Number two....

No, not THAT kind of number two...LOL You know you were thinking it! I'm talking about my second LO of the year. It's pretty simple I think, but I used some new stuff I just got and lots of bright colors which I've been loving as of lately. I love the way the black and white pic looks against all the color. This is one of my favorite pics of me and Miguel :) I still need to add the journaling, but that's pretty much it. I should scrap some Christmas pics...didn't get many, but what I did get.

911 is having their yard sale this month and my sis got a table. I'm thinking of selling some of my jars of Primas because even though I love them and love to look at them, I have to be honest and admit to myself that I hardly ever use them. We all know how many come in a jar and even having used some here and there, the jars still look full. What else? Oh, today, I did some cleaning...most of my cleaning and I had just mopped the kitchen and I was walking in there from the laundry room and the floor was still wet and....yep, you guessed it...I slipped and fell! Right on my butt and I hurt my foot a bit, but thankfully I was wearing that splint they gave me at the ER and it really keeps my foot/ankle from bending so I didn't hurt it really...thank God! Eeekkk...I shudder to think that I might have hurt it again or made it worse had I not been wearing that thing. I had stopped using it up until a few days ago because I had noticed that my ankle was hurting kind of badly again and wondered if maybe I needed to be wearing that thing all the time. I guess I do because it doesn't hurt as much when I wear it. It's been a month I think...since it happened and I'm just wondering when I'm going to be able to use it normally. I really, REALLY need to get back on the treadmill. It is going to be SO hard when I finally do, I just know it. LOL Miguel just asked me what I was typing because I guess he just hears my fast clackity clacking...he calls it my "John Grishom typing" lol...I told him I was updating my blog. He wants to use the computer to add music to his MP3 player so I guess I should stop hogging it, huh? LOL More later :)

Seven Pounds

Anyone seen this movie yet? It's really good! I have to admit I was kind of "lost" throughout most of the movie...you know, trying to put the pieces together. It wasn't until the end of the movie that you see certain things and put 2 and 2 together and...AHA...NOW I get it! Very touching movie. I swear at the end, you could hear a whole lot of sniffling...I bet there wasn't a dry eye in the theater. I could even hear Miguel sniffling next to me, but I didn't turn to look :D We had a little "date night" tonight after we did some running around and dropped Lij back off at his dad's. We went to Target and I got my some cute baby girl stuff for a friend's upcoming shower. And I managed to get my scrap fix there too...some cute Dollar Spot finds and a MM page kit and some Marcella by Kay stuff. We did our grocery shopping then dropped Mikey off with my mom and headed out. We didn't have enough time to "sit down" and eat somewhere if we wanted to make the movie, so we grabbed some McD's and ate in the truck in the theater parking lot...romantic, huh? It was nice either way. Mikey was still up when we got home around ten, but I watched a movie with him on the couch..or I should say, I let him watch while I snuggled with him and read some more of my book. Then I lay in the bed with him until he fell asleep then snuck off :D We read "Chicka, Chicka, Boom, Boom" before he fell asleep. He pretty much has that whole book memorized. I love to hear him reciting the words in his cute little voice...for some reason, it made me miss Lij :( I got used to having him here this whole time he was off for Christmas Break. It wasn't the "best" time since alot of it was spent refereeing fights between him and Mikey, but I'd much rather have him here driving me batty than not have him here at all. As long as he's been staying with his dad, I still have not gotten used to it. Anyway, that's about it for today. Bumming around the house tomorrow...maybe some cleaning, maybe some scrapping...night :)

I Am...

My friend Estee posted this on her blog and I thought I'd copy it and post it here myself...just for fun :)

I am...
Reading: Eclipse...the third book in the Twilight series..just got it from Amazon today
Listening to: "By Your Side" by Tenth Avenue North...a new band I just found and am totally loving
Obsessed With: reading the Twilight books
Thinking About: what 2009 has in store
Planning to: make some changes in my life
Dreaming of: being skinny again...or at least smaller :)
Enjoying: each and every minute I am given :)
Vowing to: get back on the treadmill and get back into a routine as soon as my ankle is healed properly.
Working On: getting back into scrapping because I haven't been as much as I'd like to.
Excited About: The Love Dare
What are you up to?

FINALLY!!!

