I Can Make It, I Can Make It,

I only have today to get thru and then i have a FOUR day weekend!!! Yeah! we are going camping at sam a baker, we will have completed our 5 weekend camping at 5 different camp grounds in missouri!! we are dorks! lol we get a patch or something. whoo hooo! we are going camping with tim and billie and of course ms. sydney! we totally enjoy her! she is 3 and a half and full of life! she is sooooo much fun. and of course we are going to have some yummy food. tim went to Essner's in kelso/benton, whereever they are and got some chicken breast. these things are THE best i have ever had. Norman marinates and turns the chicken breast for several hours. YUMMY!! (oooohhhhhh. i think i just had a idea (or is it ideal?) for the november retreat!!! yeah, we could george forman them right there in the store. ohhhhh. awesome ideal!!!! salad, dessert, rolls, drink, that's it!!! meun all done for the novemeber retreat!)

well Markie is feeling better, she went to school today. i hope she makes it. and they better let her go to the bathroom whenever she needs to. i shouldn't have to call school for a 16year old girl to be let out of class to use the restroom, but i probally will have to. uuugggghhhh.

well i am almost off my effexor. it is my 'happy' medicine that i have been taking for some months and it did make me happy, but it also made me sleep and sleep and sleep. and you just can't go off it cold turkey. no, no,no. i'm not sure i would of taken it if i knew how hard it is to go off. seriously.

OMG! i went to see dr Ruopp yesterday and he helped my back soooo much. i think i love that man!!!! first they put those electric things on my back and neck area. can you say ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. then the girl used a machine messager thingy and OMG it was the bomb. then Dr Ruopp popped my back and neck. now that kinda freaks me out, espcially the neck one, but ooohhhhhhh it felt good!!! my back kinda hurts today, but not like it was.

Good Wednesday Morning!!!

Well it is hump day. only one more day of work for me and then i have a FOUR day weekend. and boy am i ready for it!!!! Amanda has officially moved out, her bed is gone and all that is in her room is some trash and a few of her clothes (which for a normal person, that would be their whole wardrobe! lol). kinda sad, but another step in the life cycle i suppose. they have been working hard on getting the house painted and fixed up. my mom and dad have been going up almost every night. i haven't, i am the bad mom. i feel bad, but man, i had the retreat to get ready this past weekend. sunday i had to do stuff around the house and then i went up there. at least i bought them supper! monday we went up and set up her bedroom suite and took them supper. last night i just couldn't go. i had a pain in my back/neck that i laid on the heating pad until markie stole it from me. i finally went to bed at 830. thank goodness i have a chiropractor appt today! yeah. Markie has a bladder infection that is causing her lots of pain. i'm pumping her full of cranberry juice and water. she thought fluids meant mt dew. um, no. lol. poor thing when the doctor came in and told her she had a bladder infection, her first thing was 'am i gonna die?' that is always her first question, lol. she is paranoid!!!!

Well the Small Town Girls Retreat signup's are going great! can't wait for the retreat. we have some fun stuff in store for everyone who signs up. we had a brain storming session yesterday, so look out. when you get 4 brains like ours together, who knows what will happen!!! got what is probally gonna be the final proof of the tshirt design this morning and it is really CUTE!!!! even if you can't come to the retreat, you gotta get a tshirt. for around 10 bucks, how can you not!!!! they are gonna be brown with pink flowers and white writing. very cool!

We also set our next retreat date for November 10th. this is the weekend deer season starts and is the weekend before the craft fairs. mark it on your calendars!!! for this retreat we are gonna focus on christmas gift giving. wait til you see what we have up our sleeves!! we have so many idea's we can't possibly do them all!

Did you see the link to Small Town Girls Retreat on the left side? that is a new blog i set up for the retreats. i will try and update it often!

well better get back to work. have a great day!
cynde

quick post

sooo i'm on the dinasour of the home computer, so this is very short. I had a blast this weekend at the retreat. i LOVE my scrapbook friends. you all are sooooo COOL!!! it was a very long day, but geez, it went by so fast. and poor barb, becky, kathy, and nancy, they probally think i am crazy!!!! we did a class after the retreat. so much fun, but i was probally getting slap happy by then, lol.

i wanted to let you know that sign ups for the small town girls retreat have started and we are going to have a BLAST at this retreat. the projects are to die for!!!!

