I must confess, this has been on my mind all night and it wasn't very nice to say!~ I guess I don't think that I am smarter than DH it's just that maybe I have a wee bit more common sense! He got home and sat at the counter crunching numbers for next years benefits package while I finished cooking supper. I just love it when we do this. We take turns cooking and the other one sits and talks to them.
I won't ever know if I could excel in physics or math because I have no desire to try! On the other hand DH worked at awful subjects like all of those weird organic/inorganic chemistry, and who knows what all. He is an excellent writer and I can take some lessons from him. I think my writing is about a 5th grade level, so no, I'm not smarter than a 5th grader!
I'm good at trivia, so I score points when I help him get some medical question right on his triva game and I'm pretty good at Bible questions too!
Everyone is different, I guess that's what makes life interesting. After hauling in a terribly heavy K & Company display rack from the garage, I planned to put the thing together. I must digress and wait for my man to get home and put it together for me. I feel certain that I could do it if I had the right tools and I were a little stronger BUT I can't find my hammer! For now, I'll not blame him for taking it and not putting it back as it is probably under the heap pile of stuff in my scrap room. Off to the shower, dress for the day and tackle this room. There's plenty for me to do without having that cabinet put together, although it would be more fun if I could organize it rather than just delegate items to a bin that will go in it once it's together!
Off to the shower!
Wednesday, November 07, 2007
Tuesday, November 06, 2007
I've Been Tagged!
I've been tagged by
Here are the rules which must be posted on your blog if you are tagged:
1. Link to your tagger and post these rules.
2. Share 7 facts about yourself: some random, some weird.
3. Tag 7 people at the end of your post and list their names (linking to them).
4. Let them know they've been tagged by leaving a comment at their blogs.
My random things...
1. I took my first commercial airline flight alone with my little sister when I was in the sixth grade. I've been flying alone and with others ever since. It's one of my favorite things to do.
I tag: Jennifer, Amy, Jana, Dana, Meredith, Bev because she needs to play this again, Denise, and You (because everyone should get to play!!!).
Here are the rules which must be posted on your blog if you are tagged:
1. Link to your tagger and post these rules.
2. Share 7 facts about yourself: some random, some weird.
3. Tag 7 people at the end of your post and list their names (linking to them).
4. Let them know they've been tagged by leaving a comment at their blogs.
My random things...
1. I took my first commercial airline flight alone with my little sister when I was in the sixth grade. I've been flying alone and with others ever since. It's one of my favorite things to do.
2. I wish Walt Disney had never built Disney World!
3. Being over 50 isn't bad at all!
4. I drive my car fast when my husband isn't in the car with me.
5. I was made in Germany.
6. I like my new friends better than my old friends.
7. Secretly I think that I am smarter than my husband even though he was valedictorian of his class and has a degree in engineering!~
I tag: Jennifer, Amy, Jana, Dana, Meredith, Bev because she needs to play this again, Denise, and You (because everyone should get to play!!!).
Wow, looks as if I have really neglected my blog! It's a good thing though! I've been spending much less time online and more time living life.In the past few months much has happened.
DD has graduated from nursing school and passed her boards. She is now an RN!
DS is living with his girlfriend and she is wearing a diamond ring. The date for their wedding is set for April 26, 2008. I'm also becoming a grandmother as future DIL has a sweet little 3 y/o.
Spent the month of October entertaining friends and attending CKU in Orlando. We went to the beach from there to enjoy a few more days!
I spent a lot of time in "therapy" trying to get out of this mess my life up to now has put my into. Learning how I got where I am. Also had marriage counseling with DH. We found that we really are on the same page but just needed a little professional help to get the conversation going properly. Things are better.
I've begun my Christmas shopping and have it mostly completed. Transitioned my scrap room back from the dining room to the little bed room so I can have formal dinners again. It's a good thing to see the family growing again. My DS and her family are actually coming for Christmas. They will stay next door with mom. I can only take so much!~ KWIM!
The wedding upcoming in April is bringing a secondary problem in that my DMIL will be coming to pay us a visit! After three weeks of togetherness with her in July of 2006, I have been up to my eyeballs with MIL! I'm so thankful she lives so far away. My SIL and BIL are also coming. They will be visiting their son at Patrick AFB where he is stationed. Then they will come over to join us for the wedding festivities! I plan to put them up in a nice hotel and call it good! Last time DMIL stayed at our house she slept on the living room sofa the whole time and would come into DH and my bedroom at night with a flashlight to use the bathroom. Geeze, I know she is antisex but DH certainly is not. What is she thinking?
Do you see how my mind and thoughts wander? That's how my brain is. My new BFF gets a kick out of it as I hop from one topic to the next! I'll try to do better about blogging. Maybe less time posting on the MB's and more time posting on the blog!
Love the way Alicia always ends with lights out! Can't really say that now. It's lights on for me! The only thing constructive that I have done today is to make my bed. That's progress! Off to the shower, dress, make chili for supper and the day is mine!
