Woot!

My favorite designer ever is having a rare CT call!!  If you’re interested in being on one of the best teams around, you should apply!  =)  Here’s the details:

Her store is at Polka Dot Plum and she has some gorgeous goodies stashed in there! 

Speaking of her gorgeous goodies, she just released a new template set today and here’s my layout with it:

 

I also used one of her other recent kits, Jingle Jangle.  

Fonts: Myriad Pro, Retro Rock Poster

Fun, fun, fun…

Speaking of fun, today I’m going through all my created layouts on my computer and sorting them out into folders by year…I have GOT to get them printed.  The good news is that the place where I want to get them printed is running a special on 12x12’s for $1 each (if you order 35 or more).  And I easily can reach that…haha.  Probably twice.  I am WAY behind on printing.  I have to get these sorted and figure out which ones to print before the special runs out on the 16th of January though…and that is fast approaching. 

Seriously?  We’re almost halfway through January already?  WHAT?—How is that possible??? 

I’m Dreaming of a White….

January 10th??   Funny, that just doesn’t have the same ring to it….lol. 

This picture is titled “Wolf In Sheep’s Clothing.”  This bush looks all innocent and peaceful with it’s snowy sheep suit on, but don’t dare get too close or a yelping you’ll be.  Why in the world the previous owners thought it would be a good idea to put these all around the lower patio AND all around the pool, is beyond me. 

Anywho…today was a hot homemade potato soup kind of day.  See that evil bush up there?  I was editing the picture and forgot that hot homemade potato soup.  Stupid bush.  Pokes me even when I’m inside the house.  Burned all the water off the potatoes and the bottom layer was crusty dark brown and inedible.  I rescued the top layer and put it in a new pot and added water and milk and had homemade soup anyway.  It was still good.  No thanks to the bush.  Of course, it had nothing at all to do with my lack of memory…lol.  Ah well.  Soup was still good. 

After-soup breath, on the other hand….

Moving on, it has been snowing ALL day.  Since sometime in the middle of the night.  And not just snowing, HEAVY snow…and it’s sticking, but after about 3 inches, it doesn’t look like it’s getting any deeper.  Just kinda reminds me of a perpetual snow globe.  White ground, snow pouring down, but never changing the landscape.  Yeah, weird.  I know. 

Munchkin was out of school and KC’s work was closed…so it was like an extra Saturday.  Consequently, my weekday routine is all out of whack.  Ha.  Oh well. 

Well, I can’t think of any more random for now, so I’ll just leave with a few pics. 

Obi eating snow

Obi has a dark side

&

Ahsoka has an ear to the ground

…wonder if she heard anything good from the floor?   

G-night now.  =)

Brotherly Love

^{I came upon these two in the chair the other day and HAD to grab the camera.  Four chairs in the living room and one of them big enough for both, but they had to both sit in the single recliner.  The part that got me was Obi had his paw around Soka.  AWW…}

Be kindly affectioned

one to another with

brotherly love; in

honour preferring one

another; 

-Romans 12:10

Now if I could just get the kids to learn THIS part and not the biting, wrestling, growling at each other part…lol. 

Anyway, because I can’t leave a decent post without a little bit of random, I have to throw in here that I took the dogs to the humane society today.  The gentle leaders almost weren’t enough.  *googley eyes*  They are now almost tied in weight at 80 and 85 pounds.  And they don’t have heartworms.  And the humane society has prevention pills for the worm things a LOT cheaper than the vet…in case any of ya’ll need a moneysaving tip.  *grin*  ANYWAY…the dogs ALMOST have the hang of riding in the car without trying to sit in my lap in the driver’s seat the entire ride.  Obi sat in the back seat and Soka sat up front with me.  Except for Obi trying to come up and join us about 13 times, it was a peaceful, comfortable ride. 

Oh and completely unrelated, but our power went out for 2 hours this morning.  Even the little things were impossible.  K-man doing school because you don’t need electricity for that right?  But oh…his pencil needs to be sharpened.  Um…yeah.  No laundry, no fixing my hair to get ready to take the dogs to the HS, nada.  Thankfully the hot water heater is gas and the water was still functioning, so the shower worked.  =) 

Today was the most eventful day this week!  LOL.  I also nearly had a stroke this afternoon.  I had to fill the gas tank up.  *meep*  I feel much better about staying close to home all week and not running around very much.  Usually this would be the second fill up of the week…whew! 

That’s enough random, I reckon.  ;-)

Later gators! 

Where Do I Start?

