Aquarius - Your Love Profile

Your positive traits: You've got a ton of friends, so you have no problem meeting new people. You're great at thinking up new things and activities to do with your sweetie. You tend to let the little things slide in relationships... and focus on the bigger picture. Your negative traits: In relationships, it tends to be your way or the highway. You can never open up completely to someone - you have to keep parts of yourself secret. You're cold and reserved, which leaves your partner feeling unloved. Your ideal partner: Flexible, because you're not going to be the one to compromise! Is smart and quirky with lots of weird interests... including you. A true individualist who doesn't care what anyone thinks Your dating style: Stimulating. You prefer dates that explore a shared interest - like a lecture, muesum tour, or concert. Your seduction style: Wacky. Your wild ideas have your lover wondering what's next. Insatiable - it takes a lot to satisfy your desires. Varied. You're eager to try things as soon as you learn about them. Tips for the future: Bring a little responsibility to your relationship - like showing up for dates! Compromise a little. It would kill you to do things your lover's way for once. Be aware of your partner's jealousy. Even though you aren't jealous, realize your partner is sometimes. Best color to attract mate: Sky blue Best day for a date: Wednesday

What's Your Love Profile?

flower power

You Are a Red Flower

A red flower tends to represent power, seduction, and desire. At times, you are loving like a red tulip. And at other times, you're very enthusiastic, like a bouvardia. And more than you wish, your passion is a bit overwhelming, like a red rose.

What Color Flower Are You?

have a pet name?

What Queue_t Means

Q is for Quixote U is for Ugly Bumper E is for Easy U is for Ugly Bumper E is for Eclair _ is for T is for Tootsie

What's Your Pet Name?

A palm, a pan and a plan??

The earliest known American reference to Groundhog Day can be found at the Historical Society of Berks County in Reading, Pennsylvania. The reference was made Feb. 4, 1841 in Morgantown, Berks County , Pennsylvania storekeeper James Morris' diary: "Last Tuesday, the 2nd, was Candlemas day, the day on which, according to the Germans, the Groundhog peeps out of his winter quarters and if he sees his shadow he pops back for another six weeks nap, but if the day be cloudy he remains out, as the weather is to be moderate."

In the U.S. the tradition derives from a Scottish poem:

As the light grows longer

The cold grows stronger

If Candlemas be fair and bright

Winter will have another flight

If Candlemas be cloud and rain

Winter will be gone and not come again

A farmer should on Candlemas day

Have half his corn and half his hay

On Candlemas day if thorns hang a drop

You can be sure of a good pea crop

Well its been a great birthday celebration , I have been serenaded in song and feted galore, the girls at work decorated my little cubicle and Steven sang to me, my brother sang to me, and my mom and dad sang to me. !

I got a palm pilot to organize my life, a pan that I wanted from Steven and a wonderful gift of thought and time from my girlly HH and this morning I didn't see my shadow either and so I along with many of my friends are hoping for a shortened winter.

I got all the best cards and greetings from all my friends! and my family - I am so blessed I can't even tell you the best of it is just knowing that they all love me.

a song for my soul

I love her music and songs and this one is a great one.

Martina Mcbride
Do It Anyway

You can spend your whole life buildin'
Something from nothin
One storm could come and blow it all away
Build it anyway

You could chase a dream
That seems so out of reach
And you know it might not ever come your way
Dream it anyway

God is great but sometimes life aint good
And when I pray
It doesn't always turn out like i think it should
But I do it anyway
I do it anyway

This worlds gone crazy
And it's hard to believe
That tomorrow will be better than today
Believe it anyway

You can love someone with all you heart
For all the right reasons
And in a moment they can choose to walk away
Love 'em anyway

God is great but sometimes life aint good
And when I pray
It doesn't always turn out like i think it should
But I do it anyway
Yeah I do it anyway

You can pour your soul out singin'
A song you believe in
That tomorrow they'll forget you ever sang
Sing it anyway
Yeah sing it anyway

I sing
I dream
I love anyway

what flavor are you

Buzz buzz, I am Coffee flavoured. I am popular in the workplace, even though I am often bitter. I am energetic to the point of being frenetic; buzz buzz, out of my way. I tend to overwork myself and need periods of recovery time. What Flavour Are You?

what is on your list?