ok gotta go to walmart then to the 'new' house. i'm not sure how much of a help i will be today, but i HAVE to show up. maybe i'll take some really good food and they won't even notice if i'm not doing anything!!!! lol

have a great Sunday!
cynde

Ittttttt'sssss Frrrrriiiiiiiiiiday!!!!!!!!!

and i am so happy!!! i am really happy! i can't wait for the retreat tomorrow, i just wish every thing was ready for it! oh well i have allllll night. lol

Amanda and Neil signed on the house yesterday and started work last night. i think she is mad at me for not helping, but i have all this stuff to do. i have a life too! and we weren't expecting them to get it this soon. so i guess i will spent all day sunday there. i hope they are ready to paint, although i hate to paint, i hate to clean even more. last night mom and amanda was down in the basement in the shower drain and they found a SNAKE. a baby COPPERHEAD. uugghhhh. then they found a frog. lol. manda says they are getting the house sprayed next week! welcome to the real world. i really need to get my house sprayed too.
I think Markie is doing good in school, nothing bad yet, except for some comments from a stupid boy that better watch out or i will fix him. with one call. although i think markies friend (can't say boyfriend!) called him and took care of it, lol.
I really don't think i am gonna be able to go to california, i just can't seem to keep hope that maybe i will be able too.
My friend Therese and her husband Jared are adopting a sweet baby girl from guatmala (sp) and have been in the process for over a year. they got awesome news this week that it is nearing the final stages and they will probally get to bring her home in the next couple of weeks. I can't wait. she is so cute in her pictures and her name is Grace. Therese will be a great mommy! i can't wait to finally meet Grace in person.

Procastinator...........

that is me. big time. the best of the best. ok so I have to get my classes ready for the retreat classes this weekend. i have to have examples of the classes and kits for the sept 8th retreat by saturday too. AND i have been wanting to submit for the piggy tales dt for along time and guess when that deadline is? friday. when did i start? monday, this week. why? because i work better under pressure. BUT not this MUCH pressure. so i do have 2 of the three lo's done. i still have to do a card and a altered project. so here is my delemia-- i don't have to use piggy tales product on the last lo, so do i just use one of my recent lo's and then do a altered project and card and relieve some of the STRESS, or go ahead and do a third lo with totally all piggy tales? or get the rest of my stuff done and then see where i'm at and do what i feel like doing then. that sounds good to me.
Basic Grey came in the store yesterday. didn't go in yesterday, i have to get this stuff done!!!
Me and amanda went and looked at the baptist church in jackson and at candlelabra's at busy bee's candles. since i got married at 1st baptist in jackson and busy bee's did my candles, it felt kinda wierd, lol. i want to get as much of this stuff done now so we can get what we/she wants and don't have to settle for things if they are already booked. kwim?
well better get back to work. lunch over!!!
cynde

Piggy Tales!!!!!

is in da store!!!!! just arrived today. can't wait to PLAY!!! and are ya gonna try out for their design team??? i DARE you to! you guys we have sooooo much talent around here, it would be awesome for several of the new members to come from SE MO!!! so what ya waiting for? sorry short post, got a headache and lots of work to do. might be back later. cynde

Almost Friday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yeah!!! although we are having friends up for supper and my house is a diaster, totally. Why am i the only one who does anything. i have tried to leave it dirty (which it is!) and messy (it is) to see if anyone will help me. NO. NADA. i asked mark to take out the trash, please, because it had food in it and it was really gonna stink if it wasn't taken out. NADA. still there this morning. granted it is not very hard to do and i could just do it myself like i do ALL the time, but i thought he might help me once. no. nada. so i do that this morning. then chloe pee'd in the hallway. uuugghhh. yes i took her out way to early last night, yes i didn't take her out as soon as i got up, yes she has a urinary tract infection. and yes she pee'd in my hall. i spanked her (not hard, she is a princess you know) just so she knows she is not suppose to do that. i run to get paper towels and about cut my hand off on a knife that was suppose to be put up by Markie last night after i begged her to put the dishes up in the dish washer. )which by the way is one of her only jobs, that and folding the towels.) instead of putting them in the wood block she lays them on top of the freezer BY the block. soooo she is mad at me because i woke her not-so-happy butt up 600am to put 3 little knifes into the wooden block where they belong. oooohhhhh can you say mad? and i'm glad. then she says 'don't get mad at me cause YOUR dog did something wrong.' WTH. ohhhhhhhh! so then not that i hadn't yelled enough, i yelled at her for taking my clothes out of the nice dryer and throwing them on the couch where they are now nice and wrinkled. poor thing had to wash her own clothes. for shame. her awful mother won't go into her dangerously messy room and collect all the clothes strung everywhere and take them and wash them, even though some of them are perfectly clean i might add. (breathe) sooooo tonight i am going home and cleaning house cause i invited my very nice friends up for supper tomorrow night and i can not let anyone in the front door with the house looking the way it does. BUT. BUT. BUT. why do i have to do it all. oh well. so here's my plan. (sorry if you are reading this and you are thinking, this lady is crazy!!! but i'm pretty sure the only one reading is penne, my gooooood friend penne, lol!) tonight i am going to clean, clean, clean and clean some more. and when i'm scrapbooking when mark comes home from work and there is no supper, well, sorry i forgot. and markie is gonna be very upset when she can't go out this weekend. to bad. i'm done. sorry for the rant.