Dangit, just remembered I have to go talk to Maybell at 2:00 PM. Crap!
DD has graduated from nursing school and passed her boards. She is now an RN!
DS is living with his girlfriend and she is wearing a diamond ring. The date for their wedding is set for April 26, 2008. I'm also becoming a grandmother as future DIL has a sweet little 3 y/o.
Spent the month of October entertaining friends and attending CKU in Orlando. We went to the beach from there to enjoy a few more days!
I spent a lot of time in "therapy" trying to get out of this mess my life up to now has put my into. Learning how I got where I am. Also had marriage counseling with DH. We found that we really are on the same page but just needed a little professional help to get the conversation going properly. Things are better.
I've begun my Christmas shopping and have it mostly completed. Transitioned my scrap room back from the dining room to the little bed room so I can have formal dinners again. It's a good thing to see the family growing again. My DS and her family are actually coming for Christmas. They will stay next door with mom. I can only take so much!~ KWIM!
The wedding upcoming in April is bringing a secondary problem in that my DMIL will be coming to pay us a visit! After three weeks of togetherness with her in July of 2006, I have been up to my eyeballs with MIL! I'm so thankful she lives so far away. My SIL and BIL are also coming. They will be visiting their son at Patrick AFB where he is stationed. Then they will come over to join us for the wedding festivities! I plan to put them up in a nice hotel and call it good! Last time DMIL stayed at our house she slept on the living room sofa the whole time and would come into DH and my bedroom at night with a flashlight to use the bathroom. Geeze, I know she is antisex but DH certainly is not. What is she thinking?
Do you see how my mind and thoughts wander? That's how my brain is. My new BFF gets a kick out of it as I hop from one topic to the next! I'll try to do better about blogging. Maybe less time posting on the MB's and more time posting on the blog!
Love the way Alicia always ends with lights out! Can't really say that now. It's lights on for me! The only thing constructive that I have done today is to make my bed. That's progress! Off to the shower, dress, make chili for supper and the day is mine!
Dangit, just remembered I have to go talk to Maybell at 2:00 PM. Crap!
Tuesday, August 14, 2007
It's a New Day!
After practically an entire summer off I have decided to pick up my blog again and get rolling. The fact that my isp changed didn't help! But that's taken care of now.
Without spending literally hours of time doing so, perhaps I can update and make my blog a place you want to visit.
At risk of baring myself too much I am going to approach the subject that is heavy on my heart!
My weight! For quite a while I kept the same weight and although it wasn't as low as I would like it to be I had nice clothes and felt good about myself. When my father died I packed on 10 pounds which has turned into 25 pounds. Yes, some of it has to do with my medications but mostly it has to do with me! I just feel as if I can't address my weight along with all the other issues in my life!
Well, I am wrong! I am a packaged deal and it all works together. I have decided to try to Scrap the Fat!
This summer I have been swimming a lot. Haven't lost any weight but it makes my head so much more clear. It makes me happy to be in the sunshine as hot as it may be, I love the sun.
I got my heel spur treated in January before my trip out West and now on July 4 it started giving me fits again. I've gotten two more shots and am improving but I must be able to walk when the weather cools down a bit. I need to burn some calories.
I've really tried to control what is available to eat in the house and to eat healthy foods in proper portions.
I've been off Lunesta for more than a month and beside being able to sleep just as well and wake up easier in the AM I have stopped binge eating late at night. I never have been one to eat in the night but for some reason I would be so hungry on this medication that I would get up and just pig out! I've even woken up in the morning with a slice of bread and butter in the bed with me.
I didn't say this was going to be all pretty. I feel like I'm really putting myself out for ridicule in some way. I'm sure no one would ridicule me to my face and really doubt that my dear friends would discuss this amongst themselves except perhaps in a caring way.
I have found out that Lunesta does have this side effect after learning it on a TV advertisement. I will say as much as I hate advertising pharmaceuticals this was a relief for me to find out and my primary reason for stopping the medication! I was too ashamed to even talk to my physician about this as I am so embarrassed!
That's enough for now, talk to ya later!
Without spending literally hours of time doing so, perhaps I can update and make my blog a place you want to visit.
At risk of baring myself too much I am going to approach the subject that is heavy on my heart!
My weight! For quite a while I kept the same weight and although it wasn't as low as I would like it to be I had nice clothes and felt good about myself. When my father died I packed on 10 pounds which has turned into 25 pounds. Yes, some of it has to do with my medications but mostly it has to do with me! I just feel as if I can't address my weight along with all the other issues in my life!
Well, I am wrong! I am a packaged deal and it all works together. I have decided to try to Scrap the Fat!
This summer I have been swimming a lot. Haven't lost any weight but it makes my head so much more clear. It makes me happy to be in the sunshine as hot as it may be, I love the sun.
I got my heel spur treated in January before my trip out West and now on July 4 it started giving me fits again. I've gotten two more shots and am improving but I must be able to walk when the weather cools down a bit. I need to burn some calories.
