Happy Easter

So...did the Easter Cow come and visit you? Did he bring you a Bunny Big Ears? Yummy. I suppose the ears are gone and you have started chewing on his sweet, chocolate body now. Or is that gone, too? Did you break into your Cadbury creme eggs and slurp out the yellow & white drippy frosting? Or maybe you are crunching into those sugary marshmallow Peeps that are out of this world. Did you know that there is an artist that specializes in creating works of art with Peeps? Yesterday we had...Snow and...Hail...and Rain...Poor little kids. Hope today was better weather for finding their Easter treasures. But it snowed briefly again here today. For the Easter holiday, most stores were closed. So we went into town and got a few groceries at Albertsons, stopped at Wendy's to get cheeseburgers for Isabelle, and then purchased lattes at the old reliable Government Way CDA Espresso stand (which, by the way, is for sale and has been renamed CDA Hot Shots). When we got home, we briefly visited the shop to take pictures of Greg's latest project. Then I conditioned my hair with Paul Mitchell Super Charged Moisturizer while Greg took a nap covered with my homemade flannel blanket! A walk around the property at 7:30pm concluded our night. Watched a little TV and went to bed. What an exciting day?

New Digital Scrap Designers

I just want to Barf. Knowing that nobody reads this doesn't bother me. I am not in the race to have everybody read my blog. I don't care. But I DO CARE that I observed that ANOTHER new digital designer(s) has started selling, I really like their stuff and they started a Creative Team... And since they are NEW do you think they would give a chance to a NEW list of scrappers that would be eager for the chance to be creative and distribute for them? NO. GOD NO. Of course they get the same old, same old people to be on their Creative Team. And I am sorry, but Gina Miller, just does not do it for me anymore. I am SO sick and tired of seeing her name on EVERY creative team. I want FRESH ideas. Fresh meat, Fresh different. Her designs are the same old same old. She was different at first, but now, again. Same old, same old boring. And Creative Keepsakes magazine with Elsie Flannagan. I immediately THREW OUT the april 2006 magazine with the TRASH. I didn't even open it. When I saw her face on the front cover I almost threw up. Creative Keepsakes is JAMMING HER DOWN OUR THROATS. Her 2nd grade artistic designs were cute at first. Different. But when you have to see the stuff for the 1,000,000th time. It is boring. Doesn't Elsie get bored with it? Yuck. Don't get me wrong, I don't hate their designs. It is just BORING now. Different at first, a new way of looking at things. I thought Wow. That is different. Neat. But now...it is So So So So So So So So boring. And I am not bringing this to anybody's attention because I want to be on a Creative Team. Don't get the idea that I am jealous. I just want SOMETHING DIFFERENT. It is similar to associating it with a mother making a child eat chocolate pudding for breakfast lunch and dinner for 6 months. Different plate, different utensil to eat it with, but always same, boring chocolate pudding! Even my DOG likes different foods. Excuse me...there are MILLIONs of women that scrap out there. Be in it to be DIFFERENT. Get a NEW and different creative team. Be daring. Step outside. Breathe the Fresh Scrap Attitude.

Sporadic Satellite Internet Service

If you want a low quality, poor reception satellite service, by all means...subscribe to Hughes.net (formerly Direcway). Because that is what I have and we have the worst service ever. Yesterday it was down and up and down; mostly down all day. It was only available briefly for me to add music to this site. And to add music to our Rocky Mtn Off Road site. It seems that the service has gotten even worse since Hughes.net took over. Time for another complaint letter (another out-sourcing at Direcway) maybe there are real english speaking persons based in the United States that I can contact. But I won't hold my breathe. Because my upload speed was 10kbp yesterday. That was with sunshine. Today it is better. With severe rain? Upload speed begins at around 120, but then drops. It makes no sense. I will attempt my white-chocolate moose layout later today. After we attended my doctor appointment, I was directed to the Lab to draw blood. Which I am NOT queasy when I give. I used to donate blood, but had to quit as I started passing out afterwards. Don't worry, Kels! I'm just going in to find out WHY I am drying up! My feet, my fingers, my elbows, my hair; I am exhausted all the time; and I forget things so very easily. According to investigation on the 'net, I might have a thyroid imbalance. From the lab, we went to Barnes & Noble so I could download some stuff. I never knew that they had wireless internet service. Obviously we will be visiting that bookstore often! Coffee sucks, but wireless is great! I just HAVE to change my NIN on my site because Trent Reznor has a just TOO seductively delicious voice. Too distracting for me to get anything done. I just sit here and stare into space, listening.

