My Social Life

My social life is exciting. Well to me it's enough. As much as I love to chat, and visit with people when I am in a social setting. I am not one for going out much.

I think Facebook is the best goddamn invention since the internet. No shit. I can be social with all my friends, and it doesn't matter if I talked to you yesterday or 15 years ago, we catch up by reading each others updates, and comment from their. Genius.

That being said, I do leave my house at times with out my children, and Spaghetti. And when I do I don't go far, because my happiness is found in the next little town over from mine.

It's a little local scrapbook store, where I crop. Sure I have my big art room with all my tools right at hand, so why pack up half my shit and haul it to a store where I have to pay $10 to do the same thing?

For my social life.

Sure I get scrapbooking done, I've realized the less people I bring with me that I know, the better I do. So if I go alone, I actually have more progress (yesterday was my best yet I cropped from 9:30 am till 6:30pm. 9 hours, and 7 pages done.

Not bad since I had to go home to get my Cricut (cutting machine) then again right after that because I left my cut mats at home (grrr) and we all bring food, and get pizza for dinner so their are snack breaks. Plus all I do is drink water, coffee and tea while I scrap, so I pee about 42 times (8 times really, but you need the exagerated number)

I love to crop with my mom, and Pipe, but it seems the better I know you the more I chat my ass off. Yesterday the two girls who were signed up, never showed! Not only did I get shit done, I also got the WHOLE table to myself (did I share with other girls who had 3 to a table...nope!)

I love to meet new people, to hear their stories, and best of all to learn WHY they scrapbook. If you think it's just to perserve memories your wrong. So many scrapbookers need an outlet. Many of us are SAHM's who just need to get away, and for the busy working mom's, retired grandma's, and teens and collage girls who just need an out.

It's for everyone, and I love that I can make art with my pictures, share idea's and memories, and best of all to make new friends.

I think I like to crop on my own, I happen to be quite the diva when I crop. I have 6 CD's of music I burned just for us to listen too. Everything you can imagine is on their, from Michael Jackson to Kelly Clarkson. Of coarse P!nk and the Black Eyed Peas are a must, but there is some country (about 4 songs, the most I can tollerate at one time) there is rock, pop, hip hop, oldie's, and old school.

I have a seat I prefer. In the corner. Sure cuz I'm bad, but mostly beause I can spread out, and I can see everyone there. I don't pack ALL my stuff (I seriously used to) but I like my space. But I do venture out of my corner, to visit, shop around the store, and when people get up, I ask if I can sit in their seat.

Weird? Sure, but I love to sit in another artist chair. To see how they do a layout, to see how they organize their stuff, to see their lives being documented.

I dance, shake my butt, we do a bit of yoga posing since we sit all day. Sometimes we make a break for the Dollar General to see what fun we can find. If no fun, at least some food.

Check out my friends I made yesterday!

Here is my friend Berry, she is a young collage girl, who LOVES to scrap, she should her mom owns the store. It was fun to crop and eat Smarties with her, to see her crop her friends, and their trips. Her niece, and family pictures.

Pastry girl in pink, made these TO DIE for nummy pastires the night before. OMG good. She crops often, we aren't close, but we do love to joke and share what we are up too. She can crop and finish about 15 pages a crop. Sounds impressive, but she also has her pictures cropped, and paper planned for each layout before coming to crop. Cheater!!

Next to her is Goonie. (I call her Goonie, because she loves the Goonies more then me, so we must be friends. I demand it.) By the way she is wearing a paper bib around her neck. Just a little FYI about her wardrobe.

So onto Goonie. After cropping, visiting and enjoying our conversations (mind you she was across the room from me) I realize that with the details she has given, and some of the things she has said. I needed to ask her if she graduated H.S. in 1996, and from my school. She did.

Weird. Well no really, my H.S. was big (and now is even bigger) so each class was over 600 kids, so the odds of you knowing everyone was rare. So we quickly threw names back and forth, she was good friends with most of my gradeschool friends that went to our H.S. school, and we had alot of mutual friends, but found out the key thing, she was a softball girl. Ahh, that was it. You wouldn't find me near a sporting event. I supported the arts, drama and musicals. No wonder we never knew each other.

Her story of her life was interesting, and made me understand why she scrapbooks. It's an out from her life. Sometimes stressful, and not always happy. I hope to see her again there.

