April 30, 2008

I just cannot believe it is the last day of April, I have NO idea where this year has gone. Been a crazy week, I am getting over a nasty sinus infection, trying my best to remember to take the antibiotic until it is ALL GONE. Missing my boy tremendously, although I know he must be having a blast in Florida. He called me saturday afternoon when they arrived at the condo and was filling me in on all the details. The place they are staying has 13 swimming pools, 7 lakes, bowling, movies, mini golf, regular golf, paddle boats, and I am sure much much more. Needless to say he was VERY excited. He did very well on the plane, said he didn't feel sick one bit thank goodness. (I have to admit I was a little worried about that one) He also said that his dad was going to let him sit by the window on the plane ride home! I can't wait for when he gets back so that he can tell me about everything he did. I had a wonderful time inKC for my sisters shower, so exciting to see her-she got so very many nice things. I was talking to my friend Stacy this last saturday, her husband is out of town for work and while we were chatting her son took his first steps! Lots and lots of excitement right now. I am so happy that it is finally getting warmer outside, now if we could just get the wind to die down a little, so that we could enjoy it. No huge plans for me this weekend, I am having a couple of girls over to crop for a couple of hours sunday (much to my husbands chagrin, LOL!) It has been way to long since we did that, I just wish I had more square footage in my scrapbook room so that we could do it more often! Well got to go, got to finish out my month.

tagged...again

That Amy Wolff, always tagging me, LOL! Ok so here is the lowdown:

1) Do you like bleu cheese? gross! no.
2) Have you ever smoked herion? Are you kidding my dad would kill me
3) Do you own a gun? personally-no, but there is more than one in my house
4) what flavor do you add in your drink at Sonic? Vodka
5) Do you get nervous before Dr appts? Not usually
6) What do you think of hotdogs? going to have to agree with Summer-I don't think of hotdogs
7) Favorite Christmas song? Santa Baby-the original
8) What do you prefer to drink in the morning? Coffee with cream and sugar
9) Can you do push-ups? I prefer not to even try
10) Can you do a chin up? see answer for question 9
11) What is your favorite peice of jewelry? My grandfather recently gave my sisters and one of
my cousins his rings that he wore through the years and I got his wedding ring.
12) Favorite hobby? Scrapbooking, altering, & shopping for scrapbooking
13) Ever been in a car wreck? several
14) Do you have ADD? Not that I know of....OCD now thats another story
15) What is one trait you love about yourself? Loyalty
16) Middle Name? LeAnne
17) Name 3 thoughts at this exact moment? My stomach is growling, what am I wearing to
Amy's shower this weekend, I need to make a list so I don't forget anything this weekend
18) Name three things you bought yesterday? Gift bag for shower gift, tissue paper for gift bag,
greeting card for shower
19) Name three drinks you regularly drink? Corona, Dr. Pepper, Coffee
20) Current worry? I will be so behind on housework next week
21) Current hate right now? mean & selfish people suck
22) How did you bring in the New Year? this year we just stayed at home-I think ;)
23) Where would you like to go? Greece...or someplace really warm and sunny
24) Name three people that will complete this? there is only 1 left from the blogs I read-Amy P
25) Do you own slippers? does furry insulated croc's count?
26) What shirt are you wearing? red, black, and white print kimono type blouse
27) do you like sleeping on satin sheets? not particularly, but I do like sleeping
28) Can you whistle? not very well
29) Would you be a pirate? only if they had indoor plumbing and a/c
30) What songs do you sing in the shower? mmmmmm-none
31) Favorite girls name? Avery
32) Favorite boys name? Chase, Cooper
33) What is in your pocket? nothing
34) Last thing that made you laugh? TV @ lunch
35) Best bed sheets as a child? too far back to remember, LOL
36) Worst injury you've ever had? probably have to be breaking my tailbone-twice & there isn't
a darn thing they can do for you.
37) Do you love where you live? Eh it's ok.
38) How many TV's do you have in your home? 2
39) Who is your loudest friend? hmmm, I don't really have any loud friends...
40) How many dogs do you have? we are dogsitting this week, does that count?
41) Does someone have a crush on you? EVERYONE has a crush on me!!! (just kidding)
42) What is your favorite book? I really enjoyed all the Harry Potter books
43) What is your favorite candy? I love love love anything with dark chocolate, but I have to
have Twizzlers when I travel
44) What dong do you want played at your funeral? I don't even want to think about it, kinda like
hot dogs.
45) What is your favorite sports team? Uhm, I don't have one?
46) What were you doing at 12:00 a.m. this morning? probably snoring
47) What was the first thing you thought when you woke up? do I have to get out of bed???
48) What do you sleep in? usually shorts and a T-shirt
49) What is your favorite all time movie? Princess Bride, Say Anything, Better off Dead
50) If you could do one thing over in your life what would it be? I would try to work less and
enjoy life more, but as a rule I try not to have any regrets.

