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Yes, I crashed the computer. I let a huge virus in and James spent over 12 hours fixing and cleaning and doing whatever you do to get rid of viruses. I felt so horrible. But it wasn’t really my fault!! I was just deleting 90+ emails I get to one of my email accounts. (I read them on Thunderbird; it splits the screen so that it opens the email automatically.) Well, I was just going down the line deleting them and what do I get for my hard work? Twelve hours of James cursing at the computer (“mother f*cker!”) sorry, James!!!
I’ve been busy watching all 6 seasons of Sex & the City. I don’t have cable, so I’ve never seen the show, never been into it. But my sister put it on for us when we were scrappin at her house and she leant me all the dvds. I am now on season four where Carrie just said yes to Aidan!!! Can I just say that I love Aidan??!? When she cheated on him last season, I hated Carrie. I keep telling Aidan to get out while he still can… he’s only going to get his heart broken. sigh And I love Steve! He’s such a cutie!
This is my last week. It’s gotten to the point where it feels like summer vacation – I don’t know what day it is, I sleep to late. All I want to know is, what happened to summer vacation? Why do kids get it and we don’t? Is that the big difference between adults and kids?
I got so much done at Michelle’s house last week. I made my ATC’s and two layouts. Here is one of them, the other one is not finished quite yet.
It’s a picture my assistant took of me at work. It’s funny, everyone always talks about how they never do layouts about themselves. I was just going thru my books and I’ve found a TON of layouts about myself. Maybe because James is always taking pictures of me? Or is it because I just am feeling so much about myself, all my fears and worries or whatnot and they all come out on the scrapbook pages. Or maybe I’m just vain?
I gotta get back to my show!
Hardly, but tonight James taught me and my sister some tricks & tips in Photoshop. He’s so talented 
You know us scrapbookers are all into photography and photo editing.
Look at what I can do now:
here’s a pic of Stonehenge my dad took on a trip to Europe recently:
and here’s the new picture:
here’s another pic my dad took. This one is the flat of our cousins:
and after their home makeover:
here’s my nephew (can you see the trend? We’ve improved all of my dad’s photos! JK)
He taught us so many tricks! How to do vignettes, how to change photos into b&w, how to accentuate the catchlight in a person’s eyes, color correction. James, is there anything you can’t do? So much fun, and now I can edit my own photos without having to call him at work to ask him how to do something. Well, maybe….
Isn’t it wonderful when you find a place that you absolutely love? That’s how I feel about Thursday’s Salon. It’s a wonderful spa and salon way the heck over in Calabasas. But you know what? I don’t care. I will drive to the ends of the earth if that’s where Angie, my ’stylist’, is working. It’s so wonderful to have someone who understands what you want, who discusses your options, who really listens to what you want to do. I’ve had so many hair cuts where I’ve brought it a picture, and they tried to emulate it, but it didn’t work. But I LOVE my hair!!!
Before:
I had James take a pic of me right before I went in for my appointment.
Me after:
Excuse the washed out-ness of the flash
And also, if you are in LA and in the market for a smog check, go to LC Smog Check in Rosemead. I went there last year and he charged me only $40! So, when I came back this year, he not only remembered me, but he gave me $5 off. So I got a smog check for $35. That’s not common around here. One place by my house charged over $60. And the guy was so nice!
So those are my plugs for the day!
I finally got around to making this mini flower album that I’ve had forever! It was so much fun, but I have no idea what to do with it. I haven’t decorated it yet, just covered it with the paper from my self-addressed kit.
We’re off to take my FIL to lunch. We’re going to try Off Vine. I’ll let you know how it is. 
Then my dad is picking me up and taking me back to Vegas for the week!
~ciao
This week, we have a theme…bloggers!
1. She loves coffee, the darker the better! (actually, I don’t know anything about coffee, so I don’t actually know if she likes it dark. But it was all I could think of!)
2. He loves all types of photography .
3. This blogger misses her kids .
4. Unfortunately, she’s not blogging lately!
5. Giving information about herself is not her strong suit; in fact I do believe she’s not a real person, ho hum.
6. Her food fascinates me; I love that you can smell (and taste) her food just by looking at her pictures!!
7. What are you doing this weekend? Tonight I’m looking forward to hanging out with James, tomorrow my plans include seeing my friend Eleisha perform, and Sunday, I want to celebrate Father’s Day!
Finally got around to scrapbooking the other day. I usually create a lot of stuff and then I have to stop. I guess my creativity burns up pretty quickly. That’s how I am with knitting too. I finish one project and stop for a long time. It just takes so much out of me! I do not have a never-ending flow of ideas.
