What a weekend and the upcoming week

WOW. If you are a football fan and live in TAMPA BAY you had a great weekend. The BULLS are #2 in the NATION..not just in our hearts but the actual NATIONAL RANKINGS!! It is very exciting for the kids. My DS, his Dad and I were on campus Sunday for a KD event and it was so great to be around the kids and see their excitement. That was even before the rankings came out so I can't imagine what happened when that news broke.

I spent the rest of the weekend watching the BUCS and working on a Chipboard Word book I made for a friends little girl. She is having a 5th birthday party this Saturday and I got the bright idea to make her a book. I think it turned out good but I was second guessing myself about half way through. I'm going to show it off at work and see if I can get some orders. Now to figure out how much to charge. Considering the labor it's a hard thing to calculate. I know they were selling the blank books at the last EXPO I went to but considering I have to cut the chipboard by hand....what do you think?

I really wanted to take the day off but have Phone duty...oops..that reminds me I should be covering the girls break..gotta run.

Til later......................

Picture perfect game

We've been back for a few hours and I'm just about recovered! We ended up getting to sit in seats that belong to a co-worker...2nd section up instead of the nose bleed tickets we had. The seats were padded, (our tickets weren't in a padded seat section)..slight breeze..right near the end zone..on the side instead of a corner. GREAT seats!!

What was the score??

64 to 12. BULLS!!!

How was your day?

Till later...............

Silly game

My sister tagged me. I'm supposed to respond on my blog and tag other people. I normally don't do this but since it will give me a post for today and I can't think of anything else to write about besides to discuss last nights TV shows....why not....here is how this works.

The rules are as follows:1) Link to the "tagger" & post the rules.2) Share 7 facts about yourself- random / weird facts.3) Tag 7 people & link to them.4) Leave comments on their blogs, so they know they've been tagged

So with out further adue..ado..audo..whatever:

Seven Random/Weird facts about me..in no particular order:

1. I've lived in 4 states and 2 countries.
2. I must have total darkness to be able to sleep. No lights what so ever or it bores a hole into my eyes.
3. I bought a stick shift car before I knew how to drive one & didn't realize it until after paying for it! (I was only 16-17 yrs old-cut me some slack)
4. I've had 5 (maybe more) car accidents including one Head-on & one while living in Germany.
5. I won a photography contest from the Tampa Tribune in 1978/1979.
6. I kept a "coffee grinder" my HHS gave me for the 30 years we were apart. It's now in our home.
7. I snore. (NOT a surprise to the people that have "slept" with me)

OK, now I'm supposed to tag 7 people. I'm going to get the ones that haven't posted on their blog for awhile. That will teach you!

Deirdre, LisaD, CARI, JessieG, Beryl, Cami (only cause I miss ya) & Jenna (if you got tagged by Michele too-disregard)

GO BULLS!!!!!

Til later...............

Retirement Party Time

Yep, working hard again today. We are having a retirement party for a dear lady and we've pretty much blown off the day in her honor. Add in the fact that my boss is out sick and most of my team is missing and wahooooooooooooo. Seriously, I have things to do & they'll get done.

I haven't talked about this weeks TV viewing so let me catch you up. If you've missed any of your favorite shows you may want to tune out now.

Prison Break: GOOD GRIEF!! Head in a box! Oh my! Love to watch Michael out smart people but I can't believe they "killed" his love. Or did they? My DH suspects it's not her head. How awful that Linc has to lie to his brother to protect LJ.

HEROS: How sweet that Claire has a "boyfriend" that understands her. Flying her off like Superman..how cool! Sylar!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Bones: People that pretend to be horses? Just when you think you've seen or heard everything!

HOUSE: How awful for that "contestant" to realized she caused the mans death and his dogs. You know she will be second guessing herself from now on. What is going to happen with ??? (crap-can't think of his name) being fired? Will he try to come back to House? What about HOUSE telling the dead guy that he was sorry to tell him that he was wrong..about anything being there after he dies. I disagree with HOUSE. Perhaps he didn't "see" anything because he doesn't believe.

DAMAGES: Two more episodes and we will have the whole story. If you have missed this, I suggest you get caught up. Really good!

Private Practice: SO Love this show. Last night was very interesting and we learned some interesting stuff about Pete. I won't ruin it for those that haven't watched but it sure explained alot. BTW, how much cake can those women eat before they get a break out? I would have looked like a FAT, SICK, teenager by day two!

Criminal Minds: Sorry Mandy, didn't miss ya. What would be your biggest fear? I would have given the guy tons of ways to kill me. Anything with a blade...drowning...heights....

