Things I have learned from close friends, ex’s, and parents

Things I have learned from close friends, ex’s, and parents

This list below happened to me or I was a part of it somehow.

1) Never Crisco someone’s car because the paint WILL come off
2) Coy fish make great pets for the bathtub
3) Make sure when you’re parked in a parking lot to look to see if there is a barrier in front of your car
4) Never assume you’re so cool that you can drive your car in the surf of the ocean.. Otherwise Livvy to the rescue.
5) When you live in the mountains don’t let your cat go outside because there are bigger things out there then he is..
6) Never put a fish in a wax cup to clean out the fish bowl. If they can’t see out they think they are suffocating
7) Always take money or checks out of the envelopes people send you otherwise you might literally be throwing money away.
8) Never name your daughter after an ex girlfriend even if it is your wife’s idea.
9) Once you’ve been married and divorced twice, just realize you’re not good at marriage and stay single.
10) When a good friend tells you he wants to show you the MODEL apartment know he has ulterior motives
11) Never park a beater car on a sloped street in San Francisco
12) Eating the whole apple won’t cause an apple tree to grow in your stomach.. ha ha
13) If a Paraguayan is walking towards you with an ax, he’s not a threat, he’s golden!
14) Don’t take troubled kids to sandwich shops they just end up robbing the place later
!5) Hitchhikers aren’t always bad
16) Driving threw a puddle of water at high speeds can cause your vehicle to roll
17) For all my foreigner friends remember to always keep the shower curtain inside the tub

New York City

My cousin Jamie and I were talking about going to New York sometime this year. Well thanks to Southwest Airlines we can.. They were having this amazing sale and we just so happened to get tickets one minute before the sale closed. We got tickets for $90 each way. I'm excited because I've never been. Its always been my dream to go there and see a few Broadway shows. We plan on going to the Met also. Jamie has a few friends there and they are going to let us go to the dress rehearsal one night. I guess its a pretty big deal since their security is so high. No one gets to do that! I also want to visit the Statue of Liberty, the Empire State Building and ground zero. There is a whole lot I would love to do but there is only so much one can do within a 3 day period. I also want to see my cousin Jason who is there. He has been living there for a while.

Sunday Scrapping

I didn't get much scrapping done this week because I threw my back out last weekend and our regular church craft nights, where I usually get a lot of stuff done, have been "Prep for VBS" nights instead. :-)

I finished the layout of my brother coming home from his deployment last September:

as well as a 3 page Christmas LO.

Although I didn't do this week's Sunday Scrappin' challenge, working chronologically keeps me inspired and these were the next pictures on my list! If you want to talk about challenges though, my sil, Leah, has commented a couple of times about how she likes that I usually use non-traditional colors for Christmas layouts. So I've begun challenging myself to do so whenever I can. The 3 page Christmas LO I did this week was aqua blue, neon green and bright yellow with a touch hot pink and orange.

Anyway, there is a group of five of us ladies that like to scrapbook at our church. (Wani, my sis-in-law Lehi, Kara, Toni and myself) We've started informally calling ourselves the Scrappin' Sistahs and have been getting together on a semi-regular basis for over a year now. Last month, Lehi issued a challenge which Toni won. This month, I've decided to come up with a challenge for the group too. It's fun and gives us a personal goal, you know? Here's the challenge sketch and Wani's entry. (she's always the first one to complete a challenge):

Check out her whole post...!

And here's my page, which I completed this week. I turned in on it's side, which is why it looks different from Wani's. I hand-drew the white title on the black cardstock. The whole title reads, "Pictures of joy prove life isn't a dream":

I want to invite all of my readers to participate. If you like to scrapbook and are interested (to more people we have, the more fun it'll be!) use the sketch in the picture as an inspiration for your own page. You have about two weeks to complete it...it's due on Monday, July 20th. I'm also adding a twist. The title must be at least 50% hand-done and I will also be taking into account the words themselves. Is it an especially creative or poignant title, like Toni's was in the last challenge? Or is it poetic? Especially meaningful? A clever play on words? Send a pic to my email or blog. arshuman@sbcglobal.net and feel free to invite others to participate---the more the merrier!

