dinner

me: i'm starving adam, let's go out to eat...have you ever had carrabba's?

adam: no

me: it's so good, we should go there.

adam: ok, let's try it

so we go to carrabba's and eat at the bar (which by the way, was the first time i've really had dinner at a bar of a restaurant...it was fun).

after a class and a half of wine and some appetizers...

me: so what do you think about this place, do you like it?

adam: yeah it's really good.

me: you really think so? that's not what you said the last time we went to carrabba's.

adam: huh?

me: yeah, we've been to this place before (diff. location) and you hated it.

I knew all along that adam hated the carrabba's but i was really craving it so i just had to play along until I ate it...is that bad of me to deceive my husband like that?? it's okay, it was very satisfying! : )

so, i've been in a scrappy mood the last couple days...here are a couple of layouts...

for the never lose hope page, i used a picture marie took when she went to church to say a prayer for my mom...it's one of my favorite pictures...it's so calming and peaceful! thanks mar mar!

look what i got in the mail...

a RAK that I won from Petra....and it came all the way from the Netherlands...how cool, it's the first thing i've won. can't wait to use them!

I'm going for a much needed girls night out tonight...should be fun...

I hate...

...Seinfeld!!! That show just sucks! I find no humor in it whatsoever. Adam loves is and watches it 3x a day and I literally get irritated when he watches it. It just get under my skin and I'm really not sure why. He's actually watching it now as he flips to baseball between commercial breaks...oh how I love watching tv with Adam.

So, I actually scrapped tonight. Only one page though. I did a page for the DT but couldn't finish it because I ran out of an "e" for the last word of my title...shitty. Don't you wish those were the big worries of life...running out of an "e" for a layout. I'll post it later when it's complete. Here's a confession I did a couple weeks ago...

just to mention: I am really starting to feel sorry for Britney Spears. I never thought I'd say that but people really need to layoff of her personal life! All the mean and nasty comments really should stop...she's only human..a fucked up one but still human...jeez! by the way I know that comment came from nowhere but I just heard something on tv about her...peace out.

Randomness

1. Drawers/Cupboards that are left open drive me crazy!!

2. I had the chance to meet Pope John Paul II a few months before he died, but I was too afraid to fly alone (my mom was already there and met him)...I still want to kick my ass for that! What a freakin idiot...I love love love that man!

3. I sleep with the same pillow and pillow case every night, and yes I wash it! I feel like a kid with a blankie sometimes, but whatever.

4. I actually failed my written drivers test the first time I took it! I was literally gonna cry as the guy was marking half the answers wrong and kept telling my mom I couldn't believe it. He let me retake it...thank god. I still think those damn tests are tricky and I "failed" it again when I renewed it at 25 (i think that was the age when you retake those tests).

5. I can't eat a sandwich without fries or chips...it just doesn't taste good.

6. Almost all of the jewelry I own was bought by Marie...I seriously don't remember the last time I bought my own jewelry...I know I can always count on Marie's good taste!

7. I used to run religiously and I loved it. Since running half a marathon in 2004, I despise working out! I'd rather cook then go on the treadmill.

8. I eat McDonald's about 5 times a week...easy.

9. I've never babysat...I think I'm in trouble when I have my own kids...I don't even know how to play with them.

10. It's 5:04 am and i'm still awake!

I made a "confession" but I'll post it tomorrow. I can't get myself out of my warm bed to take a picture of it.

Don't eat at my house...

...if Adam is cooking!!! So, Adam was making lunch for us today...tuna sandwiches with mac and cheese. I reading my magazine and chatting with adam as he was making lunch. I looked up and there was Adam licking....I mean really licking the shit out of the spoon and then dumping it in the pot of mac and cheese. I was SO disgusted! I yelled at him and his defense was that the mac and cheese was still boiling so the heat would kill the bacteria. That's just so freakin nasty! I guess that's what you get when you have a guy making your lunch...eeww! what's wrong with them?!

