M.I.A.

so i have been missing in action. work has kept me busy. i'm taking friday night off! whoohoo! i feel the need to just vegitate so i'm just watching CSI reruns. the writers of this show must be nutso's. they have some crazy jacked up stories.

anyways, not much happening since i've been tied up. i OD'ed on caffeine the other day. it was worst than my first can of pepsi after i had aaron. i had a large coffee and a large vietnamese ice coffee in the morning. i felt jittery and my stomach turned all day. i attempted to hit the sack at 11 pm only to toss and turned all night. i finally fell asleep at 4 am in the morning!! then i had to get up at 6:20 am. auh, never again!!! lesson learned.

hope everyone have a nice labor day weekend!!! i actually have no plans!

baby cards

my friend and #1 customer (lol), christine, asked for a couple of baby shower cards. so here are the baby boy cards i made for her to choose from:


(don't care for the bootie one, but thought i'd throw it in. =P)

the following are the baby girl ones, which you guys have seen before; just slight variations.



so which cards reign supreme? which two will she chose?

our first "run away from home" threat?

while we had dinner tonight, i think we got our first "run away from home" threat from aaron. g told aaron to eat his dinner and aaron got mad and said, "you're not my friend. i'm going to go away!" of course, daddy responded with, "where are you going?" aaron didn't have an answer. ahh.... too early for this. hehe

i survived!! ... almost

this was the weekend that g got to go on a 2-night fishing trip off of san diego/mexico. so i was stuck with aaron and kyle by myself on saturday night and sunday. i even took the boys to a birthday party (which i will comment later on). amazingly, i only had to break out one new toy and that was to distract aaron when daddy had to leave. i expected to bribe them with new toys, cookies, lots of stars, etc., but i didn't have to resort to them that much! whoo-hoo! well, g comes home tomorrow morning and i now have my mom with me to help in the morning so i am golden as pee. lol

now as for the birthday party that we went to today. it was for joey, our neighbor, and he turned or is turning 6. they rented one of those bouncers but it had a huge slide and a pool at the end. well, let me tell you, that was one big pool of testosterone! the boys at the party were between 4-10(?), and they were pretty crazy going down the slide. i saw way too many rough playing and a handful of crying boys. i was scared for aaron, but he went down that slide all by himself and stayed out of harms way.

so will my two boys grow up to be typical boys? i think they are already typical boys -- getting into everything and active! i just hope they listen and be respectful. that's all i ask for! =P funny thing is, on saturday, we met up w/ g's old friend from college. he has an 8-yrs old daughter and the mom said that with girls, you have to deal with the attitude. so i was in a pretty happy state for the fact that i didn't have to deal with it in the future. then came the birthday party.... instead of attitude, i have to deal with rough playing. hmm... which is worst?

addicted to mahjong solitaire and school bulletin

if you haven't noticed, i have slowed down quite a bit on creating cards. well, blame my friend, joel, for getting me hooked on mahjong solitaire. i downloaded the game onto my ipod touch last week and it is sooo hard to put it down! when you fail to solve the puzzle, you want to try and try again until you do. then when you complete one, you want to solve another one because you want another challenge. it's addicting!!!

well, other than staying up to play mahjong, i also worked on aaron's school bulletin board this week; i was in charge of august (i still can't believe it's august!). of course, i didn't take the easy way out and go buy pre-made cut-outs or decorations at party city. it wouldn't be me. hehe so i struggled with 2 themes: under the sea or ice-cream. i wanted to put my $300 cricut machine to use so i decided on under the sea since i had cartridges that fit the theme. after removing the dust from my cricut and many many cuts, here is the final product.

catelyn, ben, and chloe: i hope you'll get to see this in person when you start school at creator's corner!!

ok, it's still kind of early... do i work on cards or play mahjong?!? hm....