Urinary Tract Infection

Greg encountered some problems on Thursday, but waited until Friday to visit the doctor, but didn’t have enough time. So I took him in on Saturday morning. He has a urinary tract infection. I always think of that cat food when I hear that. There is a special cat food you feed to cats that prevents that. Wonder if I could slip it in his jello? Then we visited the store to get a few things while waiting for his prescription. I failed to have a list. Did you know it is DANGEROUS to go to the store without a list? We always buy things that we shouldn’t…or forget things that should be on a list. Well, after waiting 20 minutes (why didn’t they page us?) we ambled back to the pharmacy. And were told that our MAJOR prescription card was not accepted by them. Now…we have filled prescriptions here before. And they DO accept it. But the person explained that they had called to get authorization & talked to a non-english speaking person (ANOTHER OUT-SOURCING PROBLEM) and were told it was not valid. Gee, do you think the language barrier is a problem? Or their attitudes? When are the major companies going to learn that out-sourcing DOES NOT WORK? Get a clue! DUH! I am going to scrap a page today of White Chocolate Mousse and then post it here. The recipe is DELICIOUS! The best mousse I have ever tasted. It is never in the fridge for long. Thus far, I have NOT out-sourced my recipe. Yippee! Saturday-After returning home from the doctor & shopping, Greg rested. I nursed. Sunday-Greg made dog grog this morning…Fired up the BBQ and made it on the deck. Greg rested. I nursed & scrapped. Greg worked in the shop for about 2 hours late tonight. Monday-I did spring clean-up outside, as most of the snow has melted there is just isolated areas where there was a LOT of build up. Picked up a wheel barrow full of pine cones. Put out my pink flamingos, pulled some wayward weeds, picked up some stray garbage. Along the highway, we always get garbage blowing into the yard…Scrapped 3 pages and posted 1 (there is something wrong with uploading at the Kitchen); Left positive comments on several sites. Went to pick up the UPS delivery at the shop, washed 3 loads of clothes & put them away. All this b4 10:00am. And still have to vacuum. WHY, oh, WHY do they have to OPEN the GATE? To drive in 5 feet and leave a package? The other UPS driver drove around our barricades, and left the package at the house. Didn’t he wonder why the gate was closed, why there were no trespassing signs, and why there were car-size logs on either side of the gate???? People…what do we have to do to make it clear that you are NOT to come on the property? Land mines? Or maybe just a big sign advertising land mines! That’s an idea! Greg will stop to see Kevin & Karen at the chiropractor’s today. Kevin is the Chiro, Karen is his dedicated, wonderful, excellent receptionist! Love them.

Hopefully we will make it to a movie this week! Oh. Almost forgot! I got TWO new Starbucks cups this weekend to add to my collection! A pretty blue and a flowery spring one!

Where DID the week go?

Sorry not to have attended my blogging folks...a dear friend of mine was having surgery in the hospital. Then a viral infection laid me to waste for what was left of the week... A brief reflection...

• Sunday-day of R&R for hubby & me
• Monday-2 hellions tore through our 20 acres on an ATV & dirt bike, trespassing and forcing me to find the father...giving him a stern lecture..."do not trespass...all trespassers will be shot...notification of cops on 2nd offense...notices posted." *These types of teens give a bad reputation to their age group; no respect for property...did not ask permission...I even attempted to flag them down, and they refused to stop. When I talked with him, the father seemed to not have any control over them.
• Tuesday-Worked on taxes. Received my camera in the mail. Great pics. Great color. Great camera thus far. Highly recommended.
• Wednesday-Bedrest
• Thursday-Comatose
• Friday...Why...That's right now.

So today I am trying to get caught up.

Hogs & Quiches to all!

The EASTER COW

Everybody knows that with April upon us, soon the EASTER COW will come and bring lots of candy. I don't know about you, but I am always happy to see the EASTER COW come to our home. He used to bring our daughter little eggs full of money. However, he left them out in the woods instead of the house. Maybe our front door was a little too small for him! As I have stated in previous posts...the weather here does not know that it is April...Spring...Daylight Savings Time...the Vernal Equinox...because it SNOWED here again today. Greg and I have been suffering from a low grade fever, that results in extreme exhaustion. I could barely get up out of bed today, do a few things, then drag myself back to bed.

As ill as he felt, Greg somehow worked down at his shop all day today AND repossessed a vehicle that was not paid for by some idiot. And trust me, folks...this guy IS an idiot. He is the ultimate con artist. Talks people into giving him money or things or letting him live at places, and then he NEVER follows through with payment. What Trash.

Hope the kids got their BOXES from us. They have never said anything about it!

I tried to scrap today, but with the fever and a headache, I could not do anything.

We are going to work on our website tomorrow.