i'm in love....

....with Hollanders!!! Erin told me about it today and I HAVE to go this weekend!!! I'm so tempted to buy everything online, but I want to go there and spend a very long time looking around....Marie, wanna go with me?

Speaking of love, here's the "my loves" book we made at Scrapbowl (KC's class). It's not done...far from it, but it's so cool. I want to work on it this weekend and I'll post pics later.

so, someone brought up an interesting question today: when do people born on leap year celebrate their birthday...the 28th or the 1st? it would be kind of cool to have that birthday, don't you think?

i'm still here

wow, it's been a while since i've posted...a whole week actually. That's because last week was absolutely miserable!! I was so sad over the death of my dog/baby! I swear I spent the entire week balling my eyes out! It was bad. Anyway, I'm back and in a much better mood!

so, i didn't even get a chance to tell you guys about my trip to scrapbowl! I had so much fun with staci (she's so easy to travel with!) and of course, we met our favorite....Kristina Contes! We worked on 2 books, but of course i haven't finished them yet...surprise surprise. I hope I can work on and finish these books by next monday. This one was cool..."inspire me" and it's actually almost done. here are a few pages.....

next, i want to work on "my loves" the other class we took w/ kc and then i want to do a mini of our trip to VA/Scrapbowl....man, i wish i didn't work!! i'd have more time to scrap!!

bye baby

I love you so much, luck. I'll miss you.....

6 pencils

Just in case you guys forgot, I just have to remind everyone how much I HATE statistics!!! It really really sucks! Not only am I compeletly confused in class, I get distracted by the guy that sits next to me. For some strange reason he has 6 sharpened pencils sitting on his desk! Literally 6, I always count them. Just tell me, who the fuck needs SIX sharpened pencils?!!! And the wierd thing is, he's constantly writing...and I really mean writing, like a novel writing...not working out problems. He sits there and writes out everything the teacher is saying. It's so strange.

So I'm going to scrapbowl tomorrow and I can't wait! I can't believe it's already here...God, time is flying by....

Oh and Chris...Adam did not catch that ball.

husband in action

check out adam in action back in his college years....

how cool is that picture? i mean, i hot does he look? but that looks like a hard fall....

don't you just want to eat this face?

Whoever knows goose, knows that he loves his toys...especially new ones! Well, last night, we went to Lucky's (an arcade/bar) and Marie thought of buying Goose a new toy with all of the tickets we won. So here he is with his new toy...

(by the way marie...look at my phone in the background...that was you texting me : ) )


and this is a shot of him sleeping with it in his mouth (like he ALWAYS does with his toys, it's the cutest thing). Actually with all of the pics, he has the care bear in his mouth but you can't really tell...

Needless to say, he LOVES his yellow care bear and now i have the cutest pics to crop!

i got my heart

...in the mail that is. I'm officially an organ donor!


For years, I thought since I checked off that I was an organ donor on the back of my license, that i was one. I never knew you had to register to be one. So finally, i did it and i'm an organ donor...I feel good. In my opinion, everyone should do it.

Since I have started working and taking a full load of classes, i've been SO busy. I honestly don't know how people have kids, go to school, and work?! I'd go insane! I feel like I have no time for anything and my house is a serious mess! But somehow, I found the time to scrapbook last night...funny isn't it? I guess if I really wanted to clean or study or go out, i'd make time. Here's what I worked on last night.

and this picture isn't really that bad but for some reason, my scanner picked up all the blue in this picture...it hurts my eyes actually.

for the ladies...

I got this email today and had to share it. Of course, only the ladies (i think Chris and Adam are the only guys reading it anyway) will understand this. I mean really understand this. It's so funny!

Supposedly, it's an actual letter from an Austin woman sent to American company Proctor and Gamble regarding their feminine products. It's PC Magazine's 2007 editors' choice for best webmail-award-winning letter. Enjoy....