so i just read my post. sorry if you read it. it is a total b%t$* post and i am sorry. i would delete it, but boy did it feel good. i think i will leave it there, just for a reminder. lol

No Title, Not Very Creative Today

Well i had a 3 day weekend. Man i love those!!!! didn't do anything to exciting. Well, i spent most of the day saturday at S&S getting things ready for the aug 25th retreat and for the small town girls retreat on Sept 8th. Sunday me and mom took markie to goodies and bought her some school clothes. she is a bear to shop with, let me tell ya. she doesn't like the clearence racks (wth??? i'm not sure she is my child!!) so we usually don't agree on anything. But Sunday was a little different. she got several shirts and pants and we all agreed on them!!!!! yeah! that made my week! Monday i was off from work and i had to take Chloe to the vet. she ended up having a urinary trach infection and i dropped $140.00 on her, between her heart worm medicine, flea and tick, and her 2 pills and spray she has to have for the uti. poor baby. she is still not feeling 100%. after the vet we went by s&s and chloe entertained anyone who came in. she is such a sweet dog. i hope she didn't bother anyone. she got so tired she was dragging around the store. poor baby.

ahhhh, markie starts school TOMORROW!!!!! yippe!!! i think she is ready too. i hope so.

not much today.

Sept. 8th Retreat

Small Town Girls
with
Big Idea’s Retreat

Saturday, September 15th, 2007
1p.m. til midnight

Planned activities include:
1-2pm Technique Bazaar ~ Free for participants
2-2:45pm Class with Cynde
3:00-3:45pm Class with Nikki
4:00-4:45pm Class with Penne
5:00-6:30pm Class with Angela

6:30pm Supper

7:15pm~12:00am Time to work on purchased kits
with the help of instructors all evening.

First eleven people to sign up for all four classes
and supper receive a free gift.

Technique Bazaar will consist of learning new techniques that will be included in the classes and kits that will be for sale by each instructor. Techniques that will be included, but not limited to, are Distressing, Inking, Ranger products, glueing, using stencil’s, sewing on your pages, and more. If you have anything you are wanting to learn, please let Rona know and she can pass it on to us and we will be sure to cover it!

Classes offered will be each teacher’s own creation and examples will be displayed several weeks in advance. These will be taught in a classroom like environment and if you choose all four classes you will be able to stay in the same seat for each class.

Supper will include bottomless homemade spaghetti, seven layer salad, garlic bread, chocolate eclair and strawberry lemonade or tea. Cost is $6.00. Snacks will also be served during the evening. This will be a surprise!

We will also be purchasing t~shirts to sell. If you are interested and want to make sure you get your size please tell Rona or email me at cyndesharok@hotmail.com and I will make sure you get one. I am estimating the cost of the t~shirts will be less than $10.00.

This retreat is something I have been wanting to do for a long time and I hope you will considering coming and enjoying a evening of fun with friends that enjoy the same hobby as you do! Hopefully this is a first of many more to come!!

Sign up's will be August 25th at the retreat. I'm so looking forward to this!!!!! I really enjoy spending time with you guys. i'm hoping this will be a little more laid back than the regular monthly retreats and i will have more time to hang out!!!!!

