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Saturday Schmaturday’s Randomness
August 23, 2008 | 
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Today’s blog post will be about a bunch of random things…but isn’t it always? haha
I’m a member of the UAW and today we had a big meeting. Our contract is up and so we had a vote today. These meetings are always the same. I hate going to them, but I understand why we need them and everything. Generally my sister goes with me, but this time I went alone…and wouldn’t you know it…in the middle of the dam meeting I start to feel a panic attack coming on!! Yikes! So I quick get a pill from my purse and plan my get away to the bathroom. I ended up calming down, so I didn’t have to take the pill, but I really hate how those attacks just kind of sneak up on me for no apparent reason! Hopefully all of this union stuff works out. I don’t want to strike…
I have been all over the internet downloading scrapbook freebie kits from many talented artists who share their creations with us. I am so thankful that people offer these kits and templates free of charge to us…however…I wish that people who make tagger sized kits would indicate that they are tagger sized. The difference between the regular sizes and the tagger sizes are HUGE…like 3600 for regular and 800 for tagger. So you can’t even use some of the elements because they don’t blow up well to scrapper size. It’s unfortunate too, because some of these tagger sized kits come with some pretty adorable elements!!! I hate to complain…so maybe we’ll call this “venting” but I really wish they’d say what size the kit is…or even the paper size. Some do, and I am so thankful…but I hate when I am so excited to use a cute kit and then come to find out it’s so teenie tiny!!
I don’t know if I’ll have a scrappy page to post today. I’ve kind of been creatively challenged lately. I don’t know what it is, but the last couple pages I’ve started I’ve just deleted. I can’t seem to make anything that I really like. I’ll have to try again.
I saved this entry and started working on a scrappy page and here’s what I came up with.
This is my niece in Australia. My SIL sends us pictures and unfortunately, they are really small files so they don’t blow up too well for scrappy pages. (Probably should use some tagger sized kits for those! heh). I’m not too thrilled with how this came out, but I decided to finish it rather than scrap it. No pun intended.
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The Hubs’ Man Crush and other Randomness
My husband has a huge man crush on Dale Earnhardt Jr…good ole, #88. It’s his newest obsession. We must have all things with Amp, 88, or DEJ as I call him on it! And we need to get little toy cars, hats, shirts, jackets, bbq covers, license plates…etc!!! Good Lord!! I think he’s more in love with this guy than he is me! heh… Geez, I hope not anyways. lol
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hehe…he may not be too happy with me when he sees that!! oh well…it’s SO true. He has a total man crush on DEJ.
On a similar note…today was the Woodward Dream Cruise. Basically, it’s a HUGE classic car show on a road and it stretches for miles and miles. Cars go “crusin” and there are about a million people there. If you are into that thing you will know exactly what I’m talking about. If you’re not…well it basically looks like this:
I took this photo last year on Friday, but it’s the same on Saturday. Anyway…my Dad and any “real” car guy spends just about the whole week on Woodward with their cars. My dad got interviewed by the local newspaper on Tuesday!!
This got long fast…drank an amp tonight (part of the man crush is keeping amp in the house heh) and omg…never again. I’m all hopped up on the caffiene!!! haha
I should add picture credits for this post: Dale Earnhardt Caricature & Pict of my Dad and Elijah
Stormy Saturday
It’s a yuck day today…big thunderstorms rolling through. And our internet is messed up. I guess the cable company is having internet issues in all of Michigan and they couldn’t give me an estimated time it would be fixed. It’s so stupid too, because I can’t get on any blogger pagers but my own, and I can get on MySpace but not into the support forum for my husband’s disease. I don’t get it. I’m sure they will get it going soon.
So…since I can’t do my webmaster duties for the APSFA, and I’m totally avoiding cleaning the nasty kitchen, I’ve been working on some layouts.
On the Scrapmatters blog, they have “Template Tuesdays” and they were talking about nicknames and posted a template freebie. I couldn’t wait to use that and what a cool idea because all of our animals go by their nicknames more than they do their real names!
