Not Your Aunt's Ant

We have an ant problem. I think it all stems from this little problem back in June. I think the ants are looking for water, and they've found it in my bathroom. I put out ant poison, but right now, I feel like I'm running an ant buffet. I saw less than 10 on Monday morning, got the poison Monday night, and by today, there are over 100 ants in the bathroom. Not fun. Hopefully they will go away soon, but I'm thinking it's going to be a long road. At least they're small and not cockroaches or something like that. I saw one of those in Tulsa in the woman's bathroom. I screamed and ran out of there so fast! You can't tell me cold winters aren't good for something when we don't have those types of bugs! Now every time I go into the bathroom, all I can think of is ants. Don't step on the ants, make sure the ants don't crawl on me, etc. I might get some more powerful stuff to put out when we're on vacation if they don't seem to go away before then.

I've been Simpsonized!

Dh and I saw The Simpsons Movie last night - it definitely delivered! We laughed so much throughout the whole movie. I was nervous that it would be disappointing, but it wasn't! I highly recommend it to any Simpsons fan.

And now I'm a character in the movie! You can go to Simpsonize Me.com and make your own!

The Joys of a Camera Phone

I got the coolest thing tonight! I FINALLY got something that will get the photos I take on my phone off of it and onto my computer. That itty bitty card goes into my phone, holds the photos, and then connects into the drive to load onto my computer. So cool! Now I have to share some of the photos I took with my camera that I had wanted to share a couple of months ago!
Back on Mother's Day weekend when I was selling some plaques, I saw this plant holder. I thought it was so cool, but I had no good place to hang it and someone else ended up buying it.
This was probably in May as well. It was SUPER windy out and the potato fields near my house hadn't been planted yet. I felt like Dorothy! Normally you can see for miles across this field.
This was tonight. I thought the sky was beautiful, even though it didn't turn out the best out my windshield while I was driving.
Hope everyone has a good weekend. I think DH and I are going to see the Simpson's Movie tomorrow night. D'oh!

DAMN it's Hot!

This is insanity. I live in MN not NM! I can't imagine being my neighbors without air conditioning! It's too hot to not have it. Even the dogs don't like being outside right now! Hopefully the weather people are right and we'll get some relief starting tomorrow night.

On Point

I thought I'd start out this one with another picture of my garden. This is one of my Daylillies. I love that it's two-toned.
Orion always has fun in the garden. He loves the two birdhouses I have in it - and loves that they're occupied. He points his little heart out, waiting for those birds to flush.
I always yell at him to leave the birdies alone, but he never listens! :) I guess his instincts are too much!
Oh, and other good news! From Perez Hilton's blog - "The America’s Next Top Model host and producer has just signed on to keep the show on The CW at least through 2010." Yippee! My guilty pleasure is here to stay for a couple more years!

Beyonce - Ring The Alarm Parody

After a stressful week, a little laughter!

Summer Beauty

Gotta love Phlox, Lillies and Black-eyed Susans from the garden!

7am to 3am

That's how long I stayed up on Saturday! It was so totally worth it! Linda, Beth and I went to a class taught by Kristina Contes. It was her Right Now class. This is a picture of our class - Kristi is in the middle. Also, Wes (the director of Scrapped!) was in our class! Kristi was in his movie, and they had never met, so he wanted to meet her and take her class.

Here's the awesome minibook we made in the class. The pictures were taken before I did my journaling.



Also, everyone who was in one of Kristi's classes was entered to win the new Dare book, which won't be in stores until August. I WON! Both Kristi and Nisa Finn were teaching and were at the crop that night, so I had them both sign it too.
A great day, hanging with my bitches, taking a class, shopping at MOA and scrapping. What more can you ask for! Oh - and actually winning something! :)

Tell me your Secret

I'm a huge fan of PostSecret. If you don't know what that is, it's a blog that post secrets every Sunday that people have sent in. I love reading it every Sunday.

I just found this site too. Angela Daniels has people send in their Scrap Secrets to her. Some of them are funny, some are serious.

This one is definitely me! I have WAY too much stuff! My Scrap Secret? I love buying stuff - but I don't always have something in mind to use it, and some times I never use it! I'd really like to be like Beth, who only buys what she uses. At least that's a goal! Oh, and I'd like to be like her because she's classy too - but that's another topic for another time.

Christmas in July

I think about Christmas presents year-round. The day after Christmas, I start thinking about what to get people next year. I love giving presents - so it's just that more fun when you find something perfect - no matter what time of year! What probably got me started on this is my family does dollar gifts every year. Just my immediate family. What you do is get everyone a gift for a dollar. Now with Dollar Spot, it's a lot easier, but it used to be HARD. If you can't think of anything, there's always lottery tickets, but that's boring, and no one ever wins anything more than $5. So, I start with the after Christmas sales to see if I can get something great for a dollar!

What got me thinking about this is something I saw in this month's Real Simple Magazine:

My Godmother and cousin LOVE corner pieces of anything - how great would this pan be?!?! Now if I can find one with out edges for my SIL who loves middle pieces....

Anyone else do this? Find anything great already? Please tell me I'm not the only one who's nuts about Christmas presents!

What's Your Name?

DH and I were talking about what our Porn names would be the other day. (Don’t ask me how we got started on that conversation!). In case you don’t know how to do this, take your first pet’s name and the name of the street you grew up on. He’d be Spike La France. I’d be Cotton Frear. I think we’d have a good career with those names!

Okay, now it’s your turn!

Felt!

Linda and I went to Joann's the other day and bought some felt to use in our scrapbooks. We got some regular felt and some stuff that had been stiffened. I used the stiff stuff in my Cuddlebug. Here's the result:

It was much cleaner than the normal felt. I really like the look of it.

Happy 4th of July!

Holiday Weekend

This weekend DH and I spent at our cabin with all of my family. When I say all of my family, I mean my Dad's side - 1 Grandmother, 5 siblings, 4 spouses, 10 grandkids, 6 spouses, and 10 great-grandchildren. Oh, a stepchild and girlfriend too. Between our cabin and my uncles, it's packed! This is what we do every 4th of July weekend. Here's a picture of the 10 great-grandchildren - they range from 8 to 6 months.

My Mom has a garden at the cabin that is beautiful. She's got a ton of lillies - and this plant has 28+ blossoms! Isn't that amazing? The stalk is HUGE to support all that weight!

She's also got a hen and chick plant that is flowering. I've never seen one flower! It sort of looks phallic! We're really interested in seeing what kind of flowers it has.

I slept a lot this weekend to help get over this cold. I think it's starting to go away, but not quite yet. I blow my nose more often than I'd like during the day!

No vacation until the 4th. At least there's one day I don't have to get up early!