Gotta love these quotes...

So this afternoon I am sitting at work minding my own business and my sister sends me this wonderful email full of funny quotes, and I just LOVE quotes. Here are a few of my favorites:

I try to take one day at a time--but sometimes several days attack me at once.
--Jennifer Unlimited

If you can't e a good example--then you'll just have to be a horrible warning.
--Catherine

Thirty-five is when you finally get your head together and your body starts falling apart.
--Caryn Leschen

Inside me lives a skinny woman crying to get out. But I can usually shut the bitch up with cookies.--Unknown

I am a marvelous housekkeper. Every time I leave a man, I keep his house.
--Zsa Zsa Gabor

I told you, you have gotta love them all. Other than that, it is a quiet Friday around here. Just working slowly for an afternoon. Have a great weekend!!

Carrie has me all inspired...

Before I begin, let me take just a minute and say that this is the second day in a row that I have blogged. No one get too excited, but just thought I would like to pass that little bit of information on. Anywhoo...

Carrie asked how was the CK Convention this weekend, and it was a blast. Mara and I started out at 6:30am and headed to Bazzill for their annual warehouse sale. Tons and tons of paper all for the taking. Women are funny, as Mara and I were collecting our fair share of this wonderful cardstock (and we were also buying for Korie), all these women kept asking me, "So, do you think you have enough paper?" My response was a resounding, "no, actually. I think I need more." Being very sarcastic...and you all know how I respond to ridiculous questions like that. OK--two points of logic here I would like to point out:

1. Hello? We are at a paper company warehouse sale. What else is my main staple of purchase besides paper?
2. Also, at $15 for over 120 sheets of Bazzill paper (retailing at 60 cents a sheet), why the hell not? That's a saving of nearly $57 per box over retail.

OK, and Mara did point out that we probably wouldn't buy this much paper if it wasn't such a smokin' deal. But, now I have every color in the rainbow, and won't run out until next sale. So that makes me happy. So, that was an interesting adventure, and not a cheap one either. We ended up getting seven boxes. OK, so you buy six and get the seventh for free. No a bad deal on textured cardstock.

Then we went to the convention. Had a blast, took a couple of classes, and spent way too much money on Technique Tuesday stamps. All TOO CUTE. Here are just a couple of my purchases...

Letters and Images and dates...and before you say anything else...I will tell you that I broke the piggy bank for this one.

The other highlight of the day had nothing to do with scrapbooking at all, actually it was a fire alarm. Yes, we had fire alarm go off at the Convention Center and they evacuated all of us out in about five minutes. They literally had to tell people to move away from the building...women were actually standing just outside the doors because they wanted to be let back in. Figures, scrapbookers can be neurotic at times, can't we?

Surprise in the mail

When I got home yesterday, I had a surprise waiting for me in the mail. C didn't have a clue what it was so he left it for me. When I opened up this non-descript envelope, I immediately realized what it was. No, it wasn't a letter telling me I won $100 million dollars, and wouldn't have to work for the rest of my life--I wish, but that's a whole other story. No, dear girlfriends, all my trips to New Mexico have finally paid off. I have earned a free roundtrip ticket anywhere in the US, and I am going to use it to visit my friend Korie back east in February for a wonderful weekend of scrapbooking. I was totally excited.

C on the other hand couldn't understand why this made me so happy. His response was, "we can use it for our trip to Las Vegas." My answer, "Hells to the no. We can buy those tickets. I am using this to visit Korie." He wasn't too impressed until I told him that I am going in February whether or not we pay for the plane ticket. This way it costs us less. C said fine, as we are trying to price out how much its going to cost us to finish our master bedroom.

Either way, I have my free plane ticket.

Life...in general

This past weekend C and I spent our anniversary in beautiful Sedona. Anyone who has been to Sedona knows that you just can't get enough of the wonderful views. We arrived Saturday afternoon and had a relaxing dinner at the Redstone Cabin. Completely stuffed ourselves to the gills. The next morning we got up and played golf at the Sedona Golf Resort. We had a wonderful time playing golf, who wouldn't with those views. I also broke 50 on the back nine. OK--for all you non-golfers, that is a big accomplishment for a beginning golfer like myself. I par'd a Par 3, Par 4, and Par 5 that day. In my short time playing golf, up until Sunday, I had only par'd a short Par 3 and on another day a Par 4. I have never par'd each one all in the same round.

This weekend, my friend M and I are attending the Creating Keepsakes Convention in Phoenix and going to the warehouse sale at Bazzill. Korie has already put her order in, but Carrie would like anything, give me a call and I will get you what you want. M got into Bazzill early, and she says a ton of cardstock (including all the textured) is dirt cheap. Prices are 120-12"x12" sheets for $20, and 120-8 1/2" x 11 for #15. I figure that is a $50 savings.

Everyone have a great weekend. Oh, our contractor--I think we have finally given up the ghost. Thanks Kat for your offer on the lien release form--I will take you offer up. I sent an email to you, but if you don't get it, put a response here and I will try again. I think we are going to have to hire other people to come in and finish the work and sue our contractor for damages and what it is going to take us to finish the work. Sucks, but hopefully in a month we will have a finished master suite. Unfortunately, we will be a little lighter in the pocketbook--a hard lesson learned.