Another day, another dollar!

Another day in Paradise! Yeah right, I wish I could say that, but no such luck. Another day filled with boredom. I did manage to get some papers off my desk this morning but to no avail I still had about 7 hours to spend scanning the internet. Lucky me! Why? Because I had 7 fun filled “me” hours to search the internet for possible scrapbooking ideas and imagining what my scrapbooks will look like. I showed you the before pictures of my office/craft area and so far the new desk is put together, I’ll have pics tomorrow. But in the meantime all my stuff is piled high on my dining room table and I’m sure my husband is going all “neat freak” on me and wanting the stuff out of there fast so the house looks presentable again, so on his day off tomorrow maybe the rest of the furniture will get done! Yeah right, no such luck again. He said he’s going to be working outside. Which is good cause the backyard looks just as bad as my “before” pictures of my office! Haha. Anyway, once the office is done, I’m full speed ahead to scrapbooking central in my house! I can’t wait! I have so many ideas building up in my head and I print out tons of ideas that I can alter and make my own and I already have pictures in my mind of what the stuff will look like. I really cannot wait!

I have managed to sort through all of my photo CDs and organize them according to year and activity, can you believe it!?! Yeah, let’s just say that the total number of pictures is way beyond the thousands that I was thinking I had. I’m okay with it though, it’s job security! Gives me much more work to do in my future and I see years and years ahead of scrapbooking that I can do. Okay you might think I’m crazy but this is my idea….. I have three girls, all whom are very active in school, sports and being drama queens, so I take tons of pictures. I love my family and I plan to have one more baby in the future. What I want ultimately, is to scrapbook just about every picture I can, even if it means thousands of pictures later, I would like to have a Scrapbook Library per say. I want them to be able to look through them as they wish and remember the great memories we have as a family, vacations, school, home life, pets, etc. After I pass, years and years down the road, I want them to be separated as they wish or with my husband in a library where they can still see them and show their kids. I want the library to be a lasting memory and a place they can go and love….. So that’s my idea… crazy I know but I love the idea of it and I plan to in this lifetime have it as I wish! So there!

As for today, I’m just doing it one day at a time and hoping that it all goes according to planned… but in the meantime, this is where I wish I was today….. I'm leavinnnn on a jet plane.. don't know when I'll be back again! haha... it popped in my head sorry... but wouldn't it be so relaxing to be a balloonist and be able to go ballooning when you wanted and to just drift off and let your mind wander as you float miles and miles away....... aaahhhhhhhhhhh

Migraine! & The office BEFORE!

I'm not sure what's going on but I have a major migraine today and as luck would have it I don't have any more meds at work for it. So I either can go home and get some during my lunch and come back to work or I can just not come back to work! :) I think a better option is staying home.... But before I do that I think I will add some photos of my "before" office. Be careful, it's a mess, well it was a mess before Sunday, when I decided to clear it completely out and paint. Me and my husband painted til about 10:30 p.m. but it was done, now I just have to wait for my furniture to be delivered! I can't wait. The order was completely messed up but I am over it, I just need the stuff already. After you see the pictures, you'll see why! This is what you see when you open the door--note, we have double doors that lead into the office, however, one is blocked by junk so therefore only one is openable :) See the brightly colored boxes, they are somewhat filled with scrapbooking stuff and pictures. Elvis in the back, I love him! This is what you see when you look slightly to the right of the above picture. You can see where the chair leaves off.... There is a "path" leading through the junk to the desk, which you probably can't see yet, the path isn't quite clear but it's there, sorta. Well at least my filing is labeled. Oh look there's my Cricut. Aaagghhh, there it is, the desk, the dreaded, hated desk, the desk with no storage, the desk that I didn't want, the desk that will soon furnish the new house of my BFF, minus all the junk. There is also the non-working printer/scanner taking up much needed room. All that stuff on the floor, it's a bin filled with schoolwork/projects from the girls, I downsized this to about half on Sunday. And this, this is the workspace I have. I long to see it leave me but oh well! There's that printer again, and oh look it's my sister and her family pictures... and my new Ipod that my brother got me, that has yet to get a song on there because I can't figure it out! YIKES! Oh yeah and look at the nice, safe places I keep my checkbook and passports! haha.... Can't wait to see the "after" pictures.

