Scrapbooking Humor

Trust me that, after 8 or nine hours of scrap booking when your tush and lower back are aching from sitting in the same chair all day and you've had WAY too much sugar and caffeine, the following is funny.


Scrapper 1: "I don't know why I take so many pictures of the kids when they're naked."

Scrapper 2: "Oh, yeah. We've got all kinds of naked kid pictures at our house."

[silence]

"Of our own kids, of course."


Hysteria-induced-hilarity kind of funny, but still funny.

I got about half way through 2007 in E3's album on Saturday - woo!

Finished Before I Started

Okay. So, not doing NaBloPoMo this year. I didn't even think of it until just past midnight on Sunday night/Monday morning. Ah, well.

Here's some Halloween pictures instead!

A witch and her kitten attack Hannah Montana!

Spooky Jack-o-lanterns!

Weekend Sports

My sinuses have been invaded! It's sad, because while I don't think my nose is anything unusually fantastic I WAS accustomed to having it on my face...and now, it will have to be whacked off so the evil mucous can be suctioned out...tsk, tsk.

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Saturday evening was the Fun Meet at gymnastics for E2 and E3 - a 'show off' event for family and friends. A good time was had by all, and E3 want to go to a Fun Meet every week.

E3 on the beam.

E2 on the floor.

Medals!

Flowers!

Oh, and there was that soccer game too.

E3 loves her coach.


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Pass the tissues - I'm going to go curl up with the Neti Pot.

They Redefine 'Game Face'

So...clearly I'm settling into a new routine but haven't figured out how to add blogging to the schedule. BAH!

Next week...I resolve to add it to my week...NaBloPoMo is right around the corner after all!

Soccer again tomorrow...in the COLD...it will look something like this:

or this:

or this:

Good Times, my friends.

Bullets Over Bloggville

• Yesterday I did something I've never done before. I sort of...matched-up two people...for FRIENDSHIP, but still. What if they don't like each other and blame me? They are both in my Facebook Friend List, and they are the only two that...in my mind know one another...but they don't know each other in real life. So, I told them both I was introducing them to reduce my mental confusion.
  
  
• Shopping for greeting cards has become a miserable experience for me. In college,I used to love standing at the card racks reading all the funny cards, some of them wickedly funny. Too often, I would buy cards with no recipient intended...relying on the belief that the right person would come to mind. Now, all I can find are cards about politics, being OLD, or just offensive in general- there are seriously WAY too many fart related cards out there. Maybe I should be card shopping on a college campus...I miss Gary Larson's Far Side.
  
  
• E3, my biggest dress-lover to date, was precariously close to joining her sister's in ditching dresses in Kindergarten. I tried to help her out buy setting aside three pair of shorts that would be easy to wear under a dress/skirt, and she has many skorts...but darn those Kg boys who STILL snicker "like they think it's my underwear". BUT! The weather turned cool and we've moved on to leggings and tights, and so her fashion integrity is still intact.
  
  
• I am still, STILL, reading The Unhealthy Truth...for me, it's slow-going with the non-fiction stuff...and the information is overwhelming and alarming...and continually leaves me wonder why there hasn't been more news coverage on this. The most recent stunner I've read:

"As we've already seen, European countries have often acted before our own government to protect their citizens' health. In Norway, for example, Yellow 5, a.k.a. tartrazine, is banned.

As of this writing tartrazine is not federally banned in England. Nevertheless, a whole host of companies, including the U.K. branches of Wal-Mart, Kraft, Coca-Cola, and the Mars candy company (who make M&M's), have voluntarily removed artificial colors, the preservative sodium benzoate, and even Rumsfeld's* aspartame from their products.

When I read about this in the spring of 2007, I was stunned. Our American companies had removed these harmful ingredients from their products overseas - but not here?"

*Yes, THAT Rumsfeld. According to O'Brian's research he had a lot to do with aspartame being approved by the FDA...regardless of what the independent research committees recommended.

• On a happier note, I *think* I may be settling into a daily routine that has me feeling less frantic...I don't want to say that too loudly though until I've got things down.

• And, Girl Scout cookie sales are almost over...a reprieve until all those boxes arrive!

One Week

It's hard to believe that just one week ago we were up near Chicago for a family wedding...



Family weddings have their traditions...

Rob's female cousins treat each groom to a little music therapy...last weekend they had to recruit a few Aunts...and cousins from the groom's maternal side as well.

We were supposed to head back to Chicago this weekend for a work-related meeting of Rob's...since it was a long weekend for the girls, we were going to bring them to swim at the hotel and see some Chicago sights...and visit my college roomate. However, the work meeting was re-scheduled (for the same Saturday as the wedding) and instead we found ourselves available to work at the school carnival tonight.

Due to all the rain we've had in the last...48? 60? hours, all of our Saturday plans have been cancelled. We are free to sell Girl Scout cookies with wild abandon, all over town! Or, snuggle under blankets and watch tv all day...if only we'd thought to get firewood in before all the rain came we could have a nice roaring fire...ah well, we'll take the free day anyway-they don't come around too much.

Beyoncé Filtered By A Four Year-Old

"All the single legs! All the single legs!
All the single legs! All the single legs!"

~nephew D, age 4, as quoted by his Mom.