The weekend

Yay! It's the weekend. And it is supposed to be a very bright and warm one too in my neck of the woods. We need a little sunshine here. :)

We've been working putting in a garden. We had one for years but living in the forest it didn't grow as well as I had hoped so it seemed silly to continue putting that much time and effort in for little result. So we let it go years ago. So about three or four years ago we cleared some of our land and planted grass so that we would have a "lawn" for the kids to run and play in. Much improvement.Now back to the garden- with room from the clearing we decided to give a garden another try on another area of our property because really, everyone in the family loved gardening. So that's what we've been up to lately. We staked it off and have been skinning the topsoil and fencing it in. (Gotta keep the rabbits and deer out.) This weekend or early next week it should be planted. :)

Today I am running my computer back to Best Buy. I decided to take it to another Best Buy rather than the squad that "fixed it" last time. This had been really frustrating to me. I'm hoping to have much better results this time. So again I have limited means on the internet and scrapping until I get my baby back from the shop. Please bear with me!

Yesterday was a fun day at work because I got a new Mac! I had a dinosaur of a computer to work on there and it was dying a slow painful death let me tell you... lol! So they ordered me a brand new mini and I got it yesterday in the afternoon. I'll get to set it up next week and maybe (just maybe) doing so will pull me over to the Mac side. Hahaha. Really- I'm not due for a new computer but in another year or two I will give both pc and mac a good look before buying. Are you a Mac or a PC?

I made a hybrid banner for spring. Hung it in the living room in the window where the sun sets. Later I went to take pics to show and realize it was not photographing very well. The light from the window was throwing colors off. So when I show you my latest project, please know that it looks much cleaner and sharper in real life. The walls in my livingroom are tan and the banner is yellow but its hard to tell with the pics.



Last night, my son had his first date. It was so sweet! I did get to drive them to and pick them up from the movies but didn't have a way to sneak a pic without being a totally embarrassing mother- so I'll have to get creative when it comes time to doing a layout. And I must be doing something right, because I watched him and thought how he was such a gentleman. He picked her up at the door, met her dad, opened the car door for her... you get the idea and I was really proud of him.

I'm still feeling kind of cruddy. I'm on day 6 of a 10 prescription. Here's hoping some fresh air and some bright sun will do me good this weekened. I hope you all are well and planning to enjoy your weekend too. Thanks for checking in on me!

I so wanna cry...

I've been sick since spring break and finally went to the doctor. I have bronchitis, sinus infection and reactive airway or some darn thing. I was given three presciptions and hope to on the mend soon. Maybe I can even move back to sleeping in the bed again soon. For two weeks I've been sleeping upright in an overstuffed chair we have. It's so hard to sleep with a hacking cough and a draining nose.

I can't update my vaca pics because today my computer crapped out on my again. Please excuse the language. I just had it in the shop last month and was terribly unhappy with the service. Today my monitor kept going black. I called and they want me to drop it off again and maybe they will take another look at it. When they looked at it last month they replaced one part and did a full (destructive) system restore and I have spent endless hours getting things installed again and fixed... it makes me sick that they may do the same thing if I take it back. In the meantime I have no access to my pictures or recent layouts or works in progess. Tears of frustration and disgust with Best Buy here!

And since I'm on a rant- for a year I've had trouble with my mail service, some of which I've posted about here. While we were on vacation the mail lady put a letter in my box stating that she again mis-delivered mail. I went in to the post office (while sick)to file another complaint and the postmaster didn't want to even take my complaint much less do anything about it again. She actually said she didn't want to "babysit" her employees which is what's neccessary to fix this problem. GRRRrrrrrrrrr! I spent the next few days calling and filling complaints at the US Postal service and Consumer Affairs. I'll update when I hear back from someone.

So, there you have my sad little update. Thanks for hanging in there with me if you made it thus far. Goodnight all and I will update again in a few days if I have new news or regain access to my pictures and stuff.

Vacation - post one

We are back. As much fun as vacations are, its always nice to return home.

