The Weather Outside is Frightful

It is freezing here and with gas prices so crazy, it is a bit chilly indoors as well. Thank goodness for extra layers of clothing! Starting tomorrow, I am officially on a much needed vacation!! Woo hoo! Cannot wait to just do nothing! That will have to wait til after this dreaded Christmas holiday because I still have most of my shopping to do.Max and I have big plans for tomorrow....Just chill out!! Not too hard here!

I'm still HERE

So, no move occurred this weekend, couldn't get the utilities changed that quickly and the most important thing is that my internet be up and running so that I can search for new porn every day. Kidding.....
But, I seriously couldn't get the phone up and working in time and without the internet, I can't do any work at home, so there was no moving of any crap this weekend. Plus, I am having a difficult time shaking this creepy feeling the dude with the house gave me on Thursday nite when I went to give him the deposit and sign the lease. Apparently, if a single woman wants new locks and a security system, she is either crazy or a man is trying to kill her. He gave me the heebie geebies before, but now with the potential of "someone" killing me, I am definitely not sleeping well and I can't imagine sleeping any better once I am living directly across the street from this dude.
Someone in my house is sleeping a ton better, thank god! After a month straight of completely restless nights and daily night terrors, the little man is some heavy duty drugs and I know many a mother will be waving their little finger in my direction with the mandatory "tsk tsk", I have to say, "Screw You!" ( a lack of sleep makes me a little cranky) Until these said women, and I have already heard from my very own mother, have slept a night in my shoes or in my case, not slept for years in my shoes......they cannot judge. I assure all of america and most especially my very own judgmental mother, these are all carefully prescribed by the head of pediatric neurology at Lutheran General Hospital and are completely necessary. So with these new miracle pills, I should be sleeping sounder but the thought of the dude and his creepy comments (oh yes, there were more) is seriously wiggin' me out.
I have bought 3 Xmas presents, all online on Friday. Whether or not they get here in time is something that only Amazon can answer. I only have about 5 more presents to buy before Saturday. Luckily, one side of the giant family is not getting together for the big exchange until the following week. Oh, and I have no clue what to get a very hard to shop for 10 year old, so figuring that out and then finding it will be a challenge all by itself.
I put up the tree today, thank god it is pre-lit! I put on about 6 ornaments, may put on a couple more tomorrow but not all of them because I don't want to have to re-pack all that stuff as well. Almost everything in the house is packed now and I have given away a ton of stuff with Freecycle! That is a wonderful thing! And I went through the closets and drawers and had two giant bags for the Drop off bin.
School is out now for two whole weeks and starting Thursday, I will be off until January 2nd!! Woo hoo! I thought it was a perfect time to move in and get unpacked, but with those pesky holidays, it is impossible to move the next two weekends. I thought it was hard enough to get friends to help, but with the cold and holidays.....I am not going to be able to get into this creepy house until after January 1st.
So, until then, it is box city for me and I am actually starting to get used to it. I am thinking that some of these things that have been in boxes this long, should maybe stay in those boxes and move on to a better place.....like the Salvation Army! Good riddance to Great Rubbish!

What's Gnu with You?

I think I am one of the only people in America that still remembers The Great Space Coaster. "No g-news is good g-news with Gary Gnu." Ah, love the 80s!
So much going on I can hardly think straight!

• I am in the process of moving or what I like to call the "trying to figure out when the hell I can move" shuffle. If anyone has read about my stupid moving plight they are familiar with the crazy dude and the cheap house for rent. (story here) Well, now the house is again available...Voila! But the dude is so weird, or so I think, and I can't get a straight answer out of him to save my life! I need to move and be in before Xmas and if my calendar is correct, there are only 10 days left!! Yikes! So, I am freaking out. No seriously...FREAKING OUT!!
• It is the Holiday Season and I am the biggest Grinch I know. I flippin' hate Christmas. I always feel like Charlie Brown bitchin' about the commercialism of the holiday and screaming, "Does anyone really know what Christmas is all about?!?!?!" So, I am freaking out and crabby.
• I am still packing. I seriously own too much stuff. How can that be, I really don't think I have anything. Oh....that's right.....it's all TOYS. So, I am freaking out, crabby and tired.
• Work is still crazy mad busy and my boss even asked me today, "Can you bring some files home with you today to work on?" Ummmm....NO!! I am moving you moron! Duh! So, I am freaking out, crabby, tired and overworked!
• My little guy is flippin' out big time. The move is just too much for him, plus the holidays are always a bad time of the year. So, he is draggin' me down with his funk. And I get to add doctors appointments to my To Do list!! Yippee! So I am freaking out, crabby, tired, overworked and in a royal funk.
• Did I mention I haven't bought a single present yet? And I only have 12 people to shop for not including the kid!
  

AHHHHHHHH!!!!!!

Ok....glad I got that off my chest. I am truly not a pleasant person right now and I am lucky I have a man who loves me even when I am a bitch.
On the upside, I made all my Xmas cards tonight, when I should have been packing more, in an hour and a half!! 35 cards!! I was impressed with myself! And I didn't buy anything to make them, I used what I had and what was still in an open box. Not too shabby.
I just need to keep chanting to myself, "this too shall pass....this too shall pass...I am strong enough to handle this.....I can do this....." Everything happens for a reason and if I ever figure out the reason all this shit is going on all at once......it would be a miracle.