Here's Trendy Chic, and Sam. Trendy is older then most of us. But I was thrown off when I made a comment about the Black Eyed Peas, and she said she loved them. I tried not to look surprised, but she caught me and said "What am I too old?" I said "No, I can only hope to be so trendy when I am older" came to find out she loves the Pussycat dolls, BEP, Justin Timberlake, and she shook hands with Oprah 2 years ago. She has money so she loves to buy the newest tools and gadgets. She has a Gypsy for her Cricut (think iTouch for scrapbooking. I think.)

She sold me on a Kindle reader. She is an avid book fan. Not just a reader. There is a difference, I LOVE books, to hold, smell and flip the pages. She did too. But she said this is so great. I was sold. She did say she sold almost all her books (it would clear up alot of my clutter) but she kept a few.

Trendy Chic has cropped many times with me, but this time it was such a great group I learned more this time then in the last 2 years I've known her.

And Burnt Orange here. She was quiet, and kept to herself. We did talk a bit twards the end, and when I was leaving we both hoped to crop together again.

Also was her friend, that had to leave early, and Carry, who left early too.

I love to crop and get away. Just as much as I love to get right back and enjoy life, to take more pictures and crop some more!

The piles.

I have piles of piles.



I have piles of lists that go on and on.



I seem to have an art of making lists, in fancy notebooks, on fancy tablets, that get put away and never seen.



I have piles of lists to find those fancy lists that I put away.

I have piles of laundry that need to be washed.

I have a husband that works sometimes two jobs a day, and works out once a day, and has his sleep wear (when he's allowed to sleep) that man alone could keep me in the laundry business.

My daughter Bagel is a Diva in the making, every time she come out of her room from a nap, or just to stop by she comes out in a different outfit, and clean underwear (I can't complain, I mean she must change her underware about 2x's a day)

Then you have the little 17 month old who is learning to self feed, and he has NO fear whatsoever of dirt, and bugs. (all goes in mouth or rubbed into clothes) that little tot is EASILY 2 outfits a day.

Myself? Ah I wear the stylish p.j. pants and tshirt (or long sleeved if it's chilly) around the house. I try to make the same outfit last a few days for laundry's sake anyway. If I go out I will fashion myself a clean outfit. But for the sake of ungodly laundry piles, I again repeat I would SO be in a nudist colony.

I have piles of blogs in my head. Is that possible? I just do things and think, this would be great blog material. I do believe that being on facebook has allotted me to cheat a bit, and post my currant thoughts there. But I would rather have them here.

Oh and the piles of toys.

Lots of those.

The front living room is the designated "toy room" I try to keep it as picked up as possible. I really need to purge. There are so many of those fucking little McD's toys my mother and MIL pick up for the kids, plus all the little peoples and cars, and balls. (I swear there are about 6 balls just waiting for me to walk by late at night so I can slip and break my damn neck)

Weaky's room has some toys too, some as in two houses (a small town and a castle) and a few people. Bagel's room has only stuffed toys, and one book. Because she WILL never sleep with toys in there. BUT I am seriously thinking about giving her a few more in there just because she seems to be doing better. (maybe when we paint her room...)

I have for the most part tamed the paper clutter to a small mountain. No really it's filed, or shredded. The mail barely makes it in the door and it's tossed, shredded and read and put away. (I am good at that!)

Oh and there are piles of pictures. Sounds bizarre, but being an avid scrapbooker, I have PILES of pictures, and I do scrapbook often, I just take about 80 pictures a month!

So excuses for not blogging? Nah.

Just lettin you know I am up to my eyeballs in just about everything. (like those fascinating people on the show "Hoarders"...but not really... more of a figuratively kinda way...)

(hoping to get my other post on how the P90X is doing done and out there soon!)

Mini Bloggers

Thanks for the push from D Mudd Pimpster, she reminded me that I hadn't blogged in a while, and once I started blogging I realized how much I missed it! Now I just have to get back to checking all my friends blogs, and enjoying them again!

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I smashed the Fnck out of my ring finger last night. Don't ask what the odds are that my finger found itseld between the garage and basement door knobs, can you say WTF?!?

Spaghetti's friends who all know there fair share of swear words, were enjoying the basketball game and hockey game, may have learned a few more swear words (I am known for making up some pretty fun words) I had to ice it, and it still stings to type today.

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I am sad that I am not with Queen and Pipe today.

