It has been awhile since my last post but........

I know it has been awhile since I have posted anything but I have not felt like posting but I do have news and it is pretty nice. Before I met Bill in 1997 I was dating a guy named, Bobby (or as he likes to be called Rob) but he is always been Bobby to me and he will always be that to me. Anyway, I have not heard from him since his mom passed away in January 2005. His mom and I were best friends since the day that I meet her and I really miss her alot but, like I said I have not heard from him since the day she was buried and I really didn't except to hear from either one of them. I was on the computer checking email on Monday and the phone rang and it was Bobby. We talked for a few minutes adn he said that he would call me on Tuesdaya nd he did at lunch time and then on Wednesday he called at 7:00 in the morning and I kinda yelled at him about it but then he said that he would call at lunch and hung up and I was kinda upset that he called that early but he didn't know what was going on here so that was not his fault so I was not mad anymore. So he called at luinch time and told me that he was going to come over and see me after work and for me to be dressed to go out somewhere and that he was excited to see me. There has always been a connection between he and I but he had a life style that he did not want me to be a part of except as a friend and he knew that I would be his friend. Anyway I got dressed and was waiting on him to come and he got here ealier than he said and I was going to take my camera with us and he came to quick I forgot. So anyway we got in the van and off we go. He told me that I looked good and he really liked my hair and that I had lost weight. I told him that he looked good and I was so happy to see him and that I missed him alot and was glad that he was there to see me. So our first stop was to get gas and then to find out wht we were going to do. He asked me what I wanted to do and I told him that I don't know what there is to do because I don't do anything but go to the grocery store and Wal-Mart and that is it so he was thinking about what to do and he asked if I drank and that was a no and he asked if I could bowl and again NO and then he asked if I wanted to shoot pool and have sodas. So that is what we went to do was to shoot pool. So we go to a bar that I have not been in since the last time he and I had been in there 7 years ago and there were alot of people that looked like they have been in there all day long. Bobby got me a soda and he got a White Russian and we found a place to sit and we started talking about the old days and then I realized how much I really love him and missed him and I told him so and he told me that he felt the same way and that we had alot to talk about and we had a good time there and I even shoot pool and almost won but I really didn't want to play the other guy. We stayed there until almost darka dn Bobby asked if I had seen the World War II statue that was at the Bayfront and I said NO and he went and got a throw away camera and we went to the Bayfront to take pictures. The man that did the statue was taking it back and it was the last day that t was going to be there. So Bobby picked me up out of my chair and put me at the base of the sculpture and then there was a lady that offered to take our picture together and she took 2 of them and Bobby about killed himself taking me back to my chair but he got me there safely and then he wanted to take me around the Bayfront so off we go walking and talking, we came upon a lady pushing a baby carriage with 2 little dogs in it, they had little red hats on and the mothere had a pearl necklace on. They were so cute that Bobby had to take pictures of them and as soon as I get them delevolped they will be posted. All in all I had a great time with him and can't wait to do it again and this time I am not going to talk about his brother or my stupid hisband and upset him and that is not what we are together and we are going to be together no matter where it is or what we do...................

My Favorite on American Idol Won

Taylor Hicks has won American Idol and I am so happy that at least one of my favorites won. This is the first year that I have ever watched it and I started to watch the first audition show and when I saw Kelly Pickler I really liked the innocent way that she had about her and I really didn't think that she would get very far when I first saw her but the more that I watched her the more that I really liked her and the first time that I heard Taylor sing I fell in love with him and his voice. I thought that he was older than he was and when I heard that he was only 28 I thought "No Way" but the more that he talked and I watched him I realized that he was only in his twenties and that he was going to be the next Americna Idol. He is so down to earth and appreciates the chance that he has been given and he is going to be a great singer. Last night there was a new show on the same channel that AI is on and it was called "You Think That You Can Dance" and there was so many funny people that thought they could dance and they couldn't but there was one person that took the cake. His name was "Jaime" he was a man but was dressed as a woman and he was so funny. He had a Red wig on and tights and shorts he was dressed funny anyway, he started to dance and halfway through his routine he threw his wig and then grabbed the tissue out of his bra and was doing a fan dance sort of and then he grabbed the wig and did something with it that we couldn't see because the camera was on the judges and the judges' face was priceless and they were grossed out and they stopped him from dancing and told him that he was not right for the competition and he left with a smile on his face and he didn't care that he was not picked he said that he just wanted tohave fun and dance. I can't believe that some people would get up on national TV and do some of things that they were doing last night or when they go onAmerican Idol and try to sing, but I guess that thye must think that they are the greatest thing since sliced bread and they can sing and dance. That is what makes the world go round and makes it interesting to the rest of us. Stay Tuned for the rest of the story. :) :)

I Fallen and Can't Get Up!

