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So it's been a while since I posted. I know, I'm a bad blogger, but things have been busy around here.

I discovered a couple things this week at work. One is that people enjoy me brining in my new scrapbooking purchases. They like seeing how they work, or what I plan to do with them. They get so excited when I show them something that they can use. This week they oohed and awed over my little Xyron X sticker maker. Also the bone folder. I'm glad that I can show them how things work. It's fun. I also realized that I *love* explaining how things work and how I use them. It really excites me. It makes me want to go home and scrap. Or dig out my scrappin' stuff right then and there to scrap. I *love* it. I wish I could do that all day and make the same amount of money I'm making here. If I had the opportunity to do that, I would in a heartbeat. I *love* it. They also make it so much fun, wanting to know how things work. Wanting to know how I use things. It excites me. Just typing this up makes me want to go home and be creative, dig out all of my supplies, and make a huge mess of paper and end up with a page completed.

Things at work have been busy. Last year we did a bake sale where all proceeds went to United Way. We are doing the same thing this year, and I am one of the main coordinators. The bake sale is tomorrow. All of the signs have been made and posted, I have also made table tent signs as well. All I need to do now is to is to bake something to bring in. Oh, and of course, buy a couple things tomorrow. :) Should be fun, but will make for a busy day. I am looking forward to it. If I think of it, I will post the signs that I made. I think they turned out pretty good myself.

Crop!

I went to the crop last night. I left before 5 and came back home a little after 10. Not bad! It was a lot of fun There was only 6 people there, and we had a blast. I actually did get a lot accomplished. My 50 Christmas cards are cut adn the presents are inked and aheared to the cards. All of the bows I had are also clued on the cards. Now all I have to do are put Happy Holidays or some other saying on them, write on the insides and address the envelopes and they are done. YAY!

Jennifer also took my altered comp book to put on display. WHOO HOO! I even offered to make another one since there were a couple of oops on there, but she said don't worry about it. YAY! Sweet! Hopefully this pic isn't too big.

Now I have to figure out what to do for some November projects. :)

Today Jason and I are heading to his folks, to give Haley her birthday present and to see all the kids. No clue how long we are staying as Joe and Kara have to bring Matthew back to his other grandparents. It sounded like they were leaving around noon to do that. Who knows. Joe also says he has some money to start to pay us off, whoo hooo!

Then we are going grocery shopping. Cub has a coupon this week for buying 1 turkey get 1 free with an additional $15 purchase. Should be easy to do that! I guess that means I just have to figure out how to cook a turkey and do a Thanksgivingy type meal....wish me luck I will need it!!

I better go and get dressed and do my hair. Jason is chomping at the bit and I don't think a bathrobe would be good to go in!

Backstreet Boys

My boys:



Yes, I just said Backstreet Boys. I love them. I have all of their CD's and even the Nick Carter's solo album. Like I said I love them. Ma even took Katie and I took Last Chance Summer Dance when we were in highschool. The BSB were supposed to be there to perform, but Howie's grandma died and Nick missed his flight so they couldn't perform the the AJ, Brian, and Kevin. Yes, I still remember that, LOL. So anyway, since they weren't there to perform, they came back to the cities for a make up concert. Ma took us to that too. (Isn't she the best???) That was AMAZING. Katie and I were freaking out and screaming and singing along. It was awesome.

Anyway, so your wondering why I'm posting about the BSB right? Well, even if your not, you will find out anyway, lol.

I was surfing on 2peas and came across a thread with BSB in the title. Of course I had to open it, lol. It contained a link to this video. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6739710473912337648&q=chinese You need to go and watch it now. The entire movie. Freaking hilarious. I'm laughing here at work. Good thing no one is around.

Watching that made me want to listen to my BSB CD's again. I think I'm going to lug them all into work tomorrow to listen to.

