Interview day!

wow! what a day that i have had! Today was interviewing day and talk about crazy! Jess and i worked late last nite, so never got the chance to brief over the prospecting employees, so we had to get up nice and early and read through there applications and make up direct questions, etc, etc....the usual preinterview stuff. Interviews started at 9:30 and proceeded every 15 minutes and are still going on now at 6 oclock. I abandoned jess, hehhehehe...and left him there to deal with the rest. I was done! (poor jess tho, lol.) The first 2 interviews were awesome!! and the other ones all bombed with one possible exception. We had the smart idea to do all the interviews in one day to get them all out of the way. We are silly, but now know better!!
And, to top it off 5 minutes before the first interview, one of our employees call us up crying her eyes out so much that we couldnt even understand what she was saying. So i had to run over to see if she was ok, and it turned out she was bothered that one of the other employees got a raise and she didnt.
sigh
soooooo glad this day is almost over.
I feel bogged down by work..hehe...tomorrow i have to head over to the states to discuss radio advertising with one of the stations there, and with the traffic over the detroit bridge it will take forever.
ok, enough complaining from me. for now. hehehe
Im going to do something completley relaxing and nice for me this wkend and nobody is going to talk me out of it!!!!!

Just wanted to give a big CONGRATULATIONS !!!!!! to Denise D!!!!! who is bringing another beautiful little baby into this world!! sooo happy for you!..

now im off to make some dinner for my hungry children..and get in some scrapping before big brother comes on at 800..and then hopefully i will scrap some more.

i hate mondays!!

I'm sooo totally dragin today. Woke up this morning with my cell phone ringing off the hook, and a zillion work things to do right from the get go. sigh. mondays have to be the worst day ever. Got 3 ad copies done, and altered a few others. Looked over a few radio promotions, etc. blah blah blah.
Got my shopping started yesterday...not even close to being finished, and spent a fortune on victoria already. I just can't believe the price of school clothes! It is crazy!!!!!!!!!! Gonna try to finish the rest on wednesday work permitting. Scary visa bills!! I never even got me anything :( . ah well...i spose the kids have to come first, lol!!
Watched Big Brother last nite and was wayyyy psyched!! i actually got the live feeds on a whim so knew what was going to happen already, but watching the edited version is still kewler, as there is no possible way to catch everything that is happening on the feeds unless you are glued to it for the whole day! insane!!.....but it sure gives you a better idea of what the people are actually like!!! I love what is going on right now!!...won't tell you what it is cuz i dont want to spoil it, but if you love janelle like me, things are looking up!!!!!!!
Going to do my very best to get some scrapping in tonite! it has been soooo long, im going thru major withdrawels, but i just dont feel normal or creative for work unless i get a layout or 2 done.
k...hi ho, hi ho....it's off to work i go..........

Need another sunday!

Today is sunday and the wkend is over :(. This wkend wasnt anygood for me at all and i really think we need one more sunday before the week starts! Don't you hate starting a new week feeling like you never got a break? Jess and i have been arguing most of the wkend...we don't argue very much but the times we do it is extremely straining and it is always about the exact same issue. In the years that we have been together we only ever argue about one thing, which i suppose is good, but it just never seems to get resolved. I am just tired over it all and mentally exhausted. He is sorry...just like he always is....and he really does mean it...but the next few wks are going to be very trying I think. For the first time he has acknowledged the root of the problem and is ready to face it, so that is a start..but it is going to be a long road, and i'm just going to have to pray and hope that I am strong enough to help him through it (and me too). It was very difficult for him to admit why this issue keeps popping up, and it just tore at my heart watching him go through it. But it gave me hope that we may actually for the first time have made some progress this time. It was the first time he was actually able to talk about it out loud, since he has such a difficult time admitting and showing his insecurities. Okay, enough about that, just keep your fingers crossed for him please, and im gonna pray that this is not too difficult for him.