The old saying "I have fallen and can't get up" has come true for me this past week. I was in the bathroom on early Saturday morning and ending up hurting myself. I usually fall either landing on my butt or my face but this time I landed on my right side and I had to lay there for awhile until I could get my right leg to hold me up and that is not easy when you can not feel anything at all. I was laying on the floor and the dog came over to see if I was alright and she was no help in helping me get up off the floor. When I finally got up off the floor my right leg buckled again but I was getting in my chair this time. I got in my room and tried to take a few steps to my bed and it was awfully hard for me to do and when I got in bed I looked at my hip, knee,ankle and foot and I was already starting to swell. By the time I got up at 5 my ankle bone ws not there and it is not there. I could not put any weight at all on it and it is hard to explain how I do walk since I have no feeling below the waist. But during the last 4 years I have learned how to step and know how to put my feet to be able to walk a few steps at a time. I use a walker to take steps to the garage to smoke and I hold on the dresser and bed in Mom's room to go to the garage that way and that is all that I can walk and I don't want to chance anything else. When I was in rehab that is all that they wanted me to do is walk and there was no wary that I could of and I tried hard to be able and there is no way that I can now or then. Even though I have movement in my legs I still have a incomplete spinal cird injury and there is nothing that can be done to change that. I had surgery to stabilize my spine and that is all that they could do for me. I wish that I would of gone to a different hospital when it happened but that is in the past and can't change the past but only hope that maybe they come up with another treatment for spinal cord injuries but it can't help me but maybe it will help someone else in the future.
I got a couple of packages in the mail today, I got the brads from the Brad Swap at KNK and a surprise package from one of the ladies there and then I got the stuff that I ordered from AddictedtoScrapbooking. I ordered the new Cutterbee craft knife, that you don't touch the blade to put in or take out. I tried it a couple of times and could not figure it out and I was reading the directions at the time and still couldn't do so I put it down and then went back to it later and I got it to work and I really like it and I think that I will be using it a lot more than the other one that I have. Also got another set of the perforates,cutter and scorer. I wore out my other one so I needed another on to use for Card Making. They really come in handy scrapping too. I am off to do a little scrapping before I go to bed tonight.

LIVING IN FAST FORWARD (Kenny Chesney)

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Today I was reading Shannon's blog and it really go me thinking about self-esteem and I came to the realization that I have absolutley no self-esteem or confidence left in my dlef and I don't know really how to get it back. I realized that I lost it when I got hurt and it continues today. I read everyone's blog from KNK and realized that no one reads mine at all, but I don't do this for anyone but me anyway. It doesn't bother me that noone reads it. :) and that is ok. :) But back to the self-esteem thing, when I got hurt I had friends that would come see me at the hospital and call me there but when I went to the rehab hospital there was only one or two people that came adn stuck by me the entire time. Susie was there so much that I had to run her off so that I could do therapy in peace and quiet and when I got home she was here until she got sick and passed away last January. (Boy do I miss her alot) She would tell me that I was the same person that I was before I got hurt that I am now and that if noone wanted to be around me then it was thier loss not mine. But now that she is gone there is no one that tells me that and right now I am so down on myself and hate everything that I am and can not believe that any one would want to be my friend. I know that I am special and I have alot to offer a friend but after being hurt by my so called friends after they just dropped me when I got hurt and could no longer do what I did and they would have to help me in and out of the car and in their houses they all decided that I was too much trouble to be around so that is how I started scrapbooking and started chatting on the message boards. On the MB no one can see that I am not able to walk unless I tell them then I became the outcast all over again and that is not fair to me. But the ladies at KNK are not like that and they accept me for me. But that is my goal for the rest of the year is to try and gain self-esteem adn self-confidence and I hope that someone will help me do that. We will see what happens next.

What a day today has been

Well today started out pretty good but has not ended very good and it is because of my dad and his attitude. Mom and I had a nail appointment this morning and then he had a doctor's appointment after that, so they left at about 10:45 and they got home after 2:00 this afternoon, which was no big deal cuz I stayed at home and worked on scrapping but when they got home I was in the kitchen and he come home and started fixing himself something to eat whether I was doing something in there or not. When he has to feed his stomach he doesn't care who he runs over or if he gets in the way of as long as he gets to eat. Anyway, he was eating and Mom and I were having a discussion about the soap opera that we watch and I made a comment that was a little sarsactic and Mom knew that I was kidding and it was a joke but he only heard the way that I said it and when I came out of the bedroom he had a realy dirty look on his face and made the comment that he did not like the way that I was talking to Mom and I told him that it was not what he thought and he waved his hand and told me to go the "F" away and not to talk to him. I am not a dog that you can just dismiss like that and I was mad and I told him so and he waved him off again. I went back in my room and seethed and let it go. So we were going out for dinner tonight and we were going to a new restraunt that opened not too long ago "RJ Gators", so off we go and while we are driving there he is driving like we are in the Indy 500 and weaving in and out of traffic, sao we get there and he says that it is too packed and we are not going so Mom and I need to decide where we are going now and I said that either steakhouse is fine with me. So we go to Durango's and he is driving through the parking lot and he is trying to get to a parking spot before another car and almost causes a wreck and blames the other car. We park and he tells Mom that he will get me so she can go get in the restraunt and get us a spot before they are too full for us to go. He thinks that if we can not go right inand be seated that we are going home and find sonmething to eat there, Mom goes in and and they are seating her when we go in the door and he is yelling "where the hell is she and she is trying to get his attention and he is not listening so I tell him to go and I will tell him where to go and he gets mad because I had to raise my voice to get him to go. I had ordered a steak and rice and salad and my steak was supposed to be cooked Medium and when it comes it is Medium Rare and since I got dentures it is hard for me to eat rare steak adn I said that I was going to send it back and I got a dirty look and a kick under the table luckliy I can not feel it or he would of gotten kicked back but anyway I tried to eat it and there was so much grizzle and fat on it that it was not worth the price that we paid for it and I was so disappointed and it actually made me sick to my stomach and I could not eat so the little piece of steak that I had left came home with me and I will feed it to Boots tomorrow. On the way out to the car he told me that I was the most ungrateful person he knows and that made me so mad that I was biting me tongue. I am so mad at him that he better not talk to me for awhile or I will tell him off and he will not like what I have to say and it will be hard on Mom and cause friction and I dodn't want to do that so I just come in my room and not say a word to him. What make me so mad is that he is so lazy an hw won't even help take out the trash anymore and if we ask him to help he acts like he doesn't hear us. The grass needs tobe mowed and weedeated but he is not going to do any time soon so Mom said she is going to hire someone to do it and he told her that he will do it when he gets the time. The time he has all the time in the world to do but all he wants to do is watch TV and eat, and that is all that he does. Enough gripping aboiut him.
Anyway I got a email on Monday form PaperCrafts magazine and I had orderded 3 copies of the book "Stacy and friends: 40 techinques for card making" I called Customer Service and told them what I did and they said that they would help me and cancel 2 copies and to let them know if they had charged my account 3 times and they would refund for 2 copies, which was fine with me. So I got a phone call today, it was the CS at Paper Crafts and they said that they were unable to cancel all 3 copies of the book adn they had already shipped, so they said to refuse 2 copies and return to sender and when they recieved them back they would refund my money for the 2 so I have to put a note on the door for the UPS man to ring the doorbell and wait because I need to talk to him, my regular guy did that and I told him what I needed and he told me that he was going to on vacation and I needed to catch the other guy so I kept the note and will put it back opn the door in the morning and hopefully he will rign the bell and I can return the 2 copies. I have no energy to scrap lately and I need to start again because I miss doing it and it takes my mind off the problems around here and makes me happy. So in the morning that is what I am going to do and I will spend all day in my room and not bother anyone and that way I won't get upset and mad and it won't ruin my day. Thank you for reading my blog and Have a great day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :) :)

