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I've said it before and I'll say it again...Scrapbook Oasis is just the BEST! When I saw they were bringing a little new Hambly back from the show today I think I started shaking. :) I am so lucky to get my hands on some of this...I have no business playing with it right now since I'm hosting yet another baby shower March 3rd and the invitations need to be in the mail like yesterday...but I think I'm going to clean off my desk and see what happens. :)
Grocery shopping...putting away all the stuff I've been leaving out around the house...cleaning out the fridge...putting away more stuff...I have been super messy these last few days...getting ready for my sister's baby shower on Saturday (anyone have good game suggestions...please?)
I'd much rather still be hanging out with friends and seeing lots and lots of scrapbook supplies...
A whole bunch of little messy, blurry, too much flash photos...love seeing everything and everyone...I was lucky enough to meet a handful of people who were kind enough to tell me they read my blog...and how they kept me in their thoughts and prayers throughout last year's debacles...that meant SO much to me...as of a few days ago it's been a year since the whole adoption/birth-mom/Darby everything started happening and it's been kind of hard to deal with...like I've been able to push it out of my mind pretty well, but now there will be reminders...we met Roxanna and she said yes the day before I left for CHA last year...we found out Darby was a girl at an ultrasound that will be the same day as my sister's baby shower...it just goes on and on and it's kind of altogether pretty depressing...except for all the care and support that surrounds us...I have so many amazing people I can pour my heart out to anytime...including here, so thank you all again.
Of course it would have been more fun to just talk about new patterned paper right now, huh?
...went to lunch with my sister yesterday and we drove there in her in-law's Mustang convertible...with the top down on a warm day...I think I NEED a convertible now :)
...so happy to be spending today in pajamas & being sort of lazy
...but I've been straightening up around the house including filing away my Communications class papers now that it's over as of yesterday...and I ended up with an A (97% to be exact)
...I'm hoping the plants that I've been neglecting rejoin the land of the living after I gave them some water and put them in a Mac's bathroom to soak up some sun...I think they're starting to perk up a little...
...I'm excited about this weekend...I'm so lucky to get to go to CHA and even luckier that I've have friends to go with and see
...I uploaded some new layouts on Two Peas including this page...my entry for their "Why do I scrapbook" contest...
I took this last Friday afternoon on my way downstairs to catch Sean and Mac playing basketball...this was an old full-length mirror in my bedroom at my dad's house that the previous owners had left behind...it took me years to figure out something to do with it...hang it sideways halfway up our staircase.
So, you are looking at the girl that got a 96% on her midterm...thanks so much for all the luck. :) Of course my hand is totally cramped again tonight from writing out flashcards for Thursday's final...so I'll be cramming again all day tomorrow...this time part of the test is on communication with regards to technology...one of the answers actually is "blogging".
This class has been really good all things considered but I'm really ready to be done and take some other classes this weekend. :)
It was gorgeous out today...blue sky, puffy clouds gorgeous. Which made it hard to buckle down and do school work so that's why I'm up late finishing some up...more to do tomorrow too...no scrapbooking yet...being responsible really blows sometimes. :)
We finally got these today too...along with several other things to plant in the ground and hope they grow...
Love this time of the week...after school on Friday with the whole weekend ahead of you...especially love hearing a basketball bouncing on our driveway...it's been awhile since I've heard it with all the darkness and cold and winter-ish stuff.
Although I have a midterm and a final along with three more assignments next week for my last week of class, I'm going to try to really relish the opportunity to stay in my pajamas and relax this weekend because after this the next four weekends are crazy...like double and triple booked crazy...but it's all great stuff to look forward to.
Oh and definitely more typewriter...a.k.a. scrapbooking...time this weekend too :)
I went all the way up to class this morning to just sign a piece of paper and head back home since it was canceled...kind of annoyed I had drive all the way there when she has the ability to e-mail all of us...but I'm grateful for the extra 3.5 hours in my day...so far I've been spending it with this...my new favorite scrapbooking tool. I've been typing on everything I can think...love the sound of the keys...have to be extra careful about making mistakes and need to seriously stock up on correction tape. :) Other scrapbooking a little I'm going to head to lunch with my mom and her best friend...no class is good. :)
Oh...proof of my typewriter addiction...
I have been good...I did some school work and will do more tomorrow...I figured out that I have walked 12 miles in the last three days...2 miles in the morning and at night, which has been great even though it's freezing out...we actually saw ice on the sidewalk this morning which is unheard of around here.
I also altered this to organize gifts cards and various shopping coupons. I made something for grocery store coupons a couple years ago, but I needed a place for all the other stuff...I wanted something I could just toss in the car so I have it all when we're out and about instead of them being tucked in a drawer at home...one of those things I've been meaning to do for awhile so today I grabbed three pieces of patterned paper and a glue stick and went at it.
Ah, and the best part of all? I have one more day left of the weekend...which is good considering the bathroom is not quite finished and we haven't shopped for flowers yet...
So total randomness...
I have a paper towel full of clementine peels sitting in front of me because I am now obsessed with them...I don't really like oranges, but these are so freaking tasty.