So today I am taking Victoria shopping for new school clothes. She is going into grade 5 already. Sheesh! where does the time go??? She is starting a new school this year, and as she is not somebody that adapts to change very well, i'm a little worried for her. She is soooo wary that no one will like her. :( I keep telling her that everything will be all right but at 10, it never really seems like it will does it? But shopping always puts her in a good mood, and me too! So Im gonna make sure i pick up a few things for everybody today! and give us all a happy.
Our cute little puppy is still refusing to be potty trained!!!!!!!!! Anybody have any tips??
So guess what I watched last nite to cheer me up?.....and dont laugh! But I am a total Buffy the Vampire lover, lol!! She rocks! So I watched Buffy the Musical, which we have on dvd. Victoria and I kicked back and had Buffy and popcorn nite,, hehehehe. I really miss that show, lol!!
Well I'm going to pop over to a few blogs and sites and then run off and shop til I drop!...Then i'm going to come back online and check out the shops to see if any fabulous designers have any new kits for me to purchase today! My motto today is spend spend spend, hehehhe!!

a question for women everywhere!

why is it that men are born needing a boot to the head? should we actually give them one? would that make a difference ya think??
inquiry minds would like to know!

Layouts and some gabbin

Just popped in to upload a few layouts i did using some of the sponsors at Rakscraps kits this month. The first one is using paper from Elizabeth Lanes Journey kit.


I sooooo love these photos of brooke!! She is sooo melodramatic how can i help but giggle?? she will do anything to get a sucky hug from mom sometimes...course other times she wont let me near her of course, lol....kids are flippy arent they?

this is brooke playing peek-a-boo on our patio stairs. she is just getting so entertaining to watch!...well she always has been but such a personality she has gotten!! I used papers and flower element from Raks sponsor Lynnie Smith..her funtastic kit. Seems forever since i actually had time to scrap, but i did these last week for the newsletter and am able to upload them now that it is out.

Any body see Big Brother tonite????? I was sooo glad that Chicken George won HoH!! I soooo don't want Janelle to go home yet so this was just perfect!! How awesome if James got his but kicked out?? I am way tired of hearing how season 6 is abusing his trust when all he has been doing for a month now is lying to them and trying to find a way to get them voted off!! Keep your fingers crossed Boogie doesnt use his ulitimate power card!!!

Got a few more applicants in today...only 2 look promising so we set up some interviews for next week...that will give us time to hopefully receive some more. I just found out that my one employee will only be able to work 2 days come fall....this is the centre with the new worker that isnt even fully trained yet or looking to be anytime soon by the way that she is going. When it rains it poors i tell ya!

I tried to get myself way ahead of schedule this month, so last nite i made my contribution for Septembers mega kit, lol! Talk about wayyy in advance, hehehe. Even got the prize for next month all done and waiting to go. Feeling kind of proud of myself for being so on top of things!! (patting myself on the back here).

K, gonna go grab a nice warm shower! The kind that feels all warm that when you put on your big pink fluffy housecoat after you feel all drowsy and can't do anything but go to sleep!! ta ta for now!!!

mega kit!

yeahhhhh!!!!! Rakscraps newsletter is out and that means that the megakit is now available!! whoo hoooooo!!!! And since my link is up first I thought I would give a preview of my contribution so of course you can run over and grab it, lol!!! It will only be up for a few days so dont wait to long! All the designers at Raks did a super job this month!!
Hope ya like it!....this was my first school kit.
Been pretty busy the last couple of days with work. Been advertising for help wanted and have gotten some feedback but i'm not totally thrilled with any applicants yet :(.
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE!!! work gods send me a couple good ones!!!!!! i neeeeedddd!!!!!
We took Lolly to her first doggy groomers today! She is all fluffy and soft and cute again!! But boy does she smell strong! I am a big fan of vanilla...it is my favorite, and coincidentally that is what they used, but they used sooooooooo much of it i don't think i want to smell that again for awhile. Lolly is still not potty trained and this is making me very sad!!!!!! How long does it usually take?? I thought they caught on alot sooner than that! sigh.
Well, it is late here and I have to run, early day tomorrow! Here is wishing Friday would hurry up and get here!...or better yet, Saturday, lol!
nite all!

ok...so it was a small fib!!

