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Found this on Utube, just love it. Merry Christmas.

So, are you ready for Christmas?

I think I am. Of coarse, just when you think you are done, you remember something else.

Dh stole my fuzzy white and my fuzzy black socks. I went to put on my black ones tonight, to wear them to work, and they were gone. I asked him if he saw them, and he said "uh, you mean these?" as he lifts up his jean pants. So I guess I should go buy him some girly fuzzy socks and put them in his stocking, so I can have mine back, lol.

Working tonight, and tomorrow, then going to a Christmas party on Sat.
I am off Christmas eve and day, so yay! I go back for 3 days the day after Christmas, then we are off to Mesquite for New years! We just enjoy going to the casinos for new years-- would be nice to win to. :D

Well, I have some pics to post, but can't do it from here, so probably won't get done until sunday, lol.
Hope your having a stress free week!

My Christmas House!

Well, the pics are a little dark, but this is my living room, all decorated for christmas!! Almost all of the bulbs on the tree are hand made, or hand decorated anyway. I have an exchange every year with 12 ladies, we do 12 decorations, and we all swap, so you come home with 12 different ornaments. We have done this for about 5 years now, so my tree is finally getting to where nothing is actually store bought, lol. Anyway, I love my living room, entry, and sitting room, it's so fun! More later, gotta go now.

ok, i Must be pmsing

I just feel really hurt right now by someone who I thought was my friend. I don't want to go into alot of detail right now, but I just fell very dismayed by someone I thought I knew. Turns out I guess I really didn't know her. :(

ON another note, I did just complete 20 christmas bulbs for a party sunday! They came out so pretty, I will try and get a picture tomorrow. I used the reinker/glitter thing in the clear bulbs. so pretty. Now I gotta do 4 dozen cookies- 4 different kinds, so anyone have any ideas?

Saturday- a day off!

Well, this is my normal weekend to work, but they switched my schedule around a bit to accomdate the holiday.
Kinda glad, it is nice to work only 3 days, and have a couple off, then work 3. Don't want to do it all the time, I enjoy the week on week off to much. :D Especially when you work nights-- it takes a day to recover when your off.

So even thought I was off today, I had to go back to the hospital, because my mom is a patient. Her electrolytes are all off, and it was causeing heart papations, and a rythym called atrial fibrilation. Sigh, It is so worrisome when your parents are getting older, and having health problems. She is doing ok, she may come home monday if they can get her lytes back to normal.

Tomorrow we are going to pull out all the christmas decorations and decorate. I was dreading it, but now I am kinda excited-- maybe this cymbalta is kicking in! :D

I joined the biggest loser challenge at creativexpress. Kind of fun, we all send in 10 bucks, and who ever loses the most percentage of weight by jan. 1st wins the pot. I had went to the Dr. 3 weeks ago, and he upped my thyroid-- I aven't changed my eating habits, but in spite, I have lost 12 pounds! FINALLY! I gained 50 freaken pounds when my thyroid took a dump, and it has been 3 years trying to regulate the meds to catch up. never could get it theraputic, cause they increase it ever so slow. Well, i finally see my real dr., not the PA, or a sub, and he ups it to where it should probaby should be. Now I am finally losing. I feel like I might have an unfair advantage, lol, cause if I TRY to lose along with a working thyroid, then I may lose a ton. :D I don't care about winning, I am just glad some of this weight will come off. :D

Well, haven't really scrapped, so I can't share any creations this month. I am going to bring my cricut to work, and we are going to decorate the door for a door deco contest-- should be fun. I will take a pic when we are done, maybe next week- or the week after.

Getting into the christmas spirt, but haven't shopped yet. Any ideas for a 9 year old boy? Taht don't cost over 100 bucks? Everything Brad wants is expensive-- I need to figure out a limit.

Well, gotta go for now. :d

Bored Bored, Bored.

oi vey, today was so boring. Didn't feel like doing a darn thing! Dh was no help, Mr. Sunshine, who usually is on the go and a go get em, decided today was a good day to veg in front of the TV.

So I thought I would scrap. Well, I did one page, and called it good. Didn't feel like doing any more, even though I had the time-- can you believe it?

