HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!

Wow, it's almost been a year since I updated my blog. Time sure does fly when you're having fun...NOT!! I don't think anyone reads this anyway, but I am going to use it to document my day to day life stuff again.

I am not sorry to see 2010 go, what a craptastic year :( I hope 2011 brings everyone health and happiness :)

This just in...

...WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 10 AM FRIDAY TO 10 PM ESTSATURDAY...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN STERLING VIRGINIA HAS ISSUED AWINTER STORM WARNING FOR HEAVY SNOW WITH NEAR-BLIZZARDCONDITIONS...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 10 AM FRIDAY TO 10 PM ESTSATURDAY. THE WINTER STORM WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT.* PRECIPITATION TYPE...HEAVY SNOW.* ACCUMULATIONS...STORM TOTAL ACCUMULATIONS OF 16 TO 24 INCHES.* TIMING...SNOW WILL BEGIN MID-MORNING FRIDAY...AND WILL CONTINUE THROUGH SATURDAY EVENING. CONDITIONS WILL DETERIORATE RAPIDLY FRIDAY AFTERNOON...WITH HEAVIEST SNOWFALL OCCURRING BETWEEN SUNSET FRIDAY TO SUNRISE SATURDAY. THE MOST HAZARDOUS WINTER WEATHER CONDITIONS WILL OCCUR FRIDAY NIGHT...WHEN THE COMBINATION OF HEAVY SNOW AND STRONG WINDS WILL REDUCE VISIBILITIES TO BELOW ONE-QUARTER MILE...PRODUCING NEAR-BLIZZARD CONDITIONS.* TEMPERATURES...HIGHS IN THE LOWER 30S FRIDAY. FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY...TEMPERATURES WILL BE IN THE MID 20S.* WINDS...BECOMING NORTHEAST 10 TO 20 MPH FRIDAY WITH GUSTS TO 30 MPH FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY.


Apparently John and I have different senses of urgency when faced with a pending blizzard...

I have a list (still haven't gotten to the store):
- Adhesive and anything scrappy - for scrapbooking the weekend away
- Redbox rental - movies for when I'm tired of scrapbooking
- Snacks - for scrapbooking and watching movies :)
- Pick up photos

John's list (already done):
- Extra propane for grill (in case power goes out)
- Firewood for fireplace (in case power goes out)
- Extra gas for snowblower

I wonder if I could trade some scrapbooking adhesive for firewood?!?!?!

The Ravens are no more :(

Well, looks like our team missed the flight to Indy last week :( Don't get me wrong, Peyton and his guys are awesome, but I think it should have been a closer game. Oh well, guess I will now actually get something done on Sundays now :)

Are you ready for some football?!?!?!?!?!

The Ravens are in the playoffs, woo-hoo!! They went to New England and beat Tom Brady - woo-hoo!! Now they are heading to Indianapolis to battle with Peyton and his pals! I am just hoping for a good game. I can accept defeat (gasp) as long as we show up and play well, without the usual 100 yards of penalties.

We are having some crazy weather here lately, today it was actually in the 50's and sunny. Last week I thought I was going to blow away and it was in the single digits.

I'm still working on the procrastination, but HEY! I've blogged 3 times this year already and it's only the 15th :) I can also say the Christmas tree is down. I wish I could say the Christmas tree and all the decorations were put away in the basement, but I wouldn't want you to fall over in shock!

I recently started going back to church. I really like this church, the people are so nice and the pastor is excellent. It's a much smaller congregation, probably 30-40 people per week. But it's nice to be able to visit with the same people and discuss family and community things in the coffee hour and know who you are talking to. The last church John & I went to usually had a couple hundred people attending service. You never got to know anyone. John says he really likes it too, so it's nice to go together and both of us are able to get something out of the message.

On a sad note... my friend Carla just lost her dad. Please keep her and her family in your thoughts and prayers.

Are you sitting down?!?!

I'm back to my blog in less than a week from my previous post. There's hope yet for my procrastination. Of course I'm blogging, but I should be doing a million other things, but hey baby steps :)

It's so cold and windy here and now they are calling for snow on Thursday night into Friday. Which only means one thing....crazy morning rush hour on Friday @#$%^!!!!

I hope you and your families have survived the holidays and are working on all those new years resolutions :)

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!

Well, I decided to dust off the blog and try this again :) I really need to do something about my procrastination, I'm getting on my own nerves with it.

Anyway, what are your goals for the New Year? I have some of the same from years gone by, you know... find a healthy lifestyle, throw in some exercise, budget better, blah blah blah.

I was reading blogs because I'm sure I had something I should have been doing :) and I stumbled onto Ali Edwards blog. She was talking about the one word that will define your year. Every year I think of a word and by the end of January I couldn't tell you my word if my life depended on it. I know I saw this word on someone elses blog but I can't remember who, so whoever I stole it from, I'm sorry!!

Anyway this year my word is...... PURGE! Yep, this is the year of purging things and people in my life that create stress. You know that stack of scrapbook magazines you have because you are going to go through them for ideas again, yep they need to go. I'm tired of knocking them over and stacking them back up again.

I am also proud to say unless I fall asleep in the next 8 minutes I will see the ball drop on tv, then go to bed :)

I hope you and your family have a healthy, happy new year!!

I found some scrappy mojo :)

So it' 2:45 AM and I am playing in my scraproom, that shouldn't be a problem tomorrow, should it???? ARGH!!!!

I found an awesome blog about scrapbooking furbabies. You know how I love to scrap my furbaby :) Here's the blog: http://a-true-friend.blogspot.com

They have some awesome challenges, go check them out.

The current challenge is to scrap your furbaby and their buddy or friend. Bear's buddy was Panda. Panda lasted 2 weeks, then all of a sudden Bear decided Panda would look better inside out :(



Sorry for all the "awesomes" in my post, I've got the 80's channel cranked up, lol!!