It has rained all day here and we needed it.

Today we finally got some much needed rain. It started raining this morning and it has been raining all day, we really needed it too and maybe it will help the wildfire. It rained the other day but it didn't last very long and it was not doing anything for the drought.
I have been working on "Color Me Happy" class and it has been really fun so far. I have a hard time trying to make sure colors match all the time, when I go to pick something out to wear I am always asking Mom "Does this go with this" and I think that finally I have the color thing down. I am not an expert by any means but I am not asking Mom all the time to help me pick things out. I am trying to find colors of cardstock that I find in the "Go Find" that Beth emails us each day but I am having a hard time finding the same color but I am just going to find the closest color to it and go from there and not worry to much about an exact match. I really like the class and I have to email Beth and she emailed me back and answered my question and sent me another template to use. I was having problems with the template that I downloaded from the BP website so she sent me one from her and that worked. I guess that I I did something to mess up the other one and I could not figure out what I did to it and I could not get it to work at all and I was almost going to give up and not finish the class or the mini book. I have got the mini book almost finished and when I do I am going to upload to the BP website. I uploaded the Color Swatch Book to the gallery and I got an email from Beth (personally) about it and I really thought that was very nice for her to do. I am also going to take the class "Coast On Through" June-June 21, I got the kit the other day for that class. I know that it said that we didn't have to buy the kit but if you are going to take the class, I thought why not buy the kit to follow along and not feel left out of the class. I also have been working on the class that Stacy gave for free "All About Me" and then I did the "What is in your Bucket" also and I just finished the mini book for that one. Stacy's book "The big picture" came about 3 weeks ago and I have been doing the tag book that is included in the book and that was a lot of fun to do and I traced more tags so that I can add more to them ad I find things that I want to add. So I have not been scrapping layouts lately and I have to get back into and I have really missed it but I have made cards for Mother's Day and I did 4 birthday cards in the last week. 3 birthday cards were for the ladies that are on the MB at KNK and 1 was for my best friend here and she called me and was crying because I gave her a handmade card for her birthday she is a softie and she always cries when she gets a card from me. Anyway I am going to do some layout sketches and then watch American Idol and House. Have a great day and thanks for reading my blog!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

At least I am not crying today

Today is a better day than yesterday was, I had cried alot yesterday that my head and eyes hurt. I sat in my room and did nothing but think about how my life had changed and what a burden I was on my parents, but I fianlly realized that I am not a burden on anyone and I need to learn to accept what has happened to me and go on and be myself and love myself.
I got a hair up my rear end today to rearrange some things that I use alot and wanted to move them closer to my desk, so I didn't have to get up and get them out of the drawers so I moved the magazine holders and put the drawers on the table and then I put the KNK kits that I have had in a paper holder and then I put them on top of the drawers, so they are easy to see and I can use them and not let them pile up and have a stockpile. I am also trying to get all the papers and cardstock into vertical storage and I now know how many that I have to get in order to put all my papers in. I saw on Srapbook.com had a coupon for the Cropper Hopper storage and instead of $24.99 they are $13.50 after the coupon and the it is good until the 18th of May so I might be getting a couple more of them and then I should have enough for awhile. But then O have another problem of where to put them but that is not a problem that will stop me from buying them. When I was at Wal-Mart I was in the Clearance Isle and there the Scrapbook bag that I have had my eye on ever since they came into the craft department and it was on clearance for $10.00 instead of $40.00. It is the mimi bag-- Pink and Chocolate bag and I had to dig for that color, at first all that I could find was the Stone & Chocolate or the Green & Chocolate and then I moved the a couple of boxes and the last Pink was there and it went in my basket and I was happy. I went to the checkout and Mom and Dad were in line a couple of lanes away and when I got done I was waiting on them and Dad saw what I had and he made a face and later on, Mom told me that he said that if I get anytjhing else for scrapbooking that I am not going to have room for me. But that won't happen because I can always move some stuff into the other room that is if I ever get busy and get it cleaned out and rearranged to have room for more junk.. But when I suggest going in there and starting Mom always has an excuse and I am not doing it by myself again and I am not going to move things like I did in my room. That put me out of commission for about a week and I paid for it in the amount of pain that I had and I don't want that again and I am not putting myself through that. So I am off to work on the BP class "Color Me Happy" and see what I can find to do after that. Thanks for reading my blog and Have a great day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :) :)

