Finally a quiet weekend!

So my brother flew back to Washington State. His lovely bride, and my new SIL Shannon stayed behind with their beautiful daughter Kylie. I loved having him home, and I was glad to meet his lovely wife, and I am glad I like her 'cause I always wanted a sister. She's just great, and her little girl is adorable.

I have to say tho, I am glad to just have a weekend where we are not rushing off to meet anyone or rushing back to meet friends from out of town...it's nice to just sit in my office and play with my paper and computer and crank up the Pandora. "The Pandora?" you ask. Why, Pandora is my new favorite web discovery. It's a website that you can build radio stations based on your favorite musics. Right now I have about 10 stations. I am loving it, and it's less distracting to me than TV so I actually get some stuff done in the office. :) I also discovered a new website called Splitcoast Stampers. It's not a new site, but it is new to me. My friend Jeannine used to always talk about it at Recollections, but I never really payed it a visit until last weekend. I learned so much just in my first hour. Wanna see what I made? Here it is - and all from my scraps!!

So now I'm off to scrap some more and moake some more goodies. Hope everyone has a great weekend! Happy Labor Day!!

PS - Marla and Debra it is so great to hear from you guys. Of course I remember y'all! I miss you guys and really miss seeing all the beautiful things y'all create. I hope y'all are well, and if you ever want to chat, feel free to email me: jessig99@tx.rr.com

He's Home!!!

I am the happiest girl in the world right now! My little brother is home on leave from his life in the United States Navy. We spent most of the day Sunday with our family and I got to spend some more time with my fabulous sister-in-law to be. Here's a picture of the happy couple. :)

Dave and I had lunch with Justin, Shannon and her beautiful little girl Kylee. (sorry if I misspelled that Shannon.) They are getting married Thursday monring and soon I'll be an Aunt!! I am very excited. Since I'm off the next 2 days I'll be helping them where I can and hopefully scrapping. My head cold has been hanging on and may FINALLY be gone so I'm looking forward to getting some scrapping done.

Well, I've gotta go make dinner. Y'all be good, or at least be good at it. ;)

Hugs,

Jessi

She lives...

So after my last post I came down with a nightmare of a head cold. I barely went into my scrap space even tho I was dying to get my hands dirty and play. I was sick at work, missed a day and then back to work, even tho I wasn't entirely over being sick because my "lovely" employers thrive on making their employees feel guilty for being sick. I just wanted to say "I LOVED that I was running a fever and couldn't breath and couldn't keep food down! It was the best day of my life!" All sarcasticly of course, but I didn't and I won't because I'm feeling much better. Still a little congested, but I'll survive.



So...I am very sad to say that my computer ate my Circle Journal pics and I didn't catch it until after I formated my SD card. If anyone out there is in Circle Journal Group 3 and has my books, please feel free to post pics on your blog so I can link there and show the rest of the world. In the mean time, this came in the mail to me today! I am the first to add to her book and I am way excited. It is such great book and I love the house. I really want to go order one of these books and make a house book all my own. (Yes, Recollections made me really sick of houses, but these ones come apart, making them much easier to cut. )



Well, now that I'm well enough to do stuff I'm going out to dinner with my sweety and then I'm coming back to snap and upload pics of projects I did while I was at the Scrapbook Retreat in July.

Have a great night!!
Jessi

And she reappears...

So after I disappeared for like a month I've decided to re-surface. I"m feeling under the weather today, but I know I really need to update so my online friends at least know I'm still alive. I have been so burnt out, but I'm back to play and chat. I've been working on my Circle Journal for Studio Calico and it has been a challenge. It's now on it's way to Erin's and one is on it's way to me so I'm excited about that. Other than that, I really haven't been up to much. 3 weeks ago I was on a scrapbook retreat and got quite a bit of work done. I'll post some of that later. I have also been re-reading the HP books...I've read them multiple times, but sometimes I just feel the need to read them. Oh....and David pre-ordered the Limited Addition "Tales of Beetle the Bard" for me for Christmas. It's just gorgeous and I am so excited.

Anyway...away from the nerdy-ness for a little while. Dave and I are getting closer to finally picking a wedding date. So far it is looking like October 24,2009...We're looking at another date in November, but I am really drawn to the October date. It just seems perfect to me...don't know why, but it does. So now I just need to create some lovely invites and ask a few very important people some very important questions. That doesn't mean I'm set...not by a long shot. But, it's a step closer to the big day. :)

In other news, I've been waffling on Weight Watchers, but I have finally made the commitment and stuck to it. Dave agreed to do it with me, so now this girly is slimming down and she's got help. Dave and I cleaned out the fridge and pantry last week...no junk food in the house...that I know of. I"m sure there's a stash somewhere for when the boys come over to play, but I've asked him to make sure it's somewhere I can't find it, and to not tell me it's in the house so I don't go looking for it either. I have a terrible addiction to junk, so if it's in the house I'll eat it...otherwise I'm fine. My name is Jessi and I'm addicted to junk food. :p

Let's see...what else have I been up to....not a whole lot. Work is crazy busy and that's good, but I think I"m starting to burn out on that too. I'm hoping for a lateral move to a new dept in the coming months...I'm so tired of what I'm doing now. We'll see.

Ok, the DayQuil is starting to wear off so I'm going to go take some more and go back to bed. Y'all have a great Sunday!!