well last time i posted i said i was back...turned out that was a small fib, lol. This time i mean it!!! I am back! i spent the last two days just cramming on sponsor layouts and my contribution to the rakscraps megakit. I have to tell ya...I have seen the sneak peak at all the contributers kits and it looks like a good one this month for sure! Like to tell ya more, but i cant, hehehe. Just make sure you pop into grab it! It should start going out next week i think? Mine is usually one of the last ones given out :( . Does that mean they save the best for last???, hehehehhe...just jking.
I have had no time to do any scrapping this past month. I really find that when my scrapping gets set back, i really lose all motivation to do anything at all. My creative juices disappear and have no enthusiasm for work. Jess (the dh) even notices that.....so of course that means that he should pick up my share of the work load so i can scrap so i wont' be completley useless. dont ya think??, hehe.
Lolly is driving me batty. (our new puppy). Brooke always wants to play with her...and then as soon as lolly looks her way brooke starts screaming and running away. But no more. Lolly is frisky...so Brooke has learned "the voice". As soon as lolly looks her way she bellows in the voice and the dog listens, hehe. It is kind of funny. I cant get her to listen to me and i thought i had a pretty good "voice". guess i will have to work on it.
Spent today printing out more of our photos and trying to get the frames filled on our wall. So far it is looking pretty good. I did a whole collage of Jess and me along our wall border and got a couple beautiful ones of the girls that the grandparents are just drouling over. Going to make them an album this year I think.
We even started cleaning out our garage today...well jess did mostly...i watched and told him what NOT to throw out, hehe. The whole point being that once the garage is cleaned out we will have the space to put boxes that are downstairs in what is supposed to be the kids play room so that we can finish building and painting that out for them. I have it painted right now with all clouds sky and green grass, and it is a pretty huge room too. I painted it just after we moved in. Now however we have decided to totally redo the look, and paint it in sections. We are going to set up a dance area for Victoria to practice so will paint a ballerina theme...an arts and crafts area will have an artists theme and a cozy knook for the reading area...with either a reading theme, or some kind of cozy princess throne room , lol..or a combo. I cant wait to get started......well, i mean i cant wait to get finished, lol!!!
K, jess bought me a cheesecake today...and i soooo need a bite, lol!!! he was very sweet today. gotta go munch!! mwah!

I'm Back!!!

okay, so i know it has been awhile since i have been blogging but i can't even tell you what i have been doing since it would take soooo long. So suffice it to say...it has been very stressful, incredibly worrying and time consuming and hopefully now at an end with everybody involved having a happy ending. So I will skip all that stuff and move on to the good stuff!!! Here is our newest family member!!




Her name is Lolly...short for Lollipop, named of course by Brooke, lol! We picked her up when we dropped our godson off who was staying with us for a little while on Wednesday. She will be 8wks old on sunday, and she is such a hoot! Victoria has bonded soooo much with this puppy, and is a bit sad that Lolly follows Jess all around the house and not her. But she is still a bit timid with her whenever the puppy wants to play so we are trying to explain that to her. Brooke however is a complete terror. sigh. Did anybody see finding Nemo?? Rember the little dentist's niece that was going to get the pet fish? Well that unfortunately is Brooke. She is going to love this puppy into extinction i think, lol. Although in 2 days she has already made alot of progress and the term gently is used quite a bit more now. The whole litter that the breeders had was just gorgeous, and Jess almost talked me into getting 2 as there was a beautiful white one left to be sold. Jess didnt want Lolly to be lonely, hehehe. He is such a sap. But commen sense prevailed...mine not his, lol...and we drove away with just the one. She really is a beautiful pup and in 2 days has already changed so much! Jess has even taught her how to fetch already! He is convinced she is the most clever dog ever, and Victoria thinks she was always "destined" to be ours. hehehehehe.
So while I was otherwise occupied, i noticed that one of my fave designers Anna Aspens has now relocated herself from Scrapbook graphics to Designing Digitals. I was kind of surprised as I really liked how the sbg turned out, but am happy that she has found a place to sell where she will be happy. Kudos to her for making such a brave move like that!
Have you seen what has been going on on Big Brother??? I can't believe how truly manipulative it is this season!! I feel really bad for Janelle who i love! I think she really shot herself in the foot this time! Keepin my fingers crossed!!
Other than all that we have been fully occupied computerizing my centres. I tell ya the staff just hates me!! They are giving us soooo much stress and problems are popping up everyday! They have been installed for 2 wks now, and every single day at least 2 centres have screwed up, crashed or otherwise broken the computer in one way or another. Jess is running around all over town and county trying to put out the fires, and i am not much help either. I have no idea what so ever how to work the software that was installed. And as soon as he gets all the staff up and going on it, he is then going to have to take the time to teach me as well, hehehe.
Feels good to have things getting back to normal out here.....we are trying to get caught up on what we let lapse over the last few weeks and it is hard! But here i am sitting at the puter blogging so it is definitely getting better!!!