Today Really Sucks

4 years ago my life was about as normal as everyone else's and that changed all because of a boat accident. That accident changed my life into a roller coaster ride that not only affects me but also my parents, instead of me taking care of them they are now taking care of me and will have to for the rest of my life and that is not what is supposed to happen at all. If only I would have listen to my inner voice not to go but the boys had convinced me to go and they had said that they really wanted me to go, so I went and it really changed my life. I blame Bill for it and he blames me and says that if I was sitting in the seat that I was supposed to be in that I would not be in the chair but if it was meant to happen then it would of happened in the other one also so it is not my fault and I guess that it is not really his fault either. If he would of said that he was sorry that this had happened to me then maybe I would not blame him but he has never said that he was sorry or anything, the only thing that he said to me was that he would not take responsiblitly for the accident and that he would not pay any bills so I better get a job and start saving my money, but he was the one that caused me not to be able to work in the first place and he is not taking responsibility for that either, in 1998 he was taking to work and it ws raining and he had rear ended another car and I was thrown into the windshield and had to have surgery in 2000 for a pinched nerve in my neck from the accident. I had to have my neck fused, because in the accident I had a dislocated vertabra in my neck and they could not fix it and while they were doing the surgery I foumd out that I had congetially fused vertabra and they had to fuse the rest of them to make my neck stable so that is what they did and the end result was that I was not able to move my neck enough to be able to work, cannot drive either because I cannot move my neck up, down,side to side if I have to turn my neck I have to turn my body to look at what is on the side and I have learned to compromise and it has been hard to learn to do that. But I hav eovercame alot int he last few years and I am better for it and I have learned not to take anything for granted and live each and every day to the fullest and stop and listen to music along the way. I just wish that I didn't have to burden on my parents and Mom needs to help me with certain things but she does and that is the what life dealt me and Ihave to live with it and that is what I am trying to but today is really hard but Iam going to get through it and THANK GOD I am.

Pictures of My Scrap Space

This is my scrap space in my bedroom and it is still a work in progress but right now I am happ with the setup. The next thing I am going to get is another desk and a separate computer desk. Until then this is what it looks like

Finally Updating Blog!!!!!

I have finally gotten time to sit down and update my blog. Well.................... On Saturday I went to my very first crop, and I will probably never attend another one. I can stay at my house and scrap and not have any one to talk to. The only one that talked to me was the woman that had invited me to the crop, her name was Maria and she was the one that helped put on the crop. The other woman was a nice lady and she was trying running around getting things for everyone. She had a 6ft. table that was full of Stampin Up! stamps, there was half a table of Alphabet Stamps and the other half had the othere kind of stamps. She had every kind of stamp that you could of wanted to use on your layouts or cards. I thought that I was a Alphabet-olic but Jennifer had me beat big time. I had taken the 8X8 album that I got from QVC, it is the second installment of the TSV from February, and that is what I was working on the first part of the day, and there were a couple of ladies that stopped by the table to look at my album but other than that there was no one that really talked to me or included me in the conversations. That was ok I just sat and listened to them talk and watched what they produced in the way of layouts and such, and some of the layouts that I saw were not what I called good. I saw some that looked like a child had done them. A couple of ladies had said that they had been published and they showed the layouts and I didn't think that they were all that good to be published, but that is my personal opinion and that doesn't count for a whole lot since I am afraid to send in any thing to see if they will publish anything that I have done. I don't want to be rejected and that is why I won't send in anything. But I am thinking about sending something in to the Card Maker magazine and see if they will publish it. Anyway, I was really disappointed with the lunch that was served at the crop, I was told that there was a Salad Bar, the bar was a bowl of Ceasar Salad mix, Ham.Cheese and dried fruit and the salad dressing Itaian and some kind of vingerettre and that was it and then for dessert there was mini brownies and that was it for the Salad Bar and dessert. Needless to say, I didn't have a much of a lunch. Had a little salad and ham and cheese and no dressing and a mini brownie. Then outside for a smoke and I was the only one that smoked too and then I went back in and sat alone utnil I decided to call Mom to come get me. I was tired anyway and I was beginning to hurt alot and it was only getting worse the longer that I was sitting. I got almost the whole 8X8 album done by 12 and from then until I left at 2 I was working on making cards. The cards that I made I ended up throwing them away when I got home. The stamps that were there for us to use were no in very good shape and some of them were almost brand new and they looked like they had been soaked in ink. I guess that I am picky about all my things that I clean them up as soon as I am done with a particular stamp and I make sure that they are cleaned and dry and put back where they belong after I use them. When I stamp I make sure that all the ink is off of them and they are put back. Some of the alphabet stamps that I tried to use where not the best and they were not stamping right and when I finished with them, the card did not look right and when I got home they looked crappy and I was not happy with them so in the trash they went. I have 2 Mother's day cards and 4 Birthday Cards to make in the next week and I have no idea what to do for them. I am working on 1 Mother's card for my dad to give to Mom and then I have to make her one from me and then 4 birthday cards to make and mail out so that is going to keep me busy for awhile so I better get it to.... Thanks for reading my blog and Have a great day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My printer broke!!!!!!!!!:(

