Do I or Don't I???

Well we went and looked at a car for markie yesterday. very cute car, it's a 2003 chevy cavalier. she absolutely loves it. Mark went to the lake with Steve and told me to take my dad with us to look at it. He would of had to go anyway, mark doesn't know alot about cars. But my dad, well he looks at EVERYTHING, which is a good thing. when he got done the guy asked him what he needed to fix, lol. and amazingly dad didn't find anything wrong with, well something minor the guy is gonna fix. the only thing i don't like about it is it soooooo small. you know me, i like big open spaces, and this car is small. can you say clostrophobic (i can't spell it, i'm sure!). but this is what she wants, and when i was young i loved the smaller cars too. if i could of gotten the car seat in and out of the back seat of my mustang i probally would still have it!!! lol this is such a hard decision for me. Mark will probally go along with whatever, esp after i whine and markie whines, lol. markie is driving amanda's old car, oh the horror! lol markie worries what everyone thinks and can't stand teh car. amanda never did. she was happy with whatever. NOT MARKIE. so do i give in? i do think i can hold it leverage over her. you know, if you make anything below a C, the car sits. and other things, but the grades are the biggie. she could care less. she can do so much better in school, but she won't. uuuggggghhh. and if i do get it for her, what about amanda. is she gonna be mad that we never bought her a cool car? or is she mature enough and into her own things now, not to even care? do i throw myself into helping her at their 'new' house so she won't even notice? uuugghhh, it's hard being a parent. i think i know why my parents only had ONE child. Please, give me any advice you may have. i need it.

So Rona hasn't gotten anything new in yet, except for a reorder on bazzill with a few new taggie things. seems like after the last show some of the stuff beat us home! so what is the deal. Rona says any day things should be rolling in. I CAN"T WAIT! she's thinking the may arts ribbon should be coming in soon. That booth is always sooooo fun. and we ordered sooooo much. us three were like kids in a toy shop. ohhhh, look at this, oooohhhhhh look at this. i couldn't write fast enough!!!!!

so here's hoping that Rona gets a boat load of stuff today!!!!
Cynde

What a awesome day!

Well. yesterday wasn't a good day. Markie rear ended someone in my expo, not really any damage but the people i think are gonna milk it for all they can. markie said that the light changed to green they started to go then stopped. she couldn't stop in time. that is what she told the cop, but the other couple (maybe 30) told the cop that the light did NOT change. Markie did not get a ticket, thank goodness. when the man (who acted like he was 16 but really was about 30) got out of the car he started yelling and using the f work over and over. called her a f young teenage girl, and on and on. she thought he was gonna punch her. ok so she got a really good life lesson, i hope.

today she started working at burger king by sfmc. she HATES it. welcome to the real world. lol

Amanda and Neil have found a house they are gonna put a down payment on. it is really cute. it is between biehle and perryville. they are really ready!


ok on to my awesome day today. no scrapbooking yet. but this is almost better! *gasp* well it all started out innocently. Markie needed some black shoes for work. now i did not want to pay to much for them, i don't think she will last long. lol so we went to payless in the mall, but they were not open so Markie suggested we go to penneys, since they were open. we found some, 20 bucks, ok, pretty good price, but when i went to pay for them they were ****12.00 and some change***** YEAH!!!!!! then the girl told me the most sweetest thing----all items with a pink sticker was 40% even MORE!!!! OMG! so i sent markie on her way to work and i headed to the housewares, my clothes, and purses. WELL i got some king sheets and 2 xta pillowslips, 4 shirts and a pair of pants. Yeah! oh yeah, i got markie 4 bra's,and 5 pairs of underware too all for 100 bucks!!!!!! totally awesome. so i was hungry after all this since i hadn't eaten anything so i went and got me a hamburger thru burger king. shhhh don't tell markie, i don't think she saw me, lol. then i went back to PENNEY"S and met my mom and friend wanda there. lol. this time i went to the kids clothes. i got some sweet baby boy clothes for alisha's baby and some really cute dresses for sydney. since i paid almost nothing for them, i got a boat load. really. then me and mom went to check out the dressy dresses. Mom found her one for amanda's wedding that is really pretty. i found one too, i will have to loose some weight, but i need to anyway! now sit down for this. mom's dress was 10 bucks and mine was 4.00 (after a 10.00 off coupon!) hoot ta hooo!!!! 4 flippin bucks. i will spend more money on loosing weight than on the dress!!! lol. it is really pretty. no one will know i paid 4 dollars for it, but since i have a big mouth, they will anyway!!! but i love a great bargain!! now i better get off here and go HIDE all my bargins. lol or not, i saved soooooo much money!!!!!! and it was things i NEEDED. yeah, that's it.