So I Was Off Yesterday.....

and i felt like i got alot done in my scrapbook room. but then i went into my bedroom and seen all the stuff on my bed that i took out of there, and i'm not to sure. i do have my desk top back in my room and i shouldn't have to use the kitchen table for a while. i just don't know what to do with all the boxes full of stuff. i really am trying to organize, but my add mind is hendering it. but i do have light at the end of the tunnel. read on....



so amanda and neil are moving ahead with the loan on the house. they did put a down payment down, well neil did. for all purposes, it is NEIL'S house and not amanda's, but when they get married it will be both of theirs, lol. They went and got their appliance's last night and got a really good deal with 18 months same as cash. they are doing a great job and neil is really level headed and amanda is really trying too! lol. they got a stove, refrigerator, and a washer and dryer. wish we could go ahead and start painting, but it will be getting cooler outside, so maybe waiting is a good thing. I am very proud of both of them and I feel they are ready for this and are looking at it in a good way. Neil is a great worker and amanda had been putting in alot of hours herself. i just hope she remembers she NEEDS to return to college. i understand if she wants to take a year off, if that is what she is gonna do. but i want her to go back.



so that brings me to more room for MY stuff!!! with amanda moving out her room will be available. now who is gonna get it. Markie wants to tear down the wall and make her room bigger (not gonna happen), Mark wants it for his stuff (hmmm, we'll see), and i want it for my extra stuff. now i don't have a very good arguement since i do already have a scrapbook room, but I NEED MORE ROOM. i think if i can at least get rid of the computer i will be happy, so that is what i am going for, and maybe alittle of the closet space. i don't think that is to much to ask for.
we'll see.

Shhhhh! don't tell

Rona I posted this, lol. she got a bunch of stuff in today, like Technique Tuesday, 7 gypies, may arts (cooooollllll ribbon), Luxe, and Stampin Station. fun, fun, fun!!!! i think i am feeling sick and i need to go home! i really need a sanity day (a day i can do what I WANT TO DO!) i think i will work on that today.

i was up at 4 am this morning, what the heck? so i started scrapbooking and it was 540 before i knew it! geeezzzzz. now i am gonna have to go home and take a nap when i get off, not. i will be at stamps and scrapbooks checking out that new stuff!!!!!

Markie is gonna meet me for lunch. she loves her new car and will do anything for me that involves driving.

Had a Great Weekend

We went camping this weekend, which was HOT but nice. we went to Mermac State Park up by sullivan mo. it was a really nice park with over 200 sites , and thank goodness we had reservaitons, cause they were FULL! it would be a great place to camp and float. very pretty river, water clean and camp ground nice. we decided to camp here because we are trying to do a thnig that mo conservation is doing where you camp in 5 state parks you get something, so we have one more park to go!!! plus we stayed there so we would be sorta close to st louis. we went to a ducks unlimited appreciation day at anheuser busch saturday. talk about very nice. it was. great food, good drinks, and we got to get our picture taken with a clausdale (i CAN not spell that, think big very pretty horse!) It was a great weekend!!!

Markie got her car on friday and we left right after adn she went with us. she didn't complain very much all weekend, like i might of thought. she sure is lovin' that car now though. lol. she starts volleyball this evening. she will be a bear cause she is outta shape. that'll teach her to lay around all summer, or not. lol

Amanda is busy working, and working, and working. She said this weekend was nuts at new york and company with the tax free weekend. she worked alot. her and neil are getting excited about the house. she is gonna go look for some furniture tomorrow at a thrift shop that the lady they bought the house from works at. i hope she finds something!!!

i so want to go to my cousins daughters wedding in california next month, but i'm not sure i'm gonna be able to swing it. with the new car and all, i might need to stay here and work. i wish i was rich!!!!! lol

been thinking more about the 'small town girls with big idea's' retreat september 8th. i sure hope it turns out like i'm hoping. i have lots of plans!!!!

on a sad note, a girl on the veggie site that i always loved to read her posts and comments died this past weekend. so unexpected and fast. thoughts and prayers for her family. remember life is short and you just never know.

better go. stay cool, it's suppose to be a dousey of a hot one today!
cynde

One More Day

to get up and come to work. that really is the hardest part of the whole day....getting outta that nice comfy bed and taking a shower and heading to work. and throw in a dull headache and ti makes it 10x worst. but i'm here now and i still want to go back home to my comfy bed! oh well. i'd really like to go home and scrapbook. but my house is soooooo awfully disorganized, that is not even a possibility, lol.



we're gonna sign for the loan on the car today, i hope i can get mark over to do it. maybe we can get the car sooner than friday so markie can drive it some before we go camping this weekend.