Busy Busy Bees

Well, I've been a busy girl. I had an interview last Friday and another today. The one today went well, I think. The school is really nice, smaller than I've been in before. It's close to home - my parents home and my granny's old house is right down the street! Oh how I would love to live there. My parents say I'm crazy - it's old and would need updating. I don't care though, my Granny would be happy if I was in her house! I just know it!

Anyway, besides interviewing and praying for a job - I've been scrapping. Surprise Surprise! I've done one layout using some Love, Elsie goodies! The scan is wonky but here it is! Love this stuff - which I'd gotten the stamps too, and letter stickers!

I've finished a mini album from a class I went to last weekend. I've printed pictures for a class I'm taking on Saturday. I've worked on my trading cards for a swap at SIStv and worked on a "It's a boy" banner for a baby shower for a cousin-in-law. Fun Stuff!!

I also have been waiting to get my SOY call - but I didn't. So I've been anxiously waiting to see who got the honors! Hoping for a bunch of SISters from SIStv - it's so exciting. And I've been posting my layouts on a few galleries. You can check them out here if you want!!

Cole has just been too stinking cute! Jason and I were talking about Febreeze for some reason and Cole pipes in from the back seat and says the little jingle from the commercial. Yesterday he couldn't reach his straw in his cup, without moving the cup or bending the straw and he said "My neck isn't long like a Lhama" - where does he get this from?? He's a nut!

Hoping this is my last night as a jobless loser!

lisa

Harry Harry Harry Potter

OK - if you don't know what happens - you are safe to continue reading - there are no spoilers here. All I will say is I finished the book in less than 30 hours - counting the sleeping I had to do. Less than 20 total reading hours. It was amazing. All I'll say is you will be on the edge of your seat for the entire ride. It's everything I feared and everything I hoped.





Saw this quiz on Virginia's blog and thought I would play along! My Harry Potter Alter Ego is ...

You scored as a Ron Weasley
You often feel like second best and as a result don't have an awful lot of self confidence, but a truer more capable friend would be hard to find.
Ron Weasley 75%
Hermione Granger 70%
Harry Potter 65%
Remus Lupin 60%
Ginny Weasley 60%
Sirius Black 55%
Severus Snape 50%
Albus Dumbledore 50%
Draco Malfoy 50%
Lord Voldemort 25%

You can play along here if you want - Harry Potter Alter Ego

Have fun - read the book!!
lisa

What a week!

So it's been almost a week since I blogged. I've been busy! In that time, I've been to Mobile, Biloxi and back home, and in a way, I went to New Orleans too. I've finished a mini album, I've done more layouts that I can count, ok not really - but several, and finished Cole's cute little banner for his play room! And finished my application for the state - so I can get a job!





So we went to Mobile to get Jason's car. It broke down the day before we moved! So we have it back now. We stayed with my brother-in-law and his family! We just happened to be there on the weekend of my sister-in-laws birthday, so it was nice to get to do the birthday dinner with everyone. We stuck to our diet, pretty much, the whole time we were gone! That's a great thing. We spent the last night away in Biloxi. My parents were there for three nights and we just wanted to go at least one night. We stayed at one casino we've stayed at before - we were checking in and the hotel girl said oh you are going to love me. For some reason we got upgraded to a VIP suite. This sounds like we are big spenders, high rollers - we SO aren't!! But we'll still take the room like we are - that's how we roll! :) SO the room was huge, really nice. We had a good stay - slept in the giant wonderfully perfect bed!! Very Nice!





All my scrapping projects have really been fun. My mini book was fun - I forget my camera on the 4th though and took photos just with my camera phone. They were ok - but not what I really wanted. I didn't get a single picture of me, Jason and Cole together. I get this every year, in our 4th shirts, but not this year. I'm still a but grumpy about that!!! I'm in a circle journal group over at SIStv and have worked on those pages this week - I'm almost done. I think I have 6 sets of pages done! It's really been fun. I've got a few other projects I want to get underway but just haven't yet! Maybe this weekend.

I've submitted my application for jobs with the state. So please say a little prayer that I find a job quickly and easily. I'm keeping my fingers crossed. I'm going to start calling tomorrow and making inquiries! And I hope I find something in the lower grades - I would love Kindergarten. I've said many times that it's hard and I'm not sure if I could do it - but it's really where I think I want to be. I'll take anything, but after spending time in Cole's kindergarten class and one of the other classes at his school, I just love what has to be taught and the way you get to teach it. It's not so structured at that point. You have room to make it fun and that's what I really want to do. Have fun with the kids. I want them to learn without realizing they are learning! I just can't wait to have a job and have a classroom!!! And a paycheck would really be nice too!





Cole is doing great! We're on day 35 of growth hormone therapy. I'm not sure if he's grown yet - but he's gotten much better at taking his shot. He doesn't fuss too much anymore and just squinches his eyes up and takes it. I'm so proud of him. We've been struggling with lots of things with him - he is such a picky eater, and we can't get him to try new stuff. He's also been waking up in the middle of the night and getting in our bed - every night for over 6 months. I'm not sure why - but he's still doing it. Finally I just put a stool at the bottom of the bed so he could climb up without waking me. Silly me - what was I thinking?? We've talked to him the last two nights about how he's a big boy and needs to stay in his bed all night. If he wakes up, try to go back to sleep first and if you can't come get us, and we'll go back to the bed with him. Well the last two nights, he's stayed in his bed until 8 am - instead of 4am!!! So YEAH - so far so good. We need to break this before school starts.





