I am very proud to say not only did I survive my first navcan experience, I had the most amazing time.
Friday couldn't go by quick enough at work and I just wanted to BE there...
And finally I was there! And I got the greatest, warmest welcome. Hugs all around. It was so nice to finally meet the ladies after weeks of planning and all the e-mails!
I was particularly looking forward to meeting Katie and Rachel. There have been countless e-mails and blog posts and I felt like I knew them long before meeting them. I'm so happy to say the connection was instantaneous.
The weekend seemed to fly by. It was quite productive and more importantly crazy fun. We were silly and laughed until our bellies hurt. It was