I've probably left something out but you get the idea. Tonight we have all the great Thursday show..then FNL and the Friday stuff. BETTER not rain & screw up my shows again this week.

SIDE BAR....does anyone else have trouble with the FOX channel shows having voice "cut outs"? Every night about 9pm the shows on FOX start cutting out on the sound. It is REALLY pissing me off! I keep suggesting we put the "closed caption" on but DH doesn't like that so we miss half of what they are saying. Just wondering if it is only us???

BIG GAME this Saturday. Hoping for good weather..good game..good results.

What do you have planned? Anyone going to CKU? If so, stop my the Rusty Pickle booth and say hello to CAMI!!! HI GIRL! Miss ya!!

I'll try to check in before then so leave me a comment and don't forget to check out my cards in the previous post.

Til later..............

Holiday cards

I have finally loaded & fiddled with all my pictures of the cards I've made lately. I hope this works. If not....lie to me!! Click HERE and prepare to be impressed. Well...maybe not the ones that are blurry. I had to take the pictures in total darkness because my camera wouldn't work other wise for some irritating reason and it made it hard to tell some were blurry. Since my DH has been waiting patiently for us to watch BONES & HOUSE ..I really don't have time to fix them. Squint and image how they should look.

BTW, I actually took them to work today and sold two of them. Wahoo..almost enough to retire.

Til later............

Quick Click

I haven't posted today and don't have alot of time so wanted to add this & run. Click here to help fund free Mammograms. I used to get daily email reminders to click this site and somehow got off their emailing list. I found this on a blog I was visiting (yes..when I should have been working. I've done all my work and I should have the day off but don't so what's your point?) and wanted to share. I've added a button to my side bar so....CLICK away!

Thanks.

Til later.....................

Surfing instead of working

I came on here for a quick minute to research "Boy" themed birthday cards. I MUST, repeat MUST make those two cards today. I thought I'd look through some sites for ideas and I couldn't come on with out saying hello..could I?


The wedding yesterday was interesting. I grew up with these people but haven't seen most of them since getting married (the 1st time you goof balls) and moving out of the neighborhood. We come together for Funerals, Weddings, retirement parties ..etc. My mom still lives in the same house in the same neighborhood so she is still more connected to the old gang than I am. It was frightening to have people coming up to me during the "reception" and calling me by name. Especially since most of the time I had no clue who they were. It really is a pain to have such a bad memory of people & names.

Anywho...the wedding was in their family church and it was packed. She had 7 or 8 sets of attendants and as we were waiting for the ceremony to start we were trying to figure out which guy wandering around in a tux was the groom. Since the bride still looks really young and I have a hard time wrapping my head around the "gang" being ADULTS I kept guessing the "young" men we saw. It was very distressing when a GROWN MAN walked out with the preacher. I mean a GROWN UP..Looks like a Grown up..MAN. Good grief it was hard to realize we are actually old enough to be marrying people that look like our fathers. ARG!!! We got a bit of gossip from one of the relatives at the "reception" and discovered that the groom had four children from a previous marriage so not only did she marry an OLD MAN..she is now the step mother of 4 grown people. WOW. BTW, I keep putting "reception" in quotes because we discovered that apparently people of the Baptist faith have no dancing at their receptions and they have NO FOOD.

Before I go on, let me say that I have nothing against people of the Baptist faith. I in fact went to a Baptist run Kindergarten and a Baptist church for many years myself. I'm just making an observation. I didn't miss the dancing as I wouldn't have done any ..anyway but I really missed the food. I had not eaten anything before leaving the house and was very grateful I had grabbed a package of crackers to eat during the ride to South BFE. The only thing they served was wedding cake & punch. Nice but my tummy was hoping for FOOD!


Speaking of cake, the bride had the misfortune to break her RING finger on her left hand the night before the wedding making a cake. Not the best timing and it wasn't even the cake they served at the "reception".

Well, that's enough about that...aren't you glad you tuned in??

I haven't read or heard about yesterdays crop so not sure if they got anything done. I saw my sisters completed projects from the Tim Holtz classes. They were interesting but I was surprised that they didn't receive any free products. For what they paid for the classes they should have at least given them a free ink pad or something but that's just my opinion.


LisaD, I promise to get those cards posted but if I don't get the birthday cards done today I will disappoint a lady I work with and that would be bad. How about if I share another picture from the Zoo trip??



Rhino's
"kissing". What could be sweeter than that?


Til later.....................