Took dh out to dinner tonight for his birthday-- got a nice surprize. It seems the people behind us knew me, and paid for our drinks. They left before I even knew who it was! How thoughtful. I have no clue if it is someone I work with, or what, but that was really sweet of them.-Nothing going on- I have to work wed. night, and thurs night, so dh and ds will go to my parents for dinner, and I will have dinner at work. at least they feed us for free that night. :D

I do need to mail some things off, but other than that- nothing scrappy wise going on.

OH, I did find out that my online friend Jeanne started her own website. It is invite only, and uh, I didn't get one. So I guess I am not as good as friend as I thought. :0. I don't know what the deal is, she is mad about something at scrapbookplayground, but I am still not sure what. Another member said she didn't get some RAK given by another DT member-- not even SBP, and somehow, jeanne got into it? Posted on the board about it. The thing was, is the RAK was sent out, the gal said she didn't get it, and asked the person giving the RAK for not only the RAK, but something extra because she had to wait for the RAK. UM, RAK is just a gift out of kindness--I think it is rude to ask for more. Anyway, said DT member sent out another RAK to the person,l but Jeanne got all upset because people asked why she was even involved. I dunno-- that is what I gathered-- but there are 2 sides to every story.

So anyway, Jeanne started a new board, and is trying to take all the people who frequent SBP to it. pettyiness. I don't get it. SBP and Wendi the owner has always ried to be fair, and very generous with prizes. Lots of people want something for nothing, I guess.

Oh well, I am just rambling now, and I think I will just go to bed. :D

OH Yeouch--Where have I been?

Gosh, I haven't updated in like forever huh?
Probably because I live a boring life, and don't have a whole heck of a lot to say. :D

Well, I finally got my new car-- 2008 Ford Escape. I guess I should go take a picture of it, and do a layout. ;) I still need to sell my PT Cruiser- it is a matter of getting off my butt and putting an ad in the paper.

I got a rise at work! Whhoo hoo, it totals out to be about 3.00 an hour-- hey that will make my truck payment now. :D

I went to the DR. and got myself on Cymbalta. I have taken it for about a week, I really don't notice much difference except I am requiring more sleep. hmmmm, like I have time for that. Really, I need like at least 8 hours a night, and I have even taken a nap inbetween for like an hour. Seriously cutting into my free time.

I go back to work tomorrow for another week on straight. I sure do dread these-- but the week off makes it worth it- especially when you do nights- it takes a full day to recover, so I would rather only revcover once a week instead of more.

My Nephew had a baby a couple of weeks ago. He got to come home from Iraq for 10 days when the baby was born. He is back now, praying that he stays safe. But that means---- BABY PICTURES!!! whoo hoo!! :D OK, I did a couple of layouts, but seriously, my Neice in law is going to have to be on the stick more, and take more pics, lol. Here a are a few I did.







Baby pics are just so much fun! The fancy pants calandar is my favorite, lol.

Well, we have a new addition too-- Holly. She really isa sweet dog, she is already leash trained, and will sit when you tell her. She loves chew toys, and likes to stay close. Brad is so set that this will be "his dog". He is so afraid that the dog will like dh better, lol. (Daisey was definately dh's dog) So he has been feeding her, and playing with her-- alot. She does like to follow him around when he is home, otherwise she sticks close to me. here is a layout I did- this was on a visit to the pound before we were able to take her home.



Well, day before yesterday I spent the better part of the day organizing my layouts into albums. I have not done this since 2004!!!! can you believe it? I had stacks all over the place, in the closet, in 3 ring binders, blah blah blah. So I got them all in albums except for 3. I have to go to hobby lobby now and get some post extenders so I can get those together before they end up all over, lol. Maybe I should go do that now-- that and get the licence plate for my car. gotta get moving!

Ghost Letters

So I was unwraping one of my new cricut cartridges the other day, and thought (aside from trying not to cut myself ripping into it) that this is the same stuff ghost letters are made from. So, I saved the 2 biggest flat peices, and popped them into my cricut machine.
Worked like a charm! The letters are cut with the scrapbook plantin and the clear tag the doggie is on is cut with paper pups. Now I kow what to do with that annoying bubble overwrap stuff. hmmmmm, need to find some more. :D

ROCKIES did it!