I know I've been a shitty blogger...sorry guys. I just really feel like I have nothing to say these days. All I do is take care of my mom, cry, or study. Life pretty much sucks right now. I don't even feel like scrapbooking! I hope I get out of this rut, I really don't like feeling this way. I picked up my DT kit last week and I still haven't looked at it...maybe I'll take a peek at it tomorrow. Actually, I was gonna call it quits on my blog but then I thought of cousin Chris and decided against it. I'll try to get back to the swing of things.

I'm going to a wedding tomorrow. It's actually one of my good friends from high school. I'll post some pics and maybe even a layout.

oh and one more thing...i got into my first "car accident". Well, it really wasn't a car accident, but I was backing out of my parents driveway and I ran right into my mom's car!!! The first car I've ever hit! I didn't even see it...ooops! my brother has been driving it since his car is in the shop and now I hit the one he's been driving. I did enough damage to it that it needs to visit the shop too...oh well, luckily nothing happened to my big ass truck.

In need of good pictures!!

I've been in such a strange mood lately. I don't know if it's anxiety or what it really is. Here's an example: I'll be at my mom's house and then suddenly I feel panicked and want to leave. As soon as I leave I realize that I need to be with my mom and I go back. Then with scrapbooking, I look at my favorite scrappers' and see what they post and get so inspired. I go into my scrapbook room and just sit. I sit there because I don't really want to scrapbook but then again I really do. Then, I can't get anything out...no ideas, no motivation, no nothing! I don't know what's wrong with me. But with scrapbooking, I know I need major pictures...cool ones! Maybe that will help me sit and just scrap for myself (not just for the dt) Here's one that I made for the dt last night...i'm so not crazy about it, but my product wasn't all that so I just had to work with what i had....oh and it's a bad photo...sorry.



So, I can't believe this weather!!! It SUCKS!! It's nasty, humid, and way to hot!! It's actually strange to see the leaves falling off the trees when it's 89 degrees out! I'm ready for fall....but definitely not winter. I wish we could skip that season altogether, well except for christmas morning snow : )

A lot so say

I know I haven't blogged much but life got in the way and dragged me down. Hopefully, things will start to look up and my life could get back to "normal". I miss blogging, I miss the comments you guys leave me, I miss cousin Chris' craziness around here...so I'm back...we'll for now at least.

I was so happy today. My mom actually came over my house!! I loved every minute of it and I realized how much we take things for granted. And it's not just people we take for granted, but simple things that we do unconsciously. Things like walking, climbing steps, breathing, getting into a car and driving....and so many other things people can not do on their own. I see it more and more with my mom being sick and it literally makes me say a prayer of thanks to the Lord for blessing me with the simple things we take for granted.

On a more uplifting note....I'm getting emails like crazy for publication. The problem is it's for the same 2 magazines. Somerset Magazine (aka Legacy) asked for 5 layouts and they have my "escape" journal because I didn't want to tear out a page they asked me to send so I just sent the whole thing. It's okay, I'm keeping tabs on that journal...it's my favorite. And also ready-set-create, which I think is an online magazine asked me for 4 layouts (3 were published last month). It's all exciting, but I'm still waiting for Creating Keepsakes to find me and make me the next Kristina Contes!!! Oh what a dream!!!! That'll never happen, but a girl can dream, right?!

And farah remember these...

For everyone else, that was an inside weekend trip joke/thing. Farah and I went on vacation with 2 of our close friends. Well, to make a long story short... The last day of our trip, we all went shopping in some record store which had a very small but random section of books. Linda and I, the ladylike/clean gals, happened to be browsing the store together and we stumbled upon the most perfect books for Lydia and Farah. "Everyone Poops" for Lydia b/c she had diarrhea the whole weekend and "The Gass We Pass" for Farah who is a walking stink bomb! The talk of the trip was Farah and Lydia's "problems" and we couldn't believe we found such perfect books. Maybe you had to be there....but it was hilarious! Hey I actually think they're perfect bathroom books : )

Well I think that's enough said for tonight, goodnight!