I was printing out the class directions for the class that I am taking at Big Picture Scrapbooking and my printer broke and I had to call to see if the warranty was still in effect, which it should of been since I only got it in January of this year. I had printed a few pages when the printer started making a funny noise and then the dreaded paper jam happened, not once but twice. So I had cleared the first one and continued printing and then the other one happened and as I was clearing the jam and there was a plastic piece that came out with the paper. Then it would not work anymore, so I called Lexmark and the gentleman that I was speaking to was very nice and he said that the printer could not be fixed and he checked to see if the warranty was still good and said that he would send me a new printer and I would have to have a print cartridge because they don't send one out with the printer, that was ok cuz I just put a new one in the other printer and I took the cartridge out and threw the old printer in the garbage and waited on the new one to come. Well, it came today and when I opened the box there was a new print cartridge in the box so now I have a extra and the way that I go through ink I will need it in the next few weeks. I like the new printer because you only have to buy 1 cartridge instead of buying 2 of them. One print cartridge doesn't print the best pictures but it does a great job on everything else and that is all that matters since I have a photo printer anyway. I like the photo printer and the way that it prints photos. Even though I tried 5 times to print a picture and it kept coming out wrong and I didn't know why until about the 4 time and finally dawned on me that the ornenation was wrong and changing that printed the picture the right way and I was happy. Tody I finished the Mother's Day Cards for my grandmother so I can get them in box with her mini book that I had made for her and am finally getting it in the mail. I made the cards that I am sending her, she really likes the cards that I send to her, she thinks that I am very talented and she says that I have quite the imangiation to think of all the card idea that I have sent to her. So Iam hoping that she really likes the book and the cards. Ihave another Mother's Day card and a birthday card to make before Mother's Day and then I have 4 cards to make for the ladies of MB that I am on, and then I have to start over again for June but hopefully I can get ahead of the cards and not have to rush every month and get cards made. I really like to make cards and making people smile when they look at them and think that someone really cares about them to make them a hand made card.
Thank you for reading my blog and have a great day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Scrapping day today

I am going to do some scrapping today and block the world out. I have let everyone bother me when I scrap and today I am not going to let anyone or anything bother me this weekend. I have cards that I need to make and there are some layouts that I have ideas to make and if I let them they will be driving me crazy and I don't want that. My freind Jay will probably show up later this afternoon and he will drive me crazy for awhile but by then I will be in a place that I can take a break and will probably need one by then and he won't stay that long anyway. He has been bringing me supplies form a friend of his that had a scrapbook store up north and failed and he kept the inventory and was going to start on here but things have not worked out for him so they are selling things to friends and friends of friends and Jay has been bringing me things and if I need or want them then I buy them and he has brought me a Sixxix die and I have told him that I can not use those because I don't have the machine to use and the machine is a little big and right now I don't have the room or the money to buy it and Jay said that he was going to buy it for me, I would really like on but I have a QuicKutz actually have 2 handles and the Oliva and Typist alphabets and then have some shapes and am on the Auto-Delivery from QVC for the shapes coming every 90 days until 4 shipments so I have 3 more to go and then I have the Alphabet punches and that is all that I have and have really wanted a Sixxix but couldn't justify buyiong 2 die-cutting machines and really don't know if I want 2 but if he brings me on I will thank him and make room for it and try to use it. I really like Jay but he has the bad habit of mummbling and talking under his breath when he talks to me and Mom and he was here the other day and he was saying something and Mom told him to open his mouth and talk and stop mummbling all the time and he thinks that it is funny. I am always telling him "I can't hear a word you are sying talk up and stop mummbling" and he then speaks up for that sentence and it is right back to the old way and I am always yelling "Can't hear you". It gets old telling someone to speak up and tal right. He is from Boston and that is part of it but he just doesn't pay attention to how he speaks and how other people hear him. He reminds me of the gangs that talk so people can't hear them or even understand them they have the own language and menaings and so does he at times I think. He will usually say "I was talking to myself" or "I wasn't talking to you" and then he ask "Why don't you answer me?" It gets quite confusing around here sometimes when he is here and it really drives me crazy at times. I am really happy that I finally got my room looking like I wanted it to be and it still needs to be painted and the carpet needs to be replaced but that will come in time and that will be the last thing done though. I need to find a desk and computer desk first and then I will start to look for a nice replacement for the carpet that I ruined by cigarette burns and the marks from my wheelchair and the dirt tracks that won't come up so when I start looking for the replacement of the carpet I want something that is going to hold up with the wheelchair and the rolling chir for my desk. I was thinking about laminate florring but I don't know how that is going to work with me transferring from the wheelchair to the bed and back but I will have to investigate what my choices are and how much the stuff that I want is going to cost to have put in by them and not me. There is no way that I can put the floor in not that I wouldn't want to do it, there is no physical way that I can or even try at this point in my life. Jay says that he will do it but I am not going to let him do it either, he wouldn't know how to do it and I would be a nervous wreck the whole time anyway.
Well my Dad is having problems with his bladder again. He has been to see the Uroligist and he has a yeast infection again so he has to see the Infectious Disease doctor again. He had an appointment with the Cardiologist yesterday and while they were gone the Infectious Disease doctor called and wanted to see him yesterday afternoon and he went and they put him on another anti fungal medicine to clear up the yeast and he goes back in 2 weeks to see how it is and if not any better he will have to go back on the anti fungal again for about 1 month and he takes enough medication now and he is taking another 2 now and he has no idea what he takes he only knows the colors and the size of the pill and when he talks about them he says you know the little blue pill that this doctor gave me and say no I don't and he gets mad and yells Yes you do. We have told him that he needs to learn the names and what they do so if someone asks and Mom is not around he can tell them what he takes and how much he takes and more importantlly what they do, but that will never happen and hopefully either Mom or I will be around tohelp him. I get 2 of his medicines mixed up in my mind and I have to watch what I say around him because he will get mixed up too and that is not a good thing. He takes too many to memorize but I am trying to do it so he doesn't know, he thinks that I don't need to know what his business is but what he doesn't know won't hurt him.
Mom is finally feeling better and so am I. Stillhave the last part of the cough but nothing like before and it is going away, stillhaving the runny nose and watering eyes but can put up with that as long as the cough is gone for the most part.
So I am off the scrap and have fun. Thank you for reading my blog and Have a great day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Finally a normal day around here

