BPS Scrapping in Season Class Layout

I am finally getting my creative juju back. Here is a layout I have had in the back of my mind for a bit. May Flaum is a great instructor with TONS of inspiration.

In real life the layout is squared off. I don't know why my camera took it to look like the page is warped. Couldn't possibly be the operator. Could it!??!?!?!?!

Milagro Heart

I finally did one. I made this Milagro Heart for the Big Art Adventure Challenge.

I am so happy with myself. I love all the challenges there and always have good intentions, but...

I just can't keep secrets. Shhhhh, don't tell anyone

Rosemary and I are working on a joint project. I am excited about it. I can't tell you what it is, but I can tell you that it will be very cool. Stayed tuned for updates...

Sick Day

My poor Melissa is sick. She has a UTI and a fever of 103.5 before ibuprofen and 101.3 after ibuprofen. She was complaining that it hurt when she went to the bathroom the week I was gone. I found this out yesterday when Danny called me after he had taken her to the doctors for the pain in her side. I knew about the pain in her side because I was home on Sunday when it started. I really feel bad for this little girl. I think she is going for an illness a month in 2009. Remember she had boil butt in January. Well she didn't get chocolate prescribed with her medicine this time. Maybe March will be a well month.

Danny took off with her yesterday, but today is my day. She woke up with a 103.6 fever and barfing. So I am doing laundry. You all know I don't do laundry. Danny does. But this couldn't wait. Plus he made dinner yesterday. And it was really tasty. He made Tequilla Lime Steaks, oven baked potatoes and fresh steamed green beans. I am having leftover steak and green beans on a salad for lunch today.

I am SO grateful that my boss is as understanding as he is. I just was out of the office for a week and now I am out in the middle of the week. He has 3 boys around the same ages as my girls. So he knows how these things happens.

Cruise Pictures

You have been so patient reading my posts. Here is a little reward.

Looking aft. (That' toward the back of the ship)

That glass enclosed space is the Crown Viking Lounge. Great views.

These are the elevators in the center of the ship. I think they are really neat.

And a bit scary to ride in.

Sculpture in the "lobby" area. They call the Centrium.

You can see the elevators in the background.

Pictures that include Stephanie and myself will be forthcoming.

Cruise 2009 - The Real Story - Day 3

I may have mislead you with the title of these posts. By day 3 you would tend to think that it was the 3rd day of the cruise. It was really the 3rd day of my vacation and only the 2nd day of the cruise. Okay, enough of that.

We were scheduled to stop at Coco Cay, Royal Caribbean's island, for a leisurely day on the beach. The weather was not so cooperative and the seas were too rough for the small boats to take us ashore. So we were "stuck" on the ship. I wasn't too dissapointed. I really don't like myself in a bathing suit these past few years. But now we were on the ship. It was way too windy to walk around the decks. Too early to really drink. So Steph and I went exploring on the insides of the ship. We were just wandering when we stumbled upon the SPA. Can't you hear the music! It was heaven. We each got facials and massages. How decadent is that?!

I managed to make it to my stateroom afterwards. And proceeded to hold my bunk down. I mean we were at sea and you never know when a rough wave will come along and toss your pillows about the stateroom. I was having none of that. Plus there was a TV in the room. AND I had the remote. Steph was off somewhere. At that point I really didn't care. I HAD THE REMOTE. I watched some chick movie. Don't know the name. It had Meg Ryan, the lady from Will and Grace, Bette Midler, Cloris Leachman and lots of other folks whose names I have no clue. Oh yeah, and Eva Mendez. She has one hot bod. Then Mama Mia came on and I started watching that too. I know you are thinking "You were on a cruise and you watched TV". BUT I HAD THE REMOTE. I had to take advantage of the REMOTE. I never get the REMOTE at home. Plus it was my vacation and my plan from the get-go was to relax and do what I wanted when I wanted to do IT. Whatever IT happened to be at the moment. And then IT was TV. Now back to the story. Steph came back to the room and questioned me. Much like you just did.

We ended up watching the movie and then it was dinner time. Sit down dinner time. The dinner where we were waited upon. No, no wine. Yes, a sourdough roll and some of those yummy little sundried tomato and poppyseed bites. I'll have the shrimp cocktail and cesaer salad to start. Oh, the beef medallions with garlic mashed potatoes and asparagus spears sound good too. And to end it all was the most amazing dessert Banana Nut Crunch. It was some sort of fluffy banana pudding with little chuncks of banana and macadamia nuts in a flakey graham crust. HEAVEN. I am not such a big dessert person but this one was eaten entirely. Not a crumb left on my plate.

After dinner we went to the nightly show. WOW. There was dancing and singing. It was really nice. Then some shopping. I ordered bracelets for my girls from the chain-by-the-inch place.
Then we went up to the CROWN VIKING LOUNGE for a night cap. A 360 degree lounge. We had pulled into Nassau early to try to accomodate for missing out on Coco Cay. Steph and I agreed to stay on the ship that night and go into town the next day. We had a wonderful view of Nassau from the lounge. We talked with another couple. It was very relaxing. It was an early night. We wanted to be ready for what ever the next day would hold for us.

Optimistically Pessimistic

I have ALWAYS considered myself an optimist. The glass is half full. The rain brings flowers and rainbows. Only recently, today, am I questioning myself.

Anyone who knows me is scratching their heads and saying, at least in their heads, HUH????

Here's what I am talking about. I recently, Friday, had a "tiff" with DH. He hurt my feelings, as sometimes happens in ANY relationship. I automatically had us in divorce court fighting over the silverware and the pillows. I was preparing for the worse. I wasn't mad at him. Just hurt. Imagine if I had been mad... Yikes. Shutter, shutter.

We have since worked it out. We always have. And always will. But for those few hours I was gloom and doom. Why is that?