Go Tribe! March 31, 2008

My favorite thing about going to a baseball game is tradition. Whenever I head towards the ballpark with a ticket in my hand I just feel like I am part of a huge, wonderful tradition. All the fans in thier Indians gear, little kids chanting goofy things in teh seats behind me, the vendors hauling beer and hot dogs (do they still do the hot dogs? I don’t think I saw any), the cheesy sayings on the jumbotron (is that the right name?) I just love it. I don’t go to a game every year, and I rarely manage to stay until the end. But it’s a good time.

 Corey got tickets to the Indians Home Opener today. They were good seats, too. It was just a fun, easy-going date for us. Well, I got mad when thy boo’d Jim Thome. He didn’t really want to leave, but I think he really would have been a chump to pass up the offer from Philly all those years ago. I think it blows he has to play for the White Sox. And I just plain old like him. Except for him hitting homers in a game against us. But we won, so I can deal. =)

Mom and I also had time to go for a walk after the game – finally it feels like Spring. It feels great. Except I think I caught a cold. Who catches a cold on the nicest day of the year?

that thing I do March 22, 2008

When I worked at a bookstore several years ago I would find loads of books each day that i wanted to read. I’d write down the titles, or borrow them, take home the preview copies, or buy them. I would by anything that struck my fancy. Consequently I have tons of books I never read. Under my bed, in the basement, stacked in every coner of the apartment and my mom’s house. 2 or 3 years ago I vowed to stop buying books. That’s what the library is for. Now, I only buy books that are discounted, or with coupons. Unless I get them used.

I used to be really into horror and vampire novels. So now that I am trying to whittle down my collection (nearly everything ends up back at the used bookstore these days) I find that I have a huge collection of vampire novels I am not interested in. I am working up to reading them. But there are so many mystery series and so little time.

Once I switched to the library I found I would take tons of books out – too many to read in a reasonable time – and I would forget to renew them and end up with fines. Not big fines, but annoying fines. So then I vowed not to have library fines anymore. I have really been doing good with that. I currently have about 21 books and books-on-cd checked out, though. I am trying to get through The Winter King. Becuase I accidentally bought the first book in the series, instead of the last. But It is not engaging yet, so I set it aside for Just Desserts by Claudia Bishop. And now I am reading Wicked by Gregory Maguire. I had to read it now or who knows when – it is due next week and can’t be renewed. I thought I would end up returning it without reading it, but I am really enjoying it.

I do allow myself to by scrapbook idea books and art journaling books (with coupons, of course). After all, they are kind of like supplies. I don’t buy them all, just the ones I debate about getting for ages and still can’t resist. Life Artist. We Dare You. Journal Revolution. Visual Chronicles. The Art of Personal Imagery. Imperfect Lives.

So, onto the latest quirk. I sign up for scrapbooking classes online. And then I don’t do them. Wellness Journey at BPS. Shimelle’s Worth a Thousand Words class. Adrienne Loomans Artistic Edge – this one I have actually started – I am just way behind. But I learned a ton already. I just have to practice. So I signed up for the April handmade book at BPS. My goal is to at least START the wellness album and complete the Thusand Words class by then. Today I started going through the emails from that class. I have an idea of what I am going to do. Tomorow I hope to spend some time listening to the prompts and choosing and editing photos. Well, today. And I have to go through the photos on my camera to make room for Easter photos.

It’s just the way I am.

I just want to say… March 21, 2008

Happy Easter! I am not sure I will get the photos I’d like to go with this posted this weekend, but I wanted to make sure I said Happy Easter to everyone. And to those of you who don’t celebrate Easter I simply say have a beautiful weekend!

Lisa

i forgot March 18, 2008

getting a perm is a lot like torture.

when the crazy curl loosens up a bit I will share. for now i will just try to figure out how to get away with wearing a hat at work.

it’s not really that bad. the end result i mean. the GETTING really is that bad.

thanks for all your kind comments.  i really do beleive that i could do it all, if only i could get the motivation to do any of it. i really thought the funk would wear off by now. i also know that it is crazy to think that the effects of what has happened would not last this long. especially since the latest is so recent. but i just want to feel the fog lift one of these days.

foggy March 17, 2008

Sometime on Thursday or Friday I told myself this was going tobe a weekend of getting things done. And I did, on some level. I finally got MS Money set up on the laptop. I got tons of laundry put away. I even cleared a few things off the dining room table.

But somewhere along the way it all patered out. There is so much to do. I can’t seem to do it. I read about these women who are so so busy but make time for the things they love. I should be just that busy. I certainly make some time for the things I love. But when I look back I don’t seem to have done anything. I just feel like I am still in a fog. I thought it would be better now. I spent the entire day yesterday feeling hung over for no reason.

I am so SICK of feeling like this. I know I just need to help myself. WTF? I just cannot concentrate on any damn thing. No matter how much I decide to to do something.

grrr…

On a bright note, hooray for hollywood just came on my ipod. That makes me think of corey. And that makes me smile.