Finally there has been a normal day around here. I am finally feeling better and I am trying to get back to my normal routine and I am trying to get back to scrapping during the day. I am usually up at 5 in the morning and then by 6:30 or 7:00, I am so sleepy and tired that I am back in the bed watching the inside of my eyelids and then next thing that I know it is 9 or 10 and I am mad at myself for going back to sleep and there are things that I wanted to do and it is not too late but in my mind I think that it is and it is only 9 or10 in the morning. I am trying to get back into the routinue that I had before I got sick and the rest of the house too but anyway I would get up and read the paper and by 6:30 or 7:00 I would be on the computer, checking email and reading blogs and reading MB. I am not doing that and I miss that and I am going to try to get back into as soon as I can. Today I did 2 Mother's Cards for the Design Team and they are their way to the website and hopefully they are going to be posted soon so everyone can see them and appreciate them. I am trying to think outside the box and make layouts and cards that are not my usual style and if you ask me what my style is I can not answer that because I have not a clue what style is and I have been trying to answer that and I still have no clue what to say to that.
Jay has been bringing me some scrapping supplies and he has been bring me stamps that I will never use and stickers too and I have decided that I am going to start a box that I will put the stickers and stamps in and when Katie comes she will have something to use when she does a scrapbook that she wants me to help her with so she doesn't have to use my stamps and stickers she will have her own. I appreciate that Jay brings me these things but he has no clue what I want unless I tell him exactly what I want or need and he brings me alot of things that I will never in a million years use but I thank him and put them in a bag and put them in the closet for Katie.
Off to scrap some more and make cards for Mother's day for my Mom and Grandmother....
Thanks for reading and Have a great day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It has been awhile since my last post