They are off on a fun shopping day. But the budget right now does not have room for fun scrapbooking and shopping adventures today. (I have spent my allowance on No Doubt tickets, and P!nk tickets, my overnight Stampin' Up! event, Conventional, plus I will be attending the ever so fun Scrapbook Expo with Queen and Pipe in the fall!) So I can't complain!

Hope they have a nice day together, I will be seeing Aerial, later today. And then everyone will be back here for the 7 pm Stamp Camp!!

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On the scrapbooking note, I decided to play "Julie Cruise Director" as Pipe calls me, and set up a private crop over at my good friend's scrapbook store in town. We are all very excited!

This Saturday from 10 am - 10 pm for $10 is our crop. Since it is private, there are just 6 of us cropping together. So that means 2 to a table! (instead of the usual 4 to a table!) I can't wait!

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Purple is the color of the day! Well it's the color of the day everyday for me. I am the QUEEN of last minute. Procrastination award to me! I am talking about the fact that my art room that was just built last August, and was originally post-it note yellow. (because it was bright and fun) But I decided to change that it should be my favorite color (Queen inspired, since her art room is ALL pink)

I started painting is months ago. But I never finished, because I had to remove some wall mounted shelves, and brackets. So back to the reason I am the procrastination queen, I am having Stamp Camp tonight, I thought yesterday was a good day to tear apart my room and paint!

With the help of Bagel, (picture a 3 year old with purple hair and face) she did a great job, we finished the job. Now I just have the fun of putting the room back together again!

And it is fun. I love to tinker, and reorganize my art room, over and over again! I guess I should get to putting it back together again, I have just 6 1/2 hours to go!

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I have pictures out the yeeha to share with you. Bagel's Tinkerbell Extravaganza party, a fun day at the park, and our friends wedding we just attended... well I will give you the wedding picture now... (thanks to Doug for sharing on FB!)

Below is Spaghetti and me, at Justin and his new wife Mae's wedding, we were able to get almost all the collage friends together. (Tammy and Todd had to leave early, their little guy, Mason (2) was sick at home and left before we got this picture taken)

It was a great time. Always nice seeing Ed with his good friends, and all the guys were in our wedding (almost 8 years ago!)

(L to R, Patsy and Todd, Queen of Feisty, and Spaghetti, Mae, and Justin (tux) and Tim and Doug)

Mental Vacation.

I am back.



Phew. It was an awesome weekend.



We left Friday morning and came back Sunday night. We scrapbooked, ate and slept. It was a productive weekend, I got two scrapbooks done, one on Bagel and one on the Baptism pictures.



I started pictures of Weaky but we had to start packing up. God knows I packed the whole damn art room, but for all my supplies it only took about 40 minutes to clean up and have it all ready to go.



I will post pictures of the weekend, and possibly, not promising the video of the place I took. (I am video retarded with blogger)



Right now I am trying to get my brain back into mommy mode. I have to say I owe Spaghetti HUGE. No HUGE, HUGE. Over my weekend, while I was reading magazines, scrapbooking, getting a full body massage, and enjoying time with my friends. Spaghetti was at home playing full time dad.



This is what I came home to...



ALL the laundry in the HUGE pack and play, put away.

ALL the bags of laundry put away.

House as clean as I left it.

Bagel 3 days into potty training.



Yes we have had some set backs with the potty training. But she is getting better with wearing her big girl pants. We are only doing the pull-ups for nap and sleep (and car rides for now)



He really put his all into this weekend, and now that I am home, and laundry is not taking over the house. I can focus on organizing the house, decluttering, and taking care of myself.



Lots to do, but with a relaxing weekend to start things off I feel better and mentally rested.



I want to go again to a weekend retreat, but our $$ tree is a bit bare, so this may be an annual trip. (Iowa I will fill you in later) Again I will upload pictures and fill you in on more!

T- minus 20 hours 39 minutes....

Today is crazy.

I have T-minus 21 hours until we leave.


We as in me.


Me, the Queen, Pipe, my friend one L, her sister, and boss/best friend.


We are going to Indiana. Why am I so excited to go to Indiana, in January you ask?


Because there is a quaint little town, with a nice little place we will be taking over from Friday at 4pm, until Sunday afternoon.


We are going to a place where a nice lady will cook and clean for us, then disappear to be with her family all while we crop.