I am going to make another list now.

stuff March 16, 2008

Kathryn has tagged meAs for the tag, here are the rules:
Link to your tagger and post these rules on your blog.
Share 7 facts about yourself on your blog, some random, some weird.
Tag 7 people at the end of your post by leaving their names as well as links to their blogs.
Let them know they are tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.

1. If there is snow on the ground when spring starts I always want to go outside and melt it with a blow dryer.

2. I have never once seen the hidden image in a Magic Eye picture.

3. I think acoustic guitars are magic and everyone can play them.

4. I will watch any tv show with Mary Kate & Ashley except for full house.

5. I really like that Paris Hilton song “Stars Are Blind”

6. I had the Outsiders on VHS, LCD disc, DVD, and paperback.

7. I won a trophy – for Spanish…

OK, some people hate tags, so we’ll see what happens. Corey, g*, and Melanie. Tracey and Trish, sytart your own blogs, then do this – ha ha ha.

because he asked March 15, 2008

i made this for corey

 

how could i forget March 15, 2008

Yesterday I was listening to Diva Craft Lounge on my way to the crop and found out I WON A PURPLE COWS 2-in-1 TRIMMER WIH ALL 12 BLADES! Oh my heck! I so wanted this. And I won it! I think I won a purple tote, too. But I’m not sure if that is from purple cows or Diva Craft Lounge. Holy cats. I mean cow. Anyway, go me!

I have been on a scrapbook winning streak these last few months. I win from Fiskateers alot, so I decided to do my own RAK with the craft spree they had this week. I picked 2 winners to receive a few special goodies.

 Speaking of winning, check out this crop girl post and maybe you could win something cool from Stephanie!

 I also decided to participate in a different challenge on Scrap Your Crap. Scrap MY crap. Simone and Greta are sending me some of THEIR crap to scrap. Ha! It is making me laugh. So, any of my scrappy friends want to scrap my crap? Or even my non-scrappy friends. I have lots of crap. I have no problem sending some to Australia or the UK. Seriously. If I had scrappy friends in Japan I would send some there too. I should GET scrappy friends in Japan. I wonder how I would do that. Anyway, I want to play this game, so play wis’ me. We can move the dates out if the crap takes too long to get to you.

Today is a day where I want to get stuff done. Abby and Pam made me work out, so I did. I finally got all of our stuff out of mom’s bedroom so she could have her life back. I am in the middle of putting away laundry. And I should be calling Kim soon.

loose ends March 15, 2008

I have had bits of posts in my head for the last few days but haven’t gotten any of them down. So here they are:

Another new favorite

Every month when the DT’s release there projects I decide I want to get a kit. I still have stacks of stuff from club scrap ala 2001, but I want one anyway. But none of them looked as good when I got to the site as I thought. And they are ALWAYS sold out.  The other day while checking out the new OLW challenge I heard about scarlet lime. I checked them out and signed up – I checked out the last several motnhs kits and love them. I am just so sad I couldn’t get a march kit. Check them out!

Just Plain Shrimp

Trish and I went for Japanese before our crop today. She tried to talk me into getting meat, promising not to tell anyone that I cheated at Lent. I refused. I browsed the menu. I fell of my chair when I saw the vegetable dish at $16.50 (around $12 at my usual hibachi places.) The menu was confusing, so when I heard Trish order “just plain shrimp” I asked for the same. The chef came out and prepared our food. He put a huge pile of steak on the grill. I marvelled at how much meat the other woman at our table was going to eat. I watched some more. I asked Trish what I ordered. She said “filet and shrimp.” I called Corey and told him to stop by and get the steak I couldn’t eat. My bill was an entertaining suprise.

I made 9 cards at the crop. Crap! I forgot to look for an owl sticker or rubon. I have avoided the whole bird thing for the last year, but awhile back I bought a couple of $1 bird stamps. I made 5 cards with one of them today – they are so cute! In my minf I was going to use up tons of scraps. I did use some. My scrap bin still won’t close.

I have been tired all day. I can’t quite bring myself to go to bed.

warm fizzies March 12, 2008

It was supposed to be fuzzies, but I don’t type so well.  And I had a margarita, and a little more margartia with dinner, so fizzies is funny.

Now that the weather is not poised to sweep us off the freeway, Corey’s whole entire family came up tonight to help us move are bed. Out bedroom looks fantastic! I am sl happy with it, and it’s not even done. But I have my very own bed again. I LOVE my bed. We also brought the big tv, and a few other very special things.

Not only did they do us this wonderful favor, the brought me birthday presents. I forgot to share that my mom is giving me a scanner, just as soon as I pick it out. And today Corey and his parents gave me my new, wonderful lens. As Colleen and I were about to starve to death I did not get it on the camera before dinner, but let me just say that I am happy happy happy.

Colleen & Peter gave me some beautiful bracelets that are very meaningful to me. I shall photgraph them with the new lens so you can see. They also found me the yummiest-smelling candle.

And last, inside the festive little orange bag – that horrible owl. I didn’t suspect a thing. But it will be photographed, scrapped, and then gifted away to some unsuspecting soul. I am thinking… Easter basket.