I've really tried to control what is available to eat in the house and to eat healthy foods in proper portions.
I've been off Lunesta for more than a month and beside being able to sleep just as well and wake up easier in the AM I have stopped binge eating late at night. I never have been one to eat in the night but for some reason I would be so hungry on this medication that I would get up and just pig out! I've even woken up in the morning with a slice of bread and butter in the bed with me.
I didn't say this was going to be all pretty. I feel like I'm really putting myself out for ridicule in some way. I'm sure no one would ridicule me to my face and really doubt that my dear friends would discuss this amongst themselves except perhaps in a caring way.
I have found out that Lunesta does have this side effect after learning it on a TV advertisement. I will say as much as I hate advertising pharmaceuticals this was a relief for me to find out and my primary reason for stopping the medication! I was too ashamed to even talk to my physician about this as I am so embarrassed!
That's enough for now, talk to ya later!
Monday, May 14, 2007
Cagon, take me away!
I'm so disappointed. Yes, I am. Maybe it's a good thing~I can concentrate on my own projects! I learned a lot and I think that Bev and I nailed Stacey Julian. Stacey is so much more of a philosophy than someone you can "lift"! Where's the critique? How do I know why and how to improve. Yes, I am disappointed!
Cut the Strawberries into Squares!
here is a reason for my BLOG name! The beach isn't just sun, surf, and sand! There are sandspurs and if you don't know where they are you'll get them in your feet. I know where they grow but once in a while one gets into my foot and it hurts!
This is not going to be a pretty BLOG so bear with me or skip it if you prefer!
While on my trip to Seattle and Texas my DH was roped into planning a 50th birthday party for one of his best friends who also happens to be one of his inspectors. I'm going to call him Bert. Bert has a girlfriend who lives in Orlando where we all used to live before they sent us to this Podunk part of the state to begin paving the planet here. Warning I ramble!
Bert has never been married and for that fact I have never known him to have a steady girlfriend. He is not gay but chose to be unmarried because he has neurofibromatosis which is a genetically linked condition, some know it as elephant man's disease...At any rate. Bert has been dating Dora for about five years now.
Friday AM I had to drive back up to Orlando to "help" prepare for the party! This woman had planned for 50 people. She had already baked brownies, cookies, and ordered a birthday cake.
She had platters of fruit and veggies. Chocolate and Cheese fondue, olives, pickles, crackers, cheese, M$M's, liquor filled chocolates, mints, potato salad, Cole slaw, rolls, baked beans, BBQ chicken she bought at Sonny's and a huge beef smoked brisket that my DH not only bought and paid for but smoked. She got all freaky when I was putting the brisket into the crock pot and using the BBQ sauce I bought and brought for the beef! I said, "don't worry, I'm not using it all, just enough so the brisket won't dry out!
Anyone who knows me knows that I AM NOT A MORNING PERSON! She knows that at chose to get up at 6:30 AM and head out to the grocery store to pick up the cake and whatever! She came home with I swear 10 packages of potato rolls! We already had white and wheat rolls from Sam's club but that was to cut up for the fondue! She looks me straight in the eye and says, "See, this is why I get up early!" I looked her straight in the eye and said, "Dora, I can not get up this early!. Talk about looking a gift horse in the mouth!
I throw on my jeans and T-Shirt, no shower, no make up, no hair and we jump in the car. We have to haul her two cats in my Lincoln, that I DON'T EVEN LET MY DOGS RIDE IN to a friends house to get them away during the party! Then we go to P/U the chicken, buy about ten16 pound bags of ice, that I get to load into the car b/c she is having a pain! Then we bring them home.
Now we get to the cutting of the strawberries!~ Not only did I sit and cut every known veggie up but got to learn how to entertain! LOL! Where does she think I was raised, on a farm? OK, she runs the fork the length of the cucumber and says, "I'm going to show you how to make cucumbers decorative", biting my tongue at this point, slicing the cukes as ordered, my tongue is dripping blood.
Now, the strawberries. "Cut them in quarters, they're big!" OK, so I cut the first quart into quarters. NOT LIKE THAT SQUARES!' Well, I still don't quite know how you make squares out of strawberries but I guess she got the picture or I did it right because it's quiet now.
The time is pushing 3:00 PM and I'm still cutting bread and pound cake and angel food cake....I said, "Dora, when do I get some primp time?" She said, I could be excused! I am not a fast primper either!
I iron my skirt and shower, shave, blow my hair dry, curl it... you know the drill and dress for the pretense that we are going to RUTH CHRIS to celebrate not only Bert's 50th birthday but DH and my 16th wedding anniversary! All this for a party that reminds me of a half breed poodle mixed with a pit bull!
