Tuesday, February 21, 2006
Back to work
Yesterday, I did a little cleaning in the office. I organized all my photos on our office computer, and there are alot. I'm ready to burn them on a disc. Then my next project is to do the same on my laptop. I have stacks of shredding to do. I will continue to do that a little bit each day, it seems like I can never get rid of it. I was able to find a place for my daughter's board games. I think it's awesome that her and her friends still enjoy playing board games! They are all college kids now!
On a side note, I've been listening to a podcast called Scrapcast. If your into scrapbooking or new and want to learn a little bit about it, it's a great program to listen to. I think it's great that I can listen to it on my iPod while I do stuff around the house, which is pretty much what I did this weekend. You can download it from iTunes and listen to it from your pc if you don't have an iPod. It's pretty cool. There are alot of podcasts that you can choose from if scrapbooking is not your thing, like knitting, crocheting, cooking, etc. You should check it out.
Okay, enough of me, now I need to gather up my goodies for tomorrow before I go to bed. Take care.
Sunday, February 19, 2006
My scrapbooking side emerges
As for today, I was up early reading magazines and watching the news. I then proceeded into to my guest/sewing/craft room and started organizing -- I was reading an issue of "Creating Keepsakes Magazine". Of course, the room is not fully cleared out, but I managed to set up my laptop and a printer that is in perfect condition, but a little outdated, that has been in the garage and not being used. We are pretty techie around the house, we have 3 operating printers now, I have my laptop which I use occasionally, we have a family computer in the office, which we all share, but I'm on it the most. Dh has his own computer and laptop that he uses for work and teaching. DD has her own computer, but not here.
Anyway, back to my "craft room", I've been wanting to make my own greeting cards lately, and thought if I had a printer hooked up to my laptop I might be more productive. Well, I need to buy a color cartridge, so until then I pretty much stopped the cardmaking idea. I know, I can still make cards, but I just thought having the color printer would be nice. I have rubber stamps that I bought recently and Lord knows how much paper and stickers and other stuff I have! So I'm organizing all that and really need to purge some of this stuff. Alot of it is not my style anymore. I use to be a scrapbook consultant (way back when) so I do have alot that I would like to get rid of. So anyway that is another crafting side of me, which I don't want to forget about. I have alot of pictures, which I love. I have most of my family slides from when I grew up, which I have been little by little turning into prints. I just love them, not sure if my future generations would love them as much as I do, but there are many stories behind them. My Dad was always taking pictures of us kids growing up and kept them all organized in slide cartridges, I don't want to just toss them aside. I don't think my brothers really care about them as much as I do (they have their own lives and families to deal with) and my Mom is just not into it.
So anyway, that's what has been on my mind today and hopefully I will be able to fit that into my already overloaded crafting endeavors.
Friday, February 17, 2006
4-day Weekend!
Anyway, no real plans this weekend. I'm driving up to Long Beach today to visit my dd, my aunt and cousin today. I haven't been up there in awhile, but I better head home early because I think the traffic back home is not going to be good. I do need to get an oil change before I head out this morning.
Tuesday, February 14, 2006
Saturday, February 11, 2006
Saturday weigh-in
Well, after weeks of yo-yoing, I think I'm finally back on track. I've lost 3.2 pounds this week, after I changed my attitude and in a fitness mindset. These last 20+ pounds are so hard to get rid of, especially as I get older (sigh). Anyway, what has helped me out is that I did my grocery shopping on the weekend and sort of had a plan as to what I was going to eat, as well as the rest of my family - dd and dh. DD only comes home on the weekends, but I still need to have a plan. I also had healthy snacks (well, maybe not so healthy, but low in calories), which has really helped out. So hopefully I can lose at least another couple of pounds this week. I'm doing cardio at least 5 times a week and Pilates daily. My one gripe is that I'm crunched for time, but some how I manage to fit it all in.
Thursday, February 02, 2006
Handmade Baby Quilt
I'm back cross-stitching
Well, not yet, but real soon because my daughter found a Halloween cross-stitch booklet that I thought I lost forever. So my plans are to ...
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Well, not yet, but real soon because my daughter found a Halloween cross-stitch booklet that I thought I lost forever. So my plans are to ...
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The last three projects for Stitch Maynia are WIPs which one of them I started just before Christmas, it's small enough and I thought I ...