Weekend Update

Another great weekend. DH and I carved pumpkins on Saturday night. This is his free hand approach: I used a stencil with mine. I thought it turned out cool!
Orion made a pillow house for himself on Saturday night - I'm glad I was able to take a picture before he destroyed it!
I went and saw my parents and the niece and nephew. My niece was playing around with my camera. I was able to back the camera enough to see her eyes, otherwise, it would have been a picture of the pores of a 1 year old!
This is my nephew's picture of his mom with my camera. He didn't really get the concept of getting the whole person in the shot.
A great weekend, as always. Isn't every day away from work a great one?!? Hope everyone else had a good one too!

Layouts

Here's some layouts I've done recently. This one is using the Kristina Contes Kit from Cocoa Daisy. This is my cousin's daughter. I love this picture! I used the April kit from Those were the Days Kits.
This is when I met Cathy Z and Donna D at Scrapbooks Two. They were both so much fun!
This is also from the Kristina Kit from Cocoa Daisy. This is when Beth, Nicole, Linda and I took her class at the pre-CHA party hosted by Those Were The Days. She's such a sweetheart and her NY accent was great!
Hopefully I'll get to scrap more soon - I'm getting behind!

My Office

Friday afternoon I was bored at work and decided to take some pictures of my office. I have a pretty small office, but it at least has a door, which is nice. This is what I stare at every weekday. Notice the iHome, Dwight Stress Ball and Bus Stress Ball.
This is the other part of my desk. It's very deep, so I'm able to put some pictures on my desk. I have pictures of my niece and nephew, more buses, and my certificate for completing the class in Tulsa this spring.
This is probably the coolest part of my desk. My salesman gave me a rearview mirror because my back is to the door all of the time. It's nice not to be surprised all of the time now!
Nothing fancy, but it's mine. Too bad you can't paint the walls or anything! So, feel free to take your own pictures and post them on your blogs. Hell, I just used my camera phone, so it was really easy to do!

6 Random Things

The other Nicole had 6 Random Things on her blog and asked others to join in if they wanted to. I did, so here I go!

1. I don't know where I got this idea, but I've always felt that dogs were telepathic and could read thoughts. No idea why.

2. I pick on my husband for not liking or trying things, but sometimes I'm just as bad at it! I hate green peppers, onions and mushrooms!

3. I can't watch the surgery scenes on Grey's (or any other medical show) because I imagine them happening to me!

4. I aim for puddles with my Jeep!

5. If I had one wish, I'd wish to be a better singer, after all of the standard world peace and the like.

6. I have TERRIBLE vision - my contacts are 7.5 in the right eye and 8 in the left! Thank God for contacts!! But I'll never get Lasik because I already get bad halos around lights at night.

There! If anyone else wants to play along - go for it!

Have a great weekend - and thanks for the great day B!

Gray Days

This isn't the greatest picture, but it's how most of the week has been. Gray. Rainy. I look this as I was driving home from work tonight. We need the rain. When we were at Mille Lacs Lake this summer, it was down 3 feet. It's going to take a lot of rain to get that back to where it needs to be. However, it would be nice if we had one or two days of sunshine in between. But I guess it's not like I can see it most of the day - I don't have a window in my office. Ah, more bitching by me about the rain. Can't you just wait until I start bitching about the snow? Ha!

Dh and I went to Michaels tonight. He got a picture he wanted framed. Almost $400 later, even with a 50% coupon, he's getting his picture framed. We don't even have walls to put it on! It's going in our unfinished basement. Hopefully this will give him motivation to finish. Ha again!

I'm super excited for Sunday. My friend KH is coming on Sunday with her new boyfriend for dinner. I've never met him before. It should be a blast.

Blog Action Day

I hope I didn't scare you! Just one of my Halloween decorations for this year. I got the letters at JoAnn's for $.60 and used ribbon I had. I'd like to do more with it, but for right now, it's just hanging there for inspiration.

Today is Blog Action Day. This year, the focus is the environment. I do what I can, but like most of us, there's more I can do. I'm one of the few people on my block that actually recycle, but after reading Ali Edward's blog about how to recycle with Scrapbooking stuff, it really made me think. I'm not sure if recycled paper would work, as in, could it be acid free? But I'd really like to make an effort to recycle my scrap paper. I'm sure it's something that stores could do after crops as well. I'm going to have to check the requirements for our recycling program. No matter what we all do to help out, there's always something more we could do.

