On the ROAD to RECOVERY...

I am still recovering from the weekend of scrapbooking - WOW! Amazing! I didn't get a whole lot done - 5 layouts is all but I worked on a special project for quite a bit of time. I was hoping to accomplish more but since this was my 1st crop I guess I should be happy! I will admit I was a little off kilter on Friday night as I was "ALL BY MY LONESOME" for awhile and I felt like I had the plague or something! I didn't really know anyone and unbeknown to most I have a shy side to me when I am around people I am not familiar with! Things were looking brighter by 11:00 Friday night and the rest of the weekend was loads of fun....well okay aside from that ORIGAMI box - maybe it should be called somekind of CHINESE MIND BENDING PUZZLE or something like that....J and I were going to stuff it full of the OOOO LONNNGGGG tea she bought on the net for 49.95 (yes people she really did) and sell it on E-BAY as a 1 and only, limited edition box.....but wait, that is not all if you order within the next 10 minutes we will throw in an extra pack of tea.

Anywho I would like to say it is nice to be back in the groove of the week but it is not - I am tired - maybe my old body doesn't take those late nights as well as it used to. I had to make a visit to the chiropractor yesterday as my low back is tightening up on me (is it from bending over the table all weekend?) and my neck is sore. It is still hurting today though too! My cellulitis in my little toe is much better though and not nearly as sore as it was!

I am going to BELIEVE that my back is going to feel better soon. (There I used that word that I chose to focus on for the year!)

Ta-ta for now chaps!

I am sooo NOT ready for tonight.....

I feel so unorganized for tonight - I am attending a crop and I have nothing ready - thank HEAVEN I requested a half day off from work, I will try to get something together to work on tonight. My life is so unorganized and it never used to be this way when I was younger, I wasn't raised this way and it drives me insane!

How 'bout a prayer for today;

May today there be peace within.
May you trust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be.
May you not forget the infinite possibilities that are born of faith.
May you use those gifts that you have received, and pass on the love that has been given to you.
May you be confident knowing you are a child of God.
Let this presence settle into your bones, and allow your soul the freedom to sing, dance, praise and love.
It is there for each and every one of us.

How powerful is that?

Well, not much happening to make you laugh right now...the house is quiet, the dogs are asleep (in my bed I might add) and I am working....

UPDATE on my toe-toe..........

My baby piglet is doing better after going to ER yesterday - must be the antibiotics and anti-inflammatories! The wee-wee all the way home piggie is much less OWIE today! Aren't you glad I shared! :)

QUOTE for the DAY.....

"If there ever comes a day when we can't be together
keep me in your heart,
I'll stay there forever”
~Winnie the Pooh~

One of my employees (i.e. the brown and white one named DAISY) is on my desk and interfering with my Sirius satellite radio as well as my work (you can tell which of those two items rates highest - ha). What is the deal with her today - I have had to remove her from my desk about 20 times today. I triiieeeedddd REALLY hard to let her stay but she keeps putting her cold nose on my fingers as I am typing - you see it is her way of telling me "I need attention - PET ME PLEASE!" I may be giving her a verbal warning soon to start the documentation trail that I may need to let her go as an employee, her nose is WAAYYY to cold for this business and her butt just doesn't have a place on my keyboard!

Maybe more later on tonight and maybe not....you will have to WAIT & See!

2008 Off on the right toe.....

Okay so what a way to start the year off - a trip to the ER this a.m. You see my baby toe has been swollen and red for a few days now and getting worse day by day. It is not a ingrown toenail as it is on the side of the toe and into my foot. All I know is it hurts like, like...heck! So after tossing and turning in bed all night with the sheets even touching it just about sending me through the ceiling I decided I better do something with it. Of course this has to happen after 2007 ends so I get to start paying towards my 2008 medical deductible - no, I shouldn't whine because at least I am fortunate to have medical insurance. I start the morning off calling two doctors to try to get in so I could avoid the ER but to no avail. All went well in the ER and they put me on a round of antibiotics and an anti-inflammatory so hopefully it won't be so swollen and hurt sooooo badly!

Funny how such a minor thing can take so much out of a person - I feel pretty drained, probably the stress of going to the ER - you see I HATE THAT and it is so stressful. Then I had to go to a pharmacy to get my medications and stand around and wait some more and that is when my baby toe started throbbing again.

I think I will survive though - thankfully! I am supposed to keep an eye on it.

I decided to treat myself to a cute pair of socks - have you seen the LITTE MISSMATCHED socks - you get three socks and they coordinate but are not the same pattern - I absolutely LOVE them! What could make my baby toe feel better that a brand new pair of socks for it to stay warm in - HA! Good excuse anyhow!

I found a really neat quote off of another blog last night and I loved it - I almost posted it last night but felt that two quotes in one day was just a little tooooo much!

"Life isn't about waiting for the storm to end;
it's about learning to dance in the rain."

Isn't that a great quote - I mean, we are all going through life and storms constantly and I know I should take things a little less serious and try to be less stressed and cranky and just learn to dance in the rain. I mean things could ALWAYS be a lot worse in each of our lives and most of the the time we don't have to look very far to find someone else who is in the midst of a bigger storm.

Okay, I will step down from my soapbox now but I did really like that quote!

Three short days until I get a weekend for scrapping! WOOHOO!

Oh ya, by the way ~ I still have that LOVELY picture of the QUEEN in all her glory with her frost job on her hair and bleaching the old brows - no one has made an offer to pay for me NOT to post it (that would be you QUEEN WEENIE....)

Later!

Deep Thought MONDAY....

A thought on life........

Mountaintops are for views and inspiration,
but fruit is grown in the valleys.
~Billy Graham~

Oh do I have a picture for YOU

So last night I am hangin' with Queen Weenie and her court AND she decides she wants to frost her feathers...oh okay so her hair and her eyebrows....so against HER wishes I snapped a shot of her in all her beauty! Now I will or will NOT post this photo depending on who pays me the most cashola to share it or not! HA queenie roll out the royal cash!

Anyhow, we had a great time visiting with her and her kid! What an evening full of laughter and joking!

Do I really have to go to work tomorrow, tell me I don't!

My life is a little humdrum lately ~ must be the post holiday blahs!

Goodnight, farewell, until we meet again!

Can you tell?

My life has been pretty "calm" for a week - no real tragedies to tick me off, okay at least none that I want to publish!

I have had a few days off from the workplace and just lounging and relaxing - not really accomplishing much in the way of ANYTHING! Bad girl....I wanted to organize and get rid of some JUNK but that hasn't happened! I did manage to make some chex party mix!

Off to town today - Gotta get some errands done....

HAPPY 2008 EVERYONE!