Sean's painting our bathroom...we've had the can of paint for so long I can't even remember when we bought it...since it's a holiday weekend and Mac is at his dad's we can shower in his bathroom while ours is under construction.
I want to go get some flowers to plant in out front yard...I'm thinking pansies because they're supposed to be a cooler weather flower, right? That should ensure that our beautiful 50 degree weather will quickly make way for the high 80's and fry the poor little things.
I have nothing to do this weekend...and I LOVE it...maybe a little school work or house cleaning if I want to be good...we'll see...
It's cool and cloudy with the threat of rain, I'm in sweats and slippers, baby Shower #1's invitations went out in today's mail, and I have a four day weekend from school starting now...which means I feel like I have all afternoon and night to relax. I can do school work later, I can tackle the pile of paperwork on my desk later...I just have to decide if I want to lay in bed with a pile of magazines and a cup of tea or do I want to scrapbook? Tough decisions...
Oh my calendar is filling up...in the last few days I've committed to hosting a fondue party and two different baby showers...which I'm totally excited about, but it's going to take some seriously planning ahead to pull off. Of course then I go and see things like this that happen to fall on the same day as the aforementioned fondue party and I can't resist doing both in the same day...thankfully I have the best husband in the world who said he'd take care of party preparations (of course not without teasing me ruthlessly that I'm abandoning him) being that I'll be lucky to make it back just in time for the start of it...but I have been coveting her t-shirts for awhile now and the thought of learning how to make them from her makes me sooo excited! :)
I love having so many thing to look forward to, but I also crave those empty weekends...thankfully I get a couple more before the craziness starts...of course they're not exactly empty with all the school work I have to do...I'm about a third done with my essay now and can I just say that all my blog writing is really hindering my ability to correctly use the English language...things like my "..." dot dot dot laden run-on sentences and smiling faces :) don't really work in the academic arena.
For now I'm off to procrastinate some more...a.k.a. making dinner...I'll have to include the recipe sometime later...of course it's not really a recipe as much as it is a slab of meat sitting in beer and soy sauce all day...mmmmmm...
Oh yes, trust me, I've have got the moves. :)
I believe Sean snapped this as Mac and I were dancing last night to "Fergalicious" or maybe it was "The Twist"?
The three of us were at Camp yesterday for one of the two All-star Camper Escape (a.k.a. ACE Camp) weekends they host each year...it's basically camp in a day...we go bowling, see a movie, and have a DJ'ed dance...it's actioned packed and so much fun to catch up with everyone.
So today was just getting stuff done around the house...I figured out a dozen good ways to procrastinate on writing the essay I have due Wednesday...but I have to buckle down and finish it...or maybe it's more like start it...
One of my procrastination techniques was adding another couple recipes...and making another I-mix with the songs I love to listen to while I walk by myself in the mornings...which, since I'm in class now, I haven't been getting to do much of, but trust me I'll be up at 6:45am for my meeting with Denise...she's annoying, yet effective...now if I could just finally stop eating crap...
So I played interior designer tonight and made a super fancy sketch complete with a crayon rendering (it's supposed to be red, orange, green and blue, but this what I quickly pulled out of Mac's box).
We're finally painting Mac's room to match his new bedding...just one wall solid blue, but then another wall will have a strip of all four colors...leave it to Sean to pull something like this off.
The other thing I did tonight is make a new blog to share recipes (<------ I also put a link in the sidebar)...I started with a couple of recipes I used over the holidays and hopefully will get some more posted soon.
Sean just had to wipe Comet off my face (and my hair...and my glasses) because earlier I spent like 20 minutes scrubbing my kitchen sink.
It seems today I'm on crack and just want any and everything DONE...so I'm jumping from task to task...inventing lots of new ones along the way...when this happens I usually complain that I just want to sing "Spoon Full of Sugar" like Mary Poppins did and have everything finished... it hasn't worked yet.
I guess I just know this weekend will fly by...and it's Sean's last day at home...and my class is going to keep me really busy this month (but it's really good)...and I have things hanging over my head like the trip to the mall that I haven't made yet to return/exchange Christmas items...or having every last thing in this godforsaken house back in it's place for at least a minute or two...stuff like that. :)
If it's over 70 degrees out can it be called spring cleaning even though it's just the beginning of January? :)
God bless my husband who takes down the Christmas lights, weeds the front yard (although I did help a little), and then washes down the entire house when most guys would be watching bowl games...he just kept an eye on the Rose Bowl as he finished various tasks.
I just love when he's home...and thankfully he's still on vacation this week!
Funny that the first day of the year is my last day, but it is....today is my last day of freedom.
Tomorrow morning I start school for the first time in just over a year...just one class...but it's four days a week for a month and then the semester really gets started in February.
My mom got me this for Christmas to use a school bag...I loaded it with mechanical pencils and Magic Rub erasers...a fresh binder and notepad...which means I'm all ready to walk into a classroom tomorrow morning and be the oldest in the room by a good ten years...but what are you going to do? :)
So my plans for this last day of freedom? Stay in my pajamas...clean out our hall cupboards...watch the Rose Parade (the UofR has a float this year)...load the digital photo frame my sister got us for Christmas...and other various, random tasks...as you can tell it's packed with excitement!