What is on your wish list for a $250 or less combined total? this is from Kate at letKateDrive

I like her list

but I have been working on mine too, I would like a couple of new underpinnings mine are in sad shape LOL

I wanted a AMM-Tote-ally cool tote for scrapping, but one of the stores here had a great sale ( so I bought myself one already)
I like the crop-0-dial too, but I too am practical in my thinking that in my " scrapping things" I have duplicates of this too, maybe the next time I get a great coupon

I would like a blue tooth headset for my cell phone for hands free talking in the Mom van.

I would like the 2007 designing with calender.

that is it for the moment I will think on this a bit more still. I love retail therapy ...

a little blogger survey

http://www.whydoyoublog.com/survey

says you could win an Ipod by doing the survey it didn't take long.

what these are made of

s are a set that comes all together in the same color family from making memories company. the side of the lunch box has rubons that are " glittery " too. HH says she will be using hers as her valentine mail box at school this year!!


I should really say how I do it!! they both have this really great paper the lunch box is decoupaged right to the surface , I cut each side and pasted it on with mod podge.

the little pail is more of a- around the pail cover- it was cut and stuck to itself and they are metal so magnets stick to them too!! the flowers are stuck on with glue dots , but are comprised of multiple layers of silk and paper flower parts. and a brad.
the " bling" is little pink sequins and silver sequins glued on with a dimensional adhesive called diamond glaze.

the paper was very cool too, it has some shine and glittery ink and a slightly embossed feel on some of the words.

each has a metal tag- with rub ons for the nick name - and other paper tags attached on the outsides. the ribbon

here are a couple more shots from different angles

altered pail and lunch box

Yeah - I' m Back, after suffering major computer withdrawls

I have to say that the not having the computer has had a few benefits and I have done alot of cards and other cute projects that I will be posting here soon, I have to download my photos from my camera.

I created quite a few valentines and they will soon be winging there way to my peeps- this is my absolutely favorite holiday I just love the notion of a celebration of love.

I created two altered little boxes and I will be sending one away too my special K - one is Hh's she LOVES it too, they are blinged out girly things.

I took on the " senior Warden Job" officially today after our annual meeting at church. I am looking forward to a productive year. we will have some movers and shakers serving on vestry with me and that makes me happy. I see good things in the coming year.

I am without

a computer for almost a week now, will posst up again soon, fffffried a mother board I beleive. qt

a long and rambling post

I haven’t blogged in a serious manner in quite a while, I have a lot on my mind and heart these days and Thought maybe I should put a little of it out there in the world.

I really took a blow with the loss of my job, even though my boss was a real a$$Hat you can ask anyone who worked for him or with him , he didn’t want to communicate with me, I would have straightened up an flown right had he just had a talk with me, instead I take a bit of the blame for my being let go, with behavior that was acting out to get attention, his business needed his serious attention and I don’t think he wanted to hear it from me or anyone else. He took advantage of the freedoms it offered and after awhile I did too…. Much to my demise!

Enough of that re-hashing.

J- is very much on my mind- he is so in need of boundaries and I am having a hard time making them and getting any of it to “ stick to him” , I fear that he is on the fringe of a bad crowd, even if I can keep him interested and going along in scouting, he doesn’t share this with too many of the other boys in his life. I hope he will strive to get to eagle, but the road gets harder everyday, he has calmed down on the wanting to drive just yet, seeing another kid down the street recklessly go about getting into multiple accidents has cooled his jets a bit. I am worried about drugs too, I am certain it has moved into pot at the very least. Though I am not sure how they manage to get it?? !!! I am very naive in that area, I drank a bit at the end of H.S. and into college and but never did any drugs , they just weren’t for me and did nothing for me either.

