finding Neverland came on.
I had never seen that before and I thought it
was going to be quite boring from the beginning.
Then I had to leave to watch Doug play
softball with the church so I missed the last
20 minutes of the movie GRRRRRRR!
I found it on cable again when I got home so I
watched the entire movie again with Brian.
It is really becoming interesting when Brian
starts to notice foreshadowing. That is one of
those skills you can really refine when you've
seen a movie before.

Ok, now that I mentioned that I was
scrapping, here is my page!

She's grown up

This is a photo of my cousin's daughter.
She is about 2 weeks older than my son.
This girl went from being a bit ackward to beautiful.
She is very smart, she's at the top of her class. She's in the band and was selected to go to some super great writing program over the summer.

I think she was a bit camera shy, but on the third picture her personality popped right out.

I can't believe Doug and Callie will both graduate next year.

I hope she knows just how special she is.