Thought I would update again. Man, I'm on a roll this week, lol.

Last night I managed to play a bit of oblivion again on the 360. Lots of fun. Since Jason is working early tonight, I think I just might have to play it again tonight, lol. I think the game is like a never ending one, lol. There is the main quest and then tons of side missions. I'm barely into it. Jason has played much more than me, and has completed the main quest and is working on the side missions. I need to catch up with him, lol

Or instead of playing oblivion tonight, if I can get my pictures printed before Jason goes to work, I just might scrapbook! I need to run to burn the pics to a CD and then run to Hy-Vee to get copies made. Might be pushing it...but I do want to try. I think I just might have to save up for a good photo printer. I have a good color one, but the pictures just don't turn out that good. Disappointing.

Guess what I realized this moring. I'm down *another* pants size! YAY! I'm embarrassed to admit, that I was wearing a 26 pant. Then I went down to a 24, and earlier this week they were falling down, so I decided to try on a size 22. THEY FIT!!! I was so happy! Now I need to go back to Catherine's and get a pair of size 20's so when I drop another size, I can wear them. That way I at least have some clothes to wear to work, lol. I still need to go through my closet and pull out the other clothes that are too big. What a great feeling! I'm not sure what I should do with the too big clothes. I don't know if I should box them up and store them, or get rid of them? I certainly hope that I don't need them again, but then if Jason and I are going to have a baby, I might be able to wear some of them as maternity clothes? I think that I should box them up and keep them for the time being because of that. I don't know though.

My goal is to be able to get back into a pair of jeans that I wore in highschool. I believe they are a size 16 and are my Polo Ralph Lauren jeans. I remember feeling so great when I wore them, so when they didn't fit anymore, I kept them. Still have them. Lol. I so can't wait to wear them again!!

Father's Day is this weekend. Since we celebrated un-mother's day, we are going to celebrate un-father's day, lol. I think we will be going out to lunch on Saturday and see a movie. We seen the new x-men movie a couple weeks ago and that was really good. I wonder what we will see this time. Jason is really big into movies. For the most part, I could take them or leave them, but I do want to see Cars. I think that looks so cute! We will most likely wait and get it from Netflix rather than going to see it in the theatre. I know that Jason wanted to see Nacho Libre and Click, but I don't think that those are out yet. This summer, Pirates of the Caribbean 3 comes out and I can't to see that. We are definitely seeing that in the theatre!! Nothing like Capt'n Jack Sparrow, lol. Even though Johnny Depp is old, he is still good looking, lol.

I'm on day two or three of an awful headache. I have no clue why I have one, and it's starting to drive me up the wall. I've taken both tylenol and ibprofen, and even alternated them (usually that fixes everything, LOL) but nothing is working. The Tylenol and ibprofen, barely touch it, it just takes the edge away. I am very thankful it does that though. Does anyone have any sure fire cures for headaches? I sure could use them!!

Blog Challenge: Summer memories

Thank you Sheila for the challenge, this was lots of fun!

What is your most treasured Summer memory from growing up?
My most treasured memories would probably be going down to the campground about 2 miles down the road and hanging out at the pool and with all of the cute boy campers. Oh my. We had so much fun. Kelsey, lived at the campground (her parents owned it) and we had so much fun. We would be swimming, playing mini golf, playing on the play ground, playing pool, feeding the jukebox in the game room quarters, and just having fun. Most of the time was spent in the pool. Our favorite time was when the Johnson's, who were seasonal campers came up. It was an extended family and the boys were Doug (we re-named him Bubba. Have no clue where we got that name!) and David. We had numerous noodle fights in the pool with them, and Kelsey had such a crush on Doug's little brother (I can't remember his name!) and I had a crush on David, but flirted with Bubba all the time too. All around good time. That lasted what, I think 2 or 3 summers until they sold the campground? Great teenage fun!!

What do you do or have you done to try to rekindle that?
Nothing, I'm married now, can't exactly go around chasing cute guys, LOL. But it was fun while it lasted, LOL.