Saturday griping!..beware!

happy saturday afternoon to all!!! I am sittin outside in the sunshine with a vodka cooler in one hand, and my laptop on my patio table enjoyin the nice summer day!! :) It is sure warm out but today is the first day when there is actually a nice breeze!! We (I) spent the morning cleaning the house top to bottom since we are having a few friends over for a bbq. Just a couple employees from my fave centre and their hubbies. Should be fun! The dh(jess) forgot to grab the pinacolada mix when he was out so I made him go out and get more, lol. He wasnt impressed! But i dont care cuz you know what he did to me??????? Well im going to tell you!!
Last nite he worked late setting up puters at one of the centres...we are getting all computerized and it is a time consuming pain!! Anyways...at 11:00 i told him to start driving the half hour home..it was late enough...he said ok. TWO hours later i call him and he says he is sitting on the side of the road waiting for caa cuz he ran out of gas. Im like, ok, that bites..but thanks for callin to let me know (sarcasm there). Sooo...i wait around for another 2 hours and call him again...no answer...again...no answer...and again...but no answer. I start to go a bit daft.....i drive all over the place looking for him...and then again this morning....cuz he still wasnt home at 10 am. FINALLY!!! at 11:30 he calls me as im driving down the road looking for him...and he tells me that he was sooo tired that he pulled over into a little cubby and fell asleep in his car.

I am still wanting to kick him so hard that i will knock him into next freaking thursday!!!!!! Tell me you wouldnt do the same! But i am keeping it to a minimum until our guests leave....and then look out!! A phone call sure would have been nice dont ya think???
K, im done griping for now...guests should be here any minute so I will be back to yip later

humpday banter

good early afternoon all!! first off i have to tell all of you to go HERE . I was directed there earlier on a thread over at Raks and thought it was totally kewl how some people do the quirkiest things and get such awesome results!! Be sure and check it out! It is pretty funny and interesting!
I am getting soooo frustrated at work i just can't tell ya!! i need some good staff! So...if you live in the Windsor area in Canada and are looking for work, please reply, lol!!! what, ya think im joking????? even if you wanted to move to the windsor area and want to have a job waiting....please reply.....did ya hear that Tracy B?????????

Wanted to point everybody to the layout design challenge DebsAngels23 is hosting over at Raks....the theme this month is repetition....and the prize is one i made so of course you have to go check it out, lol. Here is the LINK and here is the prize i made for it

I still kind of suck at the whole preview thing, but here it is such as it is. :). (and for those of you who forgot the date....remember that the megakit giveaway has started!!)

I have spent the morning trying to come up with an anniversary ad layout for work. I used to love doing the ads for work but i have to admit i wish the designers at the actual newspapers would start doing there job. Getting really over it.....having to do ads for about 9 or 10 newspapers a week ...because i HAVE to is not as much fun as doing it because i WANT to. And the proofing process makes me think that all their heads are filled with cheerios. okay...enough griping...for now, lol. I have started using my brand spankin new printer and i have to say i loooovvvee it!!! Not just cuz it prints out so fab, but me being so impatient the fact that it does it in no time flat gives me a real happy!!! I am going to have to play with the settings some cuz what printed out the first tiem didnt look anythiing like what was on my puter screen....then we fixed it and it got way better...but im sure i can improve on that some too. It comes with a software to "match" your computer screen. So once i have that set up it will automatically detect the image on my screen and print out as seen. Neat huh?? Course that means i have to read the directions and i hate that so the dh and i made a deal. He reads the computer screen for me, and i make him a logo that he can have lasered into these knives that he is making. Need a name too.....we have come up with some crazy arse names for these blades of his let me tell you....gave us giggles into the wee hours. The most boring one is BT Blades. Pretty dull huh? That was his choice...mine were much more colorful! :)

