Hello all..I found our new home!

Pat, your list sounds a bit like mine!

My list for this week:
1. Yard work
2. Finish at least one layout
3. Start pricing for garage sale in May

Items 1 & 3 are big projects, so they will go one for a few weeks, but need to continue to make progress.

Paula, sounds like your weekend was a very busy one as well. Hope the Monday house goes quickly so you can get back to your own house.

Better get ready to head out to work. Hope it goes quickly. I think I may try to mow tonight. It is still supposed to be very windy so I know I will be wind blown when that is done!

Have a great day!

Hi Everyone!

Let's see...a list

1. If it ever stops raining, walk at least a mile each day to prepare for my March of Dimes walk on Sunday...6 miles!

2. Catch up on my scrapping the daily pics

3. Wake up 1/2 hour earlier to eat breakfast and make lunch

that's it! I want an easy week! LOL

It's been raining all day here! The river is rising again. I just want it to STOP! I'm tired of sitting in wet shoes at work all day. I need a pair of cool rain boots!

Hope everyone had a great Monday.

good evening .. it has been a long day for me, with lots of things going on. Stephanie dropped by to drop off some order forms and we chatted for a while.
Then I worked on some scanning and then some paperwork. Did a little in the yard, but not near what I had hoped.
Rain tonight and in the early am, so I am not going to be able to get back out tomorrow. However the end of the week is looking nice, so the work will get done. I am seeing LOTS of weeds popping up.

I think I should add exercise to my list also. I keep trying to get back on track, but I am not doing so well.

Rhonda, have you put your hummer feeders out yet?

good morning ladies!

I finally feel like I have landed. It has been a whirlwind week and a half.

Today I am helping price items at church for our annual sale. Tonight Band Orchestra Parent meeting.

Pat, I think I may have missed Rhonda's card, I will check it out.

Good morning all...

Last night I got the yard mowed. It looks so nice now. My creeping phlox are really going to town and that bed is really looking good now. But my allergies are really giving me fits this morning. I felt them starting up after I came in from mowing :(.

Pat, I agree with Nancy. At least you are making progress. One step at a time. The card is really easy to put together, I just had a hard time figuring out how to decorate it! Sorry your weather is not cooperating.

Nancy, you are really going to town on the yard work. It is hard work but looks awesome when it is done. And at least I feel good everytime I look at a completed yard project.

Paula, hope you are making progress on your "sort and pitch". Do you have any houses to do today?

Yes, Pat, I put out my feeder last night after finishing mowing. I haven't seen a hummer yet, but wanted to have it out just in case! I had to deal with some wasps on my patio before I put out the feeder. Hope I have them under control!

I had a long chat with my sister last night. She is trying to quit smoking and loose weight at the same time. And she was so excited to have gone a full week without smoking and actually lost a pound. I gave her some hints of what worked for me and she is trying many of those ideas.

Oh, better head out to work. Hope everyone has a great day!

Hello again. I did run a few errands this am and now I am home to get busy. I am going to clean up the pink papers from the baby card and then pull papers to make the cuts for the May birthday cards. I think I will use the stair card for both of them.
In an effort to be ahead for tomorrow, I also took some thick pork chops to thaw.

Nancy, you made good yard progress. I keep plugging away, trying to stay ahead of the weeds that will quickly get ahead of me. Especially with rain and then warm temps. I am not going to do any scanning today, unless I run out of steam on the pricing. While both are a priority, the pricing needs to be done by the 30th and the scanning doesn't need to be done until the middle of May. And the scanning is almost done.

Rhonda, I was thinking that I wanted to make sure the hummers know there will be feeders. I was watching a migration map on FB, but it was confusing. A friend in CA has had them all winter. She said that is not typical for her area (very northern coast), but she kept the feeders full for them and they stayed. I hate the wasps that think the feeders are for them also. I also need to get some seed for the yellow finches, so they will come back. I don't get a lot of birds due to the neighbor has 2 cats who are outside a lot.

Paula, you are keeping very busy. How are you doing with the re-decorating of the rooms?

Nancy, our grass has been green for a while, but not growing. But I am seeing dandy lions and other weeds here and there. Maybe Jim can put something down this weekend if we don't have rain. The dogwoods in the yard are almost ready to open. Maybe by next week, definitely by Easter. My pink one is usually first, because it gets the most sun.

I do have a lot of things for the sale. All of the inventory from when I was a vendor, plus all the personal stuff that I just don't use. I am going to make a box or basket of odds and ends and put free on it. Most are partially used things and I just don't want to mess with figuring out prices. I've been tossing things in there as I go along.
I have a lot of stamps and punches that I am also selling. I did look at my cartridges to see if there were any, that I just NEVER use, but I am just having trouble selling any of them. The other thing I need to go through are the paper packs. I am sure there are some of those I would use. There are probably 30 or more of those. Lots of fibers, that I got from a secret sister swap when I first joined the MB. It is like a lifetime supply of fibers. When I put fibers on my wish list, I never thought I would get so many.