Oh Balls!!

I said balls. (hehehe) Like a ten year old boy, I too gigle everytime I hear that word. From what I hear, it is a little annoying from a 30 something mom, but still funny to me nonetheless.
I had to post these balls (hehehe) to show my good buddy Carol that I actually made something! I had seem those Basic Grey ornament kits and thought to myself, "Those are cool, but I am NOT paying $5 for a kit." Then I saw this post on 2peas about the BG ornaments and loved them even more! But, lucky for me, those smart little peas also posted where the directions to make them on your own was online. So I had an ingenious plot: Take the bagillion scraps I have, sort them by vendor and punch my own circles. That way, if I do this every year, I could have a cute little Scrappy Tree with my very own Scrappy ornaments! Clever, eh?
I thought so. Until I read the instructions and thought....Hmmmm, equilateral triangle, eh?!?!? I know my 10th grade geometry should have come back to me, but it didn't. So, I asked I reliable source, "How do you find the equilateral triangle of this circle?"
I didn't like the answer.
"Oh, just mark off every 120 degrees and those are your points."
Rrrrrriiiiiigggghhhhhttt.....degrees you say.
I am one of those people that always thinks....How hard can it be? I bet I can do that myself, I don't need no stinkin' kit! And then, to make matters worse, I brag about it.
Oh, the trouble I get into.
So, I made the triangle as best I could and the balls (hehehe) as best I could. They aren't perfect. They aren't necessarily round even. But they are pretty cute and if people look at them from a far, they would think so too.
And I am so jealous of Cynthia's balls...........they are so much prettier than mine! (hehehe)
So, go ahead Carol, ask me if I made them yet, cuz' I did!
PS. Still no Xmas cards made and I should be packing for the move next week, but this is so much more fun!

Scrappy Resolutions for 2006

Every year I make resolutions with myself and, like many people, rarely follow through. The unfortunate part is that the only person that I am held accountable to is myself. I rarely declare out loud over Christmas dinner, "Attention family, next year I plan on exercising and actually organizing myself." If I did that, someone may call me on it. Perhaps at the pool in July, "So, how's that exercising going this year." This would leave me speechless or in a predicament to use my lying talents.
In order to avoid this and perhaps actually make some sort of attempt at reaching my goals in the new year, I am proclaiming these Scrap Happy Goals for 2006. Check back with me in June and see how these are coming.

1. MORE PAGES. Come on! Of course, being in boxes for 5 months has not helped this situation, but in previous years, I was scrapping like 200 or more pages. Not so much any more. So, in order to hold myself accountable, the goal number is 100. That is approximately 8-9 pages a month.
2. GET PUBLISHED. This was secretly my goal this year, but only sending in 5 pages is just not going to cut it! I can't even remember the last time I even checked the Scrap-Source website for page calls. Seriously, that is a serious lack of motivation.
3. ORGANIZE MY PHOTOS. I really need to organize the photos on my computer. I have Picasa, which makes it simpler, but they are still not where they should be. Plus, there is at least two boxes of photos still in there original envelopes, not labeled just thrown into a box somewhere. These are the things that haunt me in the night!
4. BACK UP MY COMPTER. This goes along with the photo problem. Luckily most of my photos are already on cds, but some are not. Plus, I have so many business files and ideas on my computer and haven't backed up in months. Great, now I probably jinxed myself!
5. LEARN MORE DIGI SCRAPPING. This goal includes working more with Photoshop. Of all my previous 2005 goals, this is one of the only ones I actually did. I can actually do a couple things now, which is a couple more than 2004.
6. BUY LESS. I am going to make it goal to buy what I need. That is a hard one!! I just love paper.
7. STAY ORGANIZED. This one may be the most difficult. I lack some domestic skills as it is and with the scraps, they are just everywhere. Most days, it looks like a hurricane hit my scraproom. It would be good to find a "system" and stick to it as well as I can.
8. LEARN HOW TO USE MY CAMERA. I have a film Canon Rebel (I know everyone has digital now) and I have no idea how to use any manual settings. This is a problem. My pictures are good, but they could be great!

These are the preliminary goals, I am sure over the next few weeks I will come up with a few more. Plus, I have the whole list of non-scrappy goals which will not be spoken out loud.

Here in print, on the web, outloud for everyone to hear.....I may actually do a few of these!

Kicked to the Curb

Just heard on the radio (so it must be true)...

Britney Spears and former back up dancer, Kevin Federline have split.
Mr. Federline has moved out of the couple's Malibu mansion.

Wow!! Big news! Almost bigger than Jessica and Nick. Definitely bigger than the Ben and Jen Baby News. What could it have been?? One too many wife beater Tshirts? The fact that he is a former back-up dancer? He didn't shower enough? She refuses to lose the baby fat? I can only speculate. And now what will little Bubba Spears do without his big pimp daddy at home? Oh the horror.
Who would have seen this coming? His other babies' momma probably. Oh, poor lil Brit, she should have known better or just stuck with Justin!
Let's all hope that things work out for the Former Pop Princess and her Former Back-up Dancer Husband.
And yes, I have stopped all work production, just to post this, I am sure my boss would be delighted.