It has been awhile since I was last here and posting and there is not a really good reason why and I am ashamed that it has been exactly a week. I have not been feeling really good and I have been doing things around my room and the house like laundry and cleaning the bathroom but that is normal everyday things that should not get in the way of things that I love to do like scrapbooking and writing on my blog and venting to this instead of fighting with Mom or Dad all the time and that is one thing that I don't want to do is fight with them.
So I have finally gotten the shelves up and things put on them. I had taken all my cardstock and papers out of the holders they were in and stacked them on the shelf and when I came back in the room on Thursday I had found that all the papers had fallen off the shelf and were laying all over the floor and there was nothing else that had fallen off so I picked that up and laid them on the bed and off to the store we went and when I came back I had to resort the papers and put them back up and they were staying so I forgot about them until later that night. I was watching TV sitting on the end of the bed and all of a sudden the 3 drawer box that was there (there is 2 of them sitting side by side) and the one that had all the eyelets and snaps and things in it fell off the shelf (the same one that the paper did) and the stuff in it went everywhere and I had to spend the next hour and half picking up Tags and eyelets and rub-ons off the floor. That was the last straw with that shelf so when I got back from getting my nails done and going back to Wal-Mart on Friday I decided that I was going to find out why things were falling off of it and I got my level and tape measure out and I went to work. First it said that it was level and there was nothing out of line anywhere so I was checking the support bars and one of them was not quite tight enough for me so went and got the electric screwdriver and a hammer and I took the screw and molly out and there was already a hole there cuz when Jay was putting them up with me he was in a hurry, as usual, and he missed the first hole so there was another and that is the one that was supposed to be used but he didn't use so I did and now the shelf is not slanting toward the front but also the 3 drawer boxes are now sitting on the floor just in case they were too heavy to be up there and I don't want anything falling on my head when I am sitting at the desk doing scrapbooking or writing on my blog. On Wednesday after we got our hair done, Mom took me to Home Depot to look at some magnetic paint and a hardware bin. I needed another bin to store chipboard pieces that I had acquired through the swap and there needs to room to grow. I am getting a collection of things that I need to be handy and that is there most handy that I can think of without sitting on my desk and there is no room for that and I don't want a bunch of stuff cluttering up the workspace that I have now. The next big purchase that I am looking to make is a new desk and computer desk that are separate so that I can spread out when I start scrapping and card making but so far I have not been able to find what I am looking for except online and by the time that I pay shipping and handling it is going to cost more than the price of the desk and the computer desk combined and I am still looking though. I will find what I want soon I am sure and when I do then the scrapping area will be complete and I will be a happy camper. I am happy that the shelves have worked out and now is the waiting game for the desks. My friend, Jay has been getting me a lot of scrapbook supplies. One of his friends' sister had a store that went out of bussiness up north and she has tried to find space here but has not been able to find what she wants so she is selling things out of her home and Jay has been buying stuff that I have wanted but not the money to buy all at once so he has worked a deal that he gets supplies that I want and he works off the price which I have told him is not fair to him since he doesn't use this and he said that he will not take money from me to pay the price and I have only told him a couple of things that I really want and he has brought them to me and now he brought me a pocketful of punches yesterday. There are a couple of them that I will not use but I am not going to look a gift horse in the mouth and turn them down. I am waiting to see what is going to happen with the stuff that he is suppose to bring today abd if I can't get what I need then I am going to have to surf the net and find what I am looking for, I need a medium square punch for a couple of classes that I am taking from Big Picyure Scrapbooking. I have debated about whether or not to take them and finally said what the hell they might be fun to do. I have placed a couple of orders with the Stampin Up demo and I have talked to her on the phone quote often but have never have met her until this past Tuesday when she dropped off the lastest order for me, no it wasn't stamps at all, I had been looking for the white pen from uni-ball and noone was carrying it but SU was and I had ordered that, a embossing buddy and Stazon ink pad and she had given me a spook of their ribbon and there is a lot of ribbon on those spools, there is a lot more than I thought there was and there is more than you get from the store so I might be ordering my ribbon from her from now on since there is so much and I use ribbon on all most everything that I do....... Can't have too much ribbon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I wish that I could but all the ribbon on spools but I get ribbon with all n=my kits and they are usually only a yard so it is easier to put them in a container and use them that way. I couldn't find any containers that I really liked and if I did like them there was only a couple of them and when I checked to see if they had gotten any more of them they were out of them and only had a few of the other kind so I wanted them to match and the only way that they were going to match is if I could get a dozen or more of them and the only thing that came in dozens were canning jars. I didn't want the quart ones but now I wish that I had a few of them for the most popular colors, so I got the pint jars which are just right for all the colors and the ones that I need bigger ones for White and Blue ribbon but that is ok I can always buy more pints and use more than one for each color. I am using the paper holders to put the jars on and then have one on top of the jars for the others one and they work just fine and they all match and you can see what is on the inside of them and look pretty sitting there on the shelf. Then I have 2 ribbon boxes that have holes on the side for the ribbon to poke through that I got from HSN and then I have a cigar box that the ribbon ends are through the top and you can pull with you nned without opening the top and they are not getting tangled up and all messed up all the time. I am still trying to figure out how to make a ribbon holder out of a cigar box that I can drill holes and put a dowel rod inside that the spools are on but I have not figured out how to do it without a lot of troble and rigging something up and that is why I did the one cigar boz like I did it. I could ask my Dad to help me but then he would ask me why I was trying to do this and then it would be a big deal and he would have to think about it and it would never get done and if I would not want to do I would not ask him to help me and Mom said that she would help me but that has never happened yet and it has been a month since I asked for help designing the thing and noone has to help me make it that I can do it myself just give me the materials and a little directions and I will do it. I made me a magnetic board from a bullentin board and it is hanging on the wall as we speak and it looks pretty good and it woks so that is all that matters to me and I am proud that I did it myself and had fun doing it. So I am going to try a figure out how to make a ribbon box and then try to make it work like I need it to work and then make one or two of them when I get more ribbon spools but all I have is 1 right now so it is no hurry to get one done and there is a Ribbon Take Out kit comin g from KNK in June and I can't wait to see what it looks like. And then I get Shoebox Trims and Self-Addressed and they are all come with ribbon and they are usually a yard so in the jar they go. You would think that I would have enough ribbon to last for a lifetime but I don't and I am always on the lookout for more and if I happen to find any that I like then I buy it and it goes in the collection and it grows and grows, but that is ok with me and if noone likes it they don't have to look at it.
I am in the process of starting to buy stuff for weddings so that I can do Liz's wedding album when she gets married, I am doing it so that I don't have to rush and try to find what I want and need and when she gets me the stuff that I need I can work on it and not have to wait for stuff to come. I can't wait to get started on it, I have alot of ideas for this and I am hoping that I can make it look like in person that it is in my mind and make it look great.
Well that is all that is happening with the Wheelchair Diaries and you are caught up with the stuff happening here. Thank you for reading my blod and Have a great day and come back again....~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ :):)

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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Going to be a hell of a week

