I am on a Design Team

I got a package the other day from one of the scrapbooking kit clubs that I belong to and it was notthe usual kit and there was a note that said "Have Fun" and send them the layouts in a email when I was finished. I was kinda of surprised to say the least, so I sent them a email and they said that they were starting a Design Team and if I wanted I was part of it and of course I said yes. So today I opened my email and there was another email from the owners of the club and she finally realized that she had not contacted me about being on the design team and she apolized to me about it and then formally asked me to be part of the Design Team at Suzy's Kits, so Iam telling the world that I am on a Design Team and I am so excited about this. I have always wonder how to become part of a design team and was too scared to submit work to them because I am afraid of rejection and turn downs so I never submitted anything to become part of the team. But I just sent suzy's layouts that I had done with the supplies that I was getting from them. I started using up the kits that I had been stock piling for about a year and I really needed to use them since I am now getting 3 different kits a month and am running out of space to put things. So one day I emailed the club and asked them if they wanted to start a gallery of member's layouts and they said the send them so I did and then I found out that the original owner of Suzy's had sold it and the new owners said that they were going to start putting the layouts on the website and they asked for all that I had so I sent them and there were a couple of them for a while and then I get the kit and email and that made me so happy and excited that I sat down and flipped 2 layouts in about 2 hours time. Mom is my critic and she tells me what they lack or if they are too cluttered and then I go back and change things if I feel like they need them and usually Mom is right and I will go back and show her what I have done, but she has not told me that I need to change anything so I am getting better judging what needs to be there and what doesn't and I really enjoy sitting down and coming up with a layout or card on the fly and sometimes I need a jumpstarted and that is where the magazines and sketches that I have handy come in and it really helps to sit there and look at the pictures and there maybe a idea that comes from the pictures. Usually I have an idea in my head before I sit down and then I start from there.............IN CASE YOU DIDN'T HEAR ALREADY...........I AM ON A DESIGN TEAM AT SUZY'S KIT.COM (Here is the web address www.suzyskits.com)
They are doing a good job with what they have and they are getting better each time and they are so nice there and the customer service is awesome, if you have a problem they get back to you fast and they try to work it out as quickly as possible. If you have not seen them go to the website and tell them that Tracey sent you and right now they are doing aTax Day when you order 1 kit you get a extra kit each month for 3 months at no charge and they pick the kit for you so there is nothing to choose. Check them out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
As for the household everyone is getting better, I still have the cough but the running nose has stopped, just the cough dry and hacking all the time and it is driving me crazy especially at night when I try and sleep. Mom is over hers and Thank God but now she is hurting again and still complaing all the time and it drives Dad crazy and he makes comments tome about it and it drives me crazy too but I keep my mouth shut and stay in my room and scrap or watch TV.
Dad is going to the doctor on the 27th too see what is going on with his heart and see if he has to have another Heart Cath done and when............ Hopefully he is not going to have a heart by-pass again. That was not fun to watch him go through that and after he came home he could not do anything for a long time and he still uses that excuse not to do a lot of things in the yard but I am going to hire someone to do the lawn because it is getting to be spring here and the grass si starting to grow and it needs to be mowed right now so the boys across the street are going to mow and weedeat for me and I will pay them to do for us so he doesn't have to do it.
Thanks for reading my blog and come back again.........................Have a great day!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :)