Yes this is my Christmas present from Spaghetti. He is giving me a 3 day, 2 night getaway. I have packed an insane amount of stuff.

2 rolling totes (one is 4 feet tall!) for scrapbook papers, chipboard, mediums, punches, adhesives, and Cricut cartridges.

1 bag for project scrapbooks, scrapbook magazines, my file of ideas, of coarse my Stampin' Up! catalog.

1 carousal of tools

My work mat

1 bag for pictures to scrap

1 bag of stamps
1 bag of more tools, less used. And memorabilia.
1 tote for accessories and journal sheets
1 tote for more accessories and ribbons
1 tote for just solid card stock and mini books to work on
(all the above is packed)

That is not counting the pink tote for candy, and my Starbucks drinks, and coffee. Clothes, and toiletries. (still need to pack clothes)

Still have to clean the house (Spaghetti is supervising the children this weekend) the more that Spaghetti doesn't have to do, the easier 3 days with the kids will be. (he is spending the day Saturday with his mom and dad, cheater!!)

I have been tackling the laundry all week, there are still 4 bags from Thanksgiving to put away, the BIG pack and play is overflowing with clean laundry, and there are 3 baskets in our bedroom to put away. 3 still to wash, AND one in the dryer and one in the washer. Phew.

I just have to unload the dishwasher, and do laundry, otherwise the house is clean.

20 hours and 40 minutes.... and counting...

Random Sunday Morning.

• It is 3 degrees out. Before the windchill. There are 40 mph winds. Which equals freeze your privates off, stings to breathe, make you cry like a bitch cold. So I drove to McD's for breakfast (thanks Aerial, I blame you and your coke sucking through the straw sound I heard from you yesterday)
• Bagel was elated to see me home with a hash brown and breakfast burrito, AND a chocolate milk (special treat)
• I uploaded and burned about 100 pictures, I will try not to show them all at once to you all, but it's hard to hold back.
• I am in the process of packing for my beloved weekend getaway to a scrapbook retreat less then 3 weeks away... sigh... I know, 3 weeks, but I thrive off of organizing pictures, and filing my 12x12 pretty scrapbook papers. I spent a week just on accessories alone. Then a week on tools, and inks, stamps, markers, chalks, paints... it's my obsession, go get your own.
• We faxed the request to NOT pay our taxes through our mortgage payments, giving me $479 more a month (our tax return is going to pay for the taxes, don't worry!) Just shuffling the funds around.
• I still have a retarded amount of laundry to put away. And for those of you keeping track there are still 9 garbage bags of clean clothes stacked in Weaky's closet from Thanksgiving shove-the-shit-people-are-coming-over, obviously we are not in need of most of those items, but I am noticing a shortage of underware and socks.
• We are all sick in some degree. Bagel is a mucus monkey, Weaky just sound stuffy, Spaghetti is always sick, and I woke up with a sore throat but McD's coke and Breakfast burritos, plus the grease from the hash browns has coated my throat.

Day 4 of lockdown

Good morning.

I have to say if I didn't retardedly go out in the snowstorm last Tuesday, then it would have been 6 days of lock down. I just needed some sticky tape (no I really needed it for my Christmas cards, it has to hold down the glitter... whatever) from the local scrapbook store, only a 10 minute drive, but in the storm it took me about 30 minutes (not counting car cleaning off time) and I only swerved and lost control twice! (no kids with me Spaghetti was home)

And now we have the ice storm from Thursday night, still coating every possible surface. I know it is WAY snowier, and icier in other places, but this is my story damn it. So we have 5" of snow and 1" of sheer solid ice.

Which comes to you had better had gone out prior to the storms to get what you need, but those ditches on the sides of the road are just calling your name. SO I have been home.

As always, but Bagel HATES the snow, and won't go play in it. Ding and Dong are Boxers, so the are sensitive to extreme weather conditions (aka. sissies) so they are in all day too.

2 kids.
2 cats.
2 dogs.
me.
sometimes Spaghetti.

It just gets to be a bit redundant at times. I had dreams last night of making breakfast, lunch and dinner for everyone. That is what I do. Feed. Clean. Feed. Clean. Blog. Twitter. Clean. Stare at wall. Play. Feed...

I love being able to stay home, don't get me wrong, but it's just GREY outside, no sun for 3 days now, I can only use my inner sunshine for so long! But I hear it's supposed to be sunny and 25 on Christmas! 4 days till sunshine!