Oh, I'm not sorry that I've vented this fiasco, I've left out many details that just basicly fried my ass to get done with this. This is the land of the free and the home of free speech and I don't mean to offend anyone. To my knowledge neither of these parties knows what a blog is or even cares about the internet! Except Bert does like porn! I also won't go into the details about Dora complaining that Bert has been with the company longer than others yet gets paid less because he is not a good test taker and has street knowledge that should be recognized. Doesn't she have the sense to know that we can't put people on jobs that require certifications that they don't have because they aren't good "test takers"! I shut my bosses wife mouth up!
This is my last remark, for this post, I promise! The thing that hurt me the most was finding "A Year in Review" Scrapbook with a custom cover that I made Dora for Christmas stuck on the top shelf in the bedroom where DH and I stayed. That is the last thing I will ever make her. From now on I think I'll regift the dollar store special's she gives me!
TACKY~TACKY~TACKY!
This is not going to be a pretty BLOG so bear with me or skip it if you prefer!
While on my trip to Seattle and Texas my DH was roped into planning a 50th birthday party for one of his best friends who also happens to be one of his inspectors. I'm going to call him Bert. Bert has a girlfriend who lives in Orlando where we all used to live before they sent us to this Podunk part of the state to begin paving the planet here. Warning I ramble!
Bert has never been married and for that fact I have never known him to have a steady girlfriend. He is not gay but chose to be unmarried because he has neurofibromatosis which is a genetically linked condition, some know it as elephant man's disease...At any rate. Bert has been dating Dora for about five years now.
Friday AM I had to drive back up to Orlando to "help" prepare for the party! This woman had planned for 50 people. She had already baked brownies, cookies, and ordered a birthday cake.
She had platters of fruit and veggies. Chocolate and Cheese fondue, olives, pickles, crackers, cheese, M$M's, liquor filled chocolates, mints, potato salad, Cole slaw, rolls, baked beans, BBQ chicken she bought at Sonny's and a huge beef smoked brisket that my DH not only bought and paid for but smoked. She got all freaky when I was putting the brisket into the crock pot and using the BBQ sauce I bought and brought for the beef! I said, "don't worry, I'm not using it all, just enough so the brisket won't dry out!
Anyone who knows me knows that I AM NOT A MORNING PERSON! She knows that at chose to get up at 6:30 AM and head out to the grocery store to pick up the cake and whatever! She came home with I swear 10 packages of potato rolls! We already had white and wheat rolls from Sam's club but that was to cut up for the fondue! She looks me straight in the eye and says, "See, this is why I get up early!" I looked her straight in the eye and said, "Dora, I can not get up this early!. Talk about looking a gift horse in the mouth!
I throw on my jeans and T-Shirt, no shower, no make up, no hair and we jump in the car. We have to haul her two cats in my Lincoln, that I DON'T EVEN LET MY DOGS RIDE IN to a friends house to get them away during the party! Then we go to P/U the chicken, buy about ten16 pound bags of ice, that I get to load into the car b/c she is having a pain! Then we bring them home.
Now we get to the cutting of the strawberries!~ Not only did I sit and cut every known veggie up but got to learn how to entertain! LOL! Where does she think I was raised, on a farm? OK, she runs the fork the length of the cucumber and says, "I'm going to show you how to make cucumbers decorative", biting my tongue at this point, slicing the cukes as ordered, my tongue is dripping blood.
Now, the strawberries. "Cut them in quarters, they're big!" OK, so I cut the first quart into quarters. NOT LIKE THAT SQUARES!' Well, I still don't quite know how you make squares out of strawberries but I guess she got the picture or I did it right because it's quiet now.
The time is pushing 3:00 PM and I'm still cutting bread and pound cake and angel food cake....I said, "Dora, when do I get some primp time?" She said, I could be excused! I am not a fast primper either!
I iron my skirt and shower, shave, blow my hair dry, curl it... you know the drill and dress for the pretense that we are going to RUTH CHRIS to celebrate not only Bert's 50th birthday but DH and my 16th wedding anniversary! All this for a party that reminds me of a half breed poodle mixed with a pit bull!
Oh, I'm not sorry that I've vented this fiasco, I've left out many details that just basicly fried my ass to get done with this. This is the land of the free and the home of free speech and I don't mean to offend anyone. To my knowledge neither of these parties knows what a blog is or even cares about the internet! Except Bert does like porn! I also won't go into the details about Dora complaining that Bert has been with the company longer than others yet gets paid less because he is not a good test taker and has street knowledge that should be recognized. Doesn't she have the sense to know that we can't put people on jobs that require certifications that they don't have because they aren't good "test takers"! I shut my bosses wife mouth up!
This is my last remark, for this post, I promise! The thing that hurt me the most was finding "A Year in Review" Scrapbook with a custom cover that I made Dora for Christmas stuck on the top shelf in the bedroom where DH and I stayed. That is the last thing I will ever make her. From now on I think I'll regift the dollar store special's she gives me!
TACKY~TACKY~TACKY!
Thursday, May 03, 2007
The rules: Each player starts with 7 random facts/habits about themselves. People who are tagged need to write on their own blog about their seven things, as well as these rules. At the end of your blog, you need to choose 7 people to get tagged and list their names. Don’t forget to leave them a comment telling them that they have been tagged and to read your blog!
