Some Randomness

There are a family of rabbits that have made their house in my garden. The flower garden that I have let go this summer and is nothing but weeds and dried up flowers. How did I find the rabbit's house? The dogs found it. Luckily, Baron hates fur or feathers in his mouth (some hunting dog he is!), so I only have to worry about Orion. He has gotten one of the babies a couple of times, and finally today he died. We now have to take Orion out on a leash to keep him from getting into them. We're leaving tomorrow night for the cabin until Monday, so hopefully they will move on or we'll come up with some solution so they survive the Weimaraner attacks. This is a picture of one of them in the garden. They don't even have their eyes open yet!
Work has been extremely stressful lately. I think we have over 20 buses going out the doors this week. Everyone wants theirs before school starts. I had three different buses with major problems that will finally get delivered tomorrow - fingers crossed. I haven't gotten much done around the house this week, but I have gotten a lot of Mario Kart playing done! It's a great stress reliever.

The kids in my neighborhood were using their athletic socks for obstacles to skateboard and bike around. And I'm sure their mothers appreciate the using of their socks. Last I saw they were still laying in the middle of the street. Don't you wonder how that started? Dude, we need to skate around things. Like what? I dunno, maybe our socks? I think it's time for them to go back to school.

Now it's storming out, and even though we need the rain, Baron is scared, so I'm sure I'll be up late tonight. Damn 80 pound baby!

I hope everyone has a great Labor Day weekend. We're going to do a memorial service for my Uncle at the cabin this weekend, so it will be nice but sad.

Fail.

You've gotta check out failblog.org. It's super funny. Love this one - I'm sure Dh would agree with the signage.

Merry Christmas?

I got the strangest piece of mail yesterday. I got a card in the mail, which was unusual because I usually only get them for birthdays and Christmas. Then I saw the postmark - December 19, 2007 - with a Happy Holidays banner. There was also a stamp across the envelope from France. Yes, I got a Christmas card 8 months later. The envelope was open, but the pretty card from my friend Karin J was still in there. I don't know why it would take 8 months to get from Carver to Big Lake. I could probably walk faster than that! But, at least something got to go to France this year. I had wanted to, but it just didn't work out. The Post Office may be slow, but at least it will finally get there!

Olympics

I wasn't really looking forward to the Olympics this year. I don't know why, I just wasn't.
Ummm...yeah. I changed my mind. ;) Gotta love the great swimming, and the eye candy!

Eight on 8/8/08

I thought that in honor of 8/8/08 (which was not as cool as 4/4/04), I would do a list of 8 things. Real original, huh?

1. I just joined Facebook, I know, I'm behind the times, but it's been cool catching up with old friends. If you're on it, friend me!

2. Two cool downloads from Kayla Aimee and The Dares (Dare 103 and 102 have both had downloads) for scrapbooking. Now I just have to learn Photoshop Elements.

3. The Olympics start tonight! I always like checking in on them throughout the couple of weeks they are on. Favorite Olympic Memory - I think it was the 1992 Olympics, but because they were actually happening so much earlier than they were on here, the local news would report who had won before they would actually show it that night (with a disclaimer, of course). My Dad would listen, wouldn't tell us who won, and would rub it in all night! It was frustrating, but fun.

4. Not a great picture, but one of my favorite layouts I've done recently. Mostly because I love this picture of my niece. It makes me laugh every time I see it!
5. These are probably the cutest shoes I've seen in awhile. It's killing me not to own them right now!

6. Probably old news to a lot of people, but the trailer for the next Harry Potter movie is online! I can't wait! I'd really like to see it at the Imax theater near me. We just saw The Dark Knight there last week and it was really cool!

7. I just got the August kit for Studio Calico. LOVE it!

8. Really wanting to take this class from local gal Cathy Zielske. Registration is 8/15 and is open to anyone - no class limit!

I hope you all have a great 8/8/08. Here's looking forward to 9/9/09!

Sometimes I Can't Help Myself

I'm stressed. Work is impossible. Dh paid all of the bills this month, so I'm broke until Friday. Normally, I would go to Target and buy a bunch of stupid stuff, but with less than $2 right now, I had to settle for pre-ordering this:Ali Edwards has a new book coming out. I love her style and everything about how she scrapbooks. I don't make that many mini books, but I love the idea of this book. So, I pre-ordered it. No charging my account until it ships. So, technically, I didn't buy a thing! Or at least that's what I'll tell Dh! :)

Me through the years

While we were going through the pictures my Grandma had, we found all of the school pictures we had given her through out the years. Here's some of mine. I still have the dress from the first picture. My Cabbage Patch Kid wore it all of the time! Gotta love that I had the same glasses from 1st grade (I got them after the picture was taken) until 6th grade. And I wore a sweater vest for both 3rd and 4th grade pictures! What a trend setter!7th grade I finally got contacts - thank God! My hair turned naturally curly in 4th grade, so I can thank that for my lovely 5th grade picture (me in the purple). Why did they have me not look at the camera? So I wouldn't break it? :) Just kidding. What you can't see in the picture is that I have one curl standing straight up. I don't know where my pictures are for 9th or 11th grade are, so they weren't included. The Glamour Shot was when I was 16. My mom still LOVES that picture. Why she thought it was good for me to wear a pink leather bra and leather jacket, I don't know. My hair was HUGE and super hair sprayed. For my Senior picture, I actually prayed that my hair would be good that day! I think it turned out great and the photography studio actually used it in their ads for the next year of senior pictures!If you'd like to see the pictures bigger - you can go to my flickr account.