What is your favorite Summer activity now that you are grown up?
I love going up north and going camping at Lake 12. Nothing beats having a bunch of families around, tents & campers pitched, fishing and swimming off the end of the dock, camp fires at night, and good food. Of course, you can't forget the fireworks that we shoot off the as well. There's nothing like sleeping in a tent, and using an outhouse, LOL. I'm disappointed that Jason and I won't be able to do that this summer over the 4th of July weekend. But we are going camping with Jason's family down at Money Creek and that will be fun. It's different though because it's at a campground and not as private, but still fun! I enjoy camping and cooking over an open fire. Jason remember the first time we went camping, and you couldn't start the fire, I had to, LOL. It's a good thing, one of us was a true camper, LOL. Watching Toby & Randy build fires that had flames going 10+ feet in the air really helped. And no, I'm not kidding, we had to cut some of the tree branches down so they wouldn't catch fire, LOL. The coals were perfect in the morning for cooking over though. :) Lots and lots of fun camping at Lake 12 was.

Early Mornings, Clothes, & Scrapbooking

Lately, I have been getting up early in the morning, before my alarm even goes off. It used to really irk me when i would wake up before my alarm went off, now I enjoy it. Nothing like getting up, having a cup of tea, while you check your mail and the sites that you frequent. So calm and enjoyable. Seems like those few extra minutes really relax me.

Of course, Jason has been benefiting from that as well, since I usually have breakfast all cooked and ready when he walks in the door. I love being able to do that him. I feel like such a good wife, and I love it. :)

Also, thank you all for encouraging me about my look, and reassuring me I'm not too old to be doing this, lol, and playing around. :) I've been debating about dying my hair for some time. I don't know how long it would last if I got it professionally done, but I'm seriously thinking about it. Ma do you remember when my hair was bright red? I should see if I can't find pictures from then and post them. I'm going to look tonight, that is, if I can remember, lol.

Over the weekend Jason and I stopped at Mall of America and I ran into Torrid quick. Bought a couple of things, prices were a bit high, but picked up a couple of things. I just went to their website, and noticed that they are having a sale of 50% off of clearance prices. WOW! Found a shirt that made me chuckle. It says, "I'm a sucker for guys in eyeliner" The one I'm getting says, "my body is a temple, and yes, you may worship here" Cracked me up. Who knows if I will wear it out, but it's fun, and for $7.99, I think it's worth it! While I was at the site, I managed to pick out more things, $132 more, to be exact. Order is placed, can't wait until I get my stuff! It's going to be fun!

After looking through the Goth pics of me and the girls, I think I'm going to do a SB page on them. Do you think they will publish that, LOL. Maybe under, "Your not so typical scrapbookers." LOL.

While I was lurking on 2peas today, I found a link for music videos. Thought I would share with you guys. http://music.peekvid.com/p1/

I also seen an awesome pair of "altered" jeans. I so need to do that with one of mine. They used the HS foam stamps and turned out adorable! I still really want to try this, but need to buy fabric paint first. Wonder if any is on sale at HL this week. I know I have a coupon for them....hmmm...might have to run out there after work! I'm still waiting for their single sheet paper to go on sale for 6/$1 or 8/$1 again. I need to get some more of the sheets that I used up. Never mind that I have thousands of other papers, I want those, LOL. I'm awful. I gotta stop buying stuff. But you know I won't, LOL. I will admit it, I'm a paper whore, LOL. On that note, I will be leaving you, LOL.

I figure it's probably time to update my blog again. As you can see from the pictures on Ma's blog, the girls and I had fun over the weekend. :) I enjoy going up north and seeing everyone. The weekend always flies by though. We always have lots of giggles and laughs, usually about something that I have said, lol.

On the way home from up north, we stopped at IKEA and the Mall of America. We initially went to IKEA just to get another light for the living room. Which was about $8. We ended up spending almost $60 in there! I picked up more little spice jars for my scrapping area, some really cute little tin containers (on clue what I'm going to use them for, but they were adorable!), a bathroom mat, a light, a couple cushions for the kitchen chairs, a mirror, and finally a {PINK} rolling chair for me!! For my scrapping area of course. LOL. Also while we were up there, I found the {perfect} rug for my new scrapping room. It has all sorts of bright fun stripes on it. It is absolutely adorable! We didn't buy that though, maybe next time ;).