ONE: I hate dial up and all problems related to computers. I want my computer to work perfectly and I want a laptop that no one else monkeys with!
TWO: I was once a very good musician. I played the piano and the French horn. I was paid to play for different churches and was able to travel to Jamaica to perform. I used my piano playing as a cathartic means and wish with all my might that I could have a decent sounding piano and begin to plan again!
THREE: I worked as a registered nurse for almost 30 years in the operating room before I allowed myself to quit working, well, DH did have some say in the matter!
FOUR: I love to design scrapbook pages and do paper crafts. I would love to have enough work to support my love of travel and numbers one and two!
FIVE: I am thankful for having lived more than 52 years and thankful that my two children love me. I am thankful for a wonderful mother and last but not least my husband who puts up with me.
SIX: I eat cheerios and skim milk for breakfast almost every day.
SEVEN: The internet has changed my life and opened up so many doors. I am thankful for the many many girlfriends that it has put me in touch with!
I'm tagging Jennifer, Julianna, Dana, Molly Brown, Meredith, Jana, Julie!
This may take a few days to get the word out!
ONE: I hate dial up and all problems related to computers. I want my computer to work perfectly and I want a laptop that no one else monkeys with!
TWO: I was once a very good musician. I played the piano and the French horn. I was paid to play for different churches and was able to travel to Jamaica to perform. I used my piano playing as a cathartic means and wish with all my might that I could have a decent sounding piano and begin to plan again!
THREE: I worked as a registered nurse for almost 30 years in the operating room before I allowed myself to quit working, well, DH did have some say in the matter!
FOUR: I love to design scrapbook pages and do paper crafts. I would love to have enough work to support my love of travel and numbers one and two!
FIVE: I am thankful for having lived more than 52 years and thankful that my two children love me. I am thankful for a wonderful mother and last but not least my husband who puts up with me.
SIX: I eat cheerios and skim milk for breakfast almost every day.
SEVEN: The internet has changed my life and opened up so many doors. I am thankful for the many many girlfriends that it has put me in touch with!
I'm tagging Jennifer, Julianna, Dana, Molly Brown, Meredith, Jana, Julie!
This may take a few days to get the word out!
Monday, April 30, 2007
Now We Can Celebrate!
Yesterday was a day that every parent waits for. Kind of bitter sweet, naw, it was SWEET! I'm so proud of my girl! She has worked so hard and only three more months until she takes boards and becomes an RN!
She gets her wisdom teeth out Wednesday so mama get's to play nurse again! I dread it for her but I know she'll survive! Good thing they took all four of mine at the same time or I wouldn't have gone back! I'm not telling her that, though!
Wednesday, April 25, 2007
Better But Not Perfect!
Time for a happy blog! I've been feeling so much better again this week! I've gotten a lot down around the house but still haven't gotten my scrappin' groove back on!
There's a lot going on this weekend! Friday is my mother's birthday and I still don't have a home made card for her. I will go through the city on my way to meet her and should stop and buy something nice for her.
Saturday we have a pig roast to go to! Dear sweet friend of mine who interned at the big hospital I worked at. We became friends and eventually moved to a satellite hospital outpatient surgery unit. It's a real shin dig and I sure as heck don't want to get looped on booze and be hung over for my little girls graduation the next day!
My little girl is graduating from college Sunday! Can you believe it? It's so unrealistic as we have one more summer semester to pay for and worse for her to study and pass before the big test! To top it all off she finds out tomorrow if she has to get her wisdom teeth out in between semesters. One is really hurting her!
On the other hand there's my slowly, ever so slowly boy growing up the hard way learning by mistakes! I never knew parenting could be so stressful when they're out of your nest!
There's a lot going on this weekend! Friday is my mother's birthday and I still don't have a home made card for her. I will go through the city on my way to meet her and should stop and buy something nice for her.
Saturday we have a pig roast to go to! Dear sweet friend of mine who interned at the big hospital I worked at. We became friends and eventually moved to a satellite hospital outpatient surgery unit. It's a real shin dig and I sure as heck don't want to get looped on booze and be hung over for my little girls graduation the next day!
My little girl is graduating from college Sunday! Can you believe it? It's so unrealistic as we have one more summer semester to pay for and worse for her to study and pass before the big test! To top it all off she finds out tomorrow if she has to get her wisdom teeth out in between semesters. One is really hurting her!
On the other hand there's my slowly, ever so slowly boy growing up the hard way learning by mistakes! I never knew parenting could be so stressful when they're out of your nest!
Thursday, April 19, 2007
A Happy Picture for a Sad Day
Oh my goodness, what a fun time we had with our SLR Texas group! I haven't shared much about my trip but I plan to! Today, I'm getting through the day. Today would have been my father's 77th birthday!~ Mother will be 77 next week. That's not young. Will I miss my mother as much as I miss my father? Depression has me immobile today. I will allow myself some slack but tomorrow, it's over, the pity party will end! Will the grief end? How much time do I have left with my mother. Our family is gone, the kids are grown, doing their own thing. I've been missing them a lot lately, their rooms are so empty. I'm really feeling the empty nest.