Either way, I may escape with the little people today. Spaghetti borrowed his dad's Santa suit, and will be playing the roll of Santa at the Video Store today. Time for the mom-a-razzi to step in! That ought to bring out some inner sunshine in me. That and the liter of coffee I will drink today.

A fun day, till something died up my ass

SO I had the best time at the crop this last Saturday. My mom and I went to this cute little, impossible to find, scrapbook store. A.maz.ing. The room color, the decorations (can you say Pottery Barn Kids?) the fully stocked kitchen all for us to use! And even better we were the only ones booked for that day!

So mom and I, head out early, I am a cropper from start of time to end, and then some. The crop started at 9 am and was scheduled till midnight. We stopped at Starbucks right around the corner, for a yummy breakfast and my free Mocha Peppermint Twist (Red) promo they have going on.

We cropped and shopped all morning, then off to TGI Friday for a great lunch. When we returned to the crop, our one girlfriend, Patti was there. The crop room manager showed up, and the party was getting funner! (yes that is a word I use often, way better then "more fun") Piper showed up later then she wanted, and Aerial came by too.

We all worked on projects, ate pizzas, drank wine (free, yes free when you crop!!) Then with little or no begging they let us all go into the warehouse where they store everything. Oh I forgot to mention, that this place is an online store, and the crop room was just opened to the public in October of 2008. So this warehouse is huge, all stocked with all the newest and trendiest scrapbooking supplies! Oh the ooohs, and aaahhhs, from everyone! It was great!!

This store ships as far as Australia! But we have it right here! (well about an hour away) but still! The prices are great, and they are possibly still running a sale on some Cricut cartridges for only $29.99!!!!

Anywho, so we all had a great time, Aerial left first, then Pipe and my mom left. Patti and I stayed till about 12:30, right as I was getting ready to take out my last load of stuff, I farted. Not the whole noisy fart. But the worst ones of all for me. The SBD. Now I have a cold and I can not breathe through my nose, so when I smelt it, I feared for everyones lives, well at least there nose hairs from being singed off.

So I announce that I farted and that I am sorry. If they never want me back again (after much praise on how fun and entertaining we all were) I would completely understand. Well of coarse they said it's no big deal, everyone farts. I then said, you must not smell it yet.

Oh when it hit them... they asked me if I shit myself? Or what died up my ass? (after 15 hours of quality time, you get pretty comfortable with people) I told them it stank. It made the younger girl gag.

I am so sorry to the nice ladies at Custom Crops. You were awesome, and nice, and your store was pretty, I am again sorry for dropping a fart bomb in your expensively decorated crop room. (that was no fart cloud. That was a bomb)

Outside of that our day was awesome. Oh and no I was not mortified, it takes WAY more then that to embarrass me. Maybe shitting myself would do it... be sure to check out Custom Crops and tell them I sent you.

My jaw hurts. My throat hurts, and some Bliss for me

I am excited to say even though I had a shitastical night with the kids, and I woke up with my jaw still in pain from the dentist (I will explain) and a sore throat that is comparable to eating pine cones.

Oh so before I get to the exciting part, I must tell you about my dentist appointment. Sigh, I have been bad. And in return I have 5 cavities. I must say having back to back kids, kept me away from my normal 6 month cleanings, I knew I had a cavity in the back left, but avoided the dentist. Shame shame.

So this cavity, is ginormous, to the point where the Novocaine lasted from noon that day till 6:30 pm, and my mouth is still sore from where he did all the work. It's a big bad cavity, that will probably require a crown next year, good news is I will have a porcelain colored tooth and not the silver grill I sport now.

I just called the dentist, and they said I could be sore for up to two weeks. Thank god I horded all the 800 mg Motrin from having the kids!

So besides the fact that I feel like someone jacked me in the mouth, and my throat stings, and I had a bitter night with my children...

I am dropping them off at Gramma and Grampa Mc's for a well deserved weekend to myself. I do this once a month or so. I drop them off Friday around 2, and I go get them on Sunday afternoon.

Bliss.

Whatever do I do? I have no plans for today (besides Target for a tent bed) and nothing for Sunday. But tomorrow I am going early to a scrapbook crop from 9am till midnight. I am going with my mom, friends Pipe, and Patti, and Aerial will be by later after work.

