Something to get excited about!

Yesterday was awesome. Don decided he wanted to do his birthday lunch at the Edoko and so I met him there at 11:30...not only was lunch awesome as always (teppanyaki is my favourite!) but his lunch break coincided perfectly with the fact that I needed to be home by 1 p.m. to register for CKC Buffalo! I probably didn't blog about it then, but I went last year and had an absolute blast with 4 other girls from Scrapbook Star....


This year I really wanted to register online the moment it opened to make sure I didn't miss out on any classes. Guess it was a good call--I heard the clear album class sold out that same day, I had a feeling it would! So glad I got in!


Anyway I'm feeling much better today, even though I'm heading into another 4-day work weekend...it's all good. Gotta save up for Buffalo! I even scrapbooked this week just for fun! Here's a page I made for a member challenge at KC:
And one I made just for fun:

And a 2-pager:










Sweet Dreams!

Winter Blues

Ironically, this is Morning 5 after what has been an exhausting work week, and I'm wide awake. I know the attendance here is pretty sparse but I really just felt like making a comment this morning.

I want to apologize to anyone who I've tired with my incessant complaining and general bad attitude concerning this winter weather. My area has been covered no less than a foot deep since mid-December and I'll admit it's especially getting to me this year.

Last year was the beginning of a new age of my life, an age where I finally took serious actions to eliminate my anxiety, and part of this was arranging various factors in my life so that I had better control over them and was therefore able to keep away from things that made me panic. And it was working.

This December was the first time that the weather actually got between me and my everyday duties, and it was totally beyond my control. I had been so in control for so long, and I couldn't deal with it. I felt like 2005 all over again.

I don't ever want to feel like that again. But I'm still working on it, with the support of God and my two favourite boys. For now, every time someone tells me they heard we're due for another blizzard I roll my eyes and pray I haven't booked any shifts for that night. I may have posted last year around this time regarding my near-accident and how my aunt died in a winter collision in Ottawa when she was 27, but suffice it to say I don't enjoy driving this time of year.

I need to remember that just because something is out of my control does not make me powerless. Nothing is worth anxiety. And as I have recently come to learn, it IS entirely possible to have caution without anxiety. Caution with anxiety is fear. My goal is to live without fear.

I pray all my friends and family will understand this and accept my apology. I look forward to trying to maintain a more positive attitude in ALL seasons.

Expelliarmus

Today has been another lovely day of sleeping in till 11:30, doing yoga, drinking tea and wasting time on the internet. One heavily addictive site I've come across recently is www.joindumbledoresarmy.com where I have now won almost 30,000 points and am very close to being in the South Korea Top 300. For some weird reason there's no Canada option on "choose your country" so I went with the last place I lived instead. Why not?

I'm also addicted to the Harry Potter mini-games on Facebook, where I'm now #62 in Ravenclaw house out of about 400 thousand. Dolores Umbridge's Cats is particularly addictive.

Yes, you may think this is an insane waste of time for someone who's almost 30 and everything, but this is a day off for me. What else exactly am I supposed to be doing? I already did all my housework this week. I don't work until tomorrow night. Don and Tones are at school. How I waste my time is entirely up to me, and I really don't care for daytime television.

I added a slideshow to my blog, with a bunch of my scrapbook layouts. Let's just see if I can figure out how to place it.

Sweet Dreams for now!

Dreams of Spring

Hmmm, well there's a change...I actually shared my blog link!!! So in the eventuality that I have company, let's update.

I went to FLORIDA!!! I have never been anywhere where you can wear a tank top in January before, and living where I do it was very hard to visualize till I stepped out of Ft. Lauderdale airport. Oh wow did I need that! It was just the perfect escape, and though I did have to eventually return to the white stuff again, I'm glad I got to skip a week of it. I'm trying to have a positive attitude, but I get cold so easily. I'm triple and quadruple layering my clothing every day. Well, it's February now...and I'm already looking forward to spring.

Anyway, I am still scrapping, and still designing for KC, though unfortunately Scrapbooking Cafe has gone under. I won't get into the long story again but suffice it to say I'm disappointed.

Haven't bought a lot of new scrap stuff since the Boxing Day clearance at the OTHER LSS that closed up shop suddenly. I understand that business is a tough world and all, but really, it would be so nice for once if a store would give a little bit of notice before they fled town, kwim?

I'm also working lots and lots of night shifts, mostly on call. I've discovered I love night shifts. Once you get past re-setting your internal clock, it's actually one of the best shifts you can work. I do well working alone...I like a job where I can sing while I mop and watch Star Trek: TNG while I clean wheelchairs. The only questions is what will I do this summer when Tones is home from school all day?! I hope they have lots of weekends available!

I've made a friend from work, who I have successfully turned into a scrapbooker. In payment, she has successfully turned me into a Harry Potter junkie. Neither of us are complaining though, and enjoy a weekly routine of cropping together while watching HP movies.

Oh, how the time flies when you get up at 4:30! I have to be off to yet another night shift in a little while so I better wrap this up so I have time to make myself a big bag of popcorn to bring with me. Sweet Dreams!