But I got three pages done and I’m working on a mini album. I developed a TON of film last week. You will not even believe this. Some of this film was from my last semester of college! That’s right, back in 2001. So the quality of the films not so good, but whatever!
This one is my “little sis”, Coco, on Initiation Night. SAI girls, am I going to get busted for showing this? Haha… I swear there are no rituals showing!
This one is from the Wedding. These are the Clarks, James’s godparents and their kids. I just absolutely love them! They hadn’t seen James since he was a kid and I had never met them before, but they just jumped right in and helped *so* much!
And look at what I got in the mail from Wilna? Remember how I said that I won her RAK for the Scrap in Style opening? Well, I thought I was just winning the new Show & Tell book from Making Memories, but I got so much more! I was so shocked. Thank you Wilna!! Look at all the MM goodies!
I I decided to scraplift one of Wilna’s pages that I love so much. Her work is so artistic and I had so much fun making this, that I think I’m going to be using more paints on my layouts.
This is Irene and me at the music center. Again, a picture from 2001 – I can’t even remember what show we were seeing.
Thanks ladies for the much needed well wishes from my last post. I know I was ranting like a mad person, but that’s what happens at 5am! Since that post, I have gotten back to more normal sleeping hours (I can finally lay on my stomach again! Yay!)
~ciao!
In the days of old, before this wretched surgery, I was the biggest sleepy head on the planet. I would take naps in my car during my lunch hour, come home from work and take a nap while I waited for James, sleep all day long on the weekends. I even bonded with my brother in law over the wonders of The Nap. Every night James and I would go through a routine that looked something like this:
L: Oh! It’s 10 o’clock. It’s getting late. I’m going to bed
J: What?!? Don’t go to sleep, hang out here with me.
L: James, I have to get up early tomorrow. I’m tired.
J: You’re always tired.
L: You would be too if you had to get up at 6:30 am every day for the last 6 years…
Proceeded by me running away to the bedroom, where I would read for about 10 minutes and sleep soundly. I’ll admit though, before the surgery, I was unusually tired, just falling asleep all the time.
I can barely remember those days.
I guess my body was just giving me a send off, getting all this nap time because it knew I would never sleep again. In the first few days after the surgery, I slept in a vicodin induced haze. But now, I am dealing with a) not being tired, and staying up until the crack of dawn (like right now) and b) being extremely tired, but not being able to calm my mind enough for me to stay asleep (like 4 hours ago)
I sleep on my stomach. And I toss and turn in my sleep. So, not being able to lay on my stomach is the most difficult habit to break, and having to favor this pain and the effed up muscles makes it even harder. Or I’ll get restless leg and have to get up to stretch. Or just go to the couch and watch Classic Arts Showcase until the sun comes up (which is a wonderful program by the way) Or try to sleep in a semi-quasi-on my stomach, half turned, propped up with pillows position which only works until my stomach starts hurting again, or my neck feels like it’s going to break. Or, and this is the best one, finally falling asleep, but then having the craziest dreams which stress me out to the point of waking, and then not being able to close my eyes without these images running wild. Fun! There’s nothing worse than being so insanely tired and not being able to sleep.
So, in the meantime I will just blog until my head crashes down and wake up when the sun rises. Too late.
Dammit, birds, shut up.
Sleep, if you’re out there, I miss you. We were the best of friends and I don’t know what I did wrong. I’m sorry if I took you for granted, but just know that I am thinking about you every night
For those of you who participate in Emily’s Deck of Me challenges, you may be interested to know that Tammy has set up a blog for all us ladies who participate. It’s Friends of Em (on my blogroll). It looks like it will be a lot of fun; she’s starting an artist of the week and includes a list of Emily’s challenges, for those of you who aren’t caught (myself included!). She also has a link to Emily’s Deck of Me webring, which you can join (ahem, Michelle).
It’s a nice little community of talented women who participate in these Challenges. And up it’s so much fun to see everyone’s interpretations!
Happy 1st day of June! This week, we’re going to have a theme–fictional characters So fill in the blanks with them; please do refrain from using your husband/ wife/other non-fictional character!
1. I wouldn’t toss Jonathan Ryhs Meyers out of bed!
2. Borat has no appeal for me whatsoever.
3. A good dream would involve me and Legolas; we would save Middle Earth (if you know what I mean).
4. The sexiest man or woman in the movies is Batman (Christian Bale); the sexiest man or woman on tv is Tommy Donnelly (from the Black Donnellys)
5. Spike from Buffy portrays a wicked villian.
6. Me and Mr Darcy (Colin Firth) would make a great couple.
7. TGIF! Tonight I’m playing Sims2, tomorrow my plans include playing Sims2 and Sunday, I’ll probably play Sims2!
For those of you who want to play along, visit Janet
