Catching up

Hello Bloggers!!
So I have been a very busy girl the past several weeks. Let's see...where to start. Well, 3 weeks ago I got bit by the "Clean Everything" bug and spent the whole weekend cleaning and scrubbing the whole apartment. I mean, we had loads of cleaning to do and I managed to do it all Saturday and part of Sunday. It felt so good to have a clean house.I was feeling so "Housewifey" after that so I actually cooked a dinner. Not a fix something quick or anything like that. I actually peeled potatoes and read recipes and made a killer corn chowder. I'd share the recipe, but.....well, it's an old "family secret" that can be found at any Central Market. :) The week that followed was just crazy with work.

The next weekend I took off to scrapbook at home. It was so nice. I slept in on Saturday, got up, went to my computer and logged into Scrap-Diner. Here I read up on some challenges and even started a few. I was so proud of myself. I finished the card challenge, and even managed to finish the first challenge of the "Blast A Thon". I ran into the living room to grab the camera....what? No Camera?? Somewhere between here and Paris, TX I have managed to lose my camera. I'm sure it's floating around the house or the car or my mom's house or car...we just have no idea where. Good news is I've been saving my pennies for a new one, so no biggie. Bad news is, I won't get it before Blast a thon is over. It's ok, tho. I feel good getting the challenge done anyway. I also managed to score a day off for the next week so I'm plotting what I will do with my day off.

The week ran super fast until I got to Thursday. Just as I imagined, my morning flew past me. I was running through calls, typing up paper...it was golden. At 1:30, about an hour and a 1/2 before my lunch I leave my desk to coach a colleague. It goes great. I was able to help him resolve some issues and improve his productivity and we go to lunch. Lunch flies past...which is a bummer because I had a wonderful lunch. I get back to my desk, I'm starting a new paper claim and then time ..... just.....stops.....Damn! I swear my last 3 hours of work crept along like ....well...like something REALLY SLOW. I was so relieved when 7pm finally rolled around. I set my away message and headed home. I went home, sorted 700 pictures from Flicker and packed my bags for a 2 day crop at Judy's Happy House.

The next morning I took Dave to work and on the way home I stopped by Target. I bought the CUTEST stinkin Pink Converse tennis shoes. You know the kind I'm talking about. They were cool when our parents were kids and they were high tops. Then our generation thought they were cool as "low tops". Well, I never had a name brand pair growing up. I always had the imitation brand. So I splurged and and spent a whopping $20 on my new treasured shoes. Perhaps I'll scrap a page...a "Ode to my Converse All Stars". :) Anyway, I stopped by the scrap book section and WOW! The Target on Lemon is to be commended. There scrapbook section has a decent selection and.....are you ready for this?? They had page kits from Cloud 9 Design!!! I bought 2 Brittany's Castle kits...one for me....maybe one to RAK? Who knows. I was so excited to see it tho. They also had quite a bit of Making Memories and K & Co yumminess. I bought a few 8x8 kits that I've never seen before and maybe I'll be making some new goodies for the Etsy store...maybe I'll be giving away goodies. Only time will tell.
After my adventures at Target I went to Judy's where I spent the next 2 days creating and having a blast. I'll be posting pics of my creations soon...just waiting on the newest edition to my family. I bought a new camera!! I got the Cannon Power Shot SD870IS. I haven't had it long and the memory card we picked up at Micro Center doesn't work worth a flip in it, so I can only take like 3 pictures at a time. I'm going to run out and get a new SD card this weekend and play with it some more. Hopefully I'll have pics up by Sunday.

Well, the storms here are finally closing down, so I think I'm going to clean up the kitchen and head to bed. Good night bloggers!!