DID ANYBODY WATCH BIG BROTHER LAST NITE????? Can i tell you how much i want to kick Kaysar the big scaredy cat right in the arse???? What kind of nominatiions were those he put out???? for somebody as smart as he seemed to be, that certainly didnt make alot of sense to me. I was so ooooo hoping that Erika would use that darn Veto and take one of those girls off and then see Boogie nominated...or jase...I kind of like will cuz he makes me laugh so i want to keep him around for a bit. Tomorrows eviction nite...then we will see, and unless one of season 6 win hoh, one of them will be going home i think. sadness. hope it is kaysar, since i like janelle and am even starting to like James again. K, done for now...have a happy wednesday all!!

We got a Horse!! not a Puppy!

So the nice man Frank whom we bought our puppy from sent us some more photos and said that we can go and pick her up on August 2nd. The girls are very excited. Me...I'm getting worried, lol. When we went up to Marineland a few weeks ago we stopped into see her....and i was sneezing and had watery eyes for the next 4 hours. I totally had forgotten that I might actually be allergic the puppy. I never used to have animal allergies..they just kind of popped up all of a sudden...and only sometimes, with some animals. Weird. So now everybody is looking at me expecting me to say we are not going to get her. Im so gonna sterilize this place to high heaven, the kids and jess are so excited, there is no way i can tell them no now. But what worries me even more is the size of her!!!!
We only saw her 2 wks ago and she has already doubled in size and doesnt even look like the same puppy anymore!!!!! In the back of my head i just assumed she would be a nice medium size dog but now this little heffer is starting to make me nervous, lol!! I think she is part horse!!! Keep your fingers crossed for me that I am not allergic, and if anybody has some name suggestions for a female puppy I would love to hear them!!!
Jess wants to call her Lucy....... short for Princess Lucy-Furr. get it, lol? He thinks he is very witty, hehe. We are also kicking around the name Molly, and Brooke has decided that she should be name Lollipop. Or Hi.
Everytime we ask her what she wants to name the puppy she says "hiiiiii". Or she says Lollipuppy. hehehe.
I spose we could call her heidi or Lolli for short if it comes down to it.

I Bought It!!

So i did it!!! I purchased a new photo printer on thursday! yeahhh for me!! I was told that it would be in the store yesterday, but the purolator man was late of course so now i have to wait til monday probably. :(
I chose the Epson stylus R1800. It turns out that it DOES print out at 12 by 12...so after that it was an easy choice. I definitely noticed that Epson seems to rock when it comes to the hardware for digital scrapbookers. (cept for cameras of course). So as i was scrolling through all the kewl things the epson website had to offer I started looking at some scanners. Now i do have a scanner already, but i have soooooooo many photos with no negatives to be found anywhere, from my mom's stash...things dating back from when cameras were first invented, lol....that when scanned in even at the hightest dpi still come out extremely bad. Next to starting scrapbooks for my family this was the main reason i started scrapping....to put these to layo