Finally starting to feel like a human again

todayy, I am finally starting to feel human again. I still have the cough and probably will have the cough for a long while but at least the runny nose has stopped except for a occasionally sniffles. But at least it is a lot better than it had been for the last week and half, I was blowing my nose so often that it hurts. I am glad because I feel like I have missed so much on the message boards, I have felt so bad lately that when I got my scrapbooking kits from Self-Addressed I am usually excited about opening and seeing what they have sent this month but this time I opened and kinda looked at it and put it away and didn't even look at it and try and figure what I am going to do with it. I got ribbon and fibers from Shoebox Trims and it was rolled up and put away as fast as I could go that day and I can't remember exactly what I go this month and I am still waiting on the kit from KNK and then the kit from Suzy's Kit will be here sometime in the next week so maybe I will feel like looking at them and can get excited about scrapping again and start doing it again. I have made cards and a jewerly box fro my niece for Easter and mailed that off and that is all that I have done lately and now I am having withdrawal symptoms and they are causing the shakes and tremors LOL!!!!!
Last Wednesday, Mom and I went to Wal-Mart and I got the shelves that I have been wanting for awhile. My friend Ja came over later that day and helped me put them up and that was a chore trying to get him to read the directions and put the shelves where I wanted them and make sure they are level and straight but he was in a hurry and he wanted to do them the way that he wanted to do them and that caused a fight between he and I and I won and he did them the way that I wanted them done and he had to admit that I was right and they look good.
Jay wanted to do them a different way and I kept telling him that I had to have them the way that I told him so that I could reach them and not have to have help getting things off of them and finally that he saw what I was talking about and he did it my way. I am still in the process of putting things away and rearranging them to work the right way fro me and that is a daily process when I scrap. I am waiting on the Vertical Paper Holders that I ordered and that will free up a little space that is being taken up by the paper holder that I have now and it is heavy and it is not really convient for me to get paper out of it and it a little high for me to reach comfortably but that will change soon and I can't wait to get them either. I have been wanting them for a long time and finally found them on sale and there is everything that I wanted in the combo and it was alot cheaper than the ones that I have been looking at in QVC and there is more in the one that I got alst night, so I got 2 of them and that should start me off and I will see how many more that I will need after they come and they are filled up.
As far a s Dad is concerned he is doinf alot better and his color has coem back and he is not complaing about shortness of breath as much. I had noticed that before the procedure he was looking very pale and ashen but now he has color in his cheeks and he is not ashen and he is breathing a little better. He has a Doctor's appointment for the end of the month and we will see when the next cath is going to happen. Hopefully he will not have to have any stents put in and he will not have to stay over night in the hosiptal.. I am hoping that he will not have to any more open heart surgery and he will be able to just have the 3 stents that he has and that is it, but he cannot take any medicine for his Cholestrol because he is allergic to everything that is on the market for lowering Cholestrol and the doctor's tell him to exercise but that will never happen and he is not watching what he eats except for his salt intake which he has been doing very well on that one, and he is able to control his sugar intake also but that is all that he will do.
Mom is still having the cough and the runny nose and still complaining all the time but that is normal and she is feeling better and that is a good thing for the house.
Thanks for reading my blog and Have a great day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :) :)