I am afraid to go back to work as a nurse, I have felt it but not said it to anyone. I think I need to "get a life" to get out in public and work, something!
I want to cry but I don't. What good will it do? Life is happiness mixed with so much pain. To feel pain is to know you are alive, it is to realize happiness, it is part of what makes you human.
Wednesday, April 11, 2007
You don't have to feel like doing something to do it!
So, how many times have I said that to my kids! "Mommy, I don't want to clean my room." Mommy, I don't want to study." Well, Mommy, "I don't want to clean out closets and clean up my scrap room!" Honestly, I can't believe how tired I have been. The trip really did put a lot of lead in my big butt!
However, I've adapted a policy of one big black garbage bag a day! Gotta go, gotta clean out the crap and clean up the space!
Yesterday I cleaned out my make up drawer, which is about deep enough for lipstick and eye liner. Threw away those yucky sticky MK glosses and cleaned that drawer out. I also bought a new basket for my makeup, etc. that won't fit in the drawer and has to sit out on the counter. I bought new clothes hampers. The ones I wanted were at Pier One and only $100.00 each and I need three. I bought three at WM and they were $15.00 each! For Pete sake we keep them in the closet. They're not even in the bathroom where anyone can see them. So, then I cleaned out the bazillion almost empty bottles of shampoo etc. from under my sink and put all the curling irons and brushes for a longer hair style in a bin to be dealt with later. It looks good and I feel better.
Today I cleaned out the linen closet and the curio cabinet in the bathroom because it was full of junk from Bath and Body works that is just not getting any attention anymore! Moved all my Vera Bradley purses into the drawer in my armour, which meant I had to clean that out, and placed linens into the linen closet. I about dropped dead when I realized the linen closet had gotten a fresh coat of paint when Daddy and I rebuilt the closet in October of 2003. That's how long it's been since I really went through things and did deep cleaning.
I hired a girl to come clean house for me on Mondays for three hours. She does the floors and bathrooms and whatever else I ask. She best clean these glass doors next week! Doggie nose all over them. But, the point is this, it springboards me into continuing on with these projects.
DH is in the city with the big dogs from the Bigger City/Hotlanta! He will be home in time for bed. I thought what a great day! I'll get my projects done and then begin to clean up my scrap crap. OMG, I still can't look at that stuff! I mean I've unpacked and have put away most of it from my tote but the table top looks like a heap pile of mess!
I need to get my scrappin' groove back! Yeah, after more than 70 pages in two weeks it stands to reason that I am burned out for a while. Scrappin' makes me feel connected to my peeps, I feel so lonely since I got all spoiled by having girl time for two weeks! I miss my CHI 5 Sisters, Bev, and Les! I'm beginning to feel like Miss Nancy on Romper Room, "and I miss Cassie, and Alicia, and Sally, and Lynn, and Denise, and Meredith, and people I haven't even ever met IRL!
When you start a project, at least for me, it's hard to find a place to stop. Last night DH came home and that meant dinner time but I have nothing to stop me today. No mom, no kids, no husband!
Oh, and to add to it! I can't take the car out of town until it gets new tires so that cx's a road trip to the city!
Am I going to turn into a soap opera watcher? Oh no, say it isn't so!
However, I've adapted a policy of one big black garbage bag a day! Gotta go, gotta clean out the crap and clean up the space!
Yesterday I cleaned out my make up drawer, which is about deep enough for lipstick and eye liner. Threw away those yucky sticky MK glosses and cleaned that drawer out. I also bought a new basket for my makeup, etc. that won't fit in the drawer and has to sit out on the counter. I bought new clothes hampers. The ones I wanted were at Pier One and only $100.00 each and I need three. I bought three at WM and they were $15.00 each! For Pete sake we keep them in the closet. They're not even in the bathroom where anyone can see them. So, then I cleaned out the bazillion almost empty bottles of shampoo etc. from under my sink and put all the curling irons and brushes for a longer hair style in a bin to be dealt with later. It looks good and I feel better.
Today I cleaned out the linen closet and the curio cabinet in the bathroom because it was full of junk from Bath and Body works that is just not getting any attention anymore! Moved all my Vera Bradley purses into the drawer in my armour, which meant I had to clean that out, and placed linens into the linen closet. I about dropped dead when I realized the linen closet had gotten a fresh coat of paint when Daddy and I rebuilt the closet in October of 2003. That's how long it's been since I really went through things and did deep cleaning.
I hired a girl to come clean house for me on Mondays for three hours. She does the floors and bathrooms and whatever else I ask. She best clean these glass doors next week! Doggie nose all over them. But, the point is this, it springboards me into continuing on with these projects.
