Friday Fill-Ins # 175

And...here we go!

1. Salsa and Margaritas!!! Oh, yeah, and chips too.

2. All these gifts for me, and you've even got mustard.

3. By the time I get home I am ready for my family.

4. The ending is what I look forward to most when grocery shopping.

5. And I was dreaming about you all night.

6. Hugs from my girls and hubby ... is there anything else better?

7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to Pizza and Survivor (it's really the family time I look forward to), tomorrow my plans include Fundraiser Breakfast, Stamp Club and a hair appt, and Sunday, I want to be adored all day long!

What's near your wallet?

I reached in my purse yesterday to get out my little "make-up" bag. I don't keep make-up in there, but rather a little bottle of lotion, a chapstick, hand sanitizer and a little container for various pills (aspirin, allergy, etc...). It was an allergy pill I was after, because I had forgotten to take one at home. Anyway, when I pulled the "make-up" bag out of my purse, here is the scene that was presented to me:
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They are toys that my GIRLS play with at restaurants. I usually have them in a little tin with some other small toys, but the girls got a bit carried away with racing them at the table. Now after seeing this in my purse, I am not so sure that it isn't the CARS themselves that got carried away.
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Do you think they have been racing around my purse?

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I do.

Wordless Wednesday (almost)

10 Days. 2 Gnomes. 1 Duck. 1 Reindeer.

I need to fly really, really fast. Or I need a time machine...

I have a busy schedule this week. It started Sunday really. Sunday DH and I made 435 flower pens. YUP! FOUR HUNDRED and THIRTY FIVE. We make and donate them every year for the Elementary School PTA Mother's Day Fund Raiser. Usually I spread the production out over a few weeks time, so as not to make sore fingers and thumbs. This year, however, I almost forgot about Mother's Day. I remembered Saturday that Mother's Day, in the USA, is May 9th. So, we spent a great deal of the day Sunday making the pens. (We also watched AVATAR. I loved it.)
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Yesterday I had the normal kid pick-up, grocery store trip, homework battle, and I also had a Track meet and flower pen delivery. ALL before dinner.
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Today I have to get one kid (3:45), cart her off to riding lessons (4:00-ish), double back to pick up other kid, get dog food, get people food, then go home and feed the dog and the people. (Hopefully with the right foods.) BUT, somewhere in this mix, I HAVE to stop at the bookstore and pick up a book. And it's all her fault:
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Charlaine Harris is the author of many books. Some of them are about Sookie Stackhouse. Today the latest one in the series is available. I have held off from ordering it online, for really cheap, because I want to touch it TODAY. I don't want to wait. If I don't get one today, then my self restraint will have all been in vain. We can't have that now. Can we?

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Oh, yeah, and I can't leave work early because I am stuck in meetings with some really important clients. ALL DAY type meetings. It's bad enough that I shrugged out of lunch "to get some work done", so I CANNOT leave early.

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So wish me luck.

Menu Monday

Monday - Spaghetti with meatballs, and salad

Tuesday - Kielbasa, oven fries, steamed green beans and salad

Wednesday - Chicken with asparagus, rice and salad

Thursday - Fast food and salad

Friday - Pizza and salad

Saturday - Fish Tacos, refried beans and salad

Sunday - I'll let someone else decide, and salad

(You may have noticed that salad is listed each day. I have decided that we are going to turn into rabbits and, therefore, we must get used to eating rabbit food. I'll warn you before the transformation.)

Heart the ART & Opus Gluei

My oldest daughter has been rather, er, ah, uhm, trying as of late.

Don't mis-understand. She isn't knocking over banks, or knocked up. She is just impossible to please.

She's just 15 going on bitchy.
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Don't worry sweetie, mommy won't let you fall into the volvano for real, it's just make believe.

Anyway, I made this journal page to release some of my frustration. It will be printed out and placed in my Heart the ART journal for week 12. The pages I am making are not going in the book in any particular order, so I am really not worried about the week number. I didn't really stick to the topic. I'm not Irish so an Irish blessing just didn't feel right. But this quote, hit the spot. I also made this page for Opus Gluei's 53rd Challenge - Can I quote you on that?

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I also made a bookmark for the Opus Gluei challenge. I read a lot, and usually my bookmarks are receipts or napkins (not used). I thought it was time for a proper bookmark. Especially when I saw the wonderful free kit that Gina is offering on her blog. Thank you Gina. She offered it in honor of InterNational Scrapbooking Day, but I think she'll be okay with a bookmark today.

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I printed out the front and the back as one 4x6 photo, scored down the middle and folded it in half. Then glued it together, inked the edges, punched a hole and added a scrap of ribbon I had from a previous project.

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I am offering the 4x6 jpeg if you'd like to print out a bookmark for yourself.

Just go to Opus Gluei and pick it up. And join in on this weeks challenge.

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You'll have fun. And you can QUOTE me on that.

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Hope you like these projects, and I hope you don't hate me for wanting to mentally dunk my teenager into hot lava.

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It's just that sometimes......

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Opus Groupei Buttons are now available...

You can post this button on your blog if you have ever joined one of our challenges.

That's all you have to do.

It's not a well known fact, but there might be random sacks of candy sent to Groupei's on occasion.

The Poobah's just might get a wild hair and send out surprises to someone if they spot the button on the sidebar while blurfing.

Just sayin'...