Trying this again . . .

Not promising anything, but trying this picture a day thing again. I got the "Project Life" kit, so I'm doing it "manually" instead of digitally. I'll just take the pictures, and catch up every so often. Here's the last 4 days:


Just 2 blocks from home. Gorgeous sunset tonight . . . but I'm soooooo tired of this commute. Need a job closer to home, or to win the Lotto!


Robert can't STAND this show! It's fake, it's scripted . . . and I LOVE it! LOL Tonight is the season premiere. First day back at work, sick, perfect night to veg in front of the TV!


Here is where I'm spending my day! Woke up feeling kinda puny. Robert is in his new studio, so I'm gonna PLAY today! I don't wanna go to work tomorrow! :(


Rang in the New Year at the lake with Shawn, Leah (hands in pic), Evan and Lauren. Seven of us played poker and I was the 4th one out. Better than I thought I would do. Lost $20. Bummer! :(

New Blog Theme for the new year . .

what'cha think?

My little drummer boy

Here's what it sounds like in his head (he JUST put them together, so he's still getting used to them) . . .

and here's what I'll hear (with headphones on). It's really not too bad . . . even better since it's across the house in the dining room, instead of across the hall from our bedroom!

He'll have plenty to do now while I go to my parents!! He'll be messing with them all weekend. So much for all the sleep he was going to be catching up on.

My Sacrifice

Well, I did it . . . sacrificed the dining room! Our dining room is now the "recording studio" . . . never really used it for dining anyway. I'm hoping that when I get home from my folks on Saturday, it looks a little MORE like a recording studio that the dumping grounds it is now.

In return for my sacrifice, the "hobby room" is now my "scrapbook room" again!! So, his dumping grounds is literally that . . . we just got his drums set up about an hour ago, and cleaned the hobby room out. My room is so PRETTY again . . .

This is the corner that used to be Robert's. All that's left is the lonely guitar to the left of the TV. Here's the other corner of my room . . .

Well, the Grinch is gone now . . .

I wasn't going to put out anything, and do it all myself . . . but Robert threatened to go get one, and put it up himself. Didn't want to risk what that would look like! LOL Sooo . . . what did HE do? uhhhhh, well he helped get some boxes out of the shed, and he carried the tree in here. I didn't put all my stuff out, just about 60% of my stuff. It really is kinda a pain taking down on the normal stuff for just a couple weeks, and then putting it all back before someone calls you lazy cuz it's March, and you still have your Christmas stuff out! LOL Well, it's really pretty. I'm in here on my laptop, and where is Robert . . . uhhhh, in the bed napping. Glad he's enjoying the tree! hehe

More old layouts . . .

Geeezzzzz . . . it was 10 years ago that I made these scrapbook pages!! These are all from my dad's side (Blanchet's and LeBlanc's)

Scrapbook pages from a couple of years ago . . .

Here's where I left off a couple of years ago . . . These are all from my mom's side (Wing's and Jepsen's)

Christmas "card" from 1915

It's more like a book, so I'm not sure if it was a gift, a book, or just a card. The back says "Lafayette Wing from Jessie Patterson -- Xmas 1915". Lafayette, or Lafe, was my mother's father's father (my great grandfather). He was born in 1900, so he would have been 15 . . . and Jessie was probably a girl that had a thing for him! haha

Front:

Back:

Inside (there are about 10 pages, but this was the prettiest):

My mother's mother's mother . . .

Found this letter when digging thru a trunk of old pictures and scrapbooks.

I think she left out some of her children is because they were already "of age" and could take care of themselves, unlike the younger children. Atleast I hope that's the case! I'm working on saving it all, and putting it into albums that future generations can enjoy. As I find other pictures of interest, I'll be sure to post.

Warmest Holiday Wishes

Just in time for Cyber Monday!

My laptop crashed. Was obviously on it all morning, setting up this blog . . . and then BLAM! I turned it off, and set it down . . . went into the hobby room, and decided to see if I could scan pictures, so went and got the laptop out of the bedroom. And it won't start! :( Robert took it apart, and got SOME forms of life out of it, but I think it's a door stop at this point. I've been having problems with it lately, and I think it was on it's 3rd hard drive restore anyway. It wouldn't hold a charge for more than 30 minutes! (which was really a pain to bring it from the bedroom to the hobby room anyway!)

So, lucky timing for me . . . Cyber Monday is here! Best Buy already had deals TODAY online. $379 for a Dell 15 inch laptop. I went to Best Buy to make sure that I liked it (Robert's is a Toshiba, and I hate it . . .it's what I'm using till Friday though!) And it holds a charge for 8 hours!! woohooo! So much for our Christmas money from the folks going in savings . . .well, technically, it WILL go in savings, to replenish what I just took out! LOL

No rules here!