uts print etc. but have never done it due to the bad images i get through scanning. Sooo....to make a long story short I bought a wicked kewl scanner too!! It is a V750 from the Epson Perfection Series and has all kinds of kewl new gadgets etc. I spoke with the dealer located by us and he explained all about digital ice technology, and dual action lens and after doing my own homework decided that even though it was kind of expensive would definitely be worth it!! Even for the photos that i do have negatives for, with the cost of printing photos these days by the time they were all printed out I probably would have spent wayyyy more than what the scanner costs...since it scans negatives too. There is a wait of 3 wks at least on that one tho but im really excited to get started on all my heritage albums that i have beeen waiting to do!!!
I was all excited to see Big Brother tonite!! GOOOOOO KAYSAR!!!! sooooo happy that he won hoh! Otherwise Janelle wouldn't be around very much longer i dont think. And has anybody noticed how weird Howie is being this season????? I will just leave that comment at that, lol!! Anyways just found out that it isn't going to be on til tomorrow :( Very sad. I hate waiting, hehe.
Not much else going on around here...The guys are STILL working on the wall....supposedly, lol. I dont hear any banging going on, but i spose i should give them the benefit of the doubt, hehe.
Here is my latest layout....something wayyyyy different for me. I wouldnt really know what you call it since it was me just playing, and then i picked up my wacom tablet and started doodling....I do that alot but normally I don't keep the layout, but Victoria thought this one was "way kewl mom", lol...so i figured why not.

I used Rak sponsor's Theresa Hernandesz' bg paper from her Mother and daughter Tea set...those weird squiggle doodles and stuff are me and my playtime, lol. k....im all yipped out for now....be back to gab later....and not that is not a threat, hehe.

Advice Really wanted!!!!! Pleasssee!!

So i finally started to unpack some more boxes from the move.....i know, bout time, lol. Im no where near to being all unpacked, lol....but at least i restarted workin on it! Anyways, i unpacked some photos of ours, and was totally disappointed! They had already started to fade and turn yellow!! :( I had printed them out on Epson glossy photo paper, and I thought that that was known for being good...and i had used a canon printer...now i know it wasnt the ulitimate in canon printers but i was under the impression that it was a pretty good one. So now I am in the market and trying to buy top of the line. I have never bothered to try to find top of the line however so don't know if im in the right direction or not. I figured since i do alot of 12by 12 layouts that i would find one that prints that size, and so far, these are the ones i have come up with.













Obviously one is an epson...and tho this one does not print at 12 by 12 it has 8 inkcartridges, two of them being red and blue, and one being a glossy finish. This was recommended to me by a client who is a professional photographer and it is the one she uses. The other one is a canon...it does print at 12 by 12...actually prints 13 by 19. It too has the individual ink cartidges, but no glossy finish.
There was also a hewitt packard i was looking at that printed out 13 by 19 had eight inkcartridges, 2 being red and green.
So really I am confused! How do you know which is the best one???? Are they all the same? One uses more dots to print...the other puts more ink in its dots, and the other uses an overlapping dot of some kind.
arrrggggghhhh!!!!!!!
Since this is something i would use and depend on all the time, i dont mind spending the extra money on the right one, but i just cant figure it out, and all these sales people are driving me absolutley nutty....not a far hike for me to begin with, lol....giving me different stories!!!! So pleassseeee!!!! opinions are so wanted!! What is everybody's most desired printer if it were to land on their doorstep tomorrow??? and what kind of paper would be the ultimate?? Any and all comments are sooooo welcome, lol!!

Other than that....most of my girls at work are back from vacation....but 4 of them went home sick today.
sigh. sigh.......sigh......heavy sigh.
Got some sponsor layouts done...under the wire, lol yesterday, Uploaded my version for the megakit at raks to the server....now this tho seeming simple is a hugggeee feat for me!! Just ask poor KimJ who has walked me, talked me and chastised me through it each month since i started on the creative team, lol! Talk about a helpful patient lady!!! love you kimj!! Those servers just confuse the heck out of me! But i did it for the first time this month with little hassle....except i almost forgot to do it, hehehehe. Never said i was the brightest bunny in the hutch!
And does anybody know why this darn blogger will only let me upload photos some of the time??..is there a trick to it? Are you only allowed to upload 2 and no more? I have seen some with a zillion in one post, and me if im lucky I can upload one. Once again advice is welcome. wink, wink! ;)
I went shopping today at the new and improved Scrapbook graphics, and totally cleaned out Anna Aspens and a bit of doris' stock. Cuz you know why?? I got my paypal back up and running!!!!!!!! Yeahhhhhh for me!!!
but shhhhh! don't tell jess, lol!! well that and i just love their stuff!!! The whole group of girls they have over there just rocks!! Carrie Stephens too!! all my favorites all in one spot!! All they need is a spot for the ever so talented Denise Docherty and I would be in absolute heaven and my charge card would be shot!
K, nuff babbling tonite....got to pull a 10 hour day tomorrow so i should head to bed....well check out my new kits, pop into a few of my fave blogs....and then head to bed, lol!!