I have this funny feeling that the random that ruled the roost my posts through the month of December is probably here to stay for awhile.  Hopefully that doesn’t bother anyone…lol…not that I can help it if it does.  =) 

KC turned old today.  LOL.  I try not to rag him (much) since I’m going to be turning old in a couple months.  We didn’t have a big party, just a nice quiet night at home (per his request).  Course, that suits me just fine…I love quiet nights at home.  I made him a disgustingly sinful, calorie-loaded, hot chocolate lava cake.  With vanilla ice cream on the side…the dish was pretty much plain sugar.  If it wasn’t the easiest thing in the world to make, I would never make it again, because that one bowl used up my daily calorie allowance for a full week, but it was so easy.  And so good.  Think chocolate cake with a scoop of ice cream on top and then drowning it in liquid syrupy hot chocolate icing. 

I just gained another pound writing about it. 

For the record, it’s one of those pampered chef brilliant recipes…

Make up a box of devils food cake according to the package directions.  Dump a container of chocolate icing in a microwave safe large dish (I used the pampered chef large glass mixing bowl which is oven/microwave safe) and then pour the prepared cake mix on top of it.  Microwave for 10 minutes (no lid) and then dump out in a dish with sides (because you don’t want to lose all that yummy gooey syrup). 

And there’s another pound.  I have to stop talking about it now or the scales will think I grew another person overnight.

Moving on…I haven’t picked up my camera or uploaded any pics in ages…since Christmas I guess…at this rate my computer hard drive won’t be overloaded anytime soon…

Munchkin’s back in school.  Mommy is just a little bit happy about that!  And then today she forgot her backpack and lunch for the first time all year…and Mommy didn’t even realize it until like 1:30…walked all around it all day and never even thought about the fact that during the school day it wasn’t supposed to be hanging on the hook in the kitchen.  Durrr…oh well. 

My phone is dying.  It’s been beeping for ages now and I don’t feel like going upstairs and plugging it up.  For one, I’m lazy.  And for another, every time I move, the dogs follow me.  Between the kids and the dogs, I NEVER go to the bathroom alone.  ROFL.  How did I get on that subject? 

Speaking of the dogs, they are all settled down here in the basement…in the kids beanbags.  The dogs have pretty much taken over the two (nearly flattened) beanbags that the kids used to use.  They curl up in their adjacent beanbags and off to dreamland…until I get off the couch.  Then they magically wake up.  And follow.  But they’re real cute all curled up in the beanbags.  If I wasn’t so lazy, I’d go get the camera and show you.  Oh well. 

I don’t really know what else to say…as usual I still have a lot on my mind but nothing I can say.  Oh well.  Such is life. 

Have I ever mentioned I hate football?  It stresses me out.  LOL. 

AND I’m going to hit post now and find something else to do for a while.  =)  It’s only midnight after all. 

wq (that was the dog) 

Goodnight. =)

Days Like That

Mama said there’d be…

LOL.  Thing is, there’s not any real good (or bad) reason to feel that way, just that today was one of those days when everything got on my nerves. 

The dogs wouldn’t let us take a nap in peace today so neither one of us got any sleep. 

There’s not any Sunday School for another week so we had an extra hour before church and I still managed to be rushing when it was time to leave. 

The kids were…kids…

The dog wouldn’t do his thang after he ate this afternoon so I walked around in the cold and walked around and was rushing AGAIN to leave for church. 

Just…one of them days. 

But really I have nothing to complain about.  Except that I just used a preposition to end that last sentence and that irks me.  LOL. 

Night now…

A Little Housecleaning

In case you didn’t notice, I did a little housekeeping over on the ol’ linky list over there.  I went through my google reader and deleted everyone that didn’t post anything at all in 2010.  I figured it was time…and now that my list is shorter, maybe I’ll have time to read the ones I still subscribe to.  *grin* 

A note to my “real life friend” bloggers, you guys who didn’t post last year got the cut, too.  Love ya and all, but you really should post.    However, if you start blogging again, please please please be sure to tell me so I can link back up and read again.  =) 

I really miss you guys.  =(  Especially you, my hubby…who hasn’t blogged since 2008.  >:( 

Anyways, so that’s that and I updated the header last night and changed the credits down there, too.  And there it is…blog is all tidy again.  =)

Old Year Out, New Year In

I cannot believe it’s been another year already.  Seems like we were just starting this one…I mean, we JUST moved in this house.  And now it’s January again.  I guess that means that those leftover unpacked boxes have no good excuse anymore.  I can’t use the “oh we just moved in and we’re still working on getting everything arranged” excuse anymore. 