Just some me time. And I SO need it after these past few days. Well it could always be worse, I know I will have harder days, this was just one of them.

Hope you have a blogtastic day!

No. Thank you.

I am thankful for...

• Myself. No really. I like who I am, and for the most part where I am in my life. I like what I stand for and that I am a strong person.
• Spaghetti. Of coarse I must mention my other half. The half of me that supports me, and I love his values and love for his family.
• Bagel. Love her sassy attitude, her demanding, and charming ways. Her spirit and her energy. (it's alot like looking in a mirror)
• Spike. This little man, steals more and more of my heart every day. I love his smile, his hugs (yes I know a 7 month old doesn't really "hug" but there hugs to me) I love his babbling, and his love for a good 12 hour nights sleep.
• Ding and Dong. Lovem', can't live with out them. These two 70lb brindle boxer monkeys are my big babies. And I am thankful for there company and there endless love for me.
• Thing 1 and Thing 2. How can you not love cats? I mean of coarse they barf, and pee on things, and scratch and bite, but seriously. I love to sit on the couch at night, with both my girls fighting for my lap.
• Blogger. Yes may seem funny to most, but I am to assume the majority of my readers are bloggers themselves. Blogger is an escape, a place to empty my head, and just get it all out. And thanks to SITS, it's a place to meet other bloggers just like me, to make friends, and read that I am not going insane, that we are a lot more alike then we thought.
• Aerial. Yes my one friend. I have many friends, but Aerial is like a sister to me. She listens, and well go back and read her birthday post for more, but she fits the words "best friend" like a BFF should.
• Queen, Carrots and Frances. My family. Mom, Dad, and sister too. Love them, knowing that that was my original family of 4, I love to spend as much time with them as I can. Enjoying old memories as we create new ones.
• Gramma and Grampa Mc. Or otherwise know as my IL's. Awesome people, of coarse since the made my Spaghetti, they are giving and loving. And I thank them for it.
• Scuz. Surprised? You shouldn't be. She and I are kindred spirits, we are one in the same, finishing each others sentences. The fact that she is my favoritest cousin of all, but sadly the farthest away (not counting Maggie in Ireland) and as the economy eats through any airfare money either of us had. Visiting is hard. But I am Thankful for you Scuz. Muah.
• Old friends. Mudd D Pimp, and Maternal Chandler, I gots mad love for these two. We have been around each others lives, in and out at times, but for the greater part of the last 25 years. Thanks ladies.

That is who, I am thankful for. Now for some random other things I am thankful for...

• My Art room. My escape from reality, and my happy place. Yes my post-it note yellow basement.
• The t.v. room. Again a basement room, the other 1/2. Filled with two overstuffed, love seat recliners, a flat screen t.v. and my Ding and Dong. Spaghetti's happy place
• The loft. I love my loft, it is at the second floor, it is in between the kids rooms, over looking the front t.v. room, and open to the pool room in the back of the house. This room holds my dear computer, and is home to my cats Thing 1 and Thing 2.
• Scrapbooking, a newer hobby that I have learned that I love.
• Coffee. On which my sole survival on a day to day basis depends on.

I am sure there are a ton more. But that is all the time I have, I must go make stuffing, and head over to me Madre's house! Happy Thanksgiving everyone. I hope you have a happy and safe Holiday!

What I am into these days...

Found something neat on a blog in my blogroll, about what I am into these days. Just some random things to mention that tickle my fancy...

• Twilight- Everything and all things Twilight. I have a Christmas list for Aerial getting my "Cullen Family Crest" hoodie! And my sister Frances has already gotten me the "Team Edward" shirt. Love it all!!
• Organizing this house- Yep, not like it's big news. And if it is, go read "Where do I begin" for current updates on my waist deep laundry, and the shit shuffle.
• Me- Well this is always on my top priority. But I am on a interesting path in my life. With my family where Spaghetti and I wanted it to be. I am trying to figure me out. I mean I know I am a full time mom and all, but what about me? What am I? What do I want to be, or do?
• Scrapbooking- This has been a very small snowball starting years ago, I would buy scrapbooking papers, and embellishments, but just recently in the last few months have I been really dedicated to scrapbooking.

So what's new with you?

Insanity.

This weekend through next weekend is pure insanity for me. Let me just tell you today's schedule, since I am just home to let the dogs out...