I did Malcolm aka “Mooshy’s” for the template challenge:
Credits:Template by Sya @ scrapmatters
Papers & Elements by Thao Cosgrove @ Scrap Girls
Then I did Alex aka “Fanna’s” next:
Credits:Template by Sya @ scrapmatters
Papers & Elements from ABC Run kit by Digitreats or add on kits by various
And then I made Onyx aka “Missy Girl’s”:
Credits:Template by Sya @ scrapmatters
Papers & Elements by Kay Miller Designs
Here is Razzle aka “Yidda’s” page:
Credits:Template by Sya @ scrapmatters
Papers & Elemets from Felty Cat & Dog kits by Calico Designs
Alpha by Misschifis @ scrapmatters
Kitty tag by Major Tigger Scraps
Here’s Topaz aka “Puppa’s” page:
Credits:Template by Sya @ scrapmatters
Papers & Elements by Kay Miller Designs
And finally, here’s Jellybean aka “Beans” page. I wanted to make her page all girly because she is SUCH a little prissy girl. I am convinced all girl cats are this way because of her. haha
Credits:Template by Sya @ scrapmatters
Most Paper & Elements by Jessica Edwards (glitter also)
I tried to use different pictures in these layouts because I know that I’ve been using some of the same ones over and over. You’d think with over 5 gigs of pictures on my husband and my’s picture site, I could find some different pictures to use! lol But I have my favorites!
So basically I spent the day digiscrapping! lol…actually, I did a few other things…but mainly I scrapped. It relaxes me.
I need to look up the credits for all of these and then post them. I also need to go back and post credits for the other ones that are missing them. I’ll work on that.
Manic Monday
Ugh…Mondays suck, plain and simple. And this will be random…but that’s my style LOL
My husband has been having major issues with his depression lately and with the newest developments, that’s probably not going to get better for a while. Good thing he goes to see his pdoc this week.
My husband has a disease called Antiphospholipid Antibody Syndrome along with a handful of other autoimmune diseases. He’s on disability, although we have yet to see a check…grrr…but he’s still working. He’s had a number of TIA’s (mini strokes), has daily migraines, and omg I could go on and on. If you want to read his story it’s located at this link: http://www.apsfa.org/docs/APSFAVol9SprSum2008.pdf on page 9. It’s a mess and it’s been a long few years since his diagnosis.
We’ve been through a lot and will continue to get through things. So it’s ok. I don’t want to wallow or dwell on him and his disease…
Tonight was the season premiere of Paranormal State. I love this show, along with Ghosthunters. They both freak the heck out of me, but I really enjoy them. A friend of mine who also enjoys GH got a letter from someone telling her how she can “save” her and it had all this religion, like bible beating religion, crap in it and also things about the occult. Now why in the heck do people automatically assume that someone who finds paranormal things interesting worships the devil or is wiccan? Both my friend and I were raised Catholic. We both believe in God and Jesus and all of that. I am not sure if she calls herself “Catholic” or not, but I do. And FGS neither of us worship the devil or need “saving”…geez people, get a fricking grip already!!
Ok on to scrappy things. I still have that big ranty blog to write…I’ll get to it, I’m still mad about it!!
This layout took me FOREVER! omg I worked on it for a long long time. I may have to do the credits tomorrow because after a while I was just trying to find things that matched the color sceme. I found a BUNCH of new templates tonight that I cannot wait to use.
Ok here is…
Template from Sweet Shop Designs
Most elements from various kits by Krista
Crown by Kirsty Wiseman
Papers from Sable Brule freebie kit…various artists
2 Scrappy Layouts
Today I did two layouts. I was going to blog earlier, but I just have time to post these two pages now. I have to get my lunch together for tomorrow and clean up the kitchen before Army Wives is on at 10:00.
Page #1 is my nephew. He had that long hair do that is so popular right now and then he got his head shaved! It’s such a change! His favorite color is orange, so that’s why I use a lot of oranges for pages I make of him. And the Digitreats Jump and Run kits have good oranges in them so I used them again for this page.
