Mindless Monday

Man, I didn't even do that much this weekend it seems like, yet I'm exhausted today! I did do a lot, I just didn't do a lot of what I wanted to do. I think that's why it seems like I didn't do anything, lol.

Friday night I managed to finish this super cute project to bring to work. I used Cosmo Crickets Lacings Cards and their Halfway Cafe line of paper to create it. It's currently sitting atop my computer tower looking oh so pretty. Here's a few quick (tiny) shots (no time to resize, sorry! LOL)!

"Front"



"Back"



Saturday was a beautiful day. I got up early and stopped at Dunkin Donuts, then went up to a friends house wtih goodies to see how she was doing. She was doing wonderfully and I was so happy she was so soon after her surgery. We talked and inevitably lost track of time and I was late to help load the van for the off site for the shelter. But Bonnie said everything was a mess anyway so it didn't much matter, lol. We spent 3 hours at Thompson Automotive in Dundalk and had 8 dogs and a bunch of kittens ready to go home for adoption. We raise a bunch of money and got 4 dogs new homes! So exciting. I snapped a few quick shots of some of the charges for the day.

The kittens

This cute lil guy is Walker and he had a home before we even got the van fully unloaded!!

This is Bear. He's an Australian Cattledog and a total lover. Unfortunately his breed, personality, and energy level are going to make it really hard to place him. His breed either needs acres of land to run on, or animals to herd, or another job that he can do, otherwise he will most likely lose his mind. It's sad, but it's a fact of life. I've got my fingers crossed for him though.

And this lil lady is Snow White. She found herself a home as well!

I also had the same charge as last weekend, Crimson. I brought along Tiger's prong collar to see how she responded to it, and it was amazing. She did just what Tiger did; turned into a completely different animal when the collar was on! Hopefully I can get up there next week and work on walking with her. I'd love to continue training her with the prong, I think it'll really up her chances at adoption.

I went home and absolutely passed out, lol. I was exhausted!! That night I lounged around with Jman and watched a whole bunch of "West Wing" episodes (he loves it and has me addicted too) from the box set he bought recently. I passed out pretty early, or at least I must have cuz I was up at 6am on sunday morning! LOL! I rolled over a few times, but once it was about 8 I just couldn't do it anymore. We turned on the tv and snuggled in bed for a while. A friend who is moving into our place after we move into our new house was coming by with movers to load some of her furniture downstairs. So I decided to start packing up the dining room. Jordan had brought 5 boxes home on saturday (like Xerox box sized) so I started wtih those. Well I have lots of pretty and breakable things on the bookshelf in there, so he went and got more boxes and some bubble wrap (amongst much anger at the price of bubble wrap). 4 hours later, the whole dining room was packed, the bookshelf was disassembled, and all hanging artwork was down from the walls and stacked against a wall.

Then my dear dear bf commented on how miserable it would be packing all my craft stuff up. So I started in on that stuff too! 6 boxes of craft stuff later, I predict another 4 will be needed. I think it's a sign I need to use more and purchase less, lol. Not that I let that stop me! Heaven's no!! Hahahaha.

I have several altered projects for friends that somehow made it onto the back burner recently. So I must must must finish those soon and send them out. Then I need to reorganize my craft desk. I failed to mention that the catalyst (aside from said dear BF) for apcking the craft stuff occurred when my entire top shelf toppled over and fell behind the dresser. Paper and stickers and rubons EVERYWHERE!! Naturally the craft desk stuff was thrown askew, so that's a mission for this evening.

Alright, that's probably enough rambling for today. If you've made it this far congrats! And your prize? Another freebie template!! I changed this one up a bit from a LO I saw in the most recent Memory Makers magazine. I can't wait to create something with it myself! Perhaps tonight.....

You know the deal. No direct links, give credit, etc etc etc.
I hope you all have wonderful days and evenings (whichever is pertinent to you!).

PS~I'm working up some 8.5 x 11 templates, so keep coming back throughout the week!

Yikes I'm so behind!

Wow I really fell off the wagon there for a few days. Thursday was super busy at work, friday was a half day, and the weekend was, well, the weekend! And yesterday was a half day too. The new hours will take some getting used to, that's for sure. I don't like this early morning nonsense! Lol!

