Here's To a Good Week

I saw this "Rasta Kitty" on Oh So Cute website and it made laugh. I love the dreads and the costume. Too cute!! I need as many laughs as possible nowadays because my health has not been so good. I go to the doctor today to schedule my surgery. Not looking forward to it, but I know it is something that must be done.

Okay Today Was Better

Much better than yesterday. I was able to complete two tests for one of my classes and got A's on both of them. My Mom cooked a wonderful meal for the whole family (which is delicious as always). Got a chance to catch up with some old friends, and I was able to get some scrapbooking done. Here's hoping to a good week :)

I'm So Upset

Okay, so I have been sick lately in and out of the hospital and have not been able to get out much. So, since I have not been able to drive myself to my favorite Scrapbook stores, I decided to order my supplies online. I ordered from FOUR count them, FOUR different websites..And can you believe that so far two of the websites who have delivered my orders have gotten them WRONG!!! I am so upset!!! And I'm not talking about just a missing item. I'm talking about absolutely nothing in my order was correct and I think that I received someone else's order. I can't believe it and I am so disappointed. At least one of the stores offered to send the correct items to me AND even told me that I could keep the incorrect items and apologized, so I do feel better about them, but the other store I have not heard from and now I'm getting nervous about the remaining two stores that I ordered from ugggghhh!! Just going to chalk it up as a bad experience...and to my local Scrapbook stores..HERE I COME!!

Oh My Gosh Tim Holtz Rocks!!!!

I just went to Tim Holtz's blog and he is giving away these stamps that are to DIE for!!! I love his techniques and style. I just created a scrapbook not to long ago using alot of his techniques and lets just say my family wants me to make them some now! LOL

Week One

Okay so it's been a week on my plan..So how come I havent lost 60lbs yet? LOL..Sometimes I wish you could just take this long belch and all of the weight would just fall off as you belch (If only it was so simple)..The sad part is that I can't exercise yet because of medical reasons and I get winded doing just the simpliest of things..BUT Good news is I got on the scale this morning and I lost WHAT?? five pounds..WOOHOO, Go Erika, Go Erika..okay I'm calming down now...Well on to week two..

Not the Normal

Okay, so I never start my new eating plan on the 1st of January. And alot of times I dont start it on Mondays, but I have GOT to get to my goal weight this year!!!! I will be 37 in September and I am DETERMINED to do it this year. I have some medical problems that I have to get past first but I dont want to use that as an excuse to not get started at least on the eating. Right now I dont have enough energy to go up my stairs in my house without sitting down for 20 min, but hopefully one day I will be able to get back to my exercise routine where I was working out 5 to 6 days a week and taking one day off for rest. So in the meantime "in between" time, I will work on eating alot healthier. Today I made THE BEST SALAD!! Actually, I had one for lunch and dinner it was soooo good. I drank all of my water today and was not tempted one time to stop by my co-worker's desk (she keeps a jar of chocolate all the time). So I did good for day one..On to tommorow...

P.S. Had to cool off on the tea also..Just when I found some that tastes so good!

Much Better...

Okay today was MUCH better :). Although the lines were still quite long, the stress of it all was not there today. The students seemed more content and the staff is pretty happy that the weekend is in sight. And boy did I stress eat this week. Ugggh, will definitely start my diet on Monday. But the bookstore ordered this new Sweet Tea by Coca-Cola called Gold Peak and it is sooooooo good! My friend Liz introduced me to it and I think I have bought a bottle every single freakin day this week!! LOL..they are running out of it like crazy because so many people love it. Man, I need to start my water regime but this is going to make it hard..Would like to reach my goal weight before my birthday in September, which I feel is doable (lol is that a word). Anyway, will have to come up with a plan so that I can fit into these clothes that are in the back of my closet..