8:45 am
Up ironed Spaghetti's clothes for day job
Packed kids for Gramma and Grampa Mc's house.
9:05 am
Spaghetti up, and getting ready, so am I.
Bagel and Spike are both away, but still locked in there rooms, I can not and will not juggle it all at once. I will release each demon as I am ready for them.
9:15 am
Spaghetti leaves for day job.
9:40 am
I pack children into car.
9:42 am
Spaghetti is back from day job. Ass holes changed his schedule from 9:30 am to 11:00 am. Way to fuck him on any sleep he would have gotten today. You suck.
10:00 am
Hit the McD's drive through ordering breakfast for me, kid, and my mom and dad.
10:14 am
Get gas. $1.93!!
10:38 am
Arrive at Queen and Carrots. We eat breakfast of champions, then get busy. It's the biannual Family Ravioli making day!! Wee! Handmade 165 Ravioli's. Will post pictures later.
1:40 pm
Leave Queen and Carrots house, to take children to Gramma and Grampa Mc's
2:15 pm
Arrive at Gramma and Grampa Mc's
2:40 pm
Leave Gramma and Grampa Mc's go to Starbucks (yes I am a Starbucks Gold member) then to K-Mart in the next town to settle up with the Gold Canyon party lady from last week. Head back home.
3:40 pm
Stop at donation box in town. Unload 3 bags of clothes and shoes! Hooray!
3:50 pm
Arrive home, let out the dogs, blog, check email and messages on machine. Must pack up the truck for the Scrapbook store crop I am attending from 5pm till midnight! Wee!!

After claiming my seat at the crop, I may escape to print more pictures, and feed Spaghetti, since his retarded job works him with no breaks, and 9 hour shifts. Douche bags.

Anywho, that is all, this coffee is giving me the shits. Gatta go before one of these farts is a sharf, and I just washed my comfy sweats for tonight.

Lata!!

I lost.

I lost the battle of the Scrapbook weekend. I posted before on my Scrappbooking weekend vent. Well they emailed me last night and told me that the other group is getting the weekend. And we were free to look else where.

Now I am way more forgiving then the others in my group, and some of them have already laid into the girls for this mixup. Not to say I didn't share my feelings of disappointment, but I am moving on, and looking for somewhere new.

So now we are throwing around ideas on where to stay, it is V-Day weekend and here in the Midwest the weather is not so friendly, so the one I am rooting for is 4 1/2 hours south east, and some don't want to travel if there is bad weather. I have no problem driving in shitastical weather. You just suck it up and 4 1/2 hours becomes 6 hours.

Our other choices are $100 more, or to scrap at a regular hotel (Boring) I want to be pampered, and just move in for 3 days. We will see, I am waiting on the other girls to give me there ideas.

Remind me again why I am "Julie Cruise Director" because this is way to much fucking fun.

Vent on Scrapbooking.

I know Scrapbooking is a very laid back, work at your own pace kinda hobby. That is not why I am venting. I know how to scrapbook, I enjoy it. And I do it often.

My vent is on my Christmas present from Spaghetti. He is giving me 2 nights and 3 days to a Scrapbook getaway with 5 of my friends.

I found this place, we are going Valentines weekend, booked, made our down payments, and I am "Julie Cruise Director" so I am the contact person.

I found this place in August, at the Scrapbook Expo. I booked them in September, and spoke again with them in late October about our date.

I got a call Monday night from one of the owners. They overbooked...

Let me explain this place, they have 3 bedrooms. Two of the bedrooms hold 3 people. (6 guests) and the "Pajama Party Room" holds 6 (our group) I am told that another group of 6 is booked for the same weekend.

So not quite sure where in the last few weeks I was booked over. But they called politely asking if we would just send 3 of us, since there are 3 beds available, or maybe if we could reschedule ourselves to either Christmas or Mothers Day weekend...

I calmly told them Monday I would get back to them, I needed to talk to the other girls. After hours of calling and talking things out. We all figured we are all only available V-Day weekend. So I called, twice, and emailed both owners that we needed that weekend or we need our deposits back, so we can rebook somewhere else.

I called back Tuesday. The talked to the other group Wednesday, they are now discussing the option of rescheduling themselves. It's now Thursday. I want to know NOW, so we can rebook somewhere else.

Am I being pushy? I just want to get my money back, so we can move on, or I want to know if we have the place.

