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These are the layouts I worked on this weekend. Laid back and Mistletoe paperpacks.

Cose to My Heart Wings Collection

Jan. 16th

Has been a busy week. Work has been a blessing. I am beginning to think that my boss's New Years Resolution was to stop being so evil. Last weekend we all enjoyed a 8 year old slumber party. I think the boys stayed up till at least 3am when I finally came down stairs and said...OKAY all games off. We all spent that Sunday recoing. Gavin is scheduled to start soccer at the end of Jan., my car has a ton of issues that need to be addressed, and my poor mother has broken her leg. Of course she waited to go to the Dr nearly five days before she found out what was wrong. I feel terrible because she fell in our driveway. As hard as Mark tries none of us can be on that snow fall all the time. Had to miss the CTMH unit meeting yesterday as my Hubie was in a poker tournament and I had the boys. We did go out and make a visit at the casino and the kids got to swim, but I am really missing my UNIT. Did get to see everyone briefly and making plans to STEP up my game. Hard to believe it is already the 16th of 2011, but apparently there is never a down minute in this household. Plans today to make a fire, order some CTMH products, and play with my current scrappen stash. Should be uneventful, but fun.

Jan. 5

1/2 the way down. Wow! the week is actually moving quickly. I was so tired last pm I came home made dinner, and sat and watched several hours of meaningless TV. I caught this special on coupons. It was quite amazing to see these coupon kings/queens save 95% of their grocery bill just using coupons. Imagine a $230- grocery bill costing like $6- bucks. Okay so I was fascinated. Thing is they don't tell you their secrets short of spending several hours in prepration for their shopping trip....and as exciting as that savings may be, I just don't have the time or patience to do such a thing. I also caught the new Paula Abdul dance show, while I flipped back and forth to the new biggest looser season. I didnt claim to have the most exciting life....but I did enjoy the simplisity of just doing nothing. Maybe I will step it up this pm, and clean a little.....

Jan 4

Surprise Surprise....yesterday was a pretty good day. Work went well, no Problems.....I didn't get everything I had hoped to get caught up on, but things did progress well, and my first work day of the new year was a success. Must stop catastorfizing (i know this is not a real word) everything. I even made it to the gym and took my first ZUMBA class in over 8 months. I did get a smack of reality.....I am soooo out of shape. Did my first layout of 2011, signed my youngest up for soccer, and although I did get several on call calls last night, none of them were big time emergencies and I didn't have to leave the house. I am beginning to realize that perhaps I am the maker of my own misery, and perhaps if I just stop worring about what will happen and just live....things are really not as bad as I can make them out to be in my head.

Jan. 3

As if Mondays aren't hard enough, coming back into a work week after an extended weekend, and two days ill, SUCKS. I am three days behind walking into the dreaded Monday morning meeting, picking up the on call phone, and finding myself truly dreading the day. I keep telling myself that I can't do anything about the week before, but the fact that I have 101 things that I have to do to catch up, just keeps poping into my head. So what number on my resolution was that thing about sleep eat work...oh yeah number 1. Go figure this happens to be the week that I am so far behind and I have work duty 24-7 until next Monday. Did I really buy into the idea of an on call position? Really? Was I truly that desperate to retun to work that when that part was mentioned during the hiring process I simply tuned that out? It seems to me there was alot about that your hired day I seemed to have missed. Anyways, I am attempting to walk into my first day of the New Year with a whole new attitude about Mondays, my job, and everything to do about the work experience. It's gonna be a GREAT day (forced smile)! And maybe, just like the trip to the dentist, when it is all over, I can say...okay it really wasn't all that bad.

Jan.2

Into day number two the the new year. I did get into the house cleaning, and made a major dent. Had a nice dinner with my husband, finalized the birthday for next weekend, and spent the evening with friends loosing terribly to the men 80's trivial pursuit. This game was the re-match from the last game the females lost. My husband is just to damn smart. Unless he's on my team I don't forshadow a winning in my future. Church this am, more cleaning, then off to the YMCA with some more friends. Perhaps then I will be to create this pm.

Day 1 of 2011

So we begin 2011. Since I am finally feeling better, I realize that there is a ton of things that need to be done around this house. Okay so noone really wants to spend New Years Day cleaning, but it has to get done...and no I am not including house work on my list of sleep eat and work. I will get things done around here so I can enjoy the rest of the day. Number one on the list is get the tree down....although it really feels like I just put the thing up. Tree down, tidy up the rest of the house, make some big birthday plans for my youngest who turns 8 next week, do some me time....send out some Thank Yous to family for their Holiday cheer, start some New years scrapping and CTMH planning, dinner perhaps with the Hubby...we celebrate 9 years together today!!!! Stilll in love after all these years, and be ready for day 2. Perhaps this year I will do a 365 day scrap book...maybe that will be fun....and I am off. I will post later if I become at all creative in the day and have a artistic masterpiece to post I will return until then. HAPPY NEW YEAR.....I am already feeling that 2011 will be better and brighter then 2010.