It has brightened up here this afternoon, but not sunny. I made a trial cut for the card like Rhonda did. I need to find some paper I bought in Columbus to make the cards out of. I think it will be perfect, if I can just find where I put it.

Your chicken sounds like it will be tasty. I often have to do makeshift to use what I have. It usually turns out. I am not sure what I will put on the pork chops tomorrow. Will have to see what is in the cupboard.

Oh.. one of the ladies on CFS ordered the Imagine from HSN when it came out. She ended up returning it, but I don't remember exactly why. Did you see they are coming out with an Expression2 that will debut on HSN? I think the end of this month???

Rhonda.. I hope you are having success with the layout.

This afternoon I only cut the stair card on some old cs to see what I was dealing with and to give me something to play with on the folds. I had bought some BG Wisteria papers in Columbus. I had picked solid CS to match and a sheet of the matching thick embellishments. I had kept them all together and couldn't find them anywhere. I knew I hadn't used any of them. Finally about 10 mins ago I found them. I don't know how I kept looking right over them. Anyway, I am going to wait 'till tomorrow to do the cuts. I can't stop yawning tonight.

While hunting for the papers I did run across a LO I had done at a crop that needs a photo label on it. I forgot to print it out before the crop. I guess I will be doing that also tomorrow, so I can have closure on that LO.

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Good morning!

Pat I am the same way with my cartridges. I just think for what I could actually sell them for I would be better off keeping them because you just never know there may be something I need on one of them! LOL I just see some benefits of the Imagine. It is pricey though and just thought I could keep my eye out for a good deal. I did see there was a new E coming out. I also see that you can't use the DS with it. Of course I have my old one but I use my DS for all of my cuts so then it would not work. I am not sure about using the Imagine with DS either and that would be a deal breaker too.

Rhonda did you get your LO done?

Lizzy bummer about your car! DH always says that about a repair, especially when people complain about the repair and start talking about a new car when the one they have is paid off. A couple hundred here of there is better than a few hundred every month and then even then you can still have repair bills! I am very glad I don't do the actual taxes. I don't envy you at all on that one. I hope you get that one done quickly!

Paula what are you up to today?

I did not do any more in the yard yesterday and I know I should have since the rain will come today and it looks to be a cold weekend. I guess it's because the rest of it isn't so bad so I just let it go. I did notice last night though that our back deck has a pile of pine needles on it so that will need to be put in a bag too.

I have to get the bills done today and I suppose figure out what to make for dinner. Lunch is already planned and made. I just need to heat it up.

Good morning ladies!

Scrapping day!! Yippee!!

hmm...let's see, what did I read...

Pat, the redecorating is coming, but slow. I think about it a lot...does that count?? We have changed our thoughts about bed size, ect. a number of times. I think we have a plan now.

Nancy, our township picks up yard waste too but we live on a ravine so we have places to put it. Just need to get out there and do it.
Also, we have chives popping up all over our yard. That's the only thing that needs to be cut. HA!
Our yard is so shady that there is more moss than grass.
How did your chicken turn out? It sounds good. Do you buy a whole chicken for that?
One of my Boston girls got the Imagine for Christmas and wants me to help her get the hang of it but that hasn't worked out yet. I would like to check it out.

Lizzy, sorry about your car trouble. I agree with Rhonda, how nice that you could just drive it to the shop and get it fixed that day!! That's convenient!! And I am glad you weren't alone.
So...today is tax day after work???

Rhonda, it sounds like your layout is coming together. I find myself being left out of pics too. I am usually behind the camera and I don't like having my pic taken. Now that I scrap I think about that differently, it has changed the way I take pictures.

Good morning!

Today is going to be a fast day. Half of our students are doing the state tests so our daily schedule is completely upside-down. We aren't taking a morning recess, but we are giving the students a morning bathroom break - quietly, please - just a few students at a time. During that time, I let them work quietly on assigned homework. Then, they have an entire hour for lunch and lunch recess. It works...just a long morning for everyone.

I will jet out of there at dismissal time to get to my therapy appointment, but then I am home the rest of the day and YES, I will work on taxes, and tidying up around here. The kitchen is just messy; as is the family room. Not too dirty; just messy. Newspapers laying around, stacks of books, etc. I don't like that after a couple of days. It makes me crazy. So, I'll do tend to that for about 20 minutes, then settle in for the taxes. I should be able to whack those out in no time.

