May sound trivial, but is a huge feat for us. Hopefully this will continue. It’s so nice to have the kitchen clean and I’ve really been keeping up with it…cleaning as I do things, putting things away. I really hope it never gets to how it was before. I’m really going to try to make sure we don’t go to that dark place again. No reason for it at all!

This weekend I am cleaning my office, which I’ve been calling the hoarder room all week. It is a mess. Plain and simple. No other description necessary. I should post before and after photos but I am so embarrassed at the state of it.

But starting tomorrow, I will begin to clean it. I really don’t have much else to do this weekend, thank God. Just gonna clean this room and veg with the hubbs and the zoo.

If the weather holds out, we plan on giving the Puppa a bath as well. Should be fun! LOL He also has some mats on his undercarriage that need to be taken care of. So does the Miss. Maybe we’ll get to those too.

But back to the kitchen. what a difference. I can cook, I don’t have to balance and move things around to make room on the counter to prepare and make dinner/lunch/whatever. Tomorrow morning, I can wake up and have some cereal and use a clean spoon from the drawer and a clean bowl and not have to wash them!

Now, we just have to keep it up!

I found the cutest kit today in my Google Reader! It’s called “Very Own World” and is a hand-painted kit by Irene Alexeeva. I love her kits! I have a few of them.

I got it at After Five Designs. I’ll have to add their button to my sidebar, I’ve shopped there a few times this month…a couple of my favorite artists have moved there.

I also went to Gorjuss and found a little cutie to add to my blog header! I just ♥ her work! I want to get prints and hang them in my house….one day!

Anyway, I will be hopefully working on this today in between doing the dishes (UGH!) and cleaning the computer room…which I actually may save until tomorrow since the kitchen will take for.ever! I’m actually excited to get started! I need to find a little pear too that I can add. I think I have another Irene Alexeeva kit with a pear in it. Oh, and I have one with little pigs too…hmm…

Ok, gotta feed the dogs and get the iPod going to I can Jam out while I clean. P!nk, Paramore and Eminem are my kitchen cleaning jams of choice lol

Sometimes it’s hard. Sometimes I feel like a little girl who’s so unsure of anything in this world and generally it’s due to dumb dumb things.

Like today, my husband went for a walk in the early afternoon. He went alone and didn’t ask me to come or didn’t take a dog with him. He said he was going to go walk around the park we used to live by a couple times and then come home. Doesn’t seem like a big deal, right?

Well my husband and I have been together for a LONG time and a lot has happened. There have been betrayals and lies told and all has been forgiven…but never forgotten. So when these oddities come up out of no where…like a walk out of the blue…I start to get all paranoid like he’s lying to me and doing something behind my back or he’s leaving to go talk to someone.

Do I really think these things are going on? Of course not. But I cannot keep these feelings from cropping up when incidents like this happen! I wish I could.

And yeah, I know that it’s odd behavior and I should trust my gut and all of that…but I also know that if something is going on, I WILL find out sooner or later. Plus, i’m the type of gal who has always said…”if you don’t want to be with me then there’s the door.” I’d rather be alone than with someone who doesn’t want to also be with me.

So, I asked what was up when he got home and he said nothing. I hope he’s telling the truth. I trust him about 99%…but there’s still the lies from years ago that linger in my head.

Ahh well, all will reveal itself if there is something going on. It always does!

On to Dreamweaver. I love computers and everything, but when it comes to html, unfortunately, I am a hack and don’t know enough html to not use a WYSIWYG website editor.

So I have used Microsoft Frontpage for years! Everything worked well with a few little snags here and there, but I’ve always been able to get around them.

For some reason Frontpage stopped working for the APSFA webmaster stuff that I do. I don’t understand why either. I think it may have something to do with my new firewall but even when I disabled it, FP still would not work.

So I’ve been trying other WYSIWYG programs. I tried an Adobe program called “Contribute” which worked for a couple pages, but I couldn’t get to the html to edit it. I didn’t really play with that program for too long to look for it either. I kind of knew once I used it a couple times that it wasn’t really what I was looking for.

