3/31/08

I’m having a baby shower! Please visit:

http://www.webbabyshower.com/mullen/

Gotta do a quick note today.  I’m still trying to clean up a bit around here before my "bowling" challenge starts on one of my Yahoo groups.  I am feeling a TAD more energetic, but I seem to use it up quickly.  Like today… took Breeze and Sammi to Burger King, needed a 2 hour nap when I got home, and I didn’t even DO that much.  But they were cleaning the play structure, and dust was flying EVERYWHERE.  I don’t know why I stayed, Sammi was in SUCH a mood, and wouldn’t eat her chicken nuggets, just wanted soda.  I was trying SO hard not to give in, to make her eat first, and she just wasn’t having any of it.  We did finally leave at around 2, so she got a pretty late nap.  Jerry got her out of bed at 9:30, but she had been up, I think, since 6:45, when I was getting the other girls up to go to school and doing some laundry.  I can keep up mostly with the DOING of the laundry, but the folding is just… well, the laundry is piling up, and they’re complaining they can’t find any clothes.  SIGH. 
So I took my nap, and then I actually MADE dinner tonight…pork chops, mashed potatoes (Costco) and Manicotti (Costco as well)  It was good, and I got those pork chops perfectly done… not too underdone, (not underdone at all!) and not overdone… it was moist and tender.  But man, after dinner, I was exhausted again.  I laid on the couch, and spent a good 45 minutes there, I think.  It was hard to get my big old body off there, too.  I don’t know, because I haven’t weighed myself in a week, how much weight I’ve gained.  Hopefully not TOO much, but I’ve put on 5 pounds overall, I think.  Not too bad, but I am not liking gaining any weight.  I just have a hard time denying my sweet tooth, and I’ve been saucing everything up… argh.  I’m being SO bad with the eating.  We ran out of butter, thank goodness!

I’m going to leave it at that… I have some more thoughts along the spirituality lines, but I’m just not feeling like sitting here.  I really want to get a head start on a layout, so I can actually contribute to this bowling team I’m on… basically every layout I do counts for points, and then there are extra points for doing the challenges they’ve got listed, like using certain items on your page(s) that day, or fewer points if you do the challenge another day.  The thing is, I’ll be SCRAPPING.  I’ve been listing things to PIF, and I’ve got some stuff for the gift basket, and so I’m kind of slowly purging things a bit, add in scrapping, and I’ll REALLY be making progress.  That’ll be a good thing.  I want to make this room more "livable" if that makes ANY sense.  I can’t hardly move around in here because of all the stuff all over the place.  And so much of it, I will NEVER use… and that just doesn’t seem right somehow.  I just hope… well, I hope that what I put out DOES come back to me, because it can be hard to part with things when you don’t really have the money to replace things…  But then, I could scrap for a year, and not make much of a dent in it, or run out of things to scrap with… so I guess I’m being a LITTLE paranoid, lol.  Add in the digi scrap stuff, and really, I won’t ever run out of things I can scrap with… Paranoid indeed.  🙂  Silly even.   Still, I’m feeling the NEED to go buy something to scrap with (and last night, Becca got me a couple of ribbon spools from the dollar spot at Target, so I HAVE bought SOMETHING… they had a lot in the scrapbooking section I WANTED, but I kept thinking, gosh, I could make this myself, cheaper!  A lot of it was glitter alphabets… and I can DEFINITELY make those cheaper, with less waste!)  I MIGHT go to the LSS, just to SEE what they might have that I MIGHT want, lol… like I need anything else.  But… if I can print out some pictures and actually get some product that I will IMMEDIATELY use with those pictures… I won’t complain to myself.  I’ve been really good about NOT buying over the last few months.  REALLY GOOD.  So maybe… maybe it’s time for a smallish reward.  Yes?  We shall see.  I’d like to see myself scrap something first, lol… maybe after I do ten pages, I can really justify a reward.  That sounds reasonable.

Okay, gonna post already.  I do go on… lol.