Anyway, this will be another random post from the mental bletherings of my brain.  Just warning ya. 

Anyway, someone said Christians shouldn’t make New Years Resolutions…I’m not sure why that is, because even Christians have bad or unhealthy habits.  I mean, who doesn’t need to resolve to exercise more often?  Or quit drinking Dr Pepper for the 782nd time?  Might be me.  What can I say?  When someone is kind enough to give me a six-pack for Christmas, how can I not drink them, right?  LOL.  Anyway…six-pack is gone already, so I’m back to water and being good.  Although someone else gave me some money, so I guess I could always go pick up another…although that someone gets really disappointed when I pick up the non-water drinking habit again, so maybe I’ll stick to being good.  LOL!
 

Woah…there’s that smiley face again. 

I really need to update the blog to reflect a new year again…since my last one didn’t catch up until like um….August. 

On a serious note, I hurt for people around me…seems like health problems, death, etc. seem to be hitting close to home…makes me more thankful for the life and health and etc. of those still here.  Sometimes it’s hard to hold on to the joy in the face of all the sadness and I just have to keep reminding myself that joy is not in the happy ever after, it’s in the hope not seen.  Faith.  The substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things unseen.  I don’t know…just thoughts in my head…random, I know. 

Back to light random again…did ya’ll know that feeding your dogs canned pumpkin (the real thing, not pie filling) cures chocolate pudding problems really quickly?  LOL.  About as quickly as feeding them a piece of ham GIVES them chocolate pudding.  (ICK) 

I know how much ya’ll really wanted to know that.  I’m trying to do at least one good deed a day.  That was today’s…hahaaa…keep my good deeds to myself next time, right? 

KC slept in today until EIGHT-THIRTY!  That is SOOOO not normal.  I was joyful in the shower.  Usually he’s up before 7 (and that’s “sleeping in” for him) and downstairs on the treadmill and then I get up around 7:30 so I can get my shower before he finishes his miles.  But today I got up at 8:30 and when I came out of the shower, he was still in bed.  I didn’t feel like the lazy slug today AND I still got to sleep in…lololol!  When I went upstairs to get the K-man moving, he stretched, climbed down his ladder, and said, “Momma?  I slept up, didn’t I?”  LOL.  Slept UP. 

Oh and KC hacked my Photoshop and made it work after all.  Yippee.  =)  My IT guy is so good.  =) 

Alright…I’m going away now to see if I can update the blog before midnight. 

Whodunit?

Somebody put bleach water in my bottle of Febreeze that sits in the basket of frequently used items on my dryer.  Somebody didn’t label it.  It USED to be Febreeze.  I know because I use it frequently to freshen up things that aren’t washable…like the air after the dog toots.  And I keep it there BECAUSE it’s used frequently and I’m lazy like that and don’t like to get it out of the cabinet. 

The bottle of bleach water is in an old lysol spray bottle and is CLEARLY marked out with a sharpie and has “BLEACH” written all over it.  It’s in the cabinet because it is NOT used frequently. 

I don’t know when it was switched or why, because neither KC nor I did it….but I do know it was switched.  I know because as I was running out the door yesterday I sprayed my sweater pretty liberally with “febreeze.”  I sprayed it because it smelled slightly of greasy food.  It wasn’t dirty, just had that “I sat in a cafeteria for a few minutes” smell, so I febreezed it…that’s what febreeze is for.  LOL.  Unfortunately after about the fourth generous squirt, I thought…that’s funny, this doesn’t smell like febreeze. 

Oh dear.  My favorite sweater and one of my best jean skirts.  I immediately ran to the sink, peeling off the clothes as I went, and rinsed them out as fast as possible…

Those moments only happen when you’re running late.  So then I had to go find something else to wear.  And moan over the fact that I’d just sprayed bleach all over one of my best outfits. 

I’m pretty sure I rescued the clothes in time…only one spot on the jean skirt that I can find and the sweater looks amazingly unharmed.  But I can’t figure out how that febreeze turned into bleach? 

The last time that happened was sometime between 2002 and 2004 (I know this, because it was in our very first house on our very first bed).  And I sprayed it and the fabric on our very favorite comforter immediately spotted up.  I patched over it and put a matching patch on the other side.  We still have it.  It wasn’t as much of a favorite after that though.  And the last time, it was a person who put bleach in the febreeze bottle and didn’t label it. 

GRRR…Bleach has NO business being in a febreeze bottle.  That’s all I have to say about THAT! 