Dreamweaver is closer to what I need. I got it to upload, but now I’m having a problem with one of my pages. I cannot see anything in the WYSIWYG part, but the html is all there. I need to figure out what is making me not see it. I’ve been playing with it for hours, with no avail.

That’s been my Sunday so far…oh that and the dishes. YUCK…I seriously hate doing dishes so they always wait until we have so many and they are SO nasty…it’s dumb, but I just hate doing them.

No layouts today unless I need a break from Dreamweaver – which I may later on…I’m stumped.

I think i know what’s been wrong with me all week. I was completely out of one of my medications for a week due to the whole check mixup…and I was able to get it filled and get back on it. I know it will take a few days to get into my system, but I think I felt better just having it in the house again and being able to take it.

So, a good night’s sleep and a whole day to do what I need to do. Sounds like a winner to me.

I wanted to write quick and post the page I just finished before I go get started on the dishes…ugh…the most dreaded thing on earth!

I found this great word art today during my freebie search and it fit PERFECTLY with the picture of my nephew and my dad that I used in the layout the other day, so I used it again and I even found another one and was able to use two smaller pictures.

Credits:
Template – Curth’s Digital Designs
Papers: Digitreats Add On Jump Freebies by Kimmy’s Keepsakes
Arrow by Melanie
WordArt by Silvia
Post It Note by Lighthouse Scrapping
Star from “Cherry Cheesecake” by Vicki

I was also supposed to do the dishes this weekend. I HATE doing the dishes. I will let them completely stack up until we don’t have any dishes clean before I do them. I know that’s nasty, and we even have a dishwasher, but I despise doing dishes. I’ll have to bite the bullet and do them one day this week. Maybe tomorrow.

What I did do today was organize my scrapbook stuff on my external hard drive and downloaded some more freebies. The organizing took a long time, but it’s worth it because everything is nice and neat now. I even downloaded a new little program to extract zip and rar files. It’s much better than Winzip. It’s called “ExtractNow” and it works really quickly and can do multiple files at once!!! Which is something that really annoyed my about Winzip. So now I can just download and extract scrappy things much much quicker. lol Lord, help me!

I made this page today:

I need to find the link where I got the template, but all of the papers are from Michi and they are a freebie mega kit called “Endless”. The ribbon on the side is also from there and the crown is from somewhere else that I’m not sure of.

Like I’ve said before I was just downloading and never saving where things came from, so most of my kits and everything, I have NO clue where they came from. Most are freebies. I didn’t change the filenames so some I can figure out. If I’m posting pages here I’ll try to figure it out so I can give credit where I can. Just assume I made NONE of the papers or embellishments because I have no clue how to even color something!!! LOL I’m learning though!

The picture is of Jellybean, aka Beans or “Missy Beans” as she’s more recently been called. I guess I should have put her name on there somewhere. She’s our only girl kitty and she’s a rescue. We adopted her from a shelter that we volunteered at for a while. Actually all but one of our cats came from that shelter. Good thing we’re not still there or we’d have many more cats!! Beans is 2 yrs old I think now and she’s just a little bitty thing. She’s been more social lately and comes out more…she used to just hide mostly.

It’s not a great thing to have so many cats in the same age range. Especially boys!!! I totally prefer boy cats to girl cats for many reasons, but they are so bad…it’s like a house full of toddlers here. They’re just into EVERYTHING and I swear, they get together at night and conspire against us!! lol

Tomorrow I’m going to make a scrapbook page using a photo of my two nephews together. It’s a silly and cute picture of them sticking their tongues out. I don’t know if I am going to put it up or not. I’m not sure if I should put their pictures out there for all to see. Maybe it doesn’t matter, so many people do it. I’ll have to think about it. I’ll probably put it on here. I’m really going to try to make a page a day…or a couple a week anyways.

Well I need to put the food I made for my breakfast tomorrow away in the fridge and my bed is calling me. I hate having no food and no money. Hopefully that stimulus check comes tomorrow!!!