Back to Monday - Daylight Saving???

Okay, so I'm totally confused as to what and why we do Daylight Savings Time? It's not saving me anything! And who's going to save me from falling asleep in the middle of typing a sentence and slamming my head into the keyboard? Who's gonna save me? Huh? Yeah, nobody knows! But I would like to know who came up with this concept of changing the clocks back and forth like Time is something to reckoned with, like we have they have the almighty power to trick the hell out of people into thinking it's later or earlier than it is. Let me tell you.... nobody is tricked! Instead they are all cranky ass tired and would like to go back to bed! haha... Cause I know I am about to pass out, I was perfectly fine in Arizona without the time changing and now it seems like there is no use to change the time. On the radio this morning it said that it take the average person about 4 days to readjust and get back to normal. So I think that if they make us change clocks then we should be entitled 4 days off from work to recooperate! :) Who's with me????

Okay, enough about that, I'm tired for some other reasons besides this DST thing but I'm sure that doesn't help at all! Okay I had a busy weekend, went shopping, cleaned out the office completely, and painted it! Noooowwwww if I could only find my camera cord I could upload the new pictures, I have pictures of a painting I did for my friend's husband and I also have the "before" pictures of my office. I am revamping it, before it was just a cluttered mess, no maybe not cluttered as much as hit by a tornado mess. Yeah... it looked more like tornado mess. Anyway I took the plunge and ordered allll newwww furniture for my office and it will be here tomorrow! YAY! I can't wait, but in the meantime my office is in my dining room and it's not very appealing.

In other news, Nevaeh might be potty trained for good this week, it only took me forever to find her size of panties on Saturday! Finding panties for tiny little butts is a pain in my big butt. I couldn't believe it, I shopped for about 4 hours and the entire 4th hour was dedicated to finding panties for my girls. Everything at the general stores were okay in the package but I took them out and geesh! They could have fit "Big Mama". It was ridiculous! Anyhow I found little Nev some Elmo and Princess panties and since she saw them she put them on and it's been pretty good since saturday, 2 accidents but other than that, great! So we'll see how it really went at daycare today. Yikes!

Snow in the forecast?

Okay, it might snow in Albuquerque tonight and I guess you'll have the okay to blame me! Why? Because I was busy at work for 2 days in a row, I'm not sure that this has happened in the last year I've worked here. Amazing! Anyway I still have no crafts to post and I won't post another Wish I Was Here photo. But I am posting a Scratchboard I did of Marilyn Monroe when I was in high school. If you don't know, scratchboard is thin like cardstock paper (they make a thicker type now) and it's coated on one side with this black shiny or matte coating. It's white under the black so you scrape/scratch off the black in tiny strokes with an exacto knife, or your preferred sharp object. It's basically a negative-postive space, black and white thing. The picture of Ms. Monroe isn't that great but here it is. Do you get it now? Scratch on, scratch off, scratch on... haha sorry I just got to watch Karate Kid the other day and I got a slight rememberance of it. I have never watched that entire movie, when I told my husband that he about passed out! Sorry but I was only 4 when it came out and he was a whopping 7. So I guess that's what he was doing when I was all nerdy reading books at age 4, he was watching the damn Karate Kid and wishing he could fight with a broken leg and shit! hahahaha....
Anyway I hope you enjoy the blog... comment!!!!! email me!!! Something!!!! :) Enjoy your night!

Busy day?

Yeah I guess it was a busy day, miracles doooo happen, because all of a sudden I looked a the clock and it was 4! How'd that happen? Well I came in today thinking I had nothing to do but low and behold I had a stack of things on my desk. Geesh! So I finished all that up, and got my day going, took a long lunch for a hydro-massage today. If you have never done this, you have to. It's those stupid capsule things that are in the mall, but the one I went to you don't have to lay face down and get that ring around your face from the "cushion". It was amazing, I didn't want to move after, I just wanted to stay there and fall asleep!

But I didn't, instead I came back to work and did some more work. I can't believe it. I had a busy day! Anyway, I didn't have time to write or look for crafts and all that junk today so I'm leaving you with another, Wish I Was Here Photo! Enjoy!