Credits:I don’t think I used a template
Fuzzy Wuzzy Alpha by The Digi Twins @ Digital Candy
Papers from ABC Jump add on kits
The second page is of my big puppa, Topaz. He LOVES his kiddie pool! And I love taking pictures of him in it! lol
Template by Purple Tulip Designs
Elements and Papers from Refresh freebie kit by Scrap Girls
Wednesday Scrappy Layout
I started this last night and my cousin and her parents came over tonight so I put some finishing touches on it.
Background…our poor little Onyx has been called an anteater and a needle nose since we brought her home. I, personally, don’t see the resemblance. LOL But I may be bias.
Credits:
Template: Lively Up! Designs
Papers and Elements: Picnic & Spring Fling Bling by liella
Anteater by Grafx 4 All
A Case of the Mondays…
As I was sitting at my desk staring blankly at the screen…while trying to not get caught just staring at the screen…a layout popped into my mind. I love when I can envision it before it “happens”.
Digiscrapping has let me really use and explore my creative side. Especially since I’ve really been trying to make a layout a day. I haven’t run out of pictures or ideas and actually it’s all kind of come to me…just like today.
Last night while eating dinner with my husband (we grilled steaks and corn and had potato salad and noodle salad…YUM!) I was looking at this picture we have on the wall of my niece. It’s got soft colors and is the cutest picture ever. I just KNEW that would look awesome in a layout using Digitreats “skip” sets and it does! After we were finished eating I went and played around and whipped it together. I’d show it, but she’s nakkie and I still am not sure about posting pictures of the kids. But it’s cute cute cute!
Here’s the layout that was in my head. And a way to also learn a little bit about me. This was the layout that came together in my head. And this is the sweetest kit and it was a freebie too!
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Papers and Elements: “Simply Adorable” by Christie at Sweet Scraps
No Template!
Kitty Crackups
It cracks me up how silly cats are. They will lay on anything that’s on the floor – roll themselves into a little catball and lay on a piece of paper, or a washcloth or whatever is on the floor or table…anywhere really. And boxes, omg…we buy canned food by the case since that’s all we feed the kitties and they ALWAYS sit, lay whatever in the empty boxes from the cases!
Here’s Malcolm in one of the boxes…(oooh I fixed the eyes, they look creepy now LOL I’ll have to play with that feature a bit more.) Right before I took this picture he was laying in this box. Of course as soon as I grabbed my camera he sat up!!
Another thing…what gets into them when they run through the house at full speed?? We have one long hallway that is the length of our house and they LOVE to zoom up and down the hall and chase each other!
Cats crack me up!
So, here’s a little crazy layout I made tonight…featuring our 4 crazy kitties! Razzle (Yidda), Alex (Fanna), Malcolm (Mooshy), and Jellybean (Beans).
New Blog Look!
Well, in my endless search for free scrappy things online, I ran across Sweet Scraps. Christie is the blog owner and she has the sweetest kit available for free! It’s called “Simply Adorable” and it really is just that!
The theme of her blog was made by Allie with one of her kits. It’s too cute, so I went and checked out Allie’s blog and she has other themes available and also directions on how to use them. I tried to use the kitty one but the background was a little dark for me, so I decided to make my own!
Why pears? Well, it’s a long running joke from when I worked in the grocery store. I’d smell the pear wrappers…they really smell like pears!! And it just escalated from there!
So now I collect pears. My kitchen and dining room “theme” is pears and I have pears everywhere in my house. Here are a couple photos of the kitchen and dining room.
Razzle…aka Yidda in the dining room window
Our baker’s rack and my pears!On a different note…I’m going to try to display one of my completed pages each day I blog and I’m going to try to blog everyday. I may not have a lot to say and who knows who’s reading, but isn’t that how it all starts? Someone reads one blog, something catches their eye and then they come back. That’s how I’ve found most of the blogs I read on a regular basis.
I’ll post the page a bit later, I need to make one today 
Lazy Sunday
This weekend I was supposed to work on website things for the APSFA. I am so behind in everything, but for whatever reason Frontpage wasn’t cooperating and I cannot connect to upload. I don’t understand. I tried to turn the firewall off and everything. I messed with it for a few hours yesterday and then again for a couple hours today. I’m just get frustrating and I keep getting that dreaded “default beep”…a noise I hate. So I guess I’ll look at it again tomorrow.
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!!!