So Kim B. "tagged" me. That means I have to tell you 7 things you didn't know about me, and then tag 7 other ppl. Which is next to impossible, lol. So I'm just gonna tell you 7 things you didn't know about me, and hope that's good enough! I'm including pictures, cuz I can. But I'm too lazy to resize this morning. So enjoy my giant face plastered on your screen ;o)

1.) I'm an '05 Penn State graduate with a BS (which still makes me giggle) in Civil Engineering, and sometimes I still wish I was in college cuz I miss Penn State THAT much.
Me at the Nittany Lion Shrine

Old Main (I love this shot)

2.) Depending on my mood I'm either a big softy, or stubborn as a mule.

3.) I love brocoli and cauliflower, and hate carrots and peas.

4.) I'm an avid reader thanks to my parents. I hope to pass my love on to my kids as well.

5.) I'm head over heels in love with my BF (and soon to be finacee once he finishes his big proposal surprise trip), and thoroughly believe I'm the luckiest girl alive.


6.) I used to drink coffee like it was going out of style, but now can't. Unless it's iced and from Dunkin Donuts and has carmel :oP

7.) I constantly worry that I don't do my job well enough compared to a man, yet still have concentration issues regarding chatting online and surfing the web. Pot, meet kettle. ;o)

Hopefully that was mildly interesting. :o)

So friday, I don't even remember what I did on my half day. Pathetic. So it must've been gloriously relaxing. Saturday I got up early to help at an offsite adoption event for the shelter I volunteer with. I was in charge of a pretty 3 year old lady named Crimson.


After that we headed down to VA to hang out with Char and Z and get drunk and BBQ. It was a glorious time. Tiger got to swim in the pool:


And I got hammered. I don't even remember this picture.


Good times were had by all! Sunday was then a designated recovery day. I spent it laying around, drinking gatorade and eating crackers. For some reason I decided I HAD to make chocolate chip muffins, so that was fun. They're here at work now and still delicious. I lounged with my man and watched the last 4 episodes of The Soprano's, even though I have never paid much attention to the show. I tend to pick up on things quickly and get sucked in, lol. I also started going through all of my scrapbook magazines (there's 3 or 4 dozen of them!!) and tearing them apart. I pull out interesting articles and LO's that inspire me, and then throw away the rest that is unused, lol. It will greatly help cut back on stuff to pack once the big move comes around.

I continued that endeavor yesterday afternoon (and will probably continue tonight, lol). And thank goodness, "The Closer" is back on TNT! And what a great first episode of the season. I love that spunky lil southern girl, lol. Comedy and cop drama make me happy.

Well. I think I've sufficiently rambled for now. Hopefully I can get to work on a template or two, or maybe a LO during lunch. I wanted to play in CS2 on friday and ran out of time. I need to get it on the laptop at home. That would make life grand.

A quickie

No not that kind, get your mind out of the gutter! ;o) I threw together a quick layout this morning using adorable pics I took on sunday morning. My friend Sue and I took part in a rescue transport. All the dogs were from southern states where they were in kill shelters. If rescues up north (NY and NJ in this case) hadn't saved them they all would've been pts by now. Sue and I had the fun of traveling with Lady Bug, 10 puppies, and Dylan. Lady Bug had 4 puppies of her own, and the other 6 were ones she was a surrogate to. The shelter basically took all the nursing pups and gave them to her. To her credit she took them on as her own, even though it drained her already emaciated body to produce all that milk. Since her pups were slightly younger, they were getting pushed away from her nipples by the others. I spent most of our 90 minute ride nursing the sickly ones with a small bottle. Thankfully, we got them all in much better shape. Only one little guy gave me a scare at the end of the ride, but the next leg got some water in him so he should be doing just fine now. Poor momma needed a break from all the pups and end up climbing over the seats and falling asleep curled up at my feet. She was such a doll, I really hope she gets a good home.

Anyway, further proof that I ramble. But here is the lo. :o)

Credit to Miriam Lima for her Fresh Linen kit, and Tracy Blankenship for her May template #4. (Eventually I'll link those I give credit to I swear!).