Last Saturday darling daughter and I went to a crop. It was great fun.

Monday we packed for our trip on Wednesday. I had a icky cough and chest cold going on. I was hoping it would be gone by the time we headed out.

I made a scrappy project that darling daughter is wearing here. If you are interested, check out this tutorial to show you how to make your own.



My dear hubby returned from work a day early so we headed off down the Oregon Coast on Tuesday instead. It was rainy and cold but as Washingtonians, we are used to that and packed accordingly. The view from the hotel was lovely!



The next morning I woke even worse for the wear. So we stopped and got some meds before heading into Newport to visit these places.



And the next day we went to the Oregon Coast Aquarium. It was WONDERFUL!



I'll leave off today on that note as I'm still not feeling well. I'll be back in the next few days to post about the rest of our trip. Hope you are all well and having a fantastic weekend!

We have reservations

for spring break. I did make them at the resort I posted about last week. We are looking forward to a nice little mini vaca. Yay! Spring break starts tomorrow afternoon for us but we are not leaving for our trip until Wednesday next week.

And speaking of spring break, Saturday darling daughter and I are going to an all day crop at a friends house. It's been a while since I've been to one and I'm really looking forward to it!

My computer seems to be running well. Last fall when I had computer issues after a MS update and they told me to remove service pack 3 because of incompatibility issues- since I have avoided it like the plague. When I picked my computer up for BB it didn't take long to realize they had installed SS3. I was very nervous! Luckily, things have gone well. The only glitch I've had is actually in my photoshop program of all things. Tonight I'm reinstalling and reloading my itunes. That's just about it. All the important stuff is back in place. I've really enjoyed PSE7 and may pick that up and use for now. Did you know its on sale @ Costco online for under $50? Can hardly beat that.

Yesterday dear hubby and son started sinking posts for our garden. Dear son is out skinning the top this afternoon. It's been a few years since we grew one and I am really excited to have one again. We all really enjoy gardening. Now, what to plant?

This evening I'm going to scrap but I wanted to post a quick update. Next one will have lots of pics and creations, I promise. Thanks for checking in on me! You all have a super fab weekend!!!

Boo hoo

as you know my computer is in the shop. I was told they shipped it off and it didn't get fixed before it was sent back. I expressed my *unhappiness* with that and having to be without it for nearly two weeks already so they said that they'd look at it in house. Yesterday the update was that they did replace a part but that it was necessary to do a system restore now too.

This is two system restores in the last six months. Prior to that I had not had a single problem with my computer. Restoring means so much work for me to get it back in order. *sob*

I'm supposed to go pick up my baby tomorrow. I hope to be pleasantly surprised and not have lost everything. Maybe they did a nondestructive restore? A girl can hope right?

Other than that, I've had the flu for the past few days but feel much better today. The school carnival is tomorrow night and so I am heading off to work today to help prepare for it. The kids and I will be running the book fair and a book walk at it tomorrow night. We're looking forward to it.

One more week until Spring Break. I was searching the web for somewhere go for a few days while on break. We are thinking of going here to a resort at the breathtaking Alsea Bay.



There are so many wonderful things to do in the area as well. I'm sure it would keep us all busy and happy for 3 or 4 days.

Well, I need to head off to work. I hope you all have a super fab Friday. Don't work too hard. :)

Still holding out

with this old computer. I downloaded a free version of PSE onto this because its to old to run my creative suite. It's been fun creating this week while learning elements again. The last version I owned of elements was 3 but over time it's been improved so I'm now playing with 7. Can I just say that it has some REALLY COOL features!

Here's a few things I've made this week-





The designers at WST have really outdone themselves recently. If you haven't been there lately you really should make it a point to check out the shop and the gallery. Both are oozing with inspiration! And today here's what's going on-



That should about wrap up the ol' blog post today. I'm without my computer for at least another week they say. So when it gets back to me I'll update my project 52 pics.

Thanks for stopping in! You all enjoy the rest of your week. Have a good one.