Dear Mr. Thatcher,

I have been a loyal user of your 'Always' maxi pads for over 20 years and I appreciate many of their features. Why, without the LeakGuard Core or Dri-Weave absorbency, I'd probably never go horseback riding or salsa dancing, and I'd certainly steer clear of running up and down the beach in tight, white shorts. But my favorite feature has to be your revolutionary Flexi-Wings. Kudos on being the only company smart enough to realize how crucial it is that maxi pads be aerodynamic I can't tell you how safe and secure I feel each month knowing there's a little F-16 in my pants.

Have you ever had a menstrual period, Mr. Thatcher? Ever suffered from the curse'? I'm guessing you haven't. Well, my time of the month is starting right now. As I type, I can already feel hormonal forces violently surging through my body. Just a few minutes from now, my body will adjust and I'll be transformed into what my husband likes to call 'an inbred hillbilly with knife skills.' Isn't the human body amazing?

As Brand Manager in the Feminine-Hygiene Division, you've no doubt seen quite a bit of research on what exactly happens during your customers monthly visits from 'Aunt Flo'. Therefore, you must know about the bloating, puffiness, and cramping we endure, and about our intense mood swings, crying jags, and out-of-control behavior. You surely realize it's a tough time for most women. In fact, only last week, my friend Jennifer fought the violent urge to shove her boyfriend's testicles into a George Foreman Grill just because he told her he thought Grey's Anatomy was written by drunken chimps.? Crazy!

The point is, sir, you of all people must realize that America is just crawling with homicidal maniacs in Capri pants... Which brings me to the reason for my letter. Last month, while in the throes of cramping so painful I wanted to reach inside my body and yank out my uterus, I opened an Always maxi-pad, and there, printed on the adhesive backing, were these words: 'Have a Happy Period.'

Are you f***ing kidding me? What I mean is, does any part of your tiny middle-manager brain really think happiness - actual smiling, laughing happiness is possible during a menstrual period? Did anything mentioned above sound the least bit pleasurable? Well, did it, James?? FYI, unless you're some kind of sick S&M freak girl, there will never be anything 'happy' about a day in which you have to jack yourself up on Motrin and Kahlua and lock yourself in your house just so you don't march down to the local Walgreen's armed with a hunting rifle and a sketchy plan to end your life in a blaze of glory.

For the love of God, pull your head out, man! If you just have to slap a moronic message on a maxi pad, wouldn't it make more sense to say something that's actually pertinent, like 'Put down the Hammer' or 'Vehicular Manslaughter is Wrong', or are you just picking on us?

Sir, please inform your Accounting Department that, effective immediately, there will be an $8 drop in monthly profits, for I have chosen to take my maxi-pad business elsewhere. And though I will certainly miss your Flex-Wings, I will not for one minute miss your brand of condescending bull --I have a Potty Mouth--. And that's a promise I will keep. Always.

Wendi Aarons
Austin , TX

yellow-brownish mood

it felt so good to scrapbook today!! it was like a ray of light, i swear. i think i forgot how easy it is to forget about EVERYTHING when i scrapbook...i so needed this. although i only scrapbooked for just about 2 hrs, i actually got 2 layouts done. one isn't really a layout but i found this magazine clipping and felt like scrapbooking it.

this one is of me and michelle outside of harpo studio after a taping of the oprah show...which by the way was a give away show (not oprah's favorite things thought...we wish). it was back in 2004 and we sat right in front. oprah was an arms reach away from us...we were gonna die.

that's the journaling...i don't know why my scanner sucks when i scan regular ruled paper but that's what this is.so tomorrow is the start of another week. hopefully i'll have less crying episodes this week. it's been so bad lately...i really need to snap out of it somehow. i hate feeling so sad. maybe i'll just have to scrapbook more! oh, staci emailed me and reminded me that scrapbowl is just 2 weeks away....i can't wait! i swear i'm more excited about this trip than i was for nyc!! can't wait to take the kristina contes classes...yay!!