At the Mall we only went to three stores, and believe it or not Archiver's wasn't one of them, LOL. I decided to stay away from there since I haven't unpacked what I bought there last time. Now I know a few of you out there scrapbook....how in the world do I get back in the groove and find my mojo for scrapping??? It's been forever since I've scrapbooked.....but that doesn't keep me from buying supplies. I need to get back to using my supplies. Any tips? Any at all? Would love them! :)

Thanks...

Thanks for the comments on my last post. Greatly appreciate the comments. Sue, you mean I can't be a happy goth? lol. I am going to play around some more and see what I think. I'm looking for a red lipstick that I can wear with the look. I think that will look better than the black, although I do like the black. Am I too old to be doing this?

Here is another picture from when we took those.

So it's been forever since I blogged. Not much new, the same old, same old. I still haven't scrapped. Don't know why I'm not the in the mood for it. But I have been playing video games, lol. Jason had me try Oblivion for the xbox360. It was fun, but hard. Jason offered to help me pass a couple things and he had problems too! Since we can customize the characters, we figured that I should just start over and try a new character. I started over at least 4 times. Yesterday Jason discovered that the difficulty level on mine was in the middle and his was on easy! He's just trying to make me look bad. ;)

I got a laptop last week. Love it! Especially since as of Saturday, we have wireless internet hooked up, whoo hooo! Now I just need to figure out how to secure it so other's don't use it. But in the mean time, it's up and awesome, lol. I have just been using my scrappin' table for the a desk though, and moving it and sitting on the couch and stuff. I also got a really cute {pink} laptop bag. Of course I had that before I even had my laptop, lol.


Jason and I went to the mall yesterday to look around. We went into Hot Topic and was seeing what all they had. I found a {pink} glitter Master Chief from Halo2. Now, most of you probably have no clue what in the world i'm talking about, but Halo2 is a video game that I was into last year (still enjoy playing it, but don't play it often anymore, i'm awaiting Halo3 coming out in 2007) and in Halo2 you customize your character (mine was Master Chief, the main character in the same) and I made him pink. So what I bought yesterday was like an action figure, but glittery pink, and also included was an alien action figure so Master Chief could shoot him.

I was also looking at some make up and such, and found a black eye/lip crayon. I thought it might be fun to do my makeup "gothic" type. So when we got home, I took off my normal makeup and started to play around with it. For my first time doing this, i thought it turned out pretty good. I set up a white backdrop and had Jason take some pictures of me. It was a lot of fun. The weird part is I felt prettier when I was dressed up like that than I normally do. *shrug* doesn't make sense to me....but anyway, don't be freaked out by the picture, lol. I think I would like to try to do my makeup like that again, it was a lot of fun!

Cleaning Bug.

It seems like I get the cleaning bug at work more than at home. I wonder if it is because my office is a much smaller space. I dusted all my shelves, filed and tossed a bunch of stuff and even vacuumed my office. As well as everyone else in the office. Now if only I could do this at home. The house isn't that bad, except for all the crap from the linen closet (not a closet, it was a free standing shelving thing) that I doesn't fit in the new chest o' drawers that we are using for a linen closet.

We went to IKEA and bought this to use: http://www.ikea.com/PIAimages/56333_XXXXXXXX_S6.jpg
Yes, I know that it's truly a dresser, but where we have it, and the height it doesn't remind me of a dresser. I even bought the cool drawer organizers to go in one drawer. http://www.ikea.com/PIAimages/22492_PE107367_S3.jpg Love them. Organizes my make up and such perfectly! With the new storage unit, it really opens up the space more. I think that is what I'm trying to do in the house. Open space. Declutter. Simplify.