Venice? Ohhhh no, my dears, I tricked you, it's Vegas! My husband took me to Vegas last July and that was the first time I had been back to Vegas since I lived there when I was 8, roughly 20 years ago, 1988, Holy Cow! Back then I had only remembered Circus Circus and the apartment complex we lived in and going swimming every day! Now I have entirely new picture of Vegas. I wouldn't mind going back and I definately wouldn't mind bringing back some of that extra cash they got there!
I'll post some ACTUAL photos of Venice and my honeymoon cruise when I find the CDs. :) Remember, I'm still organizing all the thousands so be patient! Love ya!

Why oh why....

Does work have to suck soooo much. I would love to do something that I love to do for a living but this, this job, just bites, in every meaning of the word SUCK. I have sat at work, doing nothing, well nothing work related anyway but I have managed to organize, get this..... 4000 pictures today. I have tons of pictures at home, you don't believe me huh? I have approximately 15,000 pictures on CD and printed out that I have taken through the course of my last 20 years, because I really started taking pictures when I was about 7.

So with all the downloading, editing, saving of all these pictures I thought I might add in a... Where I wish I was photo... Here ya go! Well you're probably thinking... "she wants to be on top of a rock" Well this is actually on the Tram in Albuquerque. The Tram is what locals call the Tramway, the world's longest aerial tramway transports and it's located right here in Albuquerque. My husband took me and the girls in 2005 and I found this beautiful picture while organizing. The Tram takes you to a point of 10,378 feet at the Sandia Peak and gives you an 11,000 square mile panoramic view of the Rio Grande Valley and the Land of Entrapment... I mean Enchantment. :)

So I hope you like my shot today and I hope to get more scrapping and painting done this week. Wish me luck!

Okay... it's Monday... Blah!

Or should I say Blugh? Anyhow, I hate Mondays as I've mentioned before, especially after a weekend with a house full. The retirement party went great, we ended up with lots of extra food, it was Olive Garden though so I'm not complaining! haha. We also watched the UFC fights that night which me and my husband are totally addicted to. I took my husband last May for his 30th birthday to a UFC fight in Houston and it was soooo much fun! He got to run around and meet a bunch of fighers and I took pictures of him running around! Anyway I got completely off the subject... Darn I forgot where I was going with that.

Well I think that I'm making it a regular thing to post "I wish I was here" so I think it will be fun to do every couple of days, posting pictures of where I've been, both in and out of the Army and with my family and friends. So this is where I wish I was today.
The Vatican in lovely Roma! I say Roma because the funniest thing, in 2001 my mom, my brother, one of my sisters and my BFF had went to visit me in Germany, I took some personal leave for a few weeks and we drove around. One of the places being Rome, we were going to the Vatican and all the hot spots in Rome and on the way there we couldn't find our way into the correct tolling places, so we were stopped at a light and next to a guy on a scooter. I rolled down the window and asked him for directions to Rome, he looked at me as if I was crazy, he was confused, baffled and to say the least not quite understanding of the English language, so my mom asked him in Spanish, still saying "Rome", I uttered "RomA" and all of sudden the clouds parted, sun was shining, birds were chirping and he said "AAAHHHH ROMA!!!! That way!" like helllloooo I was saying it the wrong way! Haha, it was hilarious, maybe you had to be there, I just thought that Rome and Roma were pretty close to sounding the same. Guess not.
So I guess the reason I wish I was there is because the Vatican is an incredible work of art, the architecture, the paintings, the sculptures, everything about is is amazing. It leaves me in Awe just to look at it and I've had the wonderful pleasure of visiting there 3 times in the past 7 years. Each visit there was a different experience, once with a group of friends, once with the same group I mentioned before and once with my husband. But each time I do have to say that when I walked in the front doors I was overwhelmed with emotions. There is so much detail in all the work there that it's impossible to take it all in. So I really can't say that I've seen the same thing in all three trips, they were all unique trips and I got different emotions with all of them and I loved it all. So if you haven't been there, take the time in your lifetime to get there. It is a true work of art!