Wow is All I Can Say

And I dont mean that as a wonderful wow. I mean man what a day..actually what a WEEK so far. Work has been soooo crazy. I thought we had most of the "crowd" or "students" before we went on our two week break but it seems like it TRIPLED when we came back!! The lines are long and endless, people getting impatient, the computers are crashing and we are having to manually search for classes for the students, it just frustrating the students and the staff as well. Will be so happy when this week is over!!! Calgon take me away please :)

Man, I am STILL TIRED!! LOL..I have got to get my body back on track before I go back to work on Monday because it is going to be soooo busy! Registration starts for all of our Cross-Enrolled and Transient Students at the College and they are normally there at 6am waiting to get into classes that are already closed and we have to give them the bad news. That's the only part I do not like about it, but as the week goes on it gets a little better. Couldn't find my glasses this morning, so I found my gray contacts and decided to put them on, only to find out that my RIGHT eye did NOT want to take the contact!! So of course I had to take a picture because it was getting so frustrating and I had to make light of it. Ugggh one more day...

Wow What a Day!!

Okay, so yesterday I watched my 1 month old nephew and my 4 yr old niece. At first, it was supposed to be a couple of hours, but they were so good and they were taking a nap when it was time to go home, that I offered for them to spend the night. Hehe, you can tell this was my first time because I did not realize that by letting them sleep the majority of the afternoon for their "nap" that they would be UP for the rest of the night!! LOL..Needless to say I did not get them to sleep until 5:20 am and did not go to sleep until 12 pm today (24 hours later!) Now I am up late, writing this blog because NOW I CANT GO TO SLEEP! LOL..Oh well, lessoned learned.

Okay,
Really didn't have much to blog about this month. Have been really busy planning my parents Anniversary, my older sister gave birth to my niece, alot of pictures were taken of course for my scrapbooking :) and I got sick towards the end of my vacation (ugggh). I go back to work on the 5th and it is coming up quick. Trying to leave the weekend open so that I can just relax before I go back (Hopefully, that will happen). Anyway, I will end this blog as the last blog for 2008 seeing that it is 11:53 pm. Woohoo come on 2009!

Are you an Alien Too?

I got this off of Jessica Sprague's blog. I thought it was pretty interesting, because I could actually read it with no problem :) Check it out:


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Nothing Much To Talk About

Today is Saturday and I am so glad. Only two more weeks and I get two weeks off from work. Woohoo! That's the great thing about working at a College, you get off the same days the students do. Anyway, today I think I am going to do some scrapbooking. I am trying to finish a complete album by the end of this month. I am tired of being a scrapbook "collector" In other words, I go to the scrapbook stores or any craft store, see all these amazing papers, embellishments, etc and buy them and end up storing them away and not doing anything with them. Next thing you know I am going through them trying to give some away because I feel I cant use them. Well not anymore. My goal is to do at least two pages a week and complete an album this month. I LOVE the new magazine that just came out by Simple Scrapbooks. Just when you think things have slowed down with scrapbooking, they come with something else amazing. So after I complete my regular album, I will definitely being trying some of the ideas in this magazine!

Justin Timberlake is SO FUNNY!!

I love when Justin Timberlake is on Saturday Night Live (SNL) all of his skits are sooo funny! Especially this skit he did with Beyonce...

Black Friday WooHoo Got Some Good Deals!

Oh My goodness..I went to two scrapbook stores today and "Really" stocked up! I was sooo happy! Both stores had 50% off the entire store and I went crazy :) I already have an unlimited supply of papers (But I believe you can "never" have enough paper if you are a true scrapbooker) but I also got alot of embellishments and stickers that i have always wanted. Now I just have to start using them! It has gotten to the point to where I felt like I was a "collector" of scrapbooking supplies because I wasnt doing any pages, but now I have made it a goal of mine to do at least one page a week to make it feel like I have accomplished something...

Hello All,

My name is Erika and I am new to the "blogging" thing. I have been following several blogs for years and finally decided to make my own. I love to scrapbook, so I feel like this is an extension of my "hobbie" :). Thanks for visiting my page!