They did it! 1st time in 15 years of playing, they made it to the world series.
I remember when we lived in California, all the excitment surrounding the dodgers when they would make it to the WS. Since we moved here, of coarse we had to have a new favorite team, only this club was so new-- they paid squat. So they got mostly rookies to play.

Well, times are changing! They have a terrific team this year, and they have won the last 21 games straight! I hope they can do this in the WS, they will then take the record for most games won in a row. :D

I would love to go see the WS game, but for the last 2 weeks--tickets have been around 600.00. Um, no, I think I will watch the game on TV for that price, lol. It isn't even the ball clubs fault, they presell the tickets, and people scalp them. And it is legal to scalp here, as long as you don't do it in Denver.

Well, I have been at work, sneaking into patient rooms, trying to watch at least part of tonights game. Just wanted to post real quick on my break here, cause it is exciting round these parts, lol.
I walked outsite, and could hear the hoop and hollaring on the main drag, people lighting off fireworks--hopefully we won't see any of them in the ER tonight. :D

I want to Travel.

one of my best friends in college, whom I have not seen in about 15 years just sent me a slide show of their vacation. They went to Europe! Oh, it looked like so much fun, and her pictures were awesome!! If it were not a slideshow, I would probably scrap them, lol. I want to go on a vacation like that!
We want to go to Hawaii next year, but not sure if we can make it, cause we want to go to a family reunion in yellowstone this year too. decisions, decisions. :D

We got a new puppy the other day, but we can't take her home until she is finished with herleash for life training program, oct. 22nd. We have gone to visit her a couple of times, and I always forget my camera! so we go today, and I got my camera, and they are closed!!! Something about Columbous day--who knew? :D


In other news, I am out of the bad girls contest. I didn't make the cut last week. :( I don't mind, but I will say (in my oh not so humble opinion, lol) that I thought my layout was better than a lot of the ones who did make it. NOt that it was great or anything, but better than some of the others. Oh well, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. :D It isn't my best work, I only had half of one night to work on it due to my work schedule. sa la vie. :(
Well, gotta go get some dinner on-- here is my losing layout. :D

Friday Night and I ain't got nobody

Remember that song? I am actually on my lunch here at work, tired, didn't get good sleep today. It has been pretty busy tonight, but I am taking my break! :D

Guess what? I ordered a cricut expression machine! whoo hoo, I am so excited to get it! It should arrive tomorrow. AND II may already have my lil bug sold, but I am sad, cause I really don't want to pay 89.00 for a new george cartridge, and I will barely make 25.00 off the thing then-- maybe I should just list it on ebay, and not settle for less than 80.00 without the george? oh, decisions decisions.

Can't wait to cut chipboard with the new one though- and oh my, I am gonna love that accents cartridge!

Nothing great going on in the home front, brad has been a little sassy lately. I told him he disapointed me yesterday, and that made him cry. I felt bad, but man the boy needs to concentrate. John is going to take him to the Dr. on monday, and get him back on his medication for ADHD. We have had a teacher conference already, he just can't concentrate, he goofs off, she has had to put his desk facing the wall with his back to the other children in an effort to have him concentrate! I had the meds, but I also want my sweet boy who listens, and pays attention.:D

Well, I better get back to work, hopefully, more later.

Friday!

Friday the 21st. I worked last night, I must sleep all day, so I can work tongiht- and ds is out of school today. Hopefully he won't come in my bedroom every 5 minutes to ask me a quick question. ;D Kids, they just don't get it. I have to threaten him with his life not to wake me!

No scrappy time this week, until after the weekend. :(

We plan on going up on the mesa tomorrow-- I so hope the colors have changed so I can get some pretty fall pictures. It is usually the 3rd week in sept. so we will see. Last year, it snowed before the colors changed, so it went from summer to winter! I was so irritated. :p

ok, just killin a bit of time before bed. they will post a new assignment on badgirlskits.com today, but I don't know if I made it into the next round yet or not-- hope so!! guess I will find out when I get up. night!~

Never been so scared in all my life!