We even downsized our kitchen table and chairs. Bought a solid pine table and chairs for two. It works perfect for us! And really opens up the kitchen. :) Can't go wrong with that. Jason found a TV stand to go in the living room to replace the two that we have. Once again, simplifying! LOVE IT!! I couldn't find a picture of the table and chairs and TV stand.

Gotta love IKEA. We have been really happy with all that we have bought from there. You do have to put it together, but Jason enjoys doing that. We were really going to buy a new living room set from them, but they aren't comfortable. I really like the styles that they have, but it's gotta be comfortable. Last thing I want is an uncomfortable couch or chair.

Jason asked me the other day what I wanted to do on Sunday for un-mother's day. I know I picked a keeper if we celebrate un-mother's day. :) So I have to decide what we are going to do, I truly have no idea. Give me some ideas here....for once I'm clueless!

Lists

Since I don't want to get a swift kick in the behind, I figured I should probably update this thing! I think I'm going to do a list format this time. I love my lists!

• Weightloss--As of Sunday I was at 251. That is down 17 pounds from when I started. On the way up north this last weekend, while in the car I made a meal plan for the week. I wasn't sure how they would be calorie wise, but for the most part, my days worth came out ot 1000-1200 calories. That is perfect, it gives me a little wiggle room. On Monday though, after I ate all my meals, I was only around 750 calories. ACK! And the kicker was I wasn't even hungry! But I had some snacks that evening to get me up to 1100. Still under 1200, but I'm not going to worry about that for a day. I also noticed now that I have to think before I put things in my mouth, I don't snack as much. For the most part, I leave all of the snacky food/candy alone at work, and at home, I eat supper and am good. Usually I would snack and graze while making supper and even after. Now I don't. Amazing.
• Scrapbook--I am almost done with my It's About Me scrapbook! All of the pagese are done, I just have to do the journaling. There is a lot of journaling to do in the book...but I've started to hand write it out.
• Wishblade savings--or should I say lack there of? I got my hands on a list of retiring stamps from Stampin' Up! Of course there is a bunch on there that I truly want and a bunch that I sorta want. A gal at Willlow Traders had a bunch of the sets for sale at 50% off. And they were not wood mounted. She used EZ mount on them, so you use the clear acrlic blocks. Less storage space that way! And cheaper shipping! So I bought a bunch of sets off of her $124.50. Not bad, since they were half off!! Even got sets that weren't retiring, ROFL. So a bunch of my wishblade money went there. I was weak. Must get back on the wagon.
• Mother's Day--Mother's day is on Sunday! Last weekend when we were up north, we gave Ma her Mother's Day present. For part of it, I made a little coffee filter book. Turned out adorable, if I can say so myself. And I told Ma not to cry when she opened it, but she did! Then had Julie crying and me too.... And of course, before I gave it to her, I forgot to take pictures of it! So if you want to see it, just beg Ma for some pictures. ;)
• Content---you know sometimes, when you feel life is overwheleming, well lately I feel content. I don't really know why. I'm just all around happy, my goofy normal self. The house has remained fairly cleaned up, I'm scrapbooking. Jason is his normal, goofy, happy self. Life is good. I just feel like, I'm finally doign something right, and am content with home and work and things are good. Love that feeling. I hope that it sticks around for a long time!

Not too much going on around here. Today is Administrative Professional's day, which is what I do, so all of the people I support came into my co-workers (also administrative assistant) office, sang, and brought food in honor of us. Of course the food that they brought was Chocolate Cake Bars, Cherry Cheesecake, and Special K bars. They refused to each anything until we went through the line....so I had the smallest chocolate cake bar and special K bar I could find. I already inputted it into Spark People, and supper will be hard to get through without going over in calories, but it should work fine. And even if I do go over a bit, it won't kill me.

I weighed in again on Sunday night and I'm down a total of 11 pounds. That makes me very happy! The only bad thing is that my new pants and clothes that I just bought are getting too big. I went shopping way before I was planning on losing weight.....that makes me sad, since I love some of these clothes. I was reading a post on the message board over at Spark People about how 1 can of pop takes 12 gallons of water to get completely out of your system. I thought that was interesting. I need to see if I can find that post again and see if they ever posted the information to support that. I haven't had pop in a long time, it's been well over a month, I can't remember when we stopped drinking and buying it, but it was quite a while ago. And you know, I don't miss it. It's also nice that when we go out to eat, we don't have that extra $4+ added on the bill. So it makes it cheaper as well, if we just drink water. That's nice. Love saving me some money, lol.

