Just how bad I am at blogging represented below...

I've managed to add pictures to my blog but heaven help me if I can get the descriptions lined up with the pictures when posting multiple pictures at once. I'm not a professional, don't claim to be a professional.... It's a wonder I get anything posted at all some times!

Just being really lazy lately as demonstrated by my lack of postings. I have great intentions but.....

I've got a super busy week ahead. Tons to get done at work and home plus getting ready to hit the road next weekend---VACATION.......A week in Missouri just kicking back and relaxing...catching a few shows, hopefully eating some good food, a few drinks here and there and some great company (really, really looking forward to seeing my pal Louise)...and maybe a 'surprise visit' by the big bro (if you're reading this Mike you need to get your arse to MO!)

Book club tomorrow and here it is 9:15p and I have nothing done (except my bday page-a-day)....maybe I'll be able to accomplish something before my eyes slam shut!!!

Catching Up...Just some of the things I've done the past few weeks......

A friend and I pickled beets using momma's recipe....fairly easy to follow though it didn't say how many beets one batch would 'pickle' nor did it say how long they need to 'set up'.....

More 'stuff'....

A stop by the Container Store where I found the cutest case for storing supplies for an 8x8 album project---will have to take pictures...





Cupcakes for the office.....





Me and Willy chillin before bed...(not sure just what I was watching but despite what the tv shows, it was not Aretha....)





Willy cause he's just too darn cute!

Still more stuff....

Willy going to 'kitty daycare' while my place was exterminated....










The wound Willy inflicted upon me while trying to get him in his carrier to go to kitty daycare and the subsequent circle drawn by my boss who was being funny....








The location for Timmy's 'Tropical Depression #46....












A run by Central Market while 'in town'....

September Sky....

I have an illness....

I am addicted to all the pretty scrapbook supplies and feel I must own them. I know this and yet I continue to go to various scrapbook stores and other retailers who offer scrapping goodies.

After seeing The Nanny Diaries, which I recommend, I ran a few other (unnecessary in the grand scheme of things) errands and one of the stops was my scrapping home-away-from-home, The Scrapbook Village. While wandering the aisles I found the new SEI Kitty's Place line and naturally had to grab a few sheets (even though the colors seem feminine and Willy is definintely not).

The other paper that leaped into my hands was the new Elsie Jack and Abby line. I was able to contain myself and got away with only two sheets. Beware because I'll probably go back for more!

And then I found (but did not yet purchase) the Flair Designs paper for each month of the year. Oh so yummy for making calendars--but I was able to refrain, for now. I cannot guarantee for just how long. This paper will be fabulous for making 2008 calendars---a project which I need to start.

So now perhaps I can accomplish at least a few things around here and then play a little tonight (I would really like to start on my page-a-day album.)

I lied...kinda.....

So this is what my desk looked like on the afternoon of 9/7/07, which is actually much better than 9/8/06. I spent most of the morning trying to get files taken care of and off my desk--I should have taken the picture before I started. But I was happy to find there there actually was a desk under it all. With luck over the next couple of weeks I'll find the rest of it! And Timmy, my desk at HCC never looked that bad.

No big plans for the weekend outside of possibly trying to clean up around the place--like I should have done over last weekend. Perhaps this time I'll make some progress. Of course too, I've been thinking of maybe catching a movie--I've been wanting to see the Nannie Diaries (cause it looks funny). But then I really, really need to get some things done around home before next Saturday.

I opened my cable bill yesterday to find they have raised the rates, again. This is the third time since the start of summer and it's been out more the past two months than ever--and now they expect me to pay over fifty bucks. Forget it. I went straight to the computer and phone and called AT&T to find out about Dish. I can get phone, internet and dish for about $105 (plus tax) a month. And dish offers a lot more choices. Unfortunately I also have to have a statement from the complex that dish is allowed so I have to wait till next weekend for installation (since the office was already closed yesterday). So this month I'll be paying a good portion of that bill for crappy cable service (I knew there was a reason I always referred to it as crappy cable) and for dish but in the end I suspect I'll be happier.

Some things never change...

This is what my desk at work looked like almost exactly one year ago today--this picture was taken 9/8/06, as part of my page-a-day album I did leading up to my 40th birthday.

Basically for the four weeks leading up to my birthday I took a picture of something I encountered or experienced that day. It was a way to document the month of my life before the big 4-0. The pictures ranged from Willy (the cat) to things such as my desk, some place I'd been or even what I had for dinner that day. A scrapbook layout was done for that day and then kept in an album entitled '4 weeks till 40'.

It's been fun to look back and see that 'snapshot' of my everyday life. In fact, I've decided to do another this year. My new title? The Other Side of 40. I began taking pictures Sunday (9/2) but have yet to scrap them yet--this weekend's project. Even though today is the official four week mark till the big day, I decided there should be a few 'bonus days', thus my somewhat early start.

I flipped through last year's album tonight and saw this picture and realized my desk looks just as pitiful today as it did almost one year ago (it may be worse now). So I'm posting this pic here for all to see and I'll try to remember to take a picture tomorrow of my desk for my 'topic du jour'. Comparison will show that 'old habits die hard' and my desk is as much a disaster today as it was last year because....some things never change!

funny stuff

From time to time I read the message board on the Creating Keepsakes website (it's how I first found out about Stampin Up!). This evening on the nonscrapbook related portion I found a post talking about someone else's blog and I just had to go check it out. I have been laughing from the start...check it out for yourself:

www.mom2my6pack.blogspot.com

Lazy Weekend...

For the most part, I've done a lot of NOTHING this weekend. I've slept in the past three mornings (was off on Friday) and done as little as possible around home outside of a load of dishes and some laundry. I managed to get a few groceries and pick up a few things at Walmart, but not much else. Oh, I did get the oil changed in the car on Saturday. Granted there are several things needing attention but sometimes just doing nothing is what is needed most. And given the last couple of weeks, I really needed to do nothing. Maybe tomorrow I'll accomplish something--but whatever it may be, it won't be much!