The work I am doing now, I apparently am doing it well enough that they let other phone customer service reps go and retained me and one other gal from my group for their current staffing needs at Boston Market ( through Kelly temps) still, it is not my desired field? But then what again has been in the 25 years I have worked as an adult? I did put in an application to get into a re-training program that is federally funded for “ displaced” workers, I will keep you posted on this avenue, as they will do some initial interest inventories and skill assessments and this could be a way to finally find out what I want to do when I grow up J . In the mean time I will keep plugging away at this spot for a while, I have met some very nice people and it is just a fine environment to work in- nothing to serious or strenuous_ and it is still win –win as long as I am working for the temp agency I can move on at anytime and do something else if this really isn’t for me. I guess that the thing I look at there is since it is a foot into the corporate office there are many different jobs in this business and I wouldn’t have to stay on the phones forever…..

One more little ( yeah right) thing now on my mind, is I have been asked to take on the job of senior warden at St. James Episcopal Church- my family Parrish, I was so surprised by this that I laughed out loud right after initially being asked! S and I have talked this over for a while, knowing our current senior warden was going to be stepping down. I just guess I thought it would be someone else- but I also can see that if not now then when? For me it is a big step and big responsibility, I would be the priest-in-charge’s boss and also responsible for lots of things in our church. These are big shoes to fill and I m praying for the best guidance I can get at the moment. S is confident with a little more “ time management” I can do this job along with my other hats I wear like, mom, scouter, worker bee and friend! I hope I will be up to the task, but others have confidence in me and see the good qualities in me that some times I find the most difficult to see, I also know I hide behind myself and don’t let my light shine cause I don’t want the spotlight to be on me. I hope that my shortcomings will not be a liability to this big job. I wasn’t going to post this whole thing up to the blog, but now I really think I should, I hope you all will not judge me too harshly.

I need your prayers and support too my friends in the www- I value the interesting ladies and guys I have been able to connect with online. and I hope you all will send up good thoughts for me in the coming few weeks. Thanks for reading if you have gotten this far!! QT

image chef image QUEUE_T

I Q test , really ??

Denver Baby

Weather Bulletin - Denver

Up here, in the "Mile-Hi City", we just recovered from a Historic event--- may I even say a "Weather Event" of "Biblical Proportions" --- with a historic blizzard of up to 44" inches of snow and winds up to 90 MPH that broke trees in half, knocked down utility poles, stranded hundreds of motorists in lethal snow banks, closed ALL roads, isolated scores of communities and cut power to 10's of thousands.

FYI:

George Bush did not come.

FEMA did nothing.

No one howled for the government.

No one blamed the government.

No one even uttered an expletive on TV.

Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton did not visit.

Our Mayor did not blame Bush or anyone else.

Our Governor did not blame Bush or anyone else, either.

CNN, ABC, CBS, FOX or NBC did not visit - or report on this category 5 snowstorm. Nobody demanded $2,000 debit cards.

No one asked for a FEMA Trailer House.

No one looted.

Nobody - I mean Nobody demanded the government do something.

Nobody expected the government to do anything, either.

No Larry King, No Bill O'Rielly, No Oprah, No Chris Mathews and No Geraldo Rivera.

No Shaun Penn, No Barbara Striesand, No Hollywood types to be found.

Nope, we just melted the snow for water.

Sent out caravans of SUV's to pluck people out of snow engulfed cars.

The truck drivers pulled people out of snow banks and didn't ask for a penny .
Dropped Hay bales from helicopter to stranded and starving cattle.

Local restaurants made food and the police and fire departments delivered it to the snowbound families.

Families took in the stranded people - total strangers.

We fired up wood stoves, broke out coal oil lanterns or Coleman lanterns.

We put on extra layers of clothes because up here it is "Work or Die".

We did not wait for some affirmative action government to get us out of a mess created by being immobilized by a welfare program that trades votes for 'sittin at home' checks.

Even though a Category "5" blizzard of this scale has never fallen this early, we know it can happen and how to deal with it ourselves.

"In my many travels, I have noticed that once one gets north of about 48 degrees North Latitude, 90% of the world 's social problems evaporate."

It does seem that way, at least to me.

I hope this gets passed on.