The good thing about living in a huge metropolitan area is being able to get your car fixed in one day, even a major deal like I had. Also, I got the feeling they didn't have 25 cars ahead of mine. Sometimes, they are backed up and it might have taken longer. But, often, if they don't have the parts, they can drive to LA and get them. Oh my gosh, if I had been alone, I would have been so scared. I would have just called a tow truck and never tried to drive it the way Terry did.

I have been going through things at work, clean out stacks and stacks of stuff. Yesterday, I filled a trash can with papers I don't need or want. It's a great feeling. I don't know if I told you but we have one more year in our rooms and then we will be moving out for at least a year while they build a new building for us. We will move into flimsy little trailers. When we do that, I don't want anything extra. And, I have so much junk I don't need/want. I just need to go through it, a little at a time. I have a tall, four-drawer filing cabinet that I would like to pare down to a two-drawer filing cabinet. Do you think I can pull that off? Even my desk is full of stuff I don't need - or extra stuff I don't need. How many memo pads does a person need at one time? I won't throw them away, but seriously, how many do you need in your desk?

Rhonda, good luck to your sister with the double-whammy of stopping smoking and losing weight. YIKES!

And, happy hump day to everyone else! I'll "see" you this afternoon.

Hello all..

Pat, you are really cleaning out! When is the sale?

Paula, hope you had a great day scrapbooking. Did you get a lot done?

Lizzy, how about those taxes??? Hope they are finished and filed.

Had a meeting tonight, but now I am sorting the stack of mail, magazines and newspapers. They just seem to pile up. So much for a paperless society!

Hope to make a run to the recycle center this weekend.

I think I will just relax and read tonight and then start fresh tomorrow. Night all...

Hi friends....well, the taxes for Terry and me are all done. I actually could have done an e-filing tonight, but I figured he probably wanted to see them before I did that. We are getting a nice refund from both the feds and the state.

I am also doing Katherine's and am having trouble with her federal one. The program seems to have a bit of a glitch in it. I think it's hiccuping when I'm supposed to input some information about her college expenses. So, I've decided to shut down the computer program and start over.

Otherwise, I have a few other tasks to take care of this evening which I've not even gotten to, so I need to get them done, too.

Pat, I can't believe how much scrappin' stuff you have! I wish I were there to look at your stuff before the sale!

I hope your weather is also good this weekend and you can get the patio cover out. Rhonda, what do you have on your agenda for this weekend?

School is going well. I got a nice compliment from the vice-principal today...he asked me to serve on the committee to select new curriculum for Language Arts...but then we figured out I wouldn't be a good candidate because I'm changing grade levels. Oh well...I'll take the compliment!

Not much else is happening. But, I need to go so I can give this tax program another try. In the meantime, take care everyone!

Good morning!

Rhonda I have that often where I am not even in the pictures. DH is better about taking them now. One year on Mother's day I wasn't in one picture! I know the junk mail is never ending!

Paula how did your scrapping go? Yes I buy a whole chicken when I put it in the crock pot. I wonder if any of the LSS will do an imagine demo.

Lizzy WTG on getting your taxes done and getting rid of unwanted papers in your room. Yes you did tell us about the move into the trailers. I am not sure you said when though.

Pat you do have a lot of stuff. I hope you can sell all of it. How long did you sell things as a vendor? I did the same thing with those Studio G stamps. Bought way more than I will use. I have used maybe 25% of them and I seem to use the same ones.

We went out for buck burgers again last night. That does not help my waist line to do that but it is good and very inexpensive. The 4 of us eat for $15. The guys all had 2 burgers each too. Tonight I will make chicken gravy over biscuits. That is what I was going to do yesterday but we went out instead and I need to use the chicken or get it in the freezer today.

It is rainy and dreary here. We will only get in the mid 40's with chances of rain off and on all day. I am in the mood to make some cards, but that won't be happening. Maybe I should pull out my GYpsy and check out he Smiley cards.

I am still not getting email notifications yet.

Nancy, I forgot to tell you.. I asked my friend about the imagine. She returned it because it just working for her needs. She also said that CDS didn't work in it, but that might be a quirk they have worked out in the newer ones. She suggested the Imagine forum, which I am thinking you might have already checked out.

When I think of the time I have spent going through the bins at M's and ACMoore to find whole sets of Studio G stamps to then never use them, boggles my mind. They are all in a drawer in baggies now.

Rhonda, that same storm is heading for us on Saturday. It started at my Mom's earlier in the week.

Nancy, I was a vendor for 3 years. We did 3 day crops with 100+ attendees, so we had to have a lot of inventory. Some things I am not selling off, like the solid card stock, any of the adhesives. I also pulled some of the stickle colors I use a lot of and other things like that.

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