So ya remember that crazy day of work I had ahead of me last time I was blogging? After I'd stayed up till 2 in the morning? It didn't happen. Why? A most unwelcome comeback. Another friggin' kidney stone!!!!!!! My only advice about those is DON'T freaking get them. This is the second time I've had one and I actually had to call the ambulance from work. I'm not going into any details about the pain or anything...other than to say when I was finally discharged from the hospital it was with a handful of prescriptions for painkillers and such. Don came down to see me and spent the whole day with me...he was absolutely amazing. Of course, he had to go through this with me last time as well, so I guess we both have practice.
Anyway...I don't really wanna talk about that anymore, other than to say I hope I passed it and don't have to deal with it anymore. It's Sunday and I feel ok, and haven't had any painkillers today...I have too many commitments right now to deal with this again...ummm, on second thought, no. It doesn't matter how many commitments you have. The laziest bum on the planet still doesn't have time to deal with kidney stones. No one does. Don't get them. On a brighter note, I had an awesome day in Montreal and then had an online crop at KC to post challenges to today as well. I even scrapped a layout just for FUN!!! Haven't done that in like a month!
About the only thing I did manage to get done on Friday was before work I dropped off my DT projects at Scrapbooking Cafe. Lucky I opted to do that FIRST...or I'd not have gotten them in at all. Now that that's done, and the crops are done, I can get into the Halloween costume making mode. I even started Antonio's double decker bus tonight. Need more duct tape.
Just Say No.Apparently I can't do it.My first LSS DT projects (2 LO's and a set of altered cans) are due tomorrow (actually Saturday, but I'm cropping in Montreal all day). Oh, and also sketches, supply lists, and instructions for all 3. This morning, I still wasn't finished my last LO. Oh well, I planned to do it tonight and hand it in Friday afternoon no problemo.Well, I got called in to work a 3-11 tomorrow. And I can't say no.Okay...so I'll hand in my projects BEFORE I go to my morning job. We're still good.So anyways, I'm sitting in the dealership waiting for my routine maintenance check, hoping to relax with a can of Pepsi and The Fellowship Of The Ring before I go pick up Tones. Suddenly, I get called in last minute for a 5-11 TONIGHT. And I can't say no.Okay...so I'll just tell the on-call I'll be a few minutes late, call Don to tell him I'm out tonight, call Don back to get the number for church so I can call and get the number for the choir director to tell him I won't be there tonight for practice...the car's done...Tones is dropped off at home...and I'm on my way to work an evening shift when actually I should be scrapbooking! Oh well, I'll just finish up the last LO tonight, print off the instructions and supply lists (which thankfully I finished yesterday) and get those sketches finished up. Still cool.So I get home and am all set for scrapping mode...and I realize I STILL HAVE THE KEYS FROM MY RELIEF SHIFT IN MY POCKET!!! And since it's a different house than I'll be in tomorrow evening, I can't just bring 'em back then. Sooooo...I'm speeeeeeding back down into Ottawa and back again when I was hoping to be in my pj's watching Futurama while working on scrapbook sketches!!!I still haven't finished planning out what pages I'm gonna work on for my Saturday crop, let alone even begun to think about packing for it.It's almost 2 a.m. and I have to work from 10 to 2, then 3 to 11 tomorrow. Not to mention my regular client is probably not gonna be too impressed that I had to hang up on her today when she called me while I was trying to drive in traffic.And I have a game to put together for the online crop at KC on Sunday.
Soooooo...what am I doing now?I'm updating my BLOG!!!!!!!!!
Just like last year. Rain rain rain. I think it must have rained almost every day last October, and it's starting to look the same this year. Lucky I'm a BC girl at heart.
At least it was sunny and mild on Thanksgiving Monday. I had thought I'd be working, but found out on Friday that I wasn't...so I got to tag along with Don, Tones & some friends on a beautiful walk through Gatineau Park to Dairy Queen. Gatineau Park is HUGE...this was just a tiny corner where a trail goes from right by our place to a street by the DQ. All those multicoloured Ontario autumn leaves...milkweeds flying all over the place...all the sappy sentimental nature stuff that's fantastic to actually be among but crazy cliché to try and describe to anyone.So it turns out it was the last day of the season for the DQ...they were taking down signs and putting up other ones with something to the extent of "see you next spring" on them, and they were totally out of vanilla soft serve. Which meant everything you got had to be made with chocolate instead. Oh, the humanity of it all!
There was a huge line up but we all got what we wanted and it was the perfect day for it. Then Tuesday it clouded over and has been like that ever since.Finished another layout for my challenge on Friday...can't post it till then.Squandered my allowance at the LSS again...surprise surprise.Scored a victory for the I'm-a-pretty-cool-mom-after-all side yesterday...on my weekly visit to Toys R Us I found Sarge. The ONE Cars car my son needed to complete his Disney Cars collection...and I FOUND IT!!! He'll be going into the Christmas stash with Nitro-ade and Leakless...but the important thing is all 16 Cars cars are accounted for now!!! Yeahhhhhhhh!!!Now, if only I could find Flo's V8 Cafe we'd be cruisin! I'm off to bed. Sweet dreams all.
Literally.I actually made up a scrapping to-do list the other night, and over the next 3 weeks I have 7 projects to finish--minimum. Two LO's and an altered project for Scrapbooking Cafe, two more challenges with LO's for KC, two Circle Journal pages...and I'm sure there'll be more too. Of course, it's really not THAT much when you consider I set my yearly goal at 150 LO's. I'm just not used to scrapping under a deadline...but so far I'm not in a panic yet. Just enjoying myself.Some of them have been started already...and I'm happy with them so far. Here's a sneak peek at my October altered project for Scrapbooking Cafe:
If there was any illusion about shopping less now that I get DT kits...no, I don't think there ever was in the first place. Sure, the paper is just awesome...then you realize you need new ink to match the paper...and ribbon...and that's how it starts.Meanwhile, after all this talk about "starting early", I still haven't started my son's Halloween costume yet. I have the box...that's all. I could be in trouble...now he says he wants to be a pick-up truck. Then yesterday I asked him again to see if he'd gone back to the double decker bus idea...and he said he wants to be Mack from Cars!!! Okay, okay...the double-decker bus I was willing to try...I thought it all out and saved a box...but a Mack truck??? Even if I made it...he'd never be able to walk in it! I think I'm at the point where I'm going to finish my scrap projects, ask him one more time, and whatever he says THEN will be what he gets. I'll probably try and negotiate him back to the double decker bus...being as that's what I was planning on already.Ahhhh. Boys.