DH is in the city with the big dogs from the Bigger City/Hotlanta! He will be home in time for bed. I thought what a great day! I'll get my projects done and then begin to clean up my scrap crap. OMG, I still can't look at that stuff! I mean I've unpacked and have put away most of it from my tote but the table top looks like a heap pile of mess!
I need to get my scrappin' groove back! Yeah, after more than 70 pages in two weeks it stands to reason that I am burned out for a while. Scrappin' makes me feel connected to my peeps, I feel so lonely since I got all spoiled by having girl time for two weeks! I miss my CHI 5 Sisters, Bev, and Les! I'm beginning to feel like Miss Nancy on Romper Room, "and I miss Cassie, and Alicia, and Sally, and Lynn, and Denise, and Meredith, and people I haven't even ever met IRL!
When you start a project, at least for me, it's hard to find a place to stop. Last night DH came home and that meant dinner time but I have nothing to stop me today. No mom, no kids, no husband!
Oh, and to add to it! I can't take the car out of town until it gets new tires so that cx's a road trip to the city!
Am I going to turn into a soap opera watcher? Oh no, say it isn't so!
Friday, April 06, 2007
Scrap Happy
Celebrating my visits to Washington and Texas. Journaling reads:
2002 I had a collision of life’s most stressful experiences. We moved, I left a job that I loved and along with it my friends. I’d dabbled in Scrapbooking but not until my father died did I sink deeply into depression and used my hobby for a healing time of putting the confusion of the past 24 months into order. My pictures reminded me of how my life had been until that point.
When my father died I quit working. I got online and found a whole new world of scrappy friends! I found new techniques and ideas. Last December I even landed a job in the industry.
The best part is the friends that I have made along the way. Of all the people pictured in this layout none had I known before! We live all over the country and get together as much as we can. To me that is the best part, the friends!
The products I used are:
imaginisce Paisley Picnic, Sidewalk Chalk Patterned Papers,
Let's Pretend Collection Paisley Daze rub ons also from imaginesce
I used brown bazzill to mount the pictures and scalloped bazzill. I do not have the names of the colors.
When my father died I quit working. I got online and found a whole new world of scrappy friends! I found new techniques and ideas. Last December I even landed a job in the industry.
The best part is the friends that I have made along the way. Of all the people pictured in this layout none had I known before! We live all over the country and get together as much as we can. To me that is the best part, the friends!
The products I used are:
imaginisce Paisley Picnic, Sidewalk Chalk Patterned Papers,
Let's Pretend Collection Paisley Daze rub ons also from imaginesce
I used brown bazzill to mount the pictures and scalloped bazzill. I do not have the names of the colors.
I Just Don't Understand!
I switched to Beta Blogger but still have to go in the html template to add anything and it's driving me crazy! I intend to add your links ASAP! So sorry this is taking me so long!
Thursday, April 05, 2007
Long Time No BLOG!
Just returned from a whirl wind trip where I went from FL to WA and then to TX! WOW, what a ride! If I could survive on late nights and early AM's I'd do it more! (Yeah, like that's the problem, it's called cash flow)! DH told me I was "cut off" I don't need a thing, I made sure I bought it all while I was gone! Haven't looked at the bank statement in detail but the fridge was exactly as I left it.....meaning! He didn't eat at home!
Found out yesterday that Hoochie Mama is driving one of the company explorers! Pissed me off big time! DH is so stupid, she is a senior inspector but so what, all the other inspectors drive pick up trucks. I think a Pick Up fits her life style better anyway! Of course some one did point out to me that you can sleep, ah, lay down in the back of the explorer! I really don't think that DH is fing around with her but I will have my eyes open!
The carpets were all cleaned and the lawn manicured when I got home. I know he worked a lot while I was gone and I think that he got the point last July when I got all in his face! I called hoochie mama too and let her know that I knew and it had better stop! Hey, I'm not the one who did anything wrong.
I've got to quit answering d's calls! We do have a lot to talk about, he just wants to talk about the one thing we shouldn't talk about!]
Today I am making a LO for Scrappy Arts contest How Has Scrapbooking Enhanced Your Life? I even bought the paper at Meridawn's!
I got to meet two new MB buddies on my trip but have to admit it was difficult to be in Seattle and not be able to hook up with my girl Julie!
Found out yesterday that Hoochie Mama is driving one of the company explorers! Pissed me off big time! DH is so stupid, she is a senior inspector but so what, all the other inspectors drive pick up trucks. I think a Pick Up fits her life style better anyway! Of course some one did point out to me that you can sleep, ah, lay down in the back of the explorer! I really don't think that DH is fing around with her but I will have my eyes open!
The carpets were all cleaned and the lawn manicured when I got home. I know he worked a lot while I was gone and I think that he got the point last July when I got all in his face! I called hoochie mama too and let her know that I knew and it had better stop! Hey, I'm not the one who did anything wrong.
I've got to quit answering d's calls! We do have a lot to talk about, he just wants to talk about the one thing we shouldn't talk about!]