just catch up

been a little bit since ive been bloggin...well, actually i had put a blog up the other day...i thought, but it turned out that I saved it as draft instead, lol. Since all that info is days old, and really not all that interesting, i decided to just let it lie.So has anybody been watching Big Brother??? I just got done, and i have to say, that i am really hating Alison this year. I had thought she was funny the first time she was on but she is just driving me batty right now! Go Janelle go!!! I totally think Janelle is going to be the one to go in the next week or so....such a target on her back!Works kept me pretty steady the last week or so. The new girl is training ok....real nice girl but still a little young i think. Hopefully she will come along beautifully :)Jess is out taking a test to get his hunting license.....everybody say BOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! I so hate the whole hunting thing and being the kind of person I am :) am giving him a totally hard time about going away to hunt on what will be thanksgiving wkend!!But hey! Get this! we actually got most of the downstairs wall up!!! You know..the one they started only about a month and a half ago?? Can you believe it??? Still got to be finished, but there is drywall and everything!!! I am way excited! Quicker than i gave them credit for. Way to go guys!!!Soooo, i got bored yesterday...quite late at night..and there was nothing for me to do. Until I looked over at my sweet little 10 year old who should have been in bed already and decided that her hair was such a mess, she definitely needed a trim. So i got my scissors, sat her down, and pretended I was a hairdresser who knew all the kewl tricks of the trade. Well it turns out, hairdressing is soooooo not my calling, and she got a little more than a trim. I couldnt stop laughing and Jess thought it was hysterical, but i couldnt get those darn scissors to do what they were supposed to!! Victoria, to say the least was not very happy with mommy.


she was really not a happy camper, hehehe...but i do think her hair looks alot better than it did!! She will get over it and love me again soon, i know!

CAN YOU BELIEVE MY LUCK??

ok..so get this. Does anybody remember a month ago when a deer...in the busiest citiest part of my happening town of windsor..went running through the window of my business?? Well i get a phone call today, and this is a car that ran through the exact same window in the exact same place. Can you believe that? I am just shaking my head, thinking that this has to be the most unlucky centre in the whole world, lol! I have 5 other centres that dont give me as much hassle as this one little window. sigh. what can you do?? I guess i will just make me a layout about the trouble with deer and automobiles, hehehe.
Another busy day today at work. Havent had time to do any scrapping :( . I now know that it is work that sucks my creative juices out of me and can't wait til Jess is able to take over for me!! (hehehehe...wonder what he's gonna think about that when i tell him, lol!!)
K, I have to finish some advertising but i just had to let you know about my crazy window issues.

oooo...and dont forget!!!!BIG BROTHER STARTS TOMORROW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WHAT A WEEK!

This week has been just crazy!! all kinds of things keeping me busy!!! Im workin 10 or 11 hour days, and training a new girl here at one of the centres. Spur of the moment on Friday at around 10:00, crazy people that jess and i are we decided to drive the 4 hours to Niagara Falls, and Marine land to celebrate my oldest daughter Victoria getting 7 A's in school on her report card! yeahhhhh Victoria! The most she has ever had has been 3 up til now. Great way to end things at what is now her old school! thank god too, cuz Jess was going crazy having to drive her the hour to school every day. Made us wish we had switched her in the middle of the year to a new school closer to the new house! Soooo.... we had a good time at niagara, but as a tip to others....never ever ever go down there over the long wkend!! Really not a very good idea.
We also got to see our new puppy!! she is turning into a real heffer. and is only 3 wks old. One more month til we get to bring her home. We have been trying to think of a name, but are completley stuck. I guess we actually need 3 names for her registration....so Jess wants to name her Princess Lucy-Furr. .......get it?, lol
He is so warped, but now he has got Victoria wanting to name her that too, lol!!
Well im at work right now, so should probably get back to that...just taking a breather! Can't wait til everybody is back from vacation!! May be bloggin tonite with some fun photos if i dont get home too late! :)