Let's see, what else is new....I'm teaching a coffee filter book class at the LSS tomorrow night. I hope it goes ok. That reminds me, I gotta call Jen and see how many are signed up.

This weekend is going to be busy. Saturday we are having a new stove and refrigerator delivered. Yup, we broke down and bought one of each. Flat top stove and side by side fridge & freezer with water dispenser. Our current fridge is about 18 cubic feet and the new one is 25 or 26 cubic feet, can't remember what one! I'm looking forward to all the extra room in there since I've been buying lots of fresh veggies lately. The thing about the water dispenser on the fridge is that our current fridge doesn't have one, so we will have to figure out how to hook it up. We bought the kit and it doesn't look too complicated, but Jason wants to call a plumber in, cuz he thinks he has to do something down stairs in the basement to get the water to run up. I told Jason that Ma could come down and get it all set for us. You should have seen the look he gave me, LOL. It was priceless. I still vote for Ma to come down, cheaper that way, ya know.

This weekend Jason and I are going to go up to Mall of America on Sunday. All we are planning to hit is the Lego Store, Archiver's and IKEA. Speaking of IKEA, I gotta figure out what else I need from there, for my scrapping area. I use the little jars and such to store my ribbon and such in. There was also a really cool cutting board there that I wanted. And since I'm eating healthier, I think I'm going to get it. Sorta as a reward for me. I'm sure I will find all sorts of other treasures out there.

I've been trying to curb my scrapping spend some, and saving some money. Jason and I each get an "allowance" of $50-$100 to spend on whatever we want. I'm saving mine in hopes to get a Wishblade. So far I have $275 saved for it. It's a $450 machine without shipping. So I'm a little more than half way there. Gotta keep saving so I can get that. That means I have to stay out of Hobby Lobby this week since a ton of Scrapping stuff is 50% off. But I need to get some needles so I can sew some stuff on a LO. And fix the button on Jason's shirt. Wonder if I can get them at Target...will have to see!

Time Flies

I was thinking that it's almost the end of April, 2006. I graduated from high school 5 years ago. That is hard to believe. I still have lots of fun, vivid memories from back then. And lots of pictures. I should post a couple from way back then. We had a blast in high school. It seemed like there were constantly sleepovers at our house, in the green house of course! We stayed up all night, laughing, playing truth or dare and talking about boys. Then there were the dances. Oh my, those were so much fun! And running to Duluth or North Branch for shopping. I still can't believe that it's been that long since high school, it seems like yesterday. I wonder if there will be a 5 year reunion. It would be fun to see everyone again and see what they are doing. Tonight, I'm going to dig through my pictures and pull a couple out to scan in. Maybe even start Scrapping my high school years. That will be a lot of fun. Ma, expect a lot of phone calls to help date the pictures, LOL.

4 Pounds down!

Last week I stumpbled across a website called SparkPeople. It's a website where you can track calories, etc. to lose weight. They have a goals section where you can input goals and such as well. I started tracking tracking what I was eating and was horrified at the calories, fat, carbs, that I was eating. I weighed myself the day I signed for for SP and I weighed 268. OUCH! That is awful.

At the during of Jason, I jumped on the scale on Wednesday, April 12. It said I weight 264. Down 4 pounds!! I truly wasn't expecting a weight loss of that much. It shocked me. I was giddy the rest of the night. I hope to be down to 200 or less by the end of the year.

We haven't eaten out since I started SP and I have felt that I have eaten out every night. I steamed shrimp, made a healthy pizza loaded with veggies, it's been amazing. I'm actually shocked at how much food is in my calorie range. I can make this work. I can meet meet my goal. This is the first time that I have been on a diet that I feel I can stick with this.