My Dad had a chemical stress test done 2 weeks ago and the Cardiologist called last week and said that he needs to have a Heart Cath done because he has something that is not right and they need to look at through the cath. So he is having Lab work done on Monday ot Tuesday and then I have to have my Morphine Pump refilled on Tuesday and then on Thursday he is having the Cath done at 7:30 am. So Mom and I are going to sit there and wait to see what they say is wrong with him and if they have to put a stent in or they have to break a clot up he will have to stay in the hospital for a night and that is going to be a pain in the ass because as soon as the phone is open in the morning he will be calling and wanting Mom to be there and sign him out and bring him home. I understand that he doesn't like to be in the hospital and he wants to be at home but Mom can not bring him home until the doctor says that he can and the urses get his discharge paperwork done and explained to him and he is the most impatient person that I have ever met and he is also so rude to the nurses and aides and he really means it too. Alot pf people thinks that he is joking and really he isn't but they think that he is and then Mom and I get embrassed and have to aplogize to people and explain that he really doesn't mean it. I have yelled at him before because of the way that he acts towards people and he and I have got into a yelling match because he thinks that he is the only one on the floor that has a need and he is usually the last one that they get to because of his attutude and the way that he talks to them and I for one don't blame them. When I worked in the hospital, if they were demanding and rude then they got my time when I was done with the others that I had to take care of and they would get what they needed and that was all they would get until I could explain to them that I was not their personal maid and I had others that needed my help just like them nad they had to wait theur turn and ususally that worked and I had no more problems from them for the rest of their stay. I am hoping that Dad is not going to have to have another 5 bypasses like he did right after I got hurt in 2002. He went in for a Cardiac Cath and the next morning he was having 5 by-passes and then the trouble really began. Since that day, he has been getting progressively worse with forgetting and not knowing what day of the week it is, his medicines he only knows by color and shape and when he talks about them he says "You know the little blue one that I take" and we look at him and say No and then he gets mad and starts yelling the little blue one that this doctor gave me. Mom and I have both told hom that he needs to know the name of them soif he happens to be by himself and has to go to the hospitalhe can tell them what he takes and not the color and size, but he won't listen so he carries a card in his wallet with the medications and his allergeries on it and his allergeries there is alot of them too. So this week is going to be stressful as hell and there is nothing that I can do but hang in there and do some scrapping to relive the tension.
Mom is rid of the hives and now she is complainig about the blowing of her nose and coughing all the time. She is still taking the Prednisone and Zrytrek so she is still blowing her nose but today it is getting better and she has no energy at all and the slighest thing she is out of breath and weak in the knees and she has to sit down and rest.And all she has done is complain for three days and it is getting on my nerves and Ihave to bite my tongue so I don't say anything that will hurt someone's feelings and I don't want to do that.
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Scanning and uploading Pictures

I am in the process of scanning and uploading pictures that I am going to use in some new layouts with the papers from the April KNK Kit and I am going to use the kit from February and March with a few of them. I was reading the Creating Keppesakes website last night and there is a contest for the Scrapbooker of the Year and I had thought about it for about 2 seconds and then changed my mind, there is so many more scrapbookers that are way better than me and I would not even place in the top 100. I look at my layouts and think that they are not worth the paper that they are printed on. There is a lady that lives in Sarasota and has been published in several magazines and I look at her's and they are not very good they look like they were put together by a kindergartener and they are being published and then I think why can't I be published but I guess I need to submit layouts and get on Design Teams and build my scrapresume so that I can be proud of what my hobby is. I love to scrap and make cards and make people smile when they open a handmade card from someone they know. I have made 2 cards this week for 2 ladies that I know and I hope that they like them and they will at least look at them before throwing them away and maybe they wil even keep them like I do, if someone spends the tiem to make me a card then I have a box that they go into and they stay there. I had a card that someone had made me when I was in the 3rd grade and just recently it had gotten thrown in the trash by mistake and I was heartsick about it and wish that I would of scanned it and had it in the computer. That is why I am doing the pictures and the things that I think are important and then I upload them to Shutterfly.com so that they are at least safe if my computer crashes and I lose everything.. I have some pictures of the dog that we had when I was little. He was a Basset Hound and we had him since I was about 5 or 6. I remember when we first got him, Mom saw a ad in the Shopper's Guide for a 6 month old Basset, housebroken and shots so she went to look at hima dn brought him home. He was the biggest puppy that I ever saw and he just kept getting bigger and bigger as he grew up and that was the best dog that I ever had. His name was Zeke and he was my best friend and would listen to me when I would tell him my tales and he would sit and let me do anything that I wanted to and when we would watch TV in the living room I would use him as a pillow until he had to go out and get in the room with Dad. Zeke didn't like to be in the backyard he wanted to be in the front on the rope that he was always on. The rope was about 6 feet long and it had knots in so bad that if you really pulled on it it would snap in two but Zeke would go to the end and stop he wouldn't pull on it and the stake that it was tied to was one of the tomato stake that wasn't in the ground to good and if Zeke pulled hard he would be loose but he never did and that is what is amazing about him. He didn't like people to walk up the driveway un less he knew them. We used to have the Charlie Chip man come deliver potato chips every Saturday and he usually would give Zeke a handful of cookies or chips and on this day he was in a hurry and forgot and Zeke chased him back in his truck, and he had to yell fro Dad to come out and get Zeke to let him up the driveway to deliver the chips. It was funny though. Zeke would go with us when we would go for bike rides and roller skates and skateboards, we got a rope and tied Zeke to it and have him pull us around the block, he would do good until his nose would pick up a scent and he was gone with us in tow and dragging us until we got big enough to stop him from pulling us. Tjhe Basset that I have now is a female and she is so lazy she won't jump up on my bed I have to lift her rearend to help her up unless hse knows that I have something to eat tehn she wil jump up there but not very often. She has her own recliner in the living room. She used to be allowed on the furniture but she would get really happy and dig on the couch and Mom stopped that she is only allowed in the recliner. Noone else sits in there anyway and that is where Boots sleeps. She is allowed on my bed and that is it as for the beds, Mom got a new comforter and that stopped Boots form getting on the bed after that but since Mom got a new featherbed it is so high for Boots sort little legs to get up there. I got a new featherbed too and that is why she has a hard time jumping up on my bed. I am going to do a few pages of the pictures of both Boots and Zeke to see the difference between them which is a big difference.
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