Well, that's about all here. Still job hunting, still haven't unpacked everything, but still love being HOME!





lisa

I've been Tagged

So Kelly tagged me and I love to be tagged - so here ya go, this is what I'm supposed to do!

1-post these rules
2-each person tagged must post 8 random facts about themselves
3-tags should write a blog post of these facts
4- at the end of the post 8 more bloggers are tagged and named

Okay, so here's me 8 random facts about little ole me:

1. I'm currently unemployed and can't wait to get a job, but can't until all this paperwork falls through!

2. I've worked for 5 different companies that are no longer in business. They either closed while I was working for them or shortly after. I'm known in the family for putting places out of business! :) But I really did nothing, of course, to cause this to happen!!

3. I've been so bored lately that I've actually sorted my silverware into the proper compartments in the dishwasher (you know, all the little forks together, teaspoons together, steak knives together). Yes, I know it's crazy, I've been bored.

4. I just found out Wednesday that my cousin and his wife are having a BOY and I'm so excited for them!

5. I am scared to geckos and lizards, mostly geckos, but luckily they don't live in the area we just moved to, so I'm safe for now!

6. I'm a pretty emotional person, but rarely cry when other people do - like at funerals at such. I don't know why, I'm not emotionally dead like Chandler on Friends, but this is just something I don't do in public I guess.

7. My husband thinks I type too fast and is currently giving me a hard time about how there is smoke billowing from the keyboard and Cole is saying GO FASTER MOMMY. GO GO GO. I could type about 95 words per minute when I graduated from highschool.

8. I have seen Kenny Chesney in concert three times in the last two years and am going again in September. I would see him more than once a year if I could afford it. I love his music and his concerts are amazing. He's quite nice to look at too!


Ok - so I don't know who to tag because I don't know if anyone even reads this. So I'm posting on SIStv that I've blogged today and asking anyone who reads to tag themselves via me!


OK - on to other things. I went to a great class last night at Scrap Etc. It was "Get Creative with Magazines" and we made a great layout that was inspired by the teacher's (Shelley) art journal. Then we made our own art journals and went through magazines to find what we're inspired by. I had a pile of magazine things I'd torn out at home but didn't bring with me, so I shopped a little while the others were working. It was fun. I signed up for classes because I was so excited to take some new classes and meet the IT girls from Scrap Etc. I also hoped to meet some of the girls I've chatted with online through the Scrap Etc. website, but I didn't see any of those girls last night. So maybe at some of the other classes. And I should have gotten their earlier to chat and get to know the girls that were there, but I didn't.

We had a nice surprise yesterday. Jason's aunt lives about an hour from us and called saying she was coming to town and wanted to see us! She had Jason's grandmother with her too, and two of her kids too - Hannah and Baby Ella. So we got to show off our new place to the family and went to have lunch and hang out at the mall too! It was really great to see them. Cole was so sweet to Ella Claire! The other two times he's seen her, he would have nothing to do with her. She's only 6 months old and he just didn't want to have anything to do with her. But Yesterday - he tickled her and made faces at her while she just laughed and laughed at him. He rubbed noses with her and kissed her. It was so sweet. I didn't get any great pictures of this love, but I know it happened!! When they left he kissed her goodbye and told her he loved her. So sweet! I hope as she grows up, he'll be the sweet older cousin and look out for her and love her! I think he just didn't like the idea of her to begin with because he's never been around a baby really. But she's a great baby and rarely even cries, so he wasn't scared. He did keep asking everyone what she was saying, because he couldn't understand her! And finally he said she didn't use words yet. Oh, it was so sweet!

Well, I need some breakfast and need to get on with my day! Hope you have a wonderful one! And remember if you tag yourself, via me, leave me a message so I can see your 8 random things!

lisa

For some strange reason I can no longer title my posts here. I'm not sure why though, the box is there for a title, but I can't click inside it! hmmmmm......

Anyway, if it were going to have a title it would be: Gone Digital? I did a digital layout last night while playing around with some Cole pictures! It's ok, but I really prefer real paper and scissors and all that. I like playing with it but I LOVE my real life supplies! The supplies I used came from Scrap Girls. I really just like doing a digital page to post on Cole's Caringbridge page. Then when people come visit his site they see a little more than the one picture that Caringbridge is set up to hold. So you can see it here on Cole's Page! Yes I could post it here, but then you wouldn't go check out Cole's page and get pulled into our little world more. He has traveled an amazing journey and I can't do it justice if I don't send you over there to check it out! So, you'll just have to venture over and check out the journal history as well!

So, I've been working on a few projects. A mini album made out of giant playing cards is first. And it's almost done. I need to print out some journaling today and then embellish. And I'm making a cute little banner to put up in Cole's toy room. Can't wait to finish that. And I'm thinking about making one for decor at the baby shower we'll be doing soon for my cousin Jason and his wife Melanie. Hopefully we'll know about pink or blue on Wednesday!! I can't wait to find out!

We are currently a one computer family - which stinks - while the laptop is in the shop - again!!! So Jason needs to check his email and I'm sure Cole will want to play at some point. But right now, he's jamming out to CMT. That's what he asks for every morning - not cartoons, but CMT videos!!! Crazy Kid!

Lisa