You Are 50% Weird

Normal enough to know that you're weird... But too damn weird to do anything about it!

Just another blog update for the Sweet Shoppe Blog Challenge. The questions were interesting because at first I came up with 40% weird and I know I'm weirder than that, so I went back to change one of my answers that I thought could go either yes or no since there wasn't a sometimes and it was enough to push me up to 50% weird. So can you guess which answer I would have said sometimes to? Take the quiz and let me know. :)

Ok so it seems lately the only time I actually blog on this thing is for the SSD blog challenge. :) Oh well, so be it. Today's blog quiz is all about whether we love or hate certain things and can be found HERE. So here are my answers:

Scary Movies: I hate & love these. I hate them because they really creep me out, but sometimes I like being scared. It just depends on my mood. LOL this could probably be said for everything on this list. I hate the ones that are just senseless gore, because really what's the point? I saw enough real life gore working emergency rescue, I don't really care to watch it glorified in a movie. But I do love the ones that really make your mind think, like M. Night Shyamalan's movies.

Amusement Parks: I love these. I love the games, the rides the oh-so-bad-for-me-but-oh-so-yummy food. Everything except the crowds. I just don't like having to wait in lines or feeling like I have no room to move around. So if it is amusement parks in the off season, oh yeah I'm all for it. Oh wait, though I hate water parks! YUCK! They just seem like one nasty bath tub to me and I don't like to share my baths. :)

Valentines Day: This I could take it or leave it. No real opinion here, because I have the absolute best hubby who loves me every day of the year.

working out: Hmmm, to be honest I don't love the initial part of working out nor do I love forcing myself to do so, but I do LOVE the feeling I have afterwards. I feel so much more energetic and I guess that is what pushes me to actually follow through with doing it every day.

tattoos: Nope, hate 'em. I have no desire to willingly put myself through that much pain and pay for it. I know some are very artistically done, but I always see them as what they will look like when the person is old and wrinkly and to me that is never a pretty sight.

guacamole: Oh YUMMMMY! I love avocados any way they are prepared, but a great bowl of guacamole and chips is always a delight.

Hillary Clinton: This is another one of those hmmm, depends on my mood. I don't personally know the lady so I don't judge her nor can I make any comment about her in any other way other than politically. And although I don't agree with a lot of her political views, I don't really know much of what she really stands for or what she has done in office.

Napolean Dynamite - the movie: Ok we just recently watched this movie, and it had some great parts but overall, it was just weird. So another one dependent on my mood. :)

Meat Loaf: Love both the musician and the meal. :) And I have a fabulous recipe for a southwestern meatloaf that never has leftovers.

Forwarded Emails (videos, stories, etc.): HATE THEM!!!! My email is flooded with so much junk mail already that to also have to weed through these is just a pain. My family knows I don't read them let allow forward them on. I don't care what it is, I just don't want it in my email.

So there you have it. :) I'll try to post tomorrow with some layouts I recently finished and a problem I'm trying to figure out.

So yesterday (well, I realize that it is now technically very early on Monday, but I haven't gone to bed yet so I'm still considering this Sunday, but at any rate yesterday here is referring to Saturday) was National Scrapbook Day and for a scrapper this is truly a wonderful event. I have celebrated NSD in the past as a traditional scrapper, but this was my first year celebrating as a digi-scrapper and I must say this year totally blew all of the others out of the water! I mean there were tons of sales online and seriously good deals to be had and I got the products immediately! Now those of you who know me know that I'm not a patient person, especially when I'm waiting for goodies to arrive so this was a huge plus to my shopping experience. :) Now add to the shopping bliss an entire day of chatting & cropping with the wonderful ladies at the Sweet Shoppe and it was perfect. So how much scrapping did I get done, weeellllllll not a lot, but I did do this LO that I'm really happy with for a speed scrap challenge:

Credits can be found here: http://www.sweetshoppedesigns.com/inspiration/showphoto.php?photo=5632

Also there is a cool lil survey on the SSD blog so here are my answers for that:

Q1: If you could vacation anywhere in the world where would you go and why?

Oh man, I so don't want to give just one answer here. I'd love to travel everywhere! But if I were to pick just one area it would have to be the vacation that Jamie & I are planning now for next August. We will be going to Scotland & Ireland if all goes according to plan. :)

Q2: What cartoons do you absolutely detest & refuse to allow anyone to watch {be it child, spouse- haha, nieces/nephews.. etc just plain don’t want it viewed on your television)?

I have always detested Barney. I don't know what it is about the stupid looking dinosaur but I just don't like things/people that are so damn happy all the time and that laugh is like nails on a chalkboard to me.

Q3: You just woke up, you’re a mess, haven’t showered, there are dishes in the sink.. There’s a knock at the door, what do you do?

Hmmmm. Am I wearing a bra? If so then no problem I just answer the door and hopefully just scare off whoever it is. If it is as it often is at my house when this occurs and I'm not wearing that much needed supporting device then I go into covert hiding mode and wait for them to leave.

Q4:When you looked at yourself in the mirror today, what was the first thought that ran through your mind?

"I wonder what it will take to bribe the girls to go back to sleep for just 30 more minutes?"

Q5. Tell me a story about your Dad..