I've been reading blogs for a while now. Most of them talk about their daily doings, new things that they found, and about their kids. I got to thinking about why I started blogging. I guess I just wanted a place to share my daily doings to, even if I'm boring. :) I've been trying to think about things that I like about other blogs and seeing if I can make mine more interesting. But then I came back to, who cares if it's interesting, it's me. I bet your thinking, I knew it was all about you, lol. I won't go into that again, but you know, I like my pretty pink blog and my boring life. It's good to me. I'm not going to change it. Now back to my daily doings, lol.

Since my co-worker is gone this week, I've been working the early shift. 7:30-4:30. I love this shift. I'm up early enough anyway and I get so much more done that first half hour in the office when no one is around. It is amazing. I still can't believe how much slower the evening goes when I'm done at 4:30. That extra half hour makes such a big difference. Love it. More time to spend with Jason. :)

Last night for supper I made turkey enchiladas. They were delicious. We've made them before, but bought a different seasoning packet or something, but they were better than usual. They were so moist and yummy. I brought one to work today to have for lunch. It was still moist. I wonder if I could make up a big batch of them and freeze....hmmm...might have to try that.

Jason and I haven't done the OAMC (Once a month cooking) yet. I want to though. Perfect for those nights that neither of us want to cook and we don't know what to have, lol. We have been making large batches of stuff though. Right now we have lasagna and chili in the freeze. I've also really been wanting some of Mom's homemade chicken noodle soup with the homemade noodles. That soup is to die for. The best ever. A while back when we were up at Ma's house she cooked a turkey breast in the crockpot. It was delicious! Jason wants me to do that here soon. I wish I was a good cook like Ma. I want to be like Ma when I grow up. She is amazing.

I'm actually going to my first crop this weekend. I'm sorta anxious about it. I've never been to a crop before. Granted this isn't a "normal" crop, it's an after hours crop at Scraps of Time (my fav LSS!) for design team members and such. So little me, is going to be in with all of these amazing scrappers. See, I'm not that talented when it comes to LO's. I decorate/alter things good, but LO's really challenge me. I'm also a simple scrapper, but am starting to branch out more and try new techniques. One thing that I never thought I would get into is inking. Now I love inking. I will ink just about anything, or at least try to. Of course I'm snobby and will only use the Tim Holtz ink pads, LOL. Good thing they come in a wide variety of colors and are routinely 1/2 off at Hobby Lobby. :) So I need to decide what I'm going to bring to do at the crop. I'm also anxious about small talk and such. I'm more of a listener than a chatter. But once you get to know me watch out, when in the mood I can talk your ear off, lol. I suck at small talk. I'm hoping that it goes well, but I've almost called a couple times to tell Jennifer that I won't come. But I haven't. And I won't. I'm determined to go and have fun. Even if I just sit back and watch. I need find something to bring to do though...hmm....off to ponder.

Picture Frames

The crafting hour actually went very well! The frames were a chipboard type frame that was made for altering. She got them at M's for $2.99 each. They worked out perfect and I'm going to have to buy me some of these to alter.

Now she could only find 1 set of volleyball stickers and she got 3 packages of each to use for all of the frames. We didnt' use them all, even if it looks like we did. ;)

Here are a couple pictures:


She was VERY happy with them and the girls were VERY surprised that they got these. So in the end it turned out very well!

Do you ever...

Open your mouth and volunteer to do something and then you wonder why you did that? Happened to me today in fact.

My co-worker today was in a frantic search for a volleyball picture frame that she needs tomorrow. She was thinking that they would be easy to find. Told me the places that she called and asked if I could think of any more. I gave her a couple and none of the places had them. Of course you can find them online, but then they wouldn't be here in time. She needs it tomorrow night.

So I open my mouth, knowing that she isn't crafty at all, and say, well you could get a wood frame at Michael's, and alter it with a volleyball theme. As soon as I said it, I knew I was going to regret it. She started asking questions and such and before I knew it I was volunteering to help make one for her daughter Amanda. Now we are making 7 for all of the seniors on the volleyball team. I'm sending her to hobby lobby to pick up everything, frames, stickers, whatever she wants. They also want to put all of the girls names on the frames, so rub on's as well. Figuring it would be easier to do rub ons rather than stickers, because they want the first and last names, plus the numbers.