Tonight, I have been in tears, my heart had that lead thump in it, and I was crying.
Ds was missing. He came in at 6pm and said "Mom, I am going riding with conner" meaning he was going to ride his bike. "OK, be back in 1 hour, by 7" "OK"

7 comes, no brad. ok, he is in trouble, it is still light out, but he probably lost track of time. 7:30. no brad. OK, now he is on restriction, and in even bigger trouble. Call conners house. "Is brad over there?" "No, I haven't seen him, I think they went to brians" ok, call Brians. "Is Bradley over there?" "no, he and Brian went out riding their bikes" OK, he is in BIG trouble. Now it is 8pm. I think, ok, I am going to go look for him. I get in the car, and start. Conners mom calls. "I can't find them, conner is with them. Brian is home, and he doesn't know where they are" WHAT? I just talked to Brians house, Brian was with them. ????

Ask Brian-- No, I left them an hour ago, I was tired, they were riding by the park.

Now brad knows he better not go out of the irish walk neighborhood, and the park is on the edge, and is pushing it. I go to the park. No kids. Then I find out another kid is with them-- Kristi-- and Kristi's grandma is in tears, out looking for them. This is ridiculous. It is dark now.

Brad never stays out past dark. He KNOWS he BETTER be in before dark. I am getting worried. I am calling 911.

911 takes FOREVER in getting info, before they even dispatch. I am driving, talking to 911. I see Connie. "connie anything?" nope. and Conner is scared after dark, he just won't stay out after dark. 8:30. Still on the phone to the Sherrif's dept. OK, they have cars out looking. one came to the house, and asked all the same info as 911. sheesh-- I could be looking- can't you ask dispatch?

driving driving driving-- nothing. Getting more worried, making deals with God. PLEASE let him be ok. I won't be mad, just let him be ok. Where could he be? Where could they all be? Why has no one found them? We have conners mom, Kristy's grandma, conners brother (older) and myself out driving the neighborhood.

10 minutes until 9pm, I pass 3 sheriff cars parked about 3 blocks from my house all in a row, in front of the new construction going on. WHAT?? WHY ARE THEY NOT OUT LOOKING FOR MY SON? (oh by the way, he is 9 years old). So I stop, and out behind one of the sheriff comes bradley. I just start bawling.

OK, where has he been?

Well, I guess, they were out riding the dirt hills where the new construction happens. All of the builders have gone home for the day. They hear banging in one of the houses, and then someone looks out the "non window" (a hole is there, but no window yet) They all 3 get scared, and run to the house being built across the street, and hide in the back yard behind a mound of dirt.

There they sat, afraid to come out for over 2 hours. They were afraid the person in the other house was going to kidnapp them, so they hid, and were to afraid to come out. When the sheriff shined the spotlights into the dirt hills, they saw that it was the cops, so they all came out running to them.

So almost 9pm, 2 hours late for curfew, they find him. I pull over to ask the sheriff if they knew anything yet, and a bawling bradley is standing there, telling me how scared he was.


So do I punish him? I feel like I should, and yet I shouldn't. If it WAS a dangerous situation, he did good, but how did they think they were going to get home?
Frankly I am just so relieved he is home. he is covered in mud from where they hid, but I am just relieved.

Hug your babies.

The Sundays - Wild Horses

here is a little tribute to the wild horses.

wild horses

BLM are going to sell off the wild horses here. It really makes me sad. Grand Junction (my town) and the little bookcliffs are only one of 3 places in the entire united states that has a place specifically for wild horses. It is protected. IT is soooo beautiful!!!! Here is a website that tells a bit about it. http://www.co.blm.gov/gjra/lbc.htm

ok, so they have these beautiful horses, and I saw on the news last night that the blm is going to be auctioning off some of them to control the population. I read somewhere that that is bogus= it is because some of the local farmers that let their cows range on blm land are afraid there will not be enough grazing land for their cows (they pay BLM) if there are to many horses.

I need to get up on the garfield and get some pictures before they are half gone. :(

I think BLM just found another way to make money. It would be different if the monies were used to help support the protection of the horses, but alais, it is not.

(hey, what is to prevent anyone from going up there and just "taking" a horse? ) I am sure that has happened before, I dunno. I am just sad, that this little bit of nature near me is being sold off to make money for the blm. (ok, I am just rambling, lol) anyway--

not alot going on this sunday night, but the horses were on my mind. beautiful, just beautiful.

So, I guess if you want a wild horse, you can come here http://www.blm.gov/co/st/en/BLM_Programs/wild_horse_and_burro.html and pick yourself one up.