Maybe SOME people will get the message. The world does Not owe you a living

Its snowing again today !

Oh Yeah ! all this and Grieving over Our Lost Sports Icon "Darrent Williams" of the Denver Broncos

"Rest In Peace Homie"

I am working early am hours

I am up at 4:00am and in bed soon - still temping with Kelly but at Boston Market corporate office call center in Golden.

so I am tuckered out alot and the snow has caused a major problem everywhere in Denver! I promise to get back to regular blogging soon.

here we are at the game

we lost, but it was still the best afternoon I have had in forever! we froze our little hineys off it was very cold. we each had quite the bundle up, it was Hh's first bronco game in the stadium and she had a blast. It is fun to see it through new eyes and we had great seat section 102 on the south west side of the venue, near the field and with a good veiw.

JUst a note to dash off quickly

we lucked into some bronco tickets for today, nice and good seats- will take trusty camera for my first visit to invesco at mile high. post more details later on. Just sufice to say I am a happy girl .

a christmas shot

SSD1 and Hh and J the bowl is one of two J turned on a lathe in shop class and made one for Hh and one for me. I love mine. The blue thing that D has is and Airzooka SSD2 loves this gift and the cats oh they hate it. basicly it shoots a big ball of air at you and it is very funny and cool at the same time.

and Here he is the reason for the season

a shot of our little baby Jesus

this is another pretty shot furthur up the isle

were you can see the pew candlabra they are brass and I like them alot, they have real candles in them and add such warmth to the service. I am gald we will kee the decorations up for about 3 weeks altogether and then back downstairs for another year!

the church all dressed up

on Christmas eve, we went to church and I took a bunch of photos. I love it with all the lights on and the candles all lit, the candalabras just twinkle and sparkle like stars. When our old rector was in charge- he didn't want the creche on the alter and our new priest in charge is o.k. with it and wanted it there- it is one made in itally with porcelan figuires and really cool wise men who are behind the alter currently until epifany - this is a very nice tradition to bring back. The acolyte even got to bring in the baby jesus it was very very cool.

I love this movie

Your Christmas is Most Like: Miracle on 34th Street

Sweet and caring, Christmas is about helping for you. While Santa may not exist, you try to share his spirit.

What Movie Is Your Christmas Most Like?

I hope everyone has a very merry Christmas and a very happy new year.

christmas interveiw meme

From Angie Petersen's blog of me

I love meme tags (definition) as "scrapbooking fodder". They make layouts so easy. Enter your answers, print out the list, slap it on some background paper and call it done, baby!

Angie a Christmas one on Wendy Smedley's blog, then got another variation emailed to her at work. So she smushed them together, and posted it . Anyone can play! Feel free to answer on your own blog.

1. Wrapping paper or gift bags?mostly wrapping paper.

2. Real tree or artificial? Artificial and now pre-lit

3. When do you put up the tree? sometime after thanksgiving

4. When do you take the tree down? sometime early in January ;)

5. Eggnog or Hot Chocolate? Either I like both!

6. Favorite gift received as a child? Malibu Barbie ( she was so cool)

7. Do you have a nativity scene? yes a little one made of resin, very cute.

8. Hardest person to buy for? My Hubby, who likes expensive and geeky toys.

9. Easiest person to buy for? my daughter

10. Worst Christmas gift you ever received? I don't remember anything truly awful for Christmas

11. Mail or email Christmas cards? mail, though I don't send many anymore. I like to send valentines instead.

12. Favorite Christmas Movie? Miricle on 34th street

13. When do you start shopping for Christmas? November and December, unless I see something fabulous earlier, though I forget what I bought and where I stashed it.

14. Have you ever recycled a Christmas present? yep, I belive some things are better suited to some people.

15. Favorite thing to eat at Christmas? a cake called a yule log

16. Clear lights or colored on the tree? Clear for me

17. Favorite Christmas song? Oh Come , Oh come Emanuel, sung by Trisha Yearwood

18. Travel at Christmas or stay home? Stay home with family

19. Can you name all of Santa's reindeers? Sure - I read the night before christams so many times I can recite it verbatim too?