Troublesome Tuesday.

gonna make it short and sweet today. This is how my week is going. One of my employees quit,-no notice - the one to cover her shift is on vacation...the one to cover her shift is on vacation...the one to cover her shift is on vacation...the one to cover her shift is on vacation....o...and guess what??...the one to cover her shift is on vacation. So who here thinks im going to have a good week trying to be in 2 different centres at once??? uggghhh. I need a vacation!!! off to drink more coffee!

My Life Layout

This post is strictly to upload a layout I finished today. I thought it was a pretty kewl concept!...The look I was going for didnt quite carry through however ...I think the idea was better than my implementaition..but im

still pretty happy with it, even though it doesnt quite look the way that i would have wanted. It definitely took me longer than any other layout in my life to do, lol!! I was thinking of printing it out on some sort of canvas to put on the wall...tho i may change the color tone a bit before i do that so it will match better.

Okay, that is it...2 posts in one day is good i spose!....now i have to go read everybody elses blog, lol!!

tata!!

To Blog or not to Blog??

This is my question as i sit here at twenty to one in the morning, lol. The answer????? Well of course im gonna blog, hehehe. First im givin an update on my wall that the dh has been building...or has not been building as the case may be, hehe. We have progress. We actually have a wall frame up. ....it is quite exciting to see that here is proof that sometime in the next , oh, say......2 months??? we wil really and truly have a full upstanding working wall. go team.
So I finally scrapped some of the photos from Victorias dance recital. Well, not from the recital itself as we were not allowed to bring cameras...but i went camera happy as soon as i got home..took like ahundred!! The only problem is i am not a professional photographer, and for background, all I had was our wall in the living room. So, the lighting was bad, the bg was bad....so there was alot of photo work to be done, hehehe. But she was so beautiful, I was happy with the way i got them to turn out!! Here is my layout i called Ballerina, and I used elements from Sara Amarie's kit Refreshing Paisley found at 3 Scrapateers if anybody is intrested. :)

Isnt she a hotty?? Can you believe she only just turned 10 years old????? Im gonna be in big trouble, lol. We watched her recital again today with my dad and stepmom, and they were pretty impressed with how well she did. I wish i could figure out how to make my fonts stand out better through an upload. Anybody??????? suggestions welcome!!!

Well we didnt end up going away this wkend obviously....so what did we do??? we did nothing, lol. We did go see The Davinci Code, tho. And let me tell you i was a bit disappointed with how they altered the movies plot line, and left out alot of the human interaction goings on. Disappointing. However i am no Siskel and Ebert but i do give it a big thumbs so-so. Wait for the dvd. And those are my words of wisdom for the day, lol.

Fantastic Friday!

Soooo happy that today is Friday. This has been just a wasted week. Missed alot of work, and ignored alot of phone calls. This insomnia thing is just driving me crazy and sucking my will, lol!! Since everybody is going away this wkend, im thinking we might too...go down to niagara falls or something with the girls and take a peek at our new puppy we get in 6 more weeks!!! We will have too see how much catch up we have to do tho. House still needs unpacking and am totally feeling guilty for just letting it sit there. Need to paint still....sigh. Im the queen of procrastination!
On a good note, im getting back into the scrapping groove!! I did a layout that a started last night, and then opened it up this morning and completely revamped it and it doesnt even look the same anymore....that always happens to me. I shouldnt even bother going into a layout with a certain idea in my head cuz never once have i stuck with the original thought. Brooke looks so happy in these photos!! she always makes me smile. I used Jeannie Papai worn out kit for the layout. Speaking of designers, thanks to Carrie Stephens who gave out the coolest alpha freebie to go with her new kit!! Very nice surprise comes with it too!! If you dont have it yet....run and get it!!
Now...has everybody been making their votes on the Big Brother websiste????? If you dont vote, how are we supposed to have the best season ever??????? VOTE PEOPLE!!
k, im off now. be back later for more chit chat!