There you are, so I only know one other person with a blog that hasn't been tagged yet, and that would be my amazing and beautiful sister Amy P.

So, I am feeling pretty good today, I got several projects completed yesterday. Most of them I cannot share until after the baby shower next weekend, but believe me-they are going to be worth the wait. (seriously I can't hardly stand not sharing RIGHT NOW!!!) but I can share the adorable clip board that I made for Pat and Cherri, we are dog sitting Dodger again for them. He is the sweetest dog ever, so well behaved-other than the fact that they let him jump up (front paws) on the kitchen counters. I can't deal with that, where I come from animals arent' even allowed in the kitchen when you are cooking or eating. None the less, very sweet puppy likes to be where you are at all times. We had a pretty low key weekend, housework and dogsitting taking up most of the time. Got to get things done before next weekend, I have to work saturday morning, then leave for KC-Amy's shower is sunday afternoon, geez time is just flying by I can't believe she is already 7 months along. Well gotta get back to work, have a great week!!

Deep Thoughts.....

This was handed to me today and I thought I would share.

Law Of the Garbage Truck

One day I hopped in a taxi and took off for the airport. We were driving in the right lane when suddenly a black car jumped out of a a parking space right in front of us. My taxi driver slammed on his brakes, skidded, and swerved, missing the other other car by just inches! The driver of the other car whipped his head around and started yelling at us. My taxi driver just smiled and waved at the guy....I mean he was really friendly.
So I asked, "why did you just to that? The guy almost ruined your car and sent both of us to the hospital!"
He explained that many people are like garbage trucks. They run around full of garbage, full of frustration, full of anger, and full of disappointment. As their garbage piles up they need a place to dump it, and sometimes they dump it on you. Don't take it personally. Just smile, wave, wish them well, and move on. Don't take their garbage and spread it on to other people at work, at home, or on the streets.
The bottom line is that successful people do not let garbage trucks take over their day. Life is too short to wake up in the morning with regrets, so.....Love the people that treat you right, pray for the ones who don't.

Peace out.

ROCK CHALK TUESDAY

What an exciting evening! Even though I am not a sports fan as a rule, I really enjoyed watching the game last night (even if it did keep me from going to bed at my normal bedtime) And I can seriously understand the dedication of the fans. I have even learned a little about the game and the players this year-suprise suprise suprise! Of course, you know that staying up past 9:30 practically two days in a row I will be suffering seriously this week. Probably be down right grumpy, not to mention the fact that Rich seems to be getting the crud again (still) so I am sure that won't help my temperment. But the Jayhawks won the tournament, so I will be as happy as I can be just knowing that. Got an e-mail from Amy W. yesterday, Chase will be starting soccer practice next weekend, I am very excited for him to be outside and active as well as being a part of something again. I really enjoy watching him out there, tongue sticking out and all!! They won't actually be playing like they do in the fall but they have a series of scrimages and work on skills that they need for the fall season. It's shaping up to be a busy month, Chase has a dentist appt on thursday, and we are dog sitting Dodger again for the weekend-I am sure Chase will be elated!! (hopefully the weather will be nice) Been pretty slow at work, guess since it is so close to the tax deadline? Well, I better get to looking busy, hope everyone has a great night!

