VOTE FOR ME!

Well, I know no one reads this anyway, but please

VOTE FOR ME IN THE SCRAPBOOKING CONTEST!

Woot! Scrapbooking Contest!

Why should I win Christine's Scrapbooking Contest??

It's no secret to anyone who knows me that I LOVE to scrapbook! but, why did I start? I mainly started scrapbooking to record the lives of my little cousins, Luke and Daniel. Sure, I always have taken a ton of photos of them, but I really wanted them to each have a book that they could look at and know how much they are loved. You see, they were both abused and neglected in the early part of their
lives, and my parents are now their guardians. Daniel suffers from scoliosis from being left in his carseat 24/7 as an infant. He also has a misshapen head from this as well. Luke has Aspergers, a type of autism as a result of the neglect. I make sure that I photograph the special and not so special moments in their lives, from Birthday Parties to photos of them throwing fits or misbehaving. They both LOVE looking at their scrapbooks and having me read the journaling in them. Daniel has become quite a little scrapbooker himself, and begs to go scrapbooking with me on a weekly basis.

I also scrapbook the life of my Stepson, Sky..We don't get to see him that much (only 1-2 times a month these days) but when we do I make sure to take photos of him with my husband and myself, and I scrapbook it and journal about how much we love him. I hope to show him when he's older that no matter what his Mom might tell him, we always have loved him very much. My husband loves looking at the scrapbook I've made for his son, and gets excited if I bring home a new one that I've made.

and one more reason? GIRLS NIGHT OUT! I love to go scrapbooking with my friends P and V! We have a blast away from husbands and kids, and we all share supplies so none of us has to go broke doing our favorite hobby :-)

I feel like the supplies I could win would help me so much in helping preserve these precious memories!

I will update this post later with pictures!

Well since I am bored again, more list.

13. I thought long and hard about my favorite foods, and I settled on Popcorn and Sunflower seeds. Unfortunately, I can't eat either at this time. boo.
14. I love crunchy, chewy sticky foods....mmmm
15. I love fruit, and make myself eat vegetables.
16. my favorite fruit would be...I can't pick. I haven't met one I didn't like.
17. I do love salad though.
18. I only like oil and vinegar on my salad. I started that last year when I was first pg. I cannot stand bottled dressing now. ew.
19. I think creamy salad dressing is vomit worthy.
20. Especially ranch and bleu cheese. gack. I do like some ranch stuff though.
21. I love to cook, but rarely do so because my husband never eats the leftovers.
22. I do bake alot, and the hub does eat that up.
23. I make killer enchiladas..
24. and french toast


sigh still bored. Life is blargh. Working some, doing my own biz some. Being poor.

Since I never update this blog (because no one reads it) and I am seriously bored out of my head, I thought would start another useless 100 plus things about me list.

1. I have weird (to me) sleep habits. I sleep on my left side, with my right leg pulled over it, with my hands by my face.
2. I have to fold my pillow into an origami like shape to get it right.
3. I can have very very little light in the room. A nightlight or the tv does not fly with me. I can tolerate light under the door, but at a minimum. I have to be deathly ill to sleep during the day.
4. I prefer sheets to blankets. I have a light quilt made out of denim that I sleep with year round.
5. I also don't like noise. I can't sleep with the tv on or with loud voices in the next room. I DO like sounds like the AC, fans, Rain, clocks ticking softly or traffic outside the window. I can play music softly, but I only do so rarely.
6. The best way to make me grouchy is to open the door while I am sleeping, snap the light on and ask me questions. My husband is a master at this. So is my mom.
7. I snore. Seriously loud. I shake the walls, but it doesn't bother my hub so that's all that matters.
8. White Noise machines are evil. I think they sound like (not so nice) ghosts.
9. I love sleeping in recliners.
10.In the winter I wear hideous flannel pajamas, and I never match the tops and bottoms.
11. I have extremely vivid and weird dreams, almost nightly.
12. I can also lucid dream in a way, like wake up to pee, then go back to sleep and continue dreaming what I was. I can sometimes think of something then dream of it.


Ok, I am still bored. Anything anyone wants to know about me?

Late, Late for a Very important Date!

yeah yeah yeah, I know, TMI. I think it's just stress. hmmm, whats stressful?

• No job. I've interviewed for plenty, but they don't hire me.
  
• We're $230 overdrawn in checking. We were $300 overdrawn but I wrote off an email and they gave us a $70 "courtery credit"
  
• Child Support took my husbands full paycheck.
  
• Gas, Electric and Car insurance are due tomorrow. Can we pay them? No.
  

and let's not get in to the contest thing. I entered another contest to win a website. It had to have a certain color of ice cream in it, which I couldn't go buy. So I improvised. I prodicted the winner would be a pic of someones kid/s eating said color ice cream.

and I was right.

Grr.

EPT Loves me

Or whatever pregnancy tests I buy. They're like crack. I have taken about every kind of PG test in the past 2 years. I need to buy them by the gross, me thinks.

You see, I'm late, over 2 weeks late. I've taken three tests, and what do I get? BIG FAT NO. After being a week late, I had an ovulation pain (I'm pretty sure that's what it was, because it usually feels the same, and it hurts like hell). Then, yesterday, Pain again.

WTF? I am just spewing out eggs like a crazy chicken???

So, I can't sleep and I'm just here thinking about babies, and how I want one. A friend has almost the same due date that I did (1 day difference) and while I love her, and will love her baby, I just can't stop thinking it's unfair. She already has two. I just want ONE. Just one healthy baby, but my body seems to hate them and wants to kick them out.

I've had two pregnancies, and just pain to remember from them. I had ER ultrasounds with both, but never got to see anything. I have no us pictures, I never got to hear a heartbeat or feel anything but pain.

I want to be pregnant again, but I don't think I could take losing another.

Po'

So I never heard back from the job. I even called them to find out, but I keep getting the voicemail of the hiring lady. I am so miffed. I called my old job yesterday because they said they wanted to put me on the schedule for next week, and nothing. No one there will call me back either.

That means that we are poor. About as poor as I have ever been, really. We couldn't afford to buy food, so we went to the foodbank and got some. Mostly almost expired stuff and dried out pastries, but beggers can't be choosers. With what we got and eating dinner at my parents house a few night a week, we won't starve.

Both of us have been applying for jobs like crazy, but nothing. Not even a call back or anything. Sigh.

Some portrait business would help, but I'm not getting any of that either.