Horray for Friday!!!

Horray for Friday! I thought you would never come! Hopefully the day flies by as I'm wanting to curl up at home all weekend in my nice warm house (as it is to be very cold this weekend). Unfortunatly I do have some random assorted tasks to accomplish in the process and hopefully between Matthew and I we can knock everything off ASAP.

My day started out with a good laugh though. As I was reading through the morning paper, I found a hilarious ZITS Cartoon that I had to find online so I could show Matthew. I couldn't resist posting it here either!! If you know Matthew, you'll understand why this is funny!! I think it's funny in general though! I also sent it to our favorite piercer, Kathi. I'm sure she'll get a kick out of it as well. I think ZITS is one of my favorite cartoons. So many of the strips remind me of things I've done, said or friends I've had.

I tinkered with my favors last night at home. I think they will come out quite nicely when everything is said and done. I also finished up the invitations (minus embellishments the kids are going to do). Everything is coming along nicely.

My mother and I are going shopping this weekend to find some embellishments for the favors as well. I put the word out to those coming to my favor day because you never know what you can find where .... hopefully we'll have a nice arrangement of embellishments and ribbon from everyone. I can't wait to see!

I finally spent a gift card yesterday someone gave me for my birthday (only took me several months... LOL). Matthew and I needed calendars for the house so I bought three at Barnes and Nobel. One for the fridge and one for over my desk. I was really impressed with the one I found for myself. I bought Matthew a Dragon calendar. I thought it was only fair since our 2007 calendars were Troy Polamalu and cats.... figured I'd let him at least stare at something he liked for the next 12 months.

I bought myself a page-a-day calendar for my desk at work with cat cartoon humor. Some of them are really funny and I think I'll even save a few just for my amusement. I might use them in the scrap book I'm making for Artex. They are very fitting of him! Who knows.. no sense in wasting good embellishments though! The cartoons are black and white so they can be easily colored and the way the dates are on the page, I can easily cut those off as well.

Finally, the wall calendar for my desk is simply gorgeous. I've never seen one like it so I had to buy it. It's a 3-D fairie calendar. The pictures are lovely and very beautiful. I love the calendar. I'm going to hang it over my desk in the baby's room (as it even fits with the decor there as well). I think the calendar is geared for kids, but I don't care. I love it!!! It'll give Arabella something else that is beautiful to look at in the room!!! I may even save it after the year and use the designs to decorate something, who knows!!!

Well time to get things done today!

Happy Over The Hump Day

Happy Hump Day! Finally it's wednesday and now we're over the hump. This week is just dragging on and on. It has been a nutty couple of days though.

I finally made a decision on the favors and even grabbed some of the stuff for them yesterday. While I was in Washington, I stopped at Target to blow my $50 in Gift Cards I got as an incentive for filling out my health profile at work. (FREE MONEY). So I bought the two games for my DS that I'd been wanting (Well two of many I've been wanting). Mario Party and Vocabulary Builder. Both very addictive!!!

I didn't get much sleep last night because of the storm. At about 3 this morning it sounded as though someone was shooting paintballs at our house. (YES THAT IS HOW HARD IT WAS RAINING). I made Matthew turn on the TV to attempt to drown it out. We were listening to the political crap so what could possibly be more boring! I still didn't sleep well. It kept waking me so now I'm super tired!

Surprisingly for as nasty as it was last night, it actually looks nice outside. The sun is shining and it's not really cold. I wish I was outside and not stuck indoors. It sucks the weather is going to be icky again. I can't believe the crazy weather we're having.

I keep seeing the insanity that's going on in central states with the tornados, floods, and stuff. Didn't they just get through the Ice Storm not even a month ago! It's devestating!!! It also reminds me of the movie "The Day After Tomorrow". Really makes you think.... That movie was just on too! I mean, it's not exactly the same but unexplainable weather in the wrong season, sounds a lot like what we're getting right now. I mean it's freakin January and most people are walking around without coats on!!!

I just keep hoping we don't have bad weather next month for the baby shower (though that'd be my kind of luck). Keep your fingers crossed for me. Preparations are actually coming along nicely, if we could just get the list of guests finalized. My family is just too huge, plain and simple. I want to invite everyone but I just can't and it sucks! Ah well, we'll get it together sooner or later.

I think I'm stopping to get some Dairy Queen on my way home. I've been wanting a blizzard all day. Perhaps it's a craving, but I know that's what I want on my way home. I don't know what to think though because Ice Cream for me is a norm. I love it and wanting it isn't that unusual.

Well time to take down the Christmas decorations at work. FUN TIMES! I was actually enjoying looking at the pretty purple Christmas tree!

Whirlwind Weekend

Ah where to begin! Matthew is finally starting to feel better. There's times he's feeling good but it seems he's still a bit run down from being ill.

Yesterday, Shower preparations really got underway as we started making plans for all the things to be done. We're working on favors (I'm taking suggestions if anyone can think of anything good to give as baby shower favors), the invitations, and a few other bits and pieces. Things are really starting to come together and I'm so glad!

My friend Leeanne and I went shopping on Saturday and I bought a ton of stuff for the baby scrapbook. I've been looking for the scrapbook for quite some time and up until this weekend I couldn't find ANYTHING I liked. I hated most of the traditional baby books I found in Walmart/Joanns/Etc because they were either pink, gaudy and ugly or had way too much junk on the front to really customize and make it my own (which I love to do). Finally at Walmart I found the perfect book, though it's pink it's very me and very customizable.

I choose a pink book with butterflies and flowers. It had a lot of room to work with to really make the book stand out as a unique scrapbook so I'm quite thrilled. Over the weekend I bought a ton of paper and embellishments and really am just ready to go with the book. I'm so excited!

I've also been on the hunt for a journal. At the baby shower, I wanted to do the advice jar, which went over as a great idea but upon chatting at the shower meeting on Saturday the idea of doing it as a journal instead was much better. I could easily loose the pieces of paper from the advice jar after the shower, but a journal book would last forever! I was thrilled with the idea. I've already found embellishments for the cover, the book has been a little more difficult to find. Matthew and I went to about six different stores hunting for a book and the best I found was an art sketch book because it was one of the only BLANK covered books I could find (so I could decorate it on my own). If anyone knows a good place to find a nice blank journal, let me know.... I'm sure I'll find one somewhere. I've got time still, but as a last resort... I'll get the sketch book.

Today has been a bit crazy. After shopping for a bit, I started cleaning up the back room. It's really not that there's a LOT I need to do before Matthew can paint... it's just most of what needs done I need him to do because I can't move it! It's mostly a matter of rearranging now. I've already cleaned for the most part.

Well, back to work I go. I'm sure I'll find some more time this weekend to write.