Summer's here!

I know I've been horrible about blogging lately. I have an excuse, seriously! School is winding down(tomorrow is the last day-1/2 day at that) and we've been getting ready for summer. And I've picked up a nasty cold. We all have it, you should hear the kiddos coughing...well, maybe not. It'll keep you up at night! I seriously spent the majority of the day cleaning the house yesterday(and it was all undone in 4.9 seconds by my absolutely evil children). It got destroyed over the long weekend with us all being home and in and out all day just dumping stuff. Chowder has decided the mop is his mortal enemy and must be destroyed at all costs, so cleaning the floor was next to impossible. And then he decided the wet floor was the Indy 500 track and ran(or should I say slid and fell) laps around the kitchen. Pure joy, I tell ya.

Hmm....lots to cover as this is a catch up post. First up, CT and Scrapping stuffs!

I've got a new CT! I'm really excited about it! Hazel Olive Designs--she's got some really awesome stuff! These are some LO's I've done with her stuff--which, by the way, I'm finding myself scrapping way outside my norm, and I am so loving it!!

Friday (5/28) at TLP and SA is a little beauty, Backyard Bliss by Rachel, Gina & Kate(award winning combo)....here's my LO with it, doesn't even do the kit justice!


Now, let's move on to....NEW MOON! O.M.G. Wonderful, awesome, drool worthy photos coming out of Italy today. I am so jealous of those lucky people in Italy that are getting these shots! Now, for the record, let me state; Yes, Rob is easy on the eyes. I don't think he's as hot as some other folks do, but he's not hard to look at. Now...these here pictures, DAMN! I absolutely *love* that little V area thingy around the hips--I think it's so sexy(and it drives me crazy that Brandy has it).....anywho, here are two of my faves from the ones popping up today.

Just look at her running to Edward...awesomeness!
(and check out the sweet man hips)

Whoa! that lip lock is HOT!

I am so excited for this movie! As super jazzed as I was for Twilight I'm even more so for New Moon. Everything I've seen is just right. And, if you're honest with yourself you can admit, Twilight totally sucked. Am I saying I hated it? Absolutely not. I loved the movie, saw it countless times and own 2 copies of it. But, as far as movies goes, it just....lacked. I have very high expectations for New Moon--and everything I've read and seen is just raising those expectations. Is it November yet?? :0)

I've spent a lot of today bumming. Tomorrow we had plans to go to Memphis and meet up with Sherrie and Scott. I've been looking forward to it for 2 weeks. But it's just not going to happen. My aunt had to go in and have a hysterectomy. Seeing as how she was to be my babysitter tomorrow...well, yeah, that was the end of that. Totally bites :(

So well, I guess that's it...I've gotten distracted(Death Note, I can not resist) and this has been sitting here for about 45 minutes or so...I had the "Oh yeah, I was blogging" light click on :P


Oooh, totally forgot...I did a bit of revamping last night and added a cute little music player to the blog(cause I love music and must have it!) It's set to auto play, does that bother anyone? I guess I could set it to where you have to push play, or you could hit stop? I don't know? Totally stupid having it anyway?

Just another Saturday

Have I mentioned how happy I am that it's finally warming up? I absolutely *love* the heat and the humidity. Maybe I need to relocate somewhere tropical where it's like this year round. I live for the summer--being outside, basking in the sun. There's almost nothing so bad in life that the sun can't bake away :o)

We spent a good 3 and a half hours in the yard this afternoon playing soccer with the kids. Brandy and I teamed up against the kids. Let me tell ya, those little things play dirty! They're not above pulling the Ouch-I'm-hurt-and-falling-down-while-one-of-the-other-kids-sneaks-by-and-scores-while-mom-and-dad-check-on-me card :P They're pure evil, I tell ya!

Oooh! We so bought the Magic Jack! We've been talking about it forever, and finally just went to Radio Shack and grabbed one. The only thing I'm not digging is they didn't have any local numbers so we had to get a Dyersburg number(which I now have to learn!) That's a long distance call for our families unless they use their cell phones. But, for $20 a year(instead of the $60 a month we were paying) I say they can just suck it up and deal with it! Eventually they will have local numbers for here and we'll switch it(you get 1 free number change, after that it's $10, which is still way better than what the phone company charges!). We had the phone company disconnect our service yesterday, after using both for a week to make sure it was going to work fine and all that.

Um, what am I forgetting??? SYTYCD!! 3 of my gals made it to Round 3! Abish, Brandy and Monica! Be sure to be watching for the Round 3 goodies next week(you know I'll totally keep you up to date!)

And that, my loves, is about all I've got today. I'm exhausted from running in the yard all day!

Oh wait! One more thing! Tonight is Saturday and that means Saturday Night Live chat at PGD @ 9/8 Central. Just go >HERE< and hop yourself into the Saturday Night room :o) And believe me, you haven't been to chat until you've been to a PGD chat! We always have such a blast chatting about just whatever!

I am the ultimate geek

**This is mostly a Twilight/New Moon post, so if you don't like it, skip it**

So, way back in February, I ordered the Twilight Blu-Ray Ultimate Collectors Set. It came yesterday :D I waited and waited and waited for the UPS dude to come. Finally, at 3:58 pm, he pulled up. Could you hear the fan girl squeeeeeeeing? Yep, that was me. Brandy(wonderful husband that he is) cut that darn tape for me, and I sat on the steps, outside, and devoured my box. Oohing and ahhing over it all-except that there was only the one lousy "photo" with Emmett. Seriously, WTH? Just one?