Today I am making a LO for Scrappy Arts contest How Has Scrapbooking Enhanced Your Life? I even bought the paper at Meridawn's!
I got to meet two new MB buddies on my trip but have to admit it was difficult to be in Seattle and not be able to hook up with my girl Julie!
Wednesday, March 07, 2007
"Grandaddy, Things Change!"
This is a statement that DD made in 1988 when we moved away from an abusive home. I took the kids and three suitcases, that was all! The next day grandaddy was pushing DD in the swing and out of her sweet little four year old mouth came the words, "Grandaddy, things change."
It's time for me to seperate my personal blog from my professional one. If you're looking for my professional blog, check out my links! That blog will not link to this one! For obvious reasons!
It's time for me to seperate my personal blog from my professional one. If you're looking for my professional blog, check out my links! That blog will not link to this one! For obvious reasons!
Thursday, February 01, 2007
I'm In LOVE with the MUSIC of Carly Simon
In December I bought a thee CD boxed set of music by Carly Simon. I've almost worn the crazy CD's out by now or at least worn out my mother with listening to them in the car!
Carly has a booklet of sorts in the boxed set. She writes about the music she sings and talks about how she knows when a song is just right. I thought that it had a lot to do with the way I feel about my scrapbook layouts. How do you know when they're just right? Do they have just the right pieces in just the right places? Does it need a little more, or does it need a little less.
Here's what Carly has to say about her song writing:
I've always wondered what would happen if I held on to one song long enough to make it perfect by my standards. I would keep it locked up in my creative chamber and feed it daily with new ideas, better chord changes, a dream-inspired alteration in the melody, a more sonorous word, more alliteration, simplification, cleaner lines. I suppose it would be somewhat like raising the perfect child. At what point does it become a monster child? Robot-like or over studied, precious? One of the interesting problems the songwriter faces is when to let the song go. Often it is just a matter of deadline and I think back and look at the songs I have chosen to include here, it is significant, the part that practicality plays. You gotta get it done. But when there is no deadline what is it that makes you finish a song? I have come to believe that you must fall in love. When you really fall in love with a song, it becomes perfect for that moment in time. Maybe in a year you'll look back and say: "How could I have loved that song so much?" But in the first blush, the honeymoon period, the song can do no wrong. That is when you want to shout it to the world and parade it in front of your friends. I think that's what the act of creativity must be about. It's about making something you believe is better than you are, and for a moment, you merge with it and think it's you and you are it. Even when I am in a state of self loathing I can write something that I fall in love with. Deluded though I might be, it makes me feel better about myself and it usually inspires me to write another song. This goes not only for songwriting, but for fixing dinner or arranging flowers. At some point, and mostly it's a combination of accident and inspiration (being led by a larger hand), it comes together in a way that seems just right at the time, and that is the time to let it go. Sometimes it's just because it fits for the day. It may not be the greatest song, but it fits your soul at the moment and therefore speaks honestly. So you let it go out there into the great, big, kind, cruel and indifferent universe. .........
Carly has a booklet of sorts in the boxed set. She writes about the music she sings and talks about how she knows when a song is just right. I thought that it had a lot to do with the way I feel about my scrapbook layouts. How do you know when they're just right? Do they have just the right pieces in just the right places? Does it need a little more, or does it need a little less.
Here's what Carly has to say about her song writing:
I've always wondered what would happen if I held on to one song long enough to make it perfect by my standards. I would keep it locked up in my creative chamber and feed it daily with new ideas, better chord changes, a dream-inspired alteration in the melody, a more sonorous word, more alliteration, simplification, cleaner lines. I suppose it would be somewhat like raising the perfect child. At what point does it become a monster child? Robot-like or over studied, precious? One of the interesting problems the songwriter faces is when to let the song go. Often it is just a matter of deadline and I think back and look at the songs I have chosen to include here, it is significant, the part that practicality plays. You gotta get it done. But when there is no deadline what is it that makes you finish a song? I have come to believe that you must fall in love. When you really fall in love with a song, it becomes perfect for that moment in time. Maybe in a year you'll look back and say: "How could I have loved that song so much?" But in the first blush, the honeymoon period, the song can do no wrong. That is when you want to shout it to the world and parade it in front of your friends. I think that's what the act of creativity must be about. It's about making something you believe is better than you are, and for a moment, you merge with it and think it's you and you are it. Even when I am in a state of self loathing I can write something that I fall in love with. Deluded though I might be, it makes me feel better about myself and it usually inspires me to write another song. This goes not only for songwriting, but for fixing dinner or arranging flowers. At some point, and mostly it's a combination of accident and inspiration (being led by a larger hand), it comes together in a way that seems just right at the time, and that is the time to let it go. Sometimes it's just because it fits for the day. It may not be the greatest song, but it fits your soul at the moment and therefore speaks honestly. So you let it go out there into the great, big, kind, cruel and indifferent universe. .........
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