So, since I'm sure I'm gonna have a TON of readers here . . . I'm gonna give myself a break. I'm just posting stuff . . . no lists of what I used, no links to where I got it, no concise descriptions of how I did it. Got a question?? Just ASK! I'll be happy to answer . . . but since I'm most likely just talking to myself on here, I'm gonna make it easy on myself!

Merry & Bright

Warmest Wishes

Cheers

T time & You are tea'riffic

Fall

Thank You

You are seriously awesome

Noel

Let it Snow

Peace on Earth

WOW! Been awhile . . .

Guess I need to find a new blog background, and get rid of the easter/spring colors, and get this blog going again . . . ok, Christmas background set! Don't remember how to do all that digital title stuff, so it's BORING! I'm gonna just use this as a BLOG . . .duh! No restrictions, no picture a day . . . camera isn't even charged! LOL But, I do want to take a picture of the cards I've made recently, and I do want to blog about the heritage albums I'm gonna be working on soon. I'd like to post pictures here for family to see, maybe tell me who is IN the picture! haha Soooooo, stay tuned, more to come . . .

Although we didn't hunt easter eggs, the easter dinner was a huge success. Seems like the entire family finally agreed on the main course: BRISKET!! Add Corn bread, mac and cheese, broccoli rice casserole, potato salad, deviled eggs and baked beans . . . we were STUFFED! The biggest hits with the kids (Chili and Atilla) were the peanut butter cookies that Robert made!!

Day 101 of 365

We don't have kids to hide easter eggs for, and I don't think the dogs would get it! LOL . . . but what would easter be without a couple hard boiled eggs?!

Day 100 of 365

Living with 2 men, and a male dog . . . being the only female . . .it's TOUGH keeping this house clean. I really think men are missing something in their brain, where they don't SEE the mess, the filth??! So, I bought some new dish towels. As I write this, one already has car grease on it from when they had to work on Ian's car yesterday . . . that's what OLD towels are for, not my pretty NEW ones!!! siggghhhhhhh, MEN!

Day 99 of 365

I'm struggling with keeping to the picture a day commitment. On Thursday, I turned my computer on, and then 2 minutes later turned it off. I go thru phases . . . I had the bigfishgames.com phase, the jewelry making phase, the scrapbooking phase, and I kinda not feeling the picture a day phase anymore. I'm really concentrating on the loosing weight and working out phase right now.

Day 98 of 365

Apparently, I didn't leave my 12 hour visit with Robert to the ER empty handed . . . they sent me home with STREP THROAT! I woke up this morning, and it felt like I had a rubber ball stuck in my throat. I took a look, and my tonsils were HUGE and had white spots all over them! I went to work anyway, since I missed yesterday. My boss talked me into going to the doctor, so I made the last appointment of the day he had. He confirmed my diagnosis, gave me a shot, more antibiotics, diflucan (ladies, don't ya just LOVE what antibiotics do to us?!), and liquid pain meds to soothe my throat. . . . .oh yeah, also got my monthly bead kit in the mail today, but after a swig of the pain meds, I think I'd rather take a nap than make jewelry!

Day 97 of 365

Atilla got his ears docked, so he's pretty loopy still. Poor baby! He's been takin it easy with the rest of us today.

Day 96 of 365

. . . and THIS is the reason I didn't post anything yesterday! Robert called me at 5pm yesterday, and said he was at the ER. He was having chest pains, and his blood pressure was sky high! I left work immediatly, and got to the ER at 6. We didn't make it out of the waiting room until 10pm, and didn't leave the hospital until 4am!! They ran a ton of tests, and he didn't have a heart attack (thank GOD!). They think it might have been a reaction to a supplement he took, added to the stress of finding out his company is going to a mandatory 4 day work week. Great Monday, huh??

Day 95 of 365

. . . and because time and tequilla took ADVANTAGE of me, here's another picture my mom sent me. It's my dad and Janice in the go-cart. I, on the other hand, spent ALL day Sunday in bed with the hangover from HELL!

Day 94 of 365

Apparently, I have a couple of days to catch up on around here. I'll explain why as I catch up. This is a picture my mom sent me of her (on the right) and a great friend that came to visit her (on the left). They've been friends over 40 years. So, why didn't I take any pictures on Saturday? Well, I had the best of intentions. We had a friend of Robert's over to hang out and play cards, and time and tequilla got away from me . . . the rest is history! LOL

Day 93 of 365

Next time we see Atilla, he'll have his ears cropped. Ian is taking him tomorrow to get them done. I took this in memory of his floppy ears, tomorrow he'll look like a Dobie!

Day 92 of 365

I went and saw the doc yesterday. Since I started my "exercise plan", I had gained 5 lbs!! I was BEYOND frustrated, so had him take blood and run some tests. Haven't got the results back yet, I'm hoping he calls tomorrow?

Day 91 of 365

SEEEEEEeeeee Dad!!! I cleaned it!! LOL And this picture was before I did half of the laundry in the hamper!