So tomorrow during my lunch hour I will be making altered picture frames, with someone who is self proclaimed as "not crafty." Now, keep I have never altered one myself. Should be interesting. I know in the end it will be fun, but I have no clue how we are oging to get 7 frames done in an hour.

I will let you know how it goes. Wish me luck!

Change.

I really need to change my pic that is up there. I don't like it anymore, LOL. I guess I change my mind fast huh? Maybe I will just put the color one up there, the full color one that is.

I'm not feeling too well today. All I want to do is go home, have a cup of hot tea and crawl into bed and sleep.

I need to work on my effer dare. I think it just might be routine to do them the night before.

I have so many things that I need to do. I haven't felt creative lately. How do I get out of this funk?

I'm seriously thinking about turning down the offer to sell my paint cans at the LSS up north.

1. I need to buy a table.
2. None of my currently finished 18 paint cans will work. (At least 90% of the materials used need to be from the store...thus #3.)
3. I would have to buy all new paper.
4. The paper there doesn't really inspire me.
5. I would either have to rent the space or give them a percentage of the sales. (I'm thinking that they were leaning more towards me renting the space.)
6. I'm not up to making 18 new cans when my site STILL isn't finished.
7. I have too much on my plate right now.

Now I completely understand #2 and #5, don't get me wrong, they need to be benefited somehow as well, but I don't think it's worth my time or effort either. I don't know. I will have to ponder. I wonder if this decision has something to do with my creativity being lost....

Sunday Morning

This morning it's a little chilly in the house. I'm sitting here sipping my Wild Sweet Orange Tea by Tazo. LOVE this tea. I actually was reading the package this morning while my water heated up and it says that it would be as iced tea as well. Just might have to try that.

Today Jason and I are hopefully going to paint the garage. It's probably one of the last nice weekends that we will have so it needs to get done. Of course I'm up and Jason is still sleeping. How does that work???

Other than that, I need to work on effer dare #11. That will be fun as well. Getting back to scrapping again. I'm really loving the 8.5 by 11 style. Might have to keep playing with that and seeing if I want to stick with it or not. Time will tell. Good thing is I have albums for both sizes, lol.

Hobby Lobby once again has some good sales this week. Hopefully we have some spare cash for me to go and get stuff at 50% off. Payday is Tuesday and can't come fast enough.

Me.

You know, most of my life I have tried to be to be the person that everyone wants me to be and to try to fit in. You know what, I'm so done with it. I'm going to try to be ME. This may sound odd to some, but who gives a flying fuck. (I've been waiting to use that term, ROFL. I think it's hilarous.)

Since getting married over 2 years ago, I've started to become more of me. I'm not a hugely social person and that is ok. I'm finally coming to the realization of that. Yes there are some things that I want to improve about me, and I will work on those. Ya know, this is sounding almost like a New Years resolution a few months early, ROFL.

So who am I....
...20 something woman...
...wife...
..wanna be mom...
...christian...
...crafter...getting closer to being an ...artist...
...reader...
...sister....
...daughter...
...country lovin' woman....
...not fitting into city livin'...

Now for the few readers of my blog, I'm going to challenge you to post on your blog who you are. The true you. Not the you everyone wants you to be. Who are you?

I'm going to keep thinking about this. I'm thinking I need to make a sb page about this....hmm....

Effer Dare

So I was dared to do the Effer Dare. Here is my result! Now I'm going to be really critical of myself here, on my blog, because I can. Now I'm also going to be honest. I so did not feel like scrapping tonight. It was the last thing I wanted to do, but I committed myself to doing this so I was going to finish it..that should read start and finish it in one night. In as little time as possible.

First, I was going to do Annual Wear Your Wedding Veil. I even had Jason take pictures of me in my veil. I did not like how the pics turned out. They are funny, but I had to clue what I was going to do with them.