White Christmas

Well, it is wayyyy past my bedtime.  My computer clock just turned 12.  OUCH. 

I have hand cramps from editing pictures and I tried to upload to FB but apparently that’s not working right now.  Here are a couple of my favorites from this weekend since I don’t want to spend all that time and then not get ANY of them uploaded anywhere. 

The snow was so pretty.  I didn’t measure it or anything, but I’m guessing around nine inches. 

KC’s family ended up staying over since the snow was pouring down for 16 hours nonstop on Christmas day.  LOL. 

They wanted me to snap some pics before they left.  I love these of Aunt C and Uncle R…they aren’t 100% perfect shots (my camera seemed to want to focus on the snow falling in front of them instead of on THEM) but the pics are super sweet just the same. 

Then there’s these shots of the in-laws…which also turned out pretty good…

Another one of Aunt C and Uncle R, and then Pawpaw snapped a couple of us…

That’s my best “just got out of the shower and it didn’t wake me up” look…lol

After the family headed out today when the snowplows got the road decently cleared, the four of us went out and played in the snow for awhile.  Brrr…it was cooooold.  Munchkin and I made a snowman while KC cleared the driveway and K-man crawled around on his hands and knees with his face in the snow – eating it….thankfully, I didn’t see him eating any that was yellow….bwahahaha

I made the snowman with ears and turned him into a cat with whiskers.  I wasn’t going to, but Munchkin made the head and it had this “growth” on one side, so I made a matching one and then it sorta looked like ears, so I just went with it.  LOL. 

Then there’s the dogs….their first snow.  To say they LOVE it is kind of an understatement.  The first time I walked them in it, it didn’t occur to me until I was doing the balance/skid/backflip/skid/balance act down the hill with them because they were so excited and jumping around in it, that perhaps that first walk should have been one at a time.  LOL.  After that, I let them out on the back deck and just blocked it off so they couldn’t get down the stairs…they ran and played till their feet froze and they wanted back in…

I’m not sure what is up with my camera (possibly operator error) but it seems like my focus is off…I’ll have one random piece of picture in focus and then everything else will be blurry and when I try to bring it up to good sharpness, it gets all grainy.  Most of the pics I took during Christmas turned out like that.  Yuck.  These outside ones weren’t too bad though…except for the ones I tried to take when it was snowing…live and learn I guess.  =) 

Okay…I’m going to bed now.  =)

Bummed

Well.  I am so sad.  I tried to install my new upgrade and I can’t.  And now it’s opened so I can’t return it.  I can’t install it because I have the entire creative suite and they won’t let you upgrade a single component.  I am so disgusted. 

Anybody need to buy an upgrade for JUST Photoshop CS3 or CS4?  I’ve got CS5 and I can’t use it.  BOO.  =( 

Way to cap off my day.  PMS and now this.  Grrr. 

Oh and we’re snowed in…first white Christmas in NC since 1947.  Not that I was around then to know that. 

And I can’t even spend the snowed in time by playing with my photoshop upgrade. 

Ho. Ho.  Merry Christmas.  Today I’m the angry elf. 

But thanks anyway honey, for trying…I would have assumed that single components could be upgraded, too.  That’s a money racket!  *angry elf face*  ;-/  It was still a great Christmas present.  =)

LOVE!

I’m so tired.  Don’t ALL my posts start out like that?  Hopefully I’m not getting sick…I’d really not care for that. 

Christmas is almost here...today was Christmas with my family and we opened a couple of ours, too.  Hang on.  Get this. 

KC UPGRADED ME!  TO CS5. 

Probably about only 3 people who read this blog know what I’m talking about…but for digiscrappy geeks like me, it’s the best thing since sliced bread!  The upgrade for Photoshop. 

I can’t wait to load and play.  Maybe soon…gotta get through Christmas.  =) 

Night!

Going on Ten

LOL.  Happy Anniversary to my sweet honey.  Nine years.  Hard to believe it’s been that long.  And now we’re going on ten.  Old married couple…that’s us.  Ha. 

I was going to do this really long detailed post for our anniversary…and then we spent all evening hanging stuff on the walls.  After a year in this house, we are finally getting around to that.  LOL. 

And then I put the kids to bed and the headache stayed up with me so I’m not really in the mood to say much now….  Um…the headache in my head, not calling the hubby a headache, promise.  LOL! 

Really really tempted to go make hot chocolate or something.  And take some excedrin.  *sigh* 

Oh well.  Mama said there’d be days like that.