Monday April 7, 2008

I just can't tell you how much I dislike mondays, especially cold rainy mondays.
Maybe it has something to do with the fact that I have to drag myself out of bed to come to work?
Oh well. Had a really nice weekend. Saturday morning I worked to get caught up on house cleaning and laundry (yuck) Then we met Rich's sister Tracey and her son Marcus for dinner at Felipe's (I know, I know, big suprise) We are sooooo predictable aren't we? And then we all went back to our house where Rich's friend Bill joined us to watch the game. You might ask yourself at this point (because I did) Why didn't Jennifer invite anybody over to watch the game? Well, I didn't know we were going to dinner with Tracey and Marcus or that they would be coming over to watch the game. And believe me, I gave Rich a hard time about it. No worries though, I really don't have any friends who would be more interested in watching the game then scrapbooking, so I guess in the end it was for the best, LOL!
Sunday, I rolled out of bed around 9:00, and yes, I know that is REALLY late for me, but I figured well I WAS up until 11:30 the night before. So I start my usual sunday routine, make coffee and start cooking breakfast. I run outside to get the paper and as I am looking through the ads, what do my eyes come upon??

CRICUT CARTRIDGES FOR $39.99 AT MICHAELS THIS WEEK

Now, to some of you I might as well be speaking a different language, but there are a select few out there that share my excitement. So the wheels start spinning, it is 9:30 by this point and I am thinking to myself "I wonder what time Michaels opens on Sunday..." So I call my good friend Angie (because she has the answer to everything) unfortunately she was up late the night before also at a retirement party for her husbands work and was still asleep. (my deepest apologies again ang) But now that I have woken her she researches and calls me back to tell me that they open at 10:00. So, my heart is racing, I need to get dressed!! I need to leave immediatly so that I get there when they open, I can't risk all the good fonts getting snatched up before I get there....and I glance over to the clock on the stove...8:30. 8:30??? I look at the clock on the microwave...8:30. Yeah, yesterday was the old daylight savings time; before they changed it? Yeah, both Rich's and my alarm clocks change automatically for daylight savings time but we bought them BEFORE they decided to change the date. Sooo, the good thing was I had plenty of time to finish making breakfast, much to Rich's relief. Bad thing was I woke up my poor sleepy friend. It all worked out, as I was driving into town, I called everyone I know that has a cricut to get the word out, and I got to Michaels just as they opened and bought two of the fonts that were on my wish list (Opposites Attract, and Teardrop) and I was able to pick up two fonts that Amy W. wanted while I was there since she was on her way to church and might not make it before they sold out. After picking up my scrap stuff that was at Angie's house I headed home, finished up my sisters birthday present (yeah, the one that was in march) As I was working on her gift I was also piddling around the house, you know, the glitter has to dry so you take out the trash and start another load of laundry. I noticed that it is absolutely GORGEOUS outside, so instead of starting the next project on my long list, I decide that I shouldn't let the beautiful weather go to waste. I found the book that I was reading early last fall, sprayed on some sunscreen, grabbed my sunglasses and my lawnchair, and settled down on the porch for a couple of relaxing hours in the sunshine. Let me tell you, I could certainly get used to having weather like that year round without a problem. And I think psychologically it really did me some good. Unfortunately, the sun and the 70 degree temps are gone....back to reality. Hope everyone has a great week, and I hope those of you that got to Michaels found the fonts that you were looking for.

April 1, 2008 Happy April Fools!!!

Good morning!
so, Amy W. tagged me, good as an excuse as ever to get me back to blogging I guess, LOL! So, here are my 10 Random things:

1) I miss not living close to my family

2) I have a love/hate relationship with my job

3) I can be very OCD regarding my surroundings

4) I tend to see things very black & white

5) I love saurkraut & vinegar (not necessarily together, LOL)

6) I need 7-8 hours of sleep per night to function

7) I think that my boy is growing up WAAAAAY to fast

8) I wish that I had more time & energy to be creative

9) I miss taking road trip family vacations like we did when I was a kid

10) I wish that more people had common sense- it would truly make life easier


So, more about life later-trying to pace myself...HA!
hope everyone has a great day.
Oh and now I am tagging Amy P.