Dh and Orion start their trip home tomorrow from North Dakota. I'm excited to see them, but I'm worried I'm not going to get all the cleaning I wanted to do (and have been putting off!) done before they walk in the door about 24 hours from now. Oh well. Either way it will be nice to have them home. Baron will probably be more excited than I will - he really misses his brother!

Curious

I do find it curious that every there is an anonymous post or post from Jennifer, someone using Frontiernet.net in Mound on a Macintosh MacOSX is logged on. EVERY time. Very Curious.

Jennifer, I'm sorry you don't agree with me. I can handle people not agreeing with me. Most of my friends are liberals. But what I don't agree with is attacks. If you want to try and convert me, go ahead. You do catch more flies with honey.

Ignorance

I have this blog for me. I wanted to share a little bit of myself with the world. I am completely fine with anyone disagreeing with what they read here, but I'm not going to let some bully just run free. The last post I made must have hit home for "anonymous". I'm glad you have so much conviction in your (note how "your" is being used in the sentence) opinions that you won't even sign your name. When people call people ignorant, it really makes them want to consider your side. I have disabled comments on the previous post because I don't want it to get any uglier. And I have also removed the name calling post because that was uncalled for. Again, if you want to convince someone to change their opinion, that's not how you do it.

It's The End of the World As We Know It

I fear for the world....Al Gore won the Nobel Peace Prize. It now has lost all credibility in my eyes.

On Strike! Oh, wait - Not On Strike!

It's been an interesting week around here!

Monday DH got notice that the Union may strike again Chrysler. He was in a funk and really worried all of Monday and Tuesday. Then Wednesday, the UAW decided to strike against Chrysler. I came home for lunch and DH is making phone calls and getting ready for his strike duty at 10pm that night. By 2pm, the strike is off! It's a good thing, but it made for a weird week!

Because of all this, I was able to go out to dinner with DH last night. I must really love him, because I had to miss America's Next Top Model! Luckily, it will repeat on Sunday. Now he's in North Dakota hunting all week with Orion. It's just me and Baron holding down the fort. Baron's been a little crazed without Orion here, but we're managing. He'll be happy to have Mama time by himself.

(Photo Courtesy of ABC.com)

Birthday Party

Yesterday we celebrated my nephew's 4th birthday. He had a Cars theme party. It was really fun to hang out with my niece and nephew for the day! It made me want to move closer to them. Here's a picture of my niece - she's saying "cheese!". Gotta love those 6 teeth!
Here's my nephew swinging at the pinata, of course it was Cars themed!
My nephew with his Cars cake - he really doesn't like getting his picture taken!

Good Cop, Baby Cop

If you love Pearl the Landlord, you're going to love this!

Good Cop, Baby Cop

It will definitely chase away the blues!

Blah

I hate this. I hate feeling like this. I was so excited today. Today was the day we were finding out who moves on for Last Scrapper Standing. I checked the site about 500 times today. Finally, the results were posted. My name wasn't on there. I'm disappointed with myself. This is why I don't try things - because it makes me feel like crap when it doesn't turn out. Maybe I need to wait a few more years before I enter another contest. I can't handle them.

By the way, I'm not bitter that they didn't pick mine. There were a lot of really great layouts and I'm sure it was a tough decision. I'm bitter at myself for how I feel after I'm not chosen. It's my own damn fault I feel this way, not the contest's.

I'm going to try and sleep this off. I see much ice cream in my future.

Weekend Update

Another great weekend for me! I went on a scrapbook retreat for four days with an awesome group of people. I don't get to see them too much, so it was nice to hang out again. These ladies are a riot! My Mom also brought my niece and nephew to see me. My nephew was so happy just to cut paper. One of my tablemates also let him use her dog paw punch, which he declared he wanted for his birthday! My niece tried to color, but just ended up getting green marker all over everything. Here's a picture of them:

My space wasn't that messy until they came along! :) Oh well, they're so cute, I can forgive them! Sunday I spent time with Dh, which was nice. Monday was back to work, to clean up what I missed last week. This week it's my Mom's birthday and my nephew's birthday party! So exciting!