House for Sale!

Those on FB already know my drama for today...snake in the kitchen!

I was leaving to go pick up Bella from school and was headed through the kitchen when I spotted a snake coiled on my rug in front of the sink. My rug is black and it is a miracle I saw it because the snake was dark. From what I could see, it was blacky greeny and about 3-4 feet. I immediately screamed at the top of my lungs and the little devil slithered behind my dishwasher. Gavin later told me the snake probably felt my walking vibrations instead of hearing my scream but I think even deaf people would have heard what I let out!

I had about five minutes to get Bella so I had to leave the house although I wanted to stay and make sure it stayed under the dishwasher. I called my mom and Gavin from the car and they both headed over. My mom is a country girl so she was all about capturing the snake and Gavin knew he was up for major drama if he did not come home...immediately.

My mom came and instructed me to find a weapon to kill it...all I could find was a post hole digger...and she started to pull back the dishwasher. I wanted her to wait for Gavin but she wouldn't. She couldn't get it out so we had to wait for him anyway. When he got home, he pulled it back and it was not there!!! Now I have no idea where it is. We think it is still in the island where the dishwasher is because the cats are circling it. I wanted to rip the whole island out (we plan on doing that eventually anyway and now is a good of time as ever, right?) but Gavin wasn't having it. After about 3 hours of searching, I gave in and got a blizzard because I definitely deserved some sort of pleasure after my drama.

So here I am with 3 pairs of socks and tennis shoes on while I try to figure out what to do. My "prince charming" (please note the sarcasm) is sleeping...soundly. My daughter is baracaded in her room. Cory says I should burn down my house. Anyone have any reasonable suggestions? Exterminator is coming tomorrow so hopefully I don't have an anxiety attack by then.

Pray saints pray!

Say Happy Easter

So my mom took my camera and tried to entertain Bella before church started on Easter Sunday. She didn't know my camera had a video option on it and captured this by mistake. As you will see, my mom thinks she can rotate the camera any way and it will be right side up. Enjoy!

Digi Scrapping

If you want to get started with digi scrapbooking, I recommend the following sites:

1. ikeagoddess.blogspot.com - this blog posts links to freebies daily (freebies are kits, elements, graphics, etc. that you will need). You will find so many scrapbooking blogs on her site and will probably be overwhelmed at first...you will need to create a seperate folder on your computer for scrapbooking stuff and it will fill up VERY quickly!

2. scrapgirls.com - they have a great store but also a scrapgirls university with lots of tutorials

3. ACDSee photo software - this is a photo cataloging software that makes it easy to sort your pics by date, theme, etc. I think it's like $30.

My latest page

As those who are my facebook friends know, my daughter about tore the church down Passover Sunday during a kids production. She was a flower and, as we all saw, definitely a WILD flower.

I decided to scrap a picture from that day because I want to remember it. Cutting someone out of the picture and putting them against a new background is really a good technique if you like the photo of your subject but not the background. If you have Photoshop and would like instructions, let me know. 

Can't we all just get along?

I had a chance to talk to my friend Cory yesterday and, as usual, we fought about the Presidency of Barack Obama. See Cory is a former conservative turned libby and I am trying to save his soul from damnation and Nancy Pelosi. What got me up in arms is an interview I saw on NBC where Janeane Garafolo said that everyone who attended the tea parties are "racist red neck teabaggers." For those, who don't know what the term means, look it up...I don't want to be responsible for teaching you about it. I already had to explain to my mom and that was oh so wrong!

Cory doesn't think everyone who is against Barack Obama is racist but he does think that we (honkeys) are ingrained to be racist from birth (esp. Southern honkeys). I totally disagree because I was raised in a household to respect all people regardless of race. Even though I had relatives who were "old school" and felt different races should not marry, I was never told anything negative about anyone. 

This topic really upsets me because I believe racism in reverse is becoming more acceptable and because white people do not want to seem racist, they don't say anything. Why can't we have NO segregation? Having magazines, clubs, pageants, tv channels, etc. devoted to one race is absurd! Can you imagine if white people tried to do this?

Off my soapbox...

The rest of the conversation was hilarious, as usual. When we talk we follow the "stream of consciousness" technique where we just segue into topics in the most random way. We used to work together and every morning we would devote a few minutes to catch up on what was happening...especially Mondays. I would come in and tell him about my weekend adventures with family, dating, church, friends, and he would tell me what medications he took. Then we laughed and sometimes played jeopardy (but never did anything racist...righ, Cory?...private joke). 

Now that we don't work together anymore, I don't have that outlet, and when we do talk, we have a lot to catch up on... We've had a lot of funny things happen to us over the years so I may intersperse our tales every now and then.

Here's one to get you started...

Several years ago we had a revival at New Life (this is when Cory was still a Pentecostal...the best time in his life!) and we had a certain evangelist as the guest. After the service, people were waiting to have him pray over them because we was supposedly quite the prophet. Cory and I were standing right near the front watching different people go up and suddenly we hear "the prophet" say..."that couple, you there...please come up.  God wants to save your marriage." We looked around because we were so not married and surely a prophet would have known that, right? How about God help us get married before He saves it. A friend of ours who was there got so excited because she felt like it was sign from God that we should be together. That evangelist never came back.*

*That one wasn't too funny...I'll do better next time.

10,000 maniacs

I've decided to blog again for me and the two people interested in my life (one is my mom and the other is you, obviously). I've done this before (see original post) and really got into it. That was before the days of marriage and mommyhood so my life is more hectic than ever before...albeit much more eventful!

First, let's get this out there...I am nuts. Not "institutionalized nuts," but the things that go through my mind would probably scare most people. Or, maybe I'm normal and think the same things others do but no one talks about it. In any case, I hope some of the things I write can be cathartic and people who read will understand when I express them.

Thus...the blog title, "Do I look blind in this dress." Only one person besides myself knows what that phrase means and I'm not really at a point where I feel like explaining. Just know that line pretty much sums up my life, and when, or if, I do explain, it will not be as interesting as you think it is. Anyone wanna take a guess?

A few things about me:

1. My daughter is the most important person in the world. I live and breathe for her and was put on Earth to be her mommy. She is the only pure love I have ever known. You will hear much about Bella Rose.

2. I love Facebook and spend way too much time on there. It still amazes me that I am connected to people who were a part of my life for 18 years and who I lost touch with since 1992. I love seeing people 's family pics, reading status updates, and even cyber stalking people I think are crazy (come on, you do it!).

3. I love graphic design and everything it entails. I am building a business and hope it will flourish soon. 

4. I digital scrapbook like a maniac. I've probably taken 10,000 pics of my daughter since she was born and have to find something to do with them. It's really an obsession, and if you start, I guarantee you will love it!

5. I don't have as many friends as I used to...life, marriage, motherhood, etc. changes relationships and some friendships thrive and others do not. I used to look forward to weekends because I had multiple possibilities of activities to do with awesome people. Now, I hang with a 2 year old and I love it (most of the time). I do love nights out and adult interaction so hopefully I will be able to fit some of those in as well.

6.  I'm pretty socially conservative. Many of the things I write about will reflect this.

That's about all I feel like writing tonight. Blog at ya soon!