20. Angel on the tree top or a star? Santa

21. Open the presents Christmas Eve or morning? Christmas Morning

22. Most annoying thing about this time of year? traffic and the crowds at the mall and every store.

23. What I love most about Christmas? The traditions, a tree, ornaments and lights.

24. What is your favorite holiday tradition? being together and opening presents on Christmas morning.

25. Does Santa wrap presents or just sit them under the tree? wraps them, then sits them under the tree, some times we know what they are if they are too bulky or big to wrap.

26. Do you hang mistletoe? used to keep it up all year round! haven't hung it a few years.

27. Favorite holiday memory as a child: the year before my little brother was born we went to my aunt and uncles house in San Antonio Texas, my great aunt and uncle showed us all a fabulous time

28. When and how did you learn the truth about Santa? I think I was 11 or 12 and we bought things for my little brother - I am note sure it really was said, it was just assumed.

29. How do you decorate your Christmas tree? Lights, ornaments, garland and tinsel

30. Snow - Love it or dread it?Love it especially when we get snow days off from work/school.

31. Can you ice skate? I used to skate great , haven't been skating in years, HH wants to do this for her birthday.

32. Which do you prefer, giving or receiving? I love gifts to give, but if someone wants to give me something, I'm happy to allow them that pleasure.

33. Candy canes? o.k. but prefer chocolate

34. What do you leave out for Santa? nothing now the kids are big enough

yeah!!! hh solo

What a voice!
Hh singing

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from the sledding hill / snowday

the kids are enjoying this time off, they closed all the schools in jeffco for 3 days now, hard to belive ussually we don't get any snow days.

Hh doing a big flop

in PJ pants and my coat last night! after dinner. what a blast to have so much snow and be at home. we made a pot roast in the crock pot and sat around and had a great night. Hh had said she wanted so much to have a white christmas and well sometimes wishes do come true.

for k8 hope this is coming your way

for Kate a bit of the white stuff and fluff, that is poor little samson the mini dachshund snowplow with hh in my coat! I hope that we will go sleding and have a fun day off before the holiday today

the mom van last night!

will be taking more phots this morning, I am off work today the
govenor has declared a weather emergency and the airport and roads are shut down here in colorado

well the movie clip didn't work

so here is still off Hh the Diva! she was great and what a voice go to love her

I hope this will play as a movie

Hh solo at a 5th 6th winter program at school

me me me

I am up at stupid hours and working a temp job, trying to get everyone settled for a long Christmas break.

I will post more soon, but dashing off in little white flurries this morning means I have to hurry.

everyone is good, but we definitely are struggling to make the ends meet. robbing peter to pay paul at times doesn't make me a happy chick.

well my Idea got taken and I didn't even get any credit for it

Here at Chatterbox is a post on Altered Drink Carriers
But gee mine was posted first so I think I should get a little Blog time and credit for a cool idea too!
Here is my Original Altered Drink Carrier

Hh in back

1st band concert at Pamona and she was 1st Chair purcussion!! way to go my Percussion Princess 

pantone stuff

here is a link to one of my blog pages http://creativechronicles.blogspot.com/2005/08/pantone-colorology.html

It is to a page on colorstrology by Pantone, but it is misspelled and funny as this is to me it is one of the pages I get the most hits on in a search that has these two words in it, and if the person misspells the word colorology then my link even comes up first in google!

I think a scrapper originally posted the links to this cool interactive Pantone tool online. But I think I have the corner on the misspelled market for sure. So you know you want to click through to see what I am talking about - and then go to the real web site to get your very own colorstrology.

High Tea + Holiday Market = Great Afternoon

The Ladies from St. James went to Georgetown today to the Christmas Market and we Had High Tea at the Grace Episcopal Church Ladies Parrish hall .

the High Tea was great, we had little sandwiches, Scones and cookies and cakes. Tea of course and nice conversation. This is a fund raiser for the church in Georgetown - and it was so sweet, I had a great time.

we visited the old church too, fantastic restored and re-done. The organ was fab I took some interior shots that I will post up too.