Have a great weekend.

Cynde

To Much for This Small Brain!!!!!!!!!

I am sooooo excited. i have been wanting to do a retreat for a loooonnnggg time and it's finally coming together!!! Rona has given us the go ahead to do a 11-12 hour retreat on September 8th. my mind has been going in circles ever since!!! So i've already told you Nikki and Angela is gonna teach too, but i have been brainstorming the 'little' things, lol. here is what i have in store for who ever dare comes!



supper--- my cousin's sister's (did you get that?) awesome spagetti, garlic bread, layer salad (very yummy) chocolate eclair dessert (my mom's single most requested dessert at family reunions, and i hope she will make it for me!) and to drink strawberry lemonaide. of course we will have some goodies to snack on during the evening and night, but i'm still thinking about that. another thing i have always wanted to do was t-shirts. i called a very nice lady Rona referred today and she is working on the artwork and specific's and will get back to me. the cool thing is these will be less than 10 bucks!!!!!! i'm such a t-shirt girl!!!!!



*****hi-jack*********** this is what my fortune cookie says today 'Your ingenuity and imagination will get results'. I think i like that!! hi-jack over.

gotta go.

cynde

Well Blow Me Away!!!!

I can not believe it. Markie got a JOB. this isn't all that amazing, BUT.... We talked about what she would wear the evening befor her interview. ya know she IS a teenager, so i say 'wear nice jeans and a polo shirt'. now here is the good part, she says 'like i have on now?'. yes, perfect. ok i'll just wear this. um no, it is dirty. ok i'll wash it. ok. ok fast forward to 15 minutes until her interview. she comes into my office at work, THIRTY minutes away from home, with, sigh, tight capri jeans, and *gasp* a TANK TOP. wth. i'm at work, yelling at her as loud as i can and not draw attention. didn't we talk about this? am i dreaming? wth. Now here is where i'm BLOWN AWAY. she got the job. i really wanted to go to Burger King and tell them i would never send my child to a interview like that. ggeeeezzzzzzzzzhhhhhh. ok so i was hoping to teach her a lesson, but how am i gonna, SHE GOT THE JOB. aaaggghhhh. that was about all of my afternoon. i was exhausted after that. lol. went home and cleaned a very little and just zoned out in front of the tv with chloe, who by the way is back to being MY baby. rant over.

Tuesday Tuesday

Yep it's tuesday. Markie has a job interview at Burger King today. She is driving me very crazy. she is wanting a new car and will not stop bugging me about it. hopefully she will get a job and have other things on her mind. i do want her to have a new car, i really do. and we will find her one, maybe just not TODAY! lol

Chloe is still being a crazy dog. she got into my green apple and some deer jerky last night. so at 230 this morning i was cleaning up after her, won't go into anything graffic, lol.

I really wanted to do some scrapbooking last night and i had big plans, but alas i went to bed at 830. so very tired still. i did manage to make it to s&s and pick out retreat class materials for one class. I plan on doing a baby page. i hope there is interest in it. on my way home i was thinking about how i can't wait til amanda is ready to have a baby (which i can, but i love babies and kids in general, when they are not mine!!!! lol) and i thought back on all the can't waits of my life. ya know, can't wait til i get my license, can't wait til i turn 21, ....get married, ....have a baby, ......the baby sleeps thru the night, .....the baby walks, .....goes to school, .......graduates, .......gets married, and now i'm at :gasp: can't wait to be a grandma?????? oh my. let me rethink this!!!!! lol i guess this all stems from amanda's friends. when she was talking of wedding plans and her bridesmaids, Tonya at Precious Memories (who was amanda's teacher a couple years ago) asked amanda if any of her bridesmaid's planned on getting pregnant. well of course not!! well guess what, God had other plans! now 2 girls are pregnant and i dreaming of when amanda will have one of her own. whew. crazy, i am! i will just have to spoil Alisha's and Cheryl's babies. they will make the bestest mommies. they are sooooo sweet!!! makes me cry. i have known these girls for a long time. ok enough.

so anyone have any suggestions on what kind of class you would like? a summer one? winter one? techniqueky one? (ok i know that is not a word, but isn't it pretty!)

Hmmm maybe we'll use some stickles paint, i did get some freebies from our cutie pootie sales rep at Ranger. lol Alien, said Allen. i asked. lol so i like to flirt with the young boys, i'm a old fat lady and i've dreamed of the day i could do this and not get into any trouble. lol JUST KIDDING. i did not flirt. well not much. at. all. nope. not. me.

better get back to work.
see ya
cynde

wheew. CHA was a Blast!