It has been a hell of weekk and half for me

Well it has been a rollercoaster ride for the last week and I thought that it would get better and it finally has started getting better. Mom first had the hives and then she got better form that and then she got a cold and that really threw her for a loop and it had her short of breath and realy couldn't walk from the bedroom to the kitchen without having to sit down and catch her breath and then try to go back to the bedroom and lay down and cough and hack. She thought that she would start feeling better in a couple of days, Today she says that she is feeling better and hopefully she is getting better.
Dad on the other hand has put us through the wringer, he was to have a Cardiac Cath done on Thursday, he had a chemical stress test done last month and it showed that there was something not quite right and they wanted to see exactly what was wrong. So he was in the procedure and he had some blockages in the some of the by-passes that he had done 3 years ago and they wanted to unblock them but when they were doing it they blew one or two of them and that caused him to have a controlled heartache and luckily they were there when it happened and Dad said that when the doctor blew it his chest felt like a elephant sitting on it and he was scared so the doctor had to put in 3 stents and we are going through this Cardiac Cath thing again in a couple of weeks. But Dad had to stay the night because of the stents and they wanted to watch him and make sure that he was ok..... Mom and I were waiting to talk to the doctor and that never happened and it was because of the stupid volunteer that was at the desk in the waiting room. There were alot of people in there and Mom and I had found a comfortable place in the corner of the room that had a couch and chair that we both could stretch out in and really be comfortable and wait so we waited and waited andwaited some more and finally I heard her on the phone and she had kept saying our last name wrong and the person on the other end kept correcting her and when she fianlly got off the phone she didn't even know who she was talking about and was calling Parker instead of Harkin, which is not even close and finall y she looked at the paper that she had and found out that there was no Parker and finally said Harkin and I yelled that we werer there and she said that he was in a room and told us which room adn how to get there. I was so mad at her because he had been in the room for over and hour and half and they came and told her that and she had forgotten to say anything to us and that really pissed me off, so we go to the room and he is telling us what ahd happened and asked us if we talked to the doctor and we said he never tlaked to us. We stayed for a while and Mom was tired and she wanted to come home so we left to come home. By the time we got home I was so tired and hurt so bad that all I wanted to is lay down and rest but that was not possible because I had ot feed the animals (Boots-dog and Missy-bird) and empty the dishwasher and do thing s that needed to be done, there is no way that Mom could of done it andshe was in bed already coughing and blowing her nose. I had to get things done for that night and unload the car from our day at the hospital. Finally about 8 pm I was ready to collapse and literally did to watch Survivor and that is as far as I made it I was asleep by 9 and slept until 3 and was wide awake and could not go back to sleep until about 6 and the phone rang at 6:30 and it was Dad wanting to know what we were doing Mom was so mad at him and she was not in the mood totalk to him at all. We were supposed to go get our nails done but it tokk all she had to walk down the driveway to get the paper and back she was so out of breath and could not get it back quick eneough and she was so weak also. She complained t for a week about it and I was so tired of hearing it but I was good and said nothing at all, but I got the cold that they have had before and I have it my head and the cough is keeping me up at night, I have to sleep on 3 pillows and that is uncomfortable and I don't aleep well anyway but that is ot helping.
So, Friday afternoon we go to the hospital to see Dad, adn he is chomping at the bits to go home and they are waiting on the doctor to come up and see him and his roommate about discharge, we had been there about an hour and Mom wanted to leave and come home and lay down so we were on our way and I was getting in the car and Mom's cell phone rang and it was Dad and he wanted to know where we were and I told him getting in the car and he told us to wait he ws probably coming home now so we waited and waited and finally after 3 calls he is dischareged and coming to the car. He got in the car and told us that he had prescriptions that needed to be filled and that we could get filled on Saturday, Mom was not happy about him coming hom and neither was I because of the heartattack that he had in the Cath lab on Thursday but home we come. We had stopped to get something to eat and we ate and did the stuff that we had to do and everyone ws watching TV and relaxing and about 6:30 Mom comes in my room and tells me that she is going to get his Nitro filled and she wants me to sit with him and make sure that he is ok. so I asked him if he was having pain in his arms or jaw and he said no. After Mom left for the store he had told me that he has been having chest pain for about 15 minutes before he told us and when Mom got home he took one and timed it and then she yelled at him that if he wanted to die in front of us then keep doing what he has been doing and not tell anyone about the pain. The chest pain came back about an hour later and he took another nitro and then he went to sleep, he told me that he really had a headache forst then got the chest pain and he wasn't really sure what it was and I told him that it didn't matter what he thought the pain was he needed to tell someone about it and let us know what is going on with him. He said that he would tell us when it happened again and he would do what he needed to do. So after the second nitro the pain didn't come back again which is a good thing because Mom and I were getting ready to go back to the hospital that night but thankfully we didn't have to and he is feeling alot better and head blood work done this morning and we will see what happens next.
Now I am sick and it doesn't matter when it comes to doing things around the house. According to others I am not sick as they are and I can't feel as bad as they do, so I am the one that is taking care of them but noone takes care of me but me and it is really making me upset and I have to bite my tongue and keep goign but I am not goign to be soomeone's servant anymore and I am going to take care of myself and forget them until I feel better and get over this cough and runny nose. This is the forst time in a week that I have felt like being on the computer and checking email and writing on my blog so this is what if going on in my life.
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