The Christmas Market had lots of little artisan vendors and good food. A fire pit and some reindeer I bought a cute pair of mittens and I had a wonderful time with friends.

typos

Randy K. Milholland

"Typos are very important to all written form. It gives the reader something to look for so they aren't distracted by the total lack of content in your writing."

You Were Born Under:

You have both a fiery energy and a warm heart. Your charisma and charm makes it easy for you to influence others. Lucky in life, you also have a reputation of being lucky in love. Power hungry, you are determined to get what you want - no matter what it takes. You are most compatible with a Monkey or Rat.

What Year Were You Born Under?

one more view

by the stove looking to back door, baker's rack was here before, I think we will put the little cabnets that don't take as much room here. not sure yet of final config, will post more photo later on.  

looking from the dining room door now

we moved the stove and did a temporary plug that is what you see here, S is going to re-wire it to the window side of the room until we get a new stove ( some time in the future) Check out the gray paint on the cabinet fake fronts- tell me what you think, we may do this white base gray front to all the door and drawer fronts, still thinking about it. Leave me your opinion.  

corner where J was standing down below

this corner used to have the fridge in it- but turned to face the room. this opens up the kitchen in this direction quite a bit, you can see the floor and the trim - we painted all the walls white and the trim gray.  

more tail

one more tail shot. Gabby here and that is General and Samson in the photo below.  

puppy dog tails -

to tide you over. I will take more kitchen photos soon. the trim is almost all up and the floor looks great.  

Nov. Roundup

What books and/or magazines did I read this month?

I read my Creating Keepsakes and Finished off The Great Divorce By C.S. Lewis. Have my Memory Makers Magazine in my Bag I took to work but didn’t get to read too much of it, I bought a Real Simple and Everyday with Rachel Ray. I made it through most of them too. I love my magazines.

What movies and/or tv shows did I watch this month?

We rented a bunch of movies this month. But CARS was the cutest one we watched. I didn’t like the Da Vinci Code too fractured, the book was much better than the movie. I liked Superman returns. I liked Nacho Libre with Jack Black, He makes me laugh.

I really don't watch too much T.V. Just Bronco Football.

What special days did I celebrate and how?

We celebrated S’s birthday and He has gotten lots of things for a month and more , we enjoyed time together and we even made him a cake. It had cherries and chocolate and was great.

We had an outstanding thanksgiving with friends. I am so thankful for my family, my friends and good food! We had 12 for dinner and dessert, and we all ate laughed and had a great time.

What illnesses or health concerns did I have?

I coughed for a while into November, the cold I had in October just hung on and on. S had a little scare and went to the ER- he had such a bad neck pain, that he drove himself to the ER and they did a blood draw and decided at least he was not having any heart issues, gave him muscle relaxant and pain killer, and sent him on home.

What fun things did I do with my friends and/or family?

We tore up our kitchen and moved out all the stuff and replaced the flooring and, painted and bought new trim and lots of other stuff, ( we won’t talk about the bathroom) , it is starting to come back together, we moved the stove and swapped it with the fridge, so it is strange new working triangle. But I think I am going to like it just fine. All the kids helped with this whole thing, cause S got another neck pain on the second day of working, He and J replaced all the sub flooring, D painted his heart out and Hh too, really painted.

What new foods, recipes or restaurants did I try this month?

We didn’t do any new restaurants this month. Kale and assorted mushrooms came into our kitchen and we enjoyed to them fullest. I made a mushroom and beef stroganoff that was sooooo good we all oohed and awed.

What special or unusual purchases did I make?

I bought an 8x8 all about me album

What were this month’s disappointments?

Losing my job! The boys are driving me crazy with their stinking thinking, and teen-age antics. I wish there was more to be able to do except keep on loving on them.

What were my accomplishments this month?

I made 2 thanksgiving centerpieces from my used sonic drink carriers and lots of nice floral and thanksgiving scrapbook paper. I made cards and sent them to friends and family with my best wishes. I got a new kitchen floor installed. We did it DIY!

Anything else noteworthy to record?