Saturday!

I am feeling much better today, although I still have some reminants of this darn cold left over. I hate being sick! (well, I can't actually think of a single person that enjoys it, lol)

Anyway, I am supposed to go over to my girlfriends house today as she is having a yard sale. dh didn't load up the freezer we have for sale, even though I asked him to yesterday, and he said he would. Now he is in denver, and I just don't think it is something I can do on my own.

I made it to the next round on http://www.badgirlskits.com/ in their designer class contest. So much fun! ok, so we have only gone one round so far, but hey-- one week at a time, right? Here is my layout for this week, it is on texture and dimension. Maybe I should have taken a picture of this layout instead of scanning it, it just looks so flat, but it really isn't. anywho, it is done.

I am anxiously awaiting the new instructions from my DT at Creativexpress.com. Just love it over there! People are so nice, the DT is great, and CX is so fun to work with! We had a month off to pick the new DT, and I am getting ansy, lol.

ok, off to the shower, so I can actually get something done today!

Sick as a dog today. :(

ds was sick yesterday, and I woke up to what felt like a mack truck ran me over. I have slept most of the day, sore throat, cough that hurt in the chest when you cough, and that all over achey feeling. I hate being sick! I hate calling into work too, I called in tonight, first time in over a year. :(

I did scrap a layout lastnight, of the concert. Only took a minute, it was so easy with this fun rock star paper.

so here it is, and I am going back to bed.

Went to Rock Jam last night

Whoo Hoo! so much fun! ds was mad at me cause we wouldn't take him with. I just can't see trying to keep track of him amognst 50,000 people, just wouldn't work.

now there was a long list of players, but I only went to see Styx, Foreigner, and Def Leppard. They were all really good, but I think the best was Foreigner== they were not the headliner, so they didn't play as long as I would have liked, but oh man!

Talk about a blast from the past. :D

I will post pictures tomorrow. Had such a great time. Went with some friends from Utah, I so enjoyed their visit! They came out for the weekend, and I just loved it, I haven't had company like that in ages.

Getting out of the parking lot was a bit of an ordeal, we sat in complete gridlock for over 45 minutes. didn't get that. some people were 4 wheelin it over the dunes, and to the freeway, without an onramp-- I was almost ready to.

so more later! :d

Breathe, breathe YES!!

I am so very happy because I made the creativexpress team again this year. This is such a fun place to work for, I just heart it.

I am sad to se a couple of my team mates go though-- Dee, Teri, Kori, and Tammy, if your reading, I will miss you girlfriends!!!!

This layout is one I did for a AAM swap with the team. Such great memories. :D

Hello!

I am still here. :D

So, Tomorrow is the call for the Creative Express Design Team. I am so nervous, yet excited at the same time! I so want to continue on this team. NOw I know, the current DT has and "in" only because CX already "knows" them. Now that can be good or bad. If you did your work, turned it in on time, and were following the rules, history dictates you should be on the "in list". I am so nervous! It is not for sure though!!!!

On another note, I have company coming this weekend I am trying to get ready for. eek! gotta do a bit of deep cleaning!! :D

We are going to a really cool concert this weekend-- I so can't wait!!!! Wanna know who is playing?

I haven't been to a concert for about 3 years, and even then it was a small one. But the groups playing here, I used to see in my early 20's (hey, I WAS a real partyer-- and used to get lots of back stage passes to party with vrious groups) (you have to have an "in") and these were the groups of my day. now I have grown up quite a bit, and really have no interest in partying with them, like I used to, but I still want to see them! anyway, here is the roster-- http://www.rockjam.com/ Aren't you jealous?

Should be a fun weekend, and a blast to the past. I plan on taking tons of pics. :D

Here is a layout I did for Scrapbook playgound paper trunk is sponsoring us this month-- I am trying to get a little more "visual" here on the old blog-- thanks for looking at it! :D

Oh, and I did try out for Octobwer Afternoon DT, guess I didn't make the cut-- so sad. I rarely try out for these things, cause only the most "well known" scrappers seem to make them-- maybe if I were to submit to some magazines, I would stand a chance. :D But I am to lazy for that-- can't seem to get enough done to do that, not to mention the fact I scrap the current season, not 6 months behind-- sooo. sigh, oh well.