Not fun. So that is my vent, I am trying to be realistic here, and look at other places, because I am sure we will get hosed. Tisk Tisk, word of mouth will not be good for this place...

Stay tuned for more...

Crash.

14 hours.
3 Venti Starbucks Mocha's (with double shot)
4 bottles of water
10 other scrapbookers

and... drum roll please... 9 yes 9 scrapbook pages! Folks this is somewhere near a miracle, because I never get that many done. I am very proud. I was able to to the whole Drew Davis Band Concert from this summer, some of myself, and Dong.

I made a new friend, we shall call her Batz Maru, we exchanged phone numbers we hit it off so well. She was born in this state, then moved to Hawaii most of her life, then went to college in Nebraska (?) and back here again. But she's Mexican. So I have a new friend who is a very honest, sarcastic, funny, Hawaiian, Nebraskan, Mexican. Pretty cool.

Ah and the bad part of my all night parting ways... the crash... to much coffee makes me poop, and the dogs were barking when I got in. So in between taking ALL of my stuff from the truck, down to the art room, then pooping, talking to Aerial (she was getting ready for work) then taking care of the dogs, pooping, blogging, and now more pooping and off to bed.

I will be sleeping as much as I want the beloved Gramma and Grampa Mc are taking my monkeys until tomorrow! Wee! A free day. Maybe even a haircut. Mohawks grow fast!

So off to bed with me, night night.

14 hours of me myself and I.

In two short hours I will be dropping Bagel and Spike off at Gramma and Grampa Mc's house. I then am free until Sunday. Un-freakin-believable. I am elated. I may read like I am stunned. But the fact that my day is here... oh I forget you don't know what I am talking about.

Well instead of blogging I should be organizing, and packing up all my fun supplies for an amazing day and night at the local scrapbook store. They are hosting there first overnight crop!

P.J.'s and all I am headed over around 5 pm, and not leaving (they will feed me!) until 7 am. Yes folks, that is 14, I repeat 14 hours of scrapbooking. I have been motivating myself all week for this. (not like it takes much to motivate me to drop of my monkey children and run to the nearest scrapbook store for 14 glorious hours!)

I have been going through my magazines for layouts, topics, ideas and well I just love to read and reread my scrapbook magazines! Oh the glory of it all! I might even treat myself to a new magazine... oh I am excited. Like NKOTB concert excited... like no kids whining, or dogs barking, or ironing Spaghetti's clothes excited.

I have my pictures all in order by category, in separate little sandwich baggies, I will have coordinating papers, chipboard, accessories and tools all ready. I will pack a small side table for my Cricut machine, snacks, caffeine, a small throw blanket for my chair, and my big comfy slippers.

I am hoping to also get all those cards done for my customers that could not make my World Card Making Day Class on Wednesday, (yes all 72 cards!) I want to actually have pages, yes more then one done tonight too. (usually I go with friends and I MAYBE get 2 pages done, I just love to socialize!!) Not tonight, well maybe a little talking! But after so many hours even I get tired of hearing myself, so I will pack my iPod and work hard!

Sorry again to the Queen, One L, and Pipe for not inviting them. I would get NOTHING done if you were all there with me!

Below is the beloved cup. It's a real plastic insulated cup that I bought at Starbucks, the lid twists on, and the straw is hard plastic. This is my favorite water cup! Must have with me!

So I can not wittle my day away by blogging constantly, I must go pack myself, my kidlets, and enjoy myself! I am hoping to hear from no one. Unless my kids are missing a limp or bleeding profusly, leave me alone! Miss me!

A Toast to Tuesdays

Tuesday is here, and the week is going good so far. Here are the reasons I Toast Tuesday!

• I had fun with my friends last night, and I was able to get a lot done for my class tomorrow.


• I had a nice morning with Spike, Bagel and Spaghetti over a very late breakfast, and an elbow dance.


• The first floor of the house is clean, so I can focus on laundry and the upstairs.


• Spaghetti only is working 1:30-4 at the day job, I am hoping to have the house nice for him.


• Spike at a whole jar of peaches and two bottles!


• I am excited about the overnight crop at my friends scrapbook store on Friday, 5pm till 7 am!! Can we say iPod and scrapbooking?!?


• I got some awesome idea's for my Halloween Bonanza class next week!!


• Bagel loved the Rainb@w Bright house and dolls I gave her, from when I was a kid! Sprites too!