It's a cowBOY!

my SIL, is hosting a baby shower for one of her good friends and (like a fool, as usual) i hopped right on to do the invitations. now that i've sat at my printer for like four hours printing the invitation components and the two, double-sided inserts to complete the package, i have to sit here and tear, ink, grommet, string and tape all of these elements together! i'm nuts, but i LOVE it!!!




sorry about the graffiti, but i dont think they would aprove of shower crashers!

you know what i hate?

Cell Phones. Yes. Cell Phones. Big time.

So, here's the deal. like a freak, i have two cell phones and they both are driving me effing NUTS!!!

cell phone A: my "local phone" took a swim in a pool of spilled coffee on monday. lame, but we got suckered into, i mean wisely purchased the cell phone replacement insurance. monday afternoon i sat down at my laptop for what i thought would be a very painful experience. to my surprise, it wasnt painful at all. it took about 10minutes and a brand-spankin new orange enV showed up at our door the very next morning!!! yay! i activated it and all was well with the exception that i lost ALL my contacts that i had on my coffee soaked phone. again, lame, but i could recover most of my contacts off cell phone B and the rest i could just ask for via email or the next time i saw the missing contact in person. so, today i FORCED myself to go to the verizon store and get those contacts i did have transferred onto the new phone. after an hour of waiting, explaining, having the representative completely not listen to me, re-explaining, having the representative get confused, looking at the manager standing next to her with sad puppy dog eyes, having them figure it out only to tell me they didnt have a replacement phone in stock, queue theboogerbear screaming like a banshee and i still walked out the store with out a phone. ok, what i did learn was that the insurance replacement phone was now covered under a 30day defect warrenty. the phone being clearly DEFECTIVE is covered. so, a NOT brand-spaking new REFERBISHED phone is on its way to my house. yay! someone else's earsweat on my phone. so, tomorrow i get to wait for the phone to show up (hopefully before gymboree), activate it and head back to the verizon store to try to get my contacts transferred. hooray....

cell phone B: my "texas phone" is just a lame duck. its freakin old as moses. its actually on my mom's at&t account. just an extra line that i seldomly use, but its good to have around so my grandma doesnt have to pay long distance charges when she calls me. yea, so i need to make some phone calls in the car, but i cant because my almost 3 year old razor cant handle keeping a call connected while moving at a 50mph pace. ARGH!!! RAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaGE!!!

oh well, my crop-a-dile showed up today, FINALLY. so i'm going to go punch holes in things and grommet until i puke.

have a good evening everyone!!!!

too tired to think of a post title.

ugh. so tired this morning. i even went to bed before 4am last night! for those of you who don't know, i have lame, untreated insomnia or, as i call it, night owl-idis. i've always been this way. my mother says even as an infant, i partied all night and slept all day. growing up, i struggled with early bedtimes, always getting perkier as the night went on. as an adult, it was more common for me to struggle with, but accept, 4 or so hours of nightly rest. a typical night owl. i think. now, i really want to go to sleep at a somewhat decent hour and i cant. i lay in bed, in the dark, in a room devoid of all stimulus and i just cant shut down. that good ol' brain of mine keeps churning and i keep telling it to leave me ALONE! stupid brain.

so, sunday and monday night i self-emposed a personal exile to the couch. we have a very comfortable couch, so, even though i went to sleep after 4am on those nights, i did get some restful feeling sleep. last night i went to sleep in the family bed with husband and the boogerbear. i went to sleep pretty quick by my standards (under 20minutes i would say), but only to be KICKED by the boogerbear. grr... that would have been fine, but he kept doing it. no matter how i moved him, those little legs kept managing to find me. as a result of his kicking i never got into a deep sleep and i'm left feeling like i didnt sleep a wink last night.

once husband left this morning, i scooted the boogerbear over and i dont know if he kept kicking and i just didnt feel it or if i wasnt in HIS space so he didnt bother kicking ME! *sigh* this leads me to believe their is a problem in our bed. there is just not enough room for the three of us anymore. i know i've talked about putting the boogerbear in a big boy bed before, but i think its affecting the quality of our sleep (not to mention i spend about 60% of our nights on the couch now) and thats not cool.

OK. one more cup of coffee and i promise i'll go check out some matress places. i promise. (anyone know a good matress website?)

wordless (version: teh eastarrr bunnnaay!)

a holly for hire mark II: this time its personal...

ok, i didnt post about this sooner because i'm still thinking its going to fall through like before, BUT i do believe i have secured a regular scrapbook instructor gig.... again. i still havent heard anything from michael's, but a week or so ago i inquired at a scrapbooking store that had JUST opened if they were still looking for instructors. they said yes. i showed them my stuff. they liked it. (this was last friday) i was told that they would contact me on monday or tuesday about scheduling classes and i could come and pick up some materials to build a scrapbooking 101 class around. well, monday came and went. no call. tuesday came. its 5pm. no phone call. i called. an answering machine picked up. i left a nice "why the heck havent you called me back" message. tuesday went. so did wednesday and thursday. i gave up on this one. today, as i am explaining all of this to my SIL on the phone, my call waiting beeps at me. speak of the devil. its the owner of the scrapbooking store. omg, you have to be kidding me. so, she apologizes for the delay, but there was some miscommunication and they were really excited to have me come in.

as the plan stands, i'll head to the store on monday morning with my mock layouts and class outline to show them. and i also thought it would be neat to do a mini card making demo (make&take esque) with the staff. that way they everyone can see my style and just out right hate my loud and abnoxious, upfront personality. *big smiles* this weekend i'll tweek my class outline and make little mini kits for the cards. i already made the samples. they were based off this year's easter cards:





i've been getting carried away with all of the flowers lately. meh. anywho, i hope this effort isnt a wash like the michael's incident. it would be mega rad to get some of my supplies for nada and meet some neat people along the way...

wordless (version: i have random photos to share)

happy kinda sorta 25th birthday!

so, this past sunday my MIL and crew gave me a kinda sorta 25th bday party. perfect! i was hoping for a 25 & 1/2 bday party, but, who knows, august 18th hasnt looped around yet. anywho, you should have seen the banner this woman put up in her house! it was like a billion sheets of paper printed via printmaster circa 1962. here, look!



taking the time to assemble that banner was enough to tell me that my family loves me...

oh, and that they're a little kookie...

wordless (version: its wednesday, right?)

more on that later...