Picado Fino

Picado Fino

La edición de Julio de la revista Fierro contiene un Picado Fino editado por Caro Chinaski, cuenta con la participación de Mosquito, Clara Lagos, Ernán Cirianni, Fran López, PowerPaola, Delius y Vior.
¡Corran a su kiosco más cercano!

(Argentina)

Sunday Scrappin', a day late!

I know this Sunday Scrappin' post is late, but I threw my back out Sunday morning and couldn't even sit up yesterday, let alone get on the computer. That same day, our router bit the dust, so until Wednesday, we can only get online occasionally. Are those good enough excuses? :-)

Anyway, I did get four pages done last week. I finished the layout of my brother coming home from his deployment last September, (sorry it's dark)

as well as a 3 page Christmas LO.

This wasn't this week's Sunday Scrappin' challenge, but working chronologically keeps me inspired and these were the next pictures on my list! If you want to talk about challenges though, my sil, Leah, has commented a couple of times about how she likes that I usually use non-traditional colors for Christmas layouts. So I've begun challenging myself to do so whenever I can. The 3 page Christmas LO I did this week was aqua blue, neon green and bright yellow with a touch hot pink and orange.

Anyway, there is a group of five of us ladies that like to scrapbook at our church. (Wani, my sis-in-law Lehi, Kara, Toni and myself) We've started informally calling ourselves the Scrappin' Sistahs and have been getting together on a semi-regular basis for over a year now. Last month, Lehi issued a challenge which Toni won. This month, I've decided to come up with a challenge for the group too. It's fun and gives us a personal goal, you know? Here's the challenge sketch and Wani's entry. (she's always the first one to complete a challenge):
Here, check out her whole post...!

I want to invite all of my readers to participate. If you like to scrapbook and are interested (to more people we have, the more fun it'll be!) use the sketch in the picture as an inspiration for your own page. You have about two weeks to complete it...it's due on Monday, July 20th. I'm also adding a twist. The title must be at least 50% hand-done and I will also be taking into account the words themselves. Is it an especially creative or poignant title, like Toni's was in the last challenge? Or is it poetic? Especially meaningful? A clever play on words? Send a pic to my email or blog. arshuman@sbcglobal.net and feel free to invite others to participate---the more the merrier!

If you've read this far, thanks for bearing with me! I don't know when I'll actually be able to post this, but in the meantime, have a great week!

Remember the hat lady

As my husband would tell you, I have a problem.

I buy clothing and forget to take the tags off. Now before you have visions of the woman from Hee Haw with the price tag dangling from her hat, I DO eventually take them off. Just not until I wear them for the first time. And the problem is that by that time, if they are not in my line of sight, I often forget. Many is the day that BD grabs a tag on my shirt, yanks hard, and a price tag falls to the floor. He thinks it's pretty funny but it's quirks like that that make us unique, right?

Anyway, today, I put on a new shirt and noticed the tag protruding from the shoulder. So I grabbed it and pulled. And pulled. It didn't come loose. My brow wrinkled in consternation. After all, BD makes it look so effortless. I know he has those big, strong muscles in his arms and all, but surely I'm strong enough to break a little plastic tag. So I tried again. I pulled harder. I yanked so hard that my fist snapped back and...and...and I gave myself a bloody lip.

Yes, ladies and gentlemen, I'm just that kool.

love and flabby arms

My ten year old loves to squeeze my upper arms. Even though it's the part of my body I dislike the most, I grit my teeth and let her because she does it out of love. But all that squeezing must have left her with some nagging questions.

Mama, when I grow up, will my arms look like yours?

What do you mean, honey?

I mean do all grown ups have those flaps on their arms?

(I once again grit my teeth and smile.) Your arms don't have to have them. If I did special exercises, they wouldn't be that way.

(She tilts her head and looks confused.) Why don't you do those exercises?

(By this time, I'm getting a little defensive.) Do you think I look bad, Izabella?

No! (She runs to me and hugs me close.) I love you, Mommy. (She pulls away and pats my arm and I can tell she's just genuinely curious about the changes a person goes through to get an adult body. To her ten year old mind, people don't look good or bad, they just either love her or they don't.)

But I've been doing my special "upper body" exercise tape ever since!