So I was playing around with my paper and laid these colors out. I liked the LO but still had no freakin' clue what I was going to do.

I was going though my pictures and came across this one. It was taken at Canal Park when Jason and I were on our honeymoon 2 years ago. Back in 2003. There was this street artist and he did all of these amazing drawings. It was so cool to watch. He was amazing. He really struck me as a true artist.

Anyway, back to the LO. So I decided to use that picture...Amazingly so the picture actually sorta kinda fit with the colors, ROFL.

Then I did the journaling. I wish I would have typed it out. It's all crooked. I guess, it fits me, going all over the place, ROFL.

Then I did the photocorners and then the brads as the centers.

I guess I like it. I might try to re-do the journaling part. It's kinda gorky.

But I like the colors, the style, colorblocking. I have never done colorblocking like that before. I believe that is what it is called. And I lalalaLOVE my photocorner flowers. I also love the fact that it's 8.5 by 11. Might have to do more of those.

Time will tell......

Read people, READ!

I work for a large corporation doing room reservations. (No that's not the only thing I do there, but one major task.) We have a lovely little request for that people fill out to reserve the rooms. In there we have a field called "preferred location" since I reserve rooms in all buildings and some people are not willing to travel to other buildings.

So today I receive an email with preferred location as "Any available." I know that this person is located in a specific building I will call "O". We do not have any rooms available in "O" or anywhere near "O." We do have a room available out at "G." "G" isn't too far away, maybe a 5-7 miunute walk. Or out company does provide shuttle buses to go there. I respond back, and I quote "I have reserved "G"-(insert room number here.) for you on (insert date & time here). This was the only room available on campus during the requested time frame."

Would you respond back, and I quote, "Do you have any rooms open in "O"?"

ARGH! This has happened to me at least 6 times in the week.

Museings

Life has been busy lately, and I still feel like I haven't gotten anything done. Don't you just hate that??

Last night I cannned 5 quarts of tomatoes. It was my first attempt at canning all by my self. I made a HUGE mess, but it was good. I did make the fire alarm go off (not good as Jason as attempting to sleep, ROFL.) and I only had to make 1 call to ma! Not too bad! I am disappointed that only 3 jars sealed. I have no clue what I did wrong, but hopefully next time more than that will seal. I also decided to freeze the 4 pint jars that I had instead of canning them. NO, I did not freeze them in the jars, ROFL. I put them in quart baggies and laid them flat. Takes less room that way.

I was reading over at 2peas, about people not fitting in. I feel that like. Here at work I'm the youngest person there. I also recently realized that I don't often share a lot about myself. I tend to keep to myself more. Whether that is good or bad, I don't know. I will talk about my creative stuff that I'm doing, and such like that, but not much else.

I'm also content to stay at home. I'm a homebody. Love being at home. In my space. Scrapping. Watching tv. Doing anything. Home is conforting to me. I listen to all the people in the office at work talk about going out with friends and such and I realize that I don't have friends to go out with. But once again, that doesn't bother me. I'm fine with that. I have my family and online friends. When I talk about my online friends, like "Chele made this awesome altered clock." People ask me if I could bring it in to see in person. Or say something like, "Chele and you must go shopping together all the time." Umm....no. Would love to do that, but Chele lives in Florida. I live in Minnesota. They don't get the whole online friends thing. I hate that.

I'm shy. I can't do the whole small talk thing. Sometimes I feel like I don't fit in. I'm comfortable just listening to people talk. I don't have to talk about myself. Is that odd? Hopefully not. I just need friends that love to talk, ROFL.

I'm also thinking about giving teaching a shot at the LSS. (Local scrapbook store for those of you who don't know the scrapbook lingo.) First I need to come out of my shell a little bit and go to a crop and stuff first. You know, ease myself into it. Makes it much easier.

You know, I'm explaining things to people here, and I don't think anyone even reads this, ROFL. Maybe I should be brave and post this my link over at Mama Central. But then comes the question...would anyone want to read what I have to say? Hmm....I don't know......