awake

I'm awake...so awake. I better not be useless tomorrow. My weekends have felt so short in part of my sleeping til almost noon. Richie's passed out but he has no problems sleeping. I feel bad though because he has to wait for me to wake up to do things. Hopefully this will straighten it's self out soon. I won't do sleeping pills because then I just feel groggy and oversleep. Oh well I'm damned if I do and damned if I don't. Life....

birthdays

Pics from birthday party for Dad and Uncle Wayne.

Made this one for Dad's 60th birthday which was today.

Made this one for Uncle Wayne's 50th birthday which was yesterday.

Sore Fingers

I love this page...I think it's my favorite one I've done so far. I got these Rhonna Farrer swirl stamps for Christmas and was dying to use them but thought it would look kinda of flat. I decided to stitch them instead of stamping them and when I was running it by my husband he commented "that is definitely ambitious". Wow it was a lot of work and my fingers were sore the next day but it was well worth it.

I hate insomnia :( I was doing good...sleeping and just starting to recover from the last bout of it's hours of desperately trying to silence my mind, those millions of streaming thoughts, flashes of images, dreading the morning, worrying about being tired the next day when I have so many things to accomplish, trying to decide whether I should just not bother and stay up reading or what not, but now it's back and all too soon. Hello OCD thoughts of sleep deprived insanity.

doggie birthday

I finally was able to get a decent pic of the layout I did last week.

summary of my week

It's been awhile...work has been busy, loving Star Trek Voyager, did a scrapbook layout but can't seem to get a good pic of it yet, ate some rock shrimp yesterday (yummy), weathers cooling off, cd player in my car is acting funny (pissing me off), moved the cabinets and counter top from laundry room to craft room, and made a pretty card for my mother-in-law's birthday. That sums it up :)

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Yesterday Ray, Vinnie and I kicked ass and got a lot done. I ended up doing the new product data entry and only have two orders left. I also fixed the magazines that we had received this year. Ray and Vinnie added in a ton of orders and Ray started doing the data entry for the new videos. Great start to a big project.

Richie and I met my friends Debi and Alicia at El Tucan. Ate lots of good food and drank two margaritas. I ended up going out with Alicia and some of her friends. Had lots of fun and didn't get home until 3am.

Went thrift storing this afternoon and got myself a new blanket, a few buttons, some cool fabric, and a cute clock. Usually I can never find anything but today I hit the jackpot.

My uncle called and said he built me a computer with a burner and everything so I'm super excited. I'm doing some research on which printer I want to purchase and I'm coming up with Canon Pixma MP600. I'm trying to find out if it will print on transparencies and having no luck. Oh well I can't afford it at the moment so it's not a huge deal.

hell

OMG the computers at work crashed. Not only crashed but our backup files are not retrievable. Luckily we have a backup from the year end inventory and only lost our info from this month. Sucks, sucks, sucks. We now have to re-enter all new items, all orders, all transfers, but lost all our sales done on those dates. We are going to have to do another store inventory to find out what sold and to get our stock fixed. It finally looked like I was caught up enough to really clean up the video department (oh by the way the video department head was fired so I've been taking care of that as well), and start discounting really old items and so on. Tomorrow is going to be hell...Ray and I are going to be putting all the orders for toys in and fixing the magazines. That's a shit load of work. On Monday I'm going to inventory the toy department and make the needed changes so that the department manager can do her orders. Ray will process the toys we got in, and then so on for each department. Wow this is going to be one hell of a month.

Contentment

Contentment...that's a word I would like to reach. It seems like I'm never content. Especially on objects, like new kayaks, paddles, cd's (always wishing I was listening to something other than what's in my collection), stamp sets, stamp pads (way to many colors I don't have), video games, game systems, comics, jeans, flip flops, movies, cameras...oh god I could keep listing forever and ever. There is always something you really want that you think will make you happy but no it's just temporary. I'm torn on whether we should stay in Florida. I love the swamps, beach, springs...Florida kayaking rocks!!! and plus my family is here. I also love the city and really want to move to Boston or D.C. but will I be happy or will it just be another temporary fix. I don't know why I'm so torn on everything...what to eat, what to wear, what to watch, what to do, what to make...errr...so frustrating. Contentment...that's a word I need to embrace, love, learn to live.

Thousand Islands

Today we went kayaking at Thousand Islands and explored some tight paths that we haven't been down before. We found one that we named Spider's Pass...yes it was full of spiders but very eerily beautiful. Had a blast and glad we found some new paths.

I'm a Trekkie

I'm so psyched that Star Trek Voyager is back on tv...this week has rocked because of it. I have watched every episode at least once and most quite a few times of the original Star Trek and Next Generation. I have watched all episode twice of Deep Space Nine. I however, didn't get to see every episode of Voyager or Enterprise. I really liked Voyager...well I guess I just love Star Trek. Yes I'm a trekkie :)

I have been trying to teach myself how to knit this week and I'm not getting my tension right. I have decided to take tonight off in hopes of doing better when I'm not so discouraged. I really need to find somebody who knits that can show me in person and maybe give me some tips. I really want to make a scarf, some fingerless gloves, an ipod case for my sis-in-law, and some cute maryjanes. I'm not giving up dammit...I'm determined.

my weekend

Saturday our friend Shawn came to the beach with us to go kayak surfing. Waves were way to big for him to learn on...he never made it out and came back to shore with bloody teeth. I went out when he came back in and had a hard time making it out but I did it. The waves were chest high and choppy. I caught a really nice wave and had an awesome ride but fell when all the white water crashed on me. I almost held on but my thigh strap slipped and down I went. The waves were breaking way out and there was a nasty rip current so it took me about 40 minutes to get back to the beach but I made it. I couldn't get back on my boat because the waves were breaking one after another and I didn't have any time to try. My valiant husband paddled out to make sure I was o.k. and to give me moral support. It was a rough trip back in but well worth it...I think I may have to invest in a life jacket for the next big day.

Sunday our friend Max and his family came paddling with us to Thousand Islands. I wish I would have remembered to take my camera out of the dry bag and use it but oh well. I love his wife Rebecca and their two kids...they are all super cool. I wish they lived closer.

Sunday evening we decided to stay in and drink Liberty Ale instead of going out. Boy does Liberty Ale mess me up. We watched Pulp Fiction...love that movie. Passed out around 2am.

Today I have done nothing but veg out on the couch. It's been a great weekend but went way to fast. I wasn't feeling creative at all so I didn't even attempt to scrapbook. Well I'm going to go read and hopefully get some sleep.