I did a LO...my first of the year :) Gee! That was painful! The not scrapping that is. I don't know why I get into these ruts...I "want" to scrap, but sometimes...nothing...nothing comes to me. I have so many new things to play with too, but the creativity just wasn't there. I just got a package in from Stop and Scrap...the Pink Paislee Sweet Cakes paper collection and the new Imaginisce Twitterpated paper collection as well as a CUTE bird stamp from that same line. I also got a sheet of the Fancy Pants Splendid Valentine's line...the sheet with the Vday cards on it...so cute! And some old Pink Paislee Holly Doodle alpha stickers that were on sale for .99. I already put all my stuff away so I didn't get to take a pic. Tomorrow, I should receive my third book in the Twilight series...I'm dying to get started on it. I already have the fourth one waiting thanks to my dear friend Melissa :) I'm sure I already posted that she sent it to me for Christmas along with a neat little clip on light so I can lay in bed and read in the dark after Mikey has gone to sleep. Don't know what we have planned for tomorrow. We need to take Lij back to his dad's tomorrow evening. He goes back to school on Monday or Tuesday. Okay, I have to go now...Mikey is climbing on my table and in my face. More later :)

And the grand total is....

I saw my sis posted her total LOs for the year so I went back and tallied mine up too and came up with 119. I'm not sure I want to give myself a number of pages to do for the new year yet since I haven't found the motivation to scrap in weeks, but we'll just wait and see...

I just wanted to wish all of my friends a very happy new year! I hope that 2008 was a good year and that 2009 brings nothing but good things too :)

2008 was for the most part, a good year for me....alot of changes...alot of learning, but I think over all, it was mostly positive. I'm hoping and praying for a great new year...full of NEW things...lots of new things...new changes...new attitudes..new beginnings...out with the old..in with the new. God bless everyone :) OH and be safe!!

I'm here...

I'm here...I'm alive...just updating because my sis said to..lol I have nothing to say really...nothing worth mentioning so I'll keep it short..my bf's an arse, my foot hurts..and I tired...the end.

We Wish You a Merry Christmas.....

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Happy Birthday, Baby

Today...well, yesterday (Sunday) was Miguel's birthday...his 34th. I knew I was older than him, but I never realized how much!! Okay, three years is not that much, but still...Anyway, thankfully he got out of work pretty darn early...way earlier than usual...too early in fact, because I hadn't even baked his cake or made his special dinner that he had requested! It all worked out though because he ended up going to noon mass and then to do some Christmas shopping, so by the time he did get home, I had just pulled the chicken lasagna and garlic bread out of the oven and the cake was already frosted and waiting :) I've only made lasagna a few times and I haven't made it in forever so I was a little nervous, but Miguel said it was delicious...so did Lij so I was really happy about that. Of course, "I" thought it was pretty darned good too, but I'm biased :) lol After we ate, we headed out to Wal Mart for a bit of shopping....TOO many people there. We made our trip short and headed to the Family Christian Store instead where I picked up a last minute gift and pre ordered the "Fireproof" movie. Doing so, gave me the book for only $9.99 AND the soundtrack for FREE...yippee. I'm looking forward to reading the book. I think it's like "exercises" to do to strengthen your relationship/marriage. Miguel got me the second book in the Twilight series and I'm already done with it...finished it in TWO day...so I need something else to read! We came home after shopping and had cake. (BTW, for his birthday, I got him some movie he wanted called "Dead Space" and some headphones to wear while he watches tv late at night so he doesn't wake us all up with his surround sound!) Miguel and I watched "Step Brothers"....SO funny!! And the kids played. I stayed up late to pay some bills and catch up on my blog reading and such because I hadn't been online since Thursday...our computer monitor wasn't working. Today we hooked up one my uncle had brought over and I'm back online :) It's not a flat screen like ours was, but it will have to do for now. Okay, I think that's all for now. OH, foot update. Since the weekend, I've been moving around...without crutches. I've been wrapping my ankle up with an ACE bandage and then putting the splint they gave me over that which seems to help alot with the pain...or to NOT have pain I should say..when I move my foot or try to walk on it. We have been out of the house a few times over the weekend and although I'm moving slowly, I'm SO grateful to be moving again without the crutches. I seriously wanted to cry that first day I was moving around without them...lol...I was just soooo happy to be walking somewhat normally again...I was overjoyed! :) I'm in a little more pain than I had been during the nights...I'm sure from all the added activity since I'd pretty much been off it for all these weeks, but it's bearable...nothing a little Ibuprofen won't fix :) So that's really happy news for me....Okay, it's late and I'm really sleepy...more tomorrow :)