Now I just need to keep up this enthusiam!

If you want to join SP, go to www.sparkpeople.com and if you would put my user name (AmPooh) in the referral field that would be great! It is a completely free site and offers, menus and such as well. Even a printable grocery list.

Challege: What's eating me

• People who can't read the simple e-mails that I send. How hard is it to read 3 sentances?
• People who refused to go to the room that they are properly assisgned because it doens't work for them. Well then, why in the hell did they reserve it in the first place???? And of course, they do this 2 freaking days in a row.
• People who knit-pick every little thing.
• People who make small problems large problems.
• (I think I have a problem with people today......)
• My hair. It's at the stage where I don't know what to do with it. I don't want short hair, but the long hair isn't looking too good. I'm sick of the style that I have.
• Pants. Why in the world can't I find any work pants that fit me? They are freaking huge in the butt. I could fit another butt in there.
• People who call and ask the same question over and over again.
• People who call and ask for a room, because they don't like the one that they have. When I tell them they ahve nothing available, they wait about 2-3 hours and then have their secretary call to see if I have anything open. Don't ya think if I would have had something open, I would have given it to you? I'm holding rooms hostage here.....
• Work.
• Work.
• Oh, did I say work?
• And people.

That about sums it up today. Aren't you glad you asked?

Laurie...Scrapbooking :)

Laurie, instead of answering you in the comments section, I thought you deserved your own post, LOL.

I haven't scrapped in ages and ages and I am so far behind it isn't even funny
any more.

Don't worry about getting far behind in scrapbooking. In my opinion, it's not about scrapping in any order, and you shouldn't stress if you are behind! In the "Big Picture Scrapbooking" book by Stacy Julian, she said something to the effect that it's ok to not scrap in order, it's ok to be behind, and it's ok to scrap the same picture more than once. That was very enlightening for me. I mean, all along, I knew that Scrapbooking really had no rules, but for someone to come out and actually say it, that was amazing to me! That book really inspired me.

Now some people might say that I sound all conceited and a know-it-all for this, and I'm not that way. I just wanted to share what I learned, and to hopefully inspire someone to not worry about the "rules." Especially since there are none!

Now Laurie, go scrap a page and forget about everything this else for a bit!

My Points

So I've been using mypoints for well over a year now and it's wonderful! Jason and I do a bit of online shopping, so you earn points that way, but mainly I just click through the e-mails that they send me. We have gotten a bunch of giftcards for free this eay! Since I opened the account, I've earned 15,060 points. We almost have another 4,000 ready to redeem! Just have to decide what we want to get this time around.

I *love* my points! We have earned giftcards to Olive Garden, Toys R Us, and I believe even Target. They really helped out with Christmas shopping one year, since money was tight.

If you want to learned more about MyPoints, let me know, and I can refer you and they will send you an informative e-mail. I earn points that way too, so let me know, LOL.

If you have questions, I will do my best to answer them :)

Boring Life

I live such a boring life. I feel like I don't have anything to say that people would like reading. I enjoy reading others blogs, as they share bits and pieces about their lives and cute kid stories. I don't have cute kids stories, and Jason and I aren't that exciting, lol.
Let's see what's happened since I last updated my blog.
-I got my S.H.E. book. Denise, that means I get to send Chele's copy on to you! Do you still want the Tupperware pitcher? If so, I will send them both at the same time. Let me know! I still haven't made up my SHE cards though, bad Amber.
-I worked at Scraps of Time (Local Scrapbook Store) during their used stamp sale. Got some awesome deals and earned money too, LOL. You wouldn't believe what some of the Stampin' Up set's were going for. CHEAP! I got a brand new, never been mounted set for $8. Can't go wrong there!
-This last weekend I went out to eat with some of the gals from SOT (Scraps of Time) and then went back to the store to crop. Was a lot of fun and we are all saying that we need to do it again soon. It was nice going out with just the gals for a while.

-Went up to IKEA 2 weekends in a row, LOL. I got my IKEA Expedit shelf for my scraproom. That means my scrap area is a *DISASTER* but is getting organized.