Oh I love my dad! He basically raised me by himself, well there was a stepmom in the house but she was pretty useless on most accounts. My dad is an auctioneer and so he'd take me with him every Fri & Sat night to the auctions and let me help him out. Sometimes he'd give me the item to show off to the crowds and sometimes he'd just hand me the mic and say "Show me how to sell this, Mandy." I loved those little moments when it was just the 2 of us.

Q6: You open your drawer, find 1 pink polka dotted sock and 1 black sock with reindeer on it.. Do you wear them together and hope no one sees them or go without socks today & hope your feet don’t get sweaty?

This is exactly why I have sandals! :) I'd much rather go without socks than go mismatched.

Q7: Are there any strange stains on your carpet, floor, walls, ceiling or couch? Do you know how they got there?

Well our living room carpet is pretty much just one big stain. LOL There is a particularly bad red one over by the girls' train table and this comes from my need for a nap one afternoon. Ella asks me if she & Ruthie can have a snack in the living room right as I was about to lay down for a quick nap on the sofa, so I said sure, just get something. Well when I woke up they had been eating red jello and totally spilled it everywhere. I can't believe how quiet they are when they are being destructive!

Q8: Are you neighbors annoying???

Hmmmm, not really. They pretty much stay to themselves. The family across the street though has 2 teenage boys that are a bit wild, but they don't bother us like they do other neighbors because we are the cool people on the street, Oh yeah! LOL

Q9: Are you a phone person.. if I called you right now would you chat with me? lol

Oh you bet! I love chatting as long as it isn't while I'm watching my Thursday night TV, that is the only night I watch TV and I hate getting interrupted.

Q10: What colour popsicle would you like.. Orange, Purple, Red, Yellow, Green, Pink or Blue?

I'm not really a popsicle kinda gal. I'm more of a soft serve type. But if it has to be a popsicle I think orange would be the yummiest. I love citrus flavors!

So there you have it! My answers to Lauren's cool little survey. Now I'm off to bed.

Today is a glorious rainy day! I know that I am among a very small group of individuals who actually love rainy days, but seriously I can't be the only one. Now don't get me wrong, I like sunny days too. But this week has been unbelievably hot, I mean we got into the low 90s one day, and it is only the beginning of May. So to have a nice rainy day where the temp is in the upper 50s, is pure delight for me. Plus since it is rainy and "cold" the girls haven't wanted to go play outside which means I've been able to stay in and get some stuff done. I was going to try to scrap some, but there were too many interruptions and I've needed to organize my EHD files for so long so that is what I've been doing. I'm trying to get everything sorted before all the awesome NSD sales tomorrow. But even before NSD starts you can get this awesome new kit:


It is from Songbird Avenue and was created by Meredith Fenwick, Jan Crowley, and Shabby Princess. And boy is it awesome! Not only that, but 100% of the profits go to a different charity each month. This month they are donating to the March of Dimes. So of course I had to support them and applaud their efforts, seeing as how I know first hand how wonderful this charity is. :) Hopefully I'll get some layouts done using this awesome kit this weekend and I'll post them next week here.

Oh how I love a good deal. Speaking of deals here are some blogs you should definitely check out if you want some super cool freebies:

First since it is Friday, Sharon Kenealy has her weekly mini kit available at:

http://artisticmusings.typepad.com/

Then make sure you sign up for the new Little Dreamer Designs newsletter, because you get this awesome kit free when you do.

So to get it just go to: http://www.littledreamerdesigns.com/newsletter.html and sign up.

Next Dani Mogstad has these adorable little flowers available on her blog:

http://www.designbydani.com/blog/

Then Jenna has a new doodle available on her blog:


http://dancinglines.blogspot.com/

And Rachael Giallongo is giving away a cool template for NSD on her blog

http://www.rachaelgiallongo.com/blog/

And if you hurry you might be able to catch a couple of freebies still up on Jennilyn's blog at:

http://www.jennilyndesigns.com/journal/


Now that you've checked out some super cool designs, I'll chat about the other happy parts of my day. :)

First, we got digital cable today! OMG, I'm so excited and goofy about this. Which is just funny to me that it makes me so happy. We really don't watch much TV, usually just a few shows on Thursday night, but the cool thing about the digi cable is that it comes with a DVR, so I no longer have to hush my brother when he calls long distance and I'm watching Survivor (yes I did this last week - sorry about that Dean) and we can record 2 shows at once. This is so revolutionary to me because even though we really only watch TV on Thurs nights, we like so many shows that come on at the same time, so now we can just DVR them. Oh I can't wait to give it a try. :) Jamie of course is all excited about all of the music channels we get.

So after the cable guy left Fed Ex shows up. I thought this was just my order with some aquarium supplies I'd ordered because they were tracked to arrive today, but no it was our new cell phones! WhooHoo! We haven't had new phones since we started our cell plan back in 2001, so these were definitely needed. This is what I got:
It is a Sony Ericsson W300i and is so sweet! I can't wait to get it all set up. Then on top of all of these fun new toys and what not, Jamie & I went out on a date tonight. We actually hired a babysitter (the inlaws are out of town) and let her put the girls to bed so that we could go out to dinner and then hang out together at the bookstore/coffee shop without having to rush home. Ahh it has been a fabulous Friday, now I'm off to bed so I can scrap all day tomorrow - I hope. :)