I'm back to work today and am very tired. got home last night about 930-1000. No one had done a thing at my house all weekend. it didn't help that i left the kitchen table trashed with my scrapping supplies, lol. No one bothered to give chloe (my shitz tzu) a bath either. so guess what i did at 1000PM last night when i was exhausted. yep, gave the puppy a bath. someone is gonna pay for that. as they say, pay backs are H$((. lol. AND Chloe doesn't hardly want to have anything to do with me. little twirp. she is MAD at me. and it is hurting my feelings. she took to biting while i was gone to, not just nips as puppies do, but hard left me a bruise on my arm bite. She is making me pay for leaving her at home i guess. now i'm not to sure which is my favorite child. the girls may have a chance now, lol.

OH, did you want to know about CHA?
oh OK then. we arrived thursday about 11 at Navy Pier. such a fun time. then we ventured the streets of chicago to find out hotel. well we found it all right. it was awful. i can stay almost anywhere, but here we were afraid of walking into our hotel when the sun went down, if ya know what i mean. soooooo Rona got on the phone with hotels.com and explained the situation and they found us another hotel (which cost more $$$ but we did not care!) and it was AWESOME. a sheraton suite. very cool and very worth it. checked in then went to the convention center where we eat some free food and attended some sneak peeks. then went home and crashed. awwww a great night sleep.

Friday morning we went back to the convention center and convinced two other ladies they could ride with us. well we got just a little lost and found our way after a few minutes. they were really nice and they continued to ride with us the other two days, even thou we got them lost!!!!! lol Rona ordered http://www.fancypantsdesigns.com/store/index.php? fancy pants and wow!!! just you wait. it is awesome! stop by the store cause Rona got some samples for being one of the first 25 customers!!!! see all that whining i did to order Fancy Pants first paid off!!! lol then she went and did more orders. let me see if i can remember them all. There was Cloud9, Heidi Grace, Heidi Swapp, Cropper Hopper, Some new Tim Holtz stuff that is awesome, and then i lost Her and Nikki and walked around getting catalogs and doing a few make and takes. it was a very long day. i ran into Giboney and Brandon of Piggy Tales. they do great make and takes and i did 2 of theirs. i just love them all there. so sweet. and the products they have coming out are awesome too!!!! we made it back to the suites (that sounds so cool, lol) and did some brainstorming and did some more orders to turn in the next day.

Saturday and Sunday Rona turned in more orders and just let me tell you we are getting some awesome stuff!!!! Dream Street, Luxe, Rusty Pickle, Page Frames, October Afternoon (cool new clear stamps that stamp reallllly nice and some cool charactors), Prima, Sonburn, Stampendous, Ranger, May Arts (OMG this is the ribbon we always get and we had THREE pages of orders!!!!! cool stuff here girls), Buttons Galore (let me say that we are gonna have to put buttons on EVERY single page for classes that i do in the future if that tells you how many i requested, lol), Bo Bunny (ok check out this link http://mb.lifetimemoments.com/viewtopic.php?t=149230 it's a sneak peak from Bo Bunny. now this order i wanted ALOT of it. i love the tiny polka dot paper and i hope alot of you will too, lol. Look for alot of this to show up in my classes and kits.), Queen and Co (awesome new felt!), Maya Road, 7 gypies, Hampton Art, and i'm not sure what else. i'm mush!

So new things should start coming in anytime so be on teh look out!

let me just end with this. i requested alot of stuff soooooo I have decided to do a 11 hour Retreat on September 8. Nikki has agreed to teach also along with Angela (i can not remember her name at the moment, dang it!) but she is awesome. She is gonna stitch on some of her layouts for the classes and we'll bring in our sewing machines (which means i will have to take the one i have outta the box, lol) So mark you calendars, get a babysitter, send the Husband off fishing and come scrapbook with us. There will be more info on this later, just thought i would throw it out there!!!

See Ya Soon,

Cynde

July 15

just a lazy day here in se missouri. went to cape with markie and eat at taco johns, that is where she wanted to go. ? i think she is sick, lol. she was in agreat mood andwe got along great!!! no whining on either of out part. she is hot after a new car. not new,new, just new to her. i hope we can swing one for her. she hates amanda's old buick, who can blame her. we'll see. made a great supper. steak, fresh green beans with new potatoe's, bacon and onion, fresh cucumbers, yum, and fresh corn on the cob. can't get much better than that. got lots to do. hopefully will be b ack tomorrow. cynde