-Jason and I are going through purging a ton of stuff and trying to re-organize the house a bit. I must admit it's a great feeling!

-Valentine's Day was good! Jason spoiled me, as usual!

-Work is still work. I dream about being at home, working in my crafting area when I'm at work.
-Jason and I are looking into refinancing the house. We got 1 rate back, and I think that it should be lower. Will do a little more looking before we sign anything.

I like my lists, LOL. (Yes, I know I'm weird!)

Not much else, see I told you life is boring!

Rain & Class

Class went very well!! I had about 12 students and they all made the box, whoo hoo! They said that I was very patient and they want to take another class from me. *Shock* So I should see what else I can bring in and turn into a class. LOL.

And it's been raining all day! I left for class about 10:30 and it was a little sprinkley, and it's been rainy all day now.

I also got the Sidetracked Home Executive book from Chele in the mail yesterday, I believe. And I got a couple lovely birthday tags in the mail. Chele and Jen's. They are both awesome!!! Thanks guys!

Oh sorry, went off on a tanget there....anyway, I'm going to try the S.H.E method out. I went and bought the colored cards and dividers today. I'm thinking I'm going to dress the box and dividers up though. I'm a scrapper, how can I leave them alone, LOL. Does anyone do the S.H.E. style? Does it work for you? I'm thinking I'm going to get my own copy of the book off of eBay because I truly think that it will work for me! I really enjoyed reading it.

Springtime!

Yup, you read that right, it's looking like spring out there already! We have no snow on the ground and it's been in the upper 30's or lower 40's all week! Yesterday we grilled outside for lunch. Hamburgers and brats, boy was that good....and the best part is we still have leftovers.....yummy.

Today I'm teaching a class at the LSS on the Ikea box. I'm nervous about it since I don't like to talk in front of people, so I hope it goes ok.

Dinking Around

I'm loving this week off! I'm having so much fun just dinking around, doing whatever I want. It's great!! I'm still working on my big project and haven't done any scrappin' except for that, but that's ok. I'm having so much fun!

I did go and buy a sizzix die cut machine today, now I just need some dies, LOL. Money only goes so far though! So if you know of some cheap places, besides eBay to buy some dies let me know. Or if you are selling them, let me know, I'm interested!

Denise, thank you for showing me that set! Do you know approximately how big the { is? Or even the words?

Today Jason and I are going to give blood. Appointment is at 2 p.m. Should be fun. I haven't given blood since I was in high school. Almost 5 years ago now. Gosh, I'm getting old! Yesterday I turned 23. I feel older...that can't be good, ROFL.

Well, I best be off, want to work a little more on my project. Lots of fun, but very time consuming!!

Bad blogger

Yes, I know, I've been a terrilbe blogger. *hangs head in shame* But in all honestly, not too much is going on.

I'm off work next week, WHOO HOO. I can't wait! I need this time to relax and rejuvenate.

I got the Big Picture book earlier this week. Started reading it today at lunch. *loving* it. I can't wait to finish it and re-read it, LOL. I can definately see how this would change a persons view on scrapping and inspire them. Fav quote so far, "Scrapbooking products don't have expiration dates."

I'm in seach of a stamp that has the { included in it. Anyone know where I can find a set?

I so want a sizzix for my Birthday!

I'm so looking forward to going up north this weekend and seeing everyone. Going to be great fun.

I'm teaching a class at the LSS on the 28th and am nervous.

I'm almost done with work today!

Amber :)

Good Day!

For the most part anyway!! I completely spaced a meeting today and got there 30 minutes late. But at least it was my co-workers, and not someone from an outside department and the meeting hadn't really gotten started anyway! Got a good laugh about it. :)

Anyway, I'm proud of myself. There was a bunch of food at the department today, none of it healthy and I didn't touch it! Usually I gotta sample a couple things, but I completely left it alone. That may not sound like much for some, but for me, it was an accomplishment.

I also had a Burger and Salad for supper instead of 2 burgers and french fries or chips.

Now I need to make myself a big glass of water and drink more water!

All in all, a good day.