Wow…feeling SO much better!!!
I’m 12 weeks now, can you believe it? My first trimester is almost through! I’ve still got to do something about getting a doctor, and I plan to start applying for Medicare/Medical on Monday… I know, I know, nothing like waiting til the "last" minute on a holiday week!!! Oh well… I’ve got to get everything in motion before I hit my second trimester. Someone told me that it will automatically get me upgraded to "high risk" if I don’t! I actually told her I’ll bet I already GET to be high risk… I mean, I’m 37 years old, 215 pounds… they don’t LIKE that combination, even though… I was 225 w/ Shabree, and with Sammi, I was 205 and 36… of course, with her I had medical care from about week 5, lol… and I was kind of "high risk" until my second trimester, when they downgraded me again… I was doing much better at that point. I mean, I’ve had two very healthy children, WHY should this one be any different? Yes, I’m overweight, but I do get my exercise, for the most part, and I do eat okay… I don’t "eat for two" I don’t gain a lot of weight, I do try to eat well…and not a lot of junk.
Oh well, quite enough of THAT rant.
Want to see what I’ve been doing lately? Go to: http://twopeasinabucket.kaboose.com/userprofile.asp?user_id=94192
That is my main "gallery" for showing off my various pieces of work. I’ve been busy the last couple of days, updating it. I’ve applied for a Creative Team w/ Pillowgirl Scraps, and I’m hoping I get it, though I don’t know for sure that my work is "good enough" and it won’t surprise me if it’s not… and hopefully it won’t even hurt that much…. I mean, my own MOTHER doesn’t care for the way I scrap, why should I care what a complete stranger thinks? We shall SEE… I guess I’m not too worried about it. I put myself out there, because I wanted a particular kit, lol… and if I don’t get the CT spot, then I’ll just BUY the stupid kit! How’s THAT? Not that I even NEED the kit, it’s a huge Christmas kit, and I’ve Christmas things spilling out my ears, and my scraproom… I’m being kind of silly. But it is SUCH a lovely looking kit, and it’s over 70MB for the low, I do mean LOW price of 6.99 (I THINK… it’s around there…) and after Dec 11th, it’ll go up to 9.99. I’m holding off FOR NOW, to see if Jerry can close a deal in the meantime…and I’m kind of hedging my bets with this CT thing… which who knows, could even be fun? Again, we shall SEE!!!! I don’t mind HAVING to make layouts, which is one thing you must do when you’re on a CT…
I need to load more fonts into my computer… I keep using the same ones OVER and OVER… it’s getting annoying. I have a few that are just really readable and nice… but I haven’t put a lot of fonts onto this computer. For one reason or another, usually having to do with the wishblade, they were all on the PC…well, that and I had reformatted the mac desktop machine (unnecessarily, I might add….was kind of pissed at myself for that one!) So I hadn’t gotten around to loading the fonts… I was doing it as I needed it. I do NOT like font book, which comes with OS X… I think it really sucks. It doesn’t seem to actually LOAD fonts, I can’t view fonts I know I should be able to view…. it just doesn’t seem to actually work like it’s supposed to??? Weird…usually things work in OS X, well, ANY mac product. I’m too busy/lazy to go see if I can figure out what’s wrong…I’ll just load them manually… problem is, I can’t really VIEW them before I load them, and that is what I want to be able to do.
I am typing up a storm here, you should see my fingers flying across the keyboard, lol. It’s 3:08, which is feeling really late on this Sunday… and I don’t think I got up very early. I uploaded some more to my 2peas, I did a layout on the computer (I have 6 more to go for getting my Christmas presents ready, YAY!!! I want to have a minimum of 30… should be able to do that by December. There’s just too many that are Sammi oriented…need more "family" pics so I can do the other members of this family…) Maybe I’ll get a quickpage out and throw something together… I don’t feel "finished" though truthfully, with this CT thing, I want to be creating my layouts from scratch, because she’s not going to want to see a bunch of quickpages, she’s going to want to see what *I* can do…kwim?
Hey, I was finally able to get into my scraproom, so that was a GOOD thing… I’ve been missing it. It’s a MESS. I need to do something with it, but I spend too much time on the computer (and as I’m sure you’re thinking, NOT enough time on OD, lol!) I can’t find my photo paper…don’t know what happened to it. It’s around here somewhere. In the meantime, I plan to buy another pack of it today, when we go to Costco. I’ll eventually find the other pack, and use it up too… I mean, the albums, I’m going to need about 90 to 120 sheets of photo paper anyway! Well, not all will be 30 pages, so maybe I won’t use that much… I just wanted 30 to choose from! And I do have ONE album that is 30 pages. I don’t know whether to keep that one, give it to Jerry’s mom for Christmas or WHAT… probably give it to Jerry’s mom. I bought it to use as a gift…need to do that. I am just wanting it for ME, lol. I mean, it’s 30 pages! That’s a NICE size. And I’ve got about 22 pages printed already, just for me, and I don’t want to use my Ariel 8×8 album for family layouts… I’d really intended to use it for a Disney album…not that I’ve done that, at all… okay… I am keeping the album IF I can find another inexpensive one I can give away instead of this one. Which means I still have to do 6 more layouts before Christmas…which is totally doable. Actually, I need to have them finished by about the 10th of December so I can get them in the mail. I can do that. I can do a layout a day, I just get tired after I do one layout. I don’t really SEEM to have that many pictures… so many are Sammi, and difficult to journal… "Here’s Sammi, blah blah blah…" She’s ALWAYS cute… Well, I’m sure I have pictures of her crying… I could do a "pouty face" layout pretty easily…but the point is, I don’t want Sammi overwhelming the album. But looking at it, I am doing all right…need more Becca, but I think I can rectify that pretty easily…
Oh, all I think about is scrapping, and being pregnant…and the girls. I think about the girls a lot. They’ve been running into problems at school with some kids…who are of a different ethnicity than the girls, and well… for being in elementary school… they’re kind of punks, some of them. We are FAR from being racists, okay… but it’s hard to put your girls into a school where they’re constantly getting ganged up on by a bunch of kids of ANY race… these kids have a real ghetto mentality, it seems. And this is NOT a ghetto neighborhood…not by any stretch. They live in some nearby condos. That is probably all I ought to say on the matter, don’t want to get anyone thinking something that’s untrue about me… I will say the school has handled the situations really well, and our children are not entirely without blame, which we have covered in DETAIL with them… You can’t go around escalating situations. Thankfully the girls CAN take care of themselves, especially Becca… thank you Karate… and she’s been showing some GOOD restraint in not resorting to really hurting these kids, which I’m sure she could do, if she felt her life was in danger. And all the adults have told her that if she needs to defend herself, she should, but that she’s showed good restraint. We’re proud of her in that regard. It’s just that Becca has a BIG MOUTH, and sometimes, she should learn to just shut it…kwim?
Tired… think I’ll wrap up. I really ought to do another layout tonight…would like to do a paper one, but I really need to get these Christmas presents done already, so they’re not hanging over my head. I wonder if Costco has some cheap 8×8 albums? I should really look and see.