Of course, we had to watch the blu-ray, even though the girls and I watched the dvd(again) Friday night. ;o)

The 1st(2nd maybe?) draft of the New Moon script was leaked. Just goes to show how desperate us Twilighters are for any bit of anything, I guess. And that's all I'm going to say on that ;o)

Sooo...what else? Hmmm....Oh! I finally got around to using Flergs Twilight kit(that only took forever, right?) Of course, the subject matter was Twilight(New Moon, if you want to be picky), and my all time favorite quote from all of the books combined.

What else do I have??? Yah...nothing :/ I think my finger's broke-don't know how that happened. E's squirming around trying to get into my lap and crying, fun day ahead, I can see it already.

massive posting!

It's been a while and I'm feeling chatty, so buckle up loves, it's gone be a good ride :P

So, last Sunday I just felt generally ill, like I was dying. My head was throbbing, I was feverish and having hot flashes. Monday was the same. Tuesday was the same. Wednesday night my left eye was just killing me. Super sensitive to light, so dry, itchy, burning and leaking like a bad plumbing job. Thursday was more of the same. Friday morning I officially said hello to pink eye. Yay, right? I've battled it all weekend long. I even sat out the new X Men movie because of it. Last night in our PGD chat, one of the girls mentioned washing your eyes with baby shampoo to get rid if it. What? I was only half paying attention by then, my eye was bothering me so bad. I didn't really think much of it and just went to bed. This morning I said something to Brandy about it and he just looked at me like maybe I'd spun around in a circle one too many times. But, after I stumbled to the bathroom and fell into the shower(really people, without my contacts I can not see more than a handful of inches in front of me. Glasses met a tragic end long ago.), I stared at the bottle of baby shampoo(there are 2 bottles on the side of the tub. The girls *have* to have their own bottle. Gabe doesn't care if his hair ever gets washed) for 2 minutes and then thought, what the heck! I don't know if it's co-inky dink or what but I CAN SEE(as well as I can without my contacts in). But the point is, I washed my eye with Johnson&Johnson's Baby Shampoo, and it's not itchy. It's not leaking. It's not gooey. It's not blazing red. It's still a bit dry feeling, but that's almost normal for me. I never would have thought baby shampoo was the fix for pink eye! Color me amazed. And happy.

Oh, I should probably tell you we all had the swine flu. I swear. We were all running fever. We all had the chills. We all had achy aches. Can't be anything other that swine flu, right? I mean it's "catching" and anyone even kinda sick has it, right? Do you catch the sarcasm dripping off every word here?

Good sales in the digi world this weekend. I am right proud of myself. I only spent right at $5. I'm not counting the stuff from TLP's May BYOC I bought because Rachel is guesting there this month and I needed it. :D Usually I'm such an impulse buyer when iNSD rolls around....I take a sale as a free for all. I've used less than a quarter of what I bought last year(actually, I moved all but a handful of things off the EHD and onto a dvd....you know, because I just used it so much.) This year, I put the stuff in my cart and let it set. I made myself ponder was it something I really needed/wanted, or something I just liked. If my adding is right, I saved about $83 doing that. Actually, the last $12 I spent I wish I hadn't. They're just sitting there looking pretty, and I'm not using them. But in all honesty, I don't really feel the need to buy that much, since I CT for some serious awesomeness. They keep me in gorgeousness. I really only shop 2 people regularly, and a few random here and there. I did, however, shop at SSD designs for the first time today. I got some of Traci Reed's stitching. I'm not real sure why I've never shopped there before, cute stuff. I was browsing through the challenges. That's going to have to wait, though, seeing as how I own the 1 SSD item, LOL! Maybe when pay day rolls around again....

OMG, does anyone realize what happens on Tuesday?? My Collectors Twilight Blu-Ray ships!!!!! Hooray! I can't wait to get it and all the goodies! Which reminds me....the stupid battery in the watch I got with the DVD from Hastings is SO dead. Wow. That lasted a whole month. Since I didn't make the wolverine movie with my boys Friday night, the girls and I hung out here and watched Twilight. It seriously tickles me E knows most of the words(I swear she's only seen it less than a handful of times!) Al finally caught the tv in the hospital--it just floored her that it was showing Bella's "memories" about the whole thing. And I fell in love with Emmett again. *Swoon*

Which brings us to New Moon.
Let's start with this....WTH??(totally watch it full screen, hit the little blue arrows)

The Bella Motorcycle Mystery (Twilight New Moon) from VancityAllie on Vimeo.

Ok, like I said, WTH? Bella only rides motorcycles with Jake--who's this dude? I'm assuming maybe instead of just "seeing'" Edward when she walks up to the guys in Port Angeles, she just hops on a bike and takes off to do it, but jeez. But I'm ok, I'm ok(I keep telling myself that anyway) from everything else I've seen, this is playing close to the book.

I really don't have much else. Cute little photos from filming popping up everywhere, adorable interviews with people(I am still SO jazzed about Tinsel Korey--I think she's perfect for this) So yeah, I suck for Twilight news today :P

Hmm....what have I scrapped lately? Anyone want to see?(and if you click on them it's the full sized version, they're so tiny in the actual post)

This is the first non-CT LO I've done in a while. It's not that I set out to only do CT LO's. When I'm scrapping, I tend to use my favorite stuff. It helps that I also happen to CT for a majority of my favorites....so my non-CT LO's usually end up being CT LO's by accident.

And with that, I call it a night. It's 2am, and I've got to get Alee up and ready for school in 4 hours(and I'm sure the other two will just be bouncing off the wall because their daddy will be home and that just kills my little 45 minute nap I get every morning between kicking Alee out the door and the other 2 getting up)......so I'm going to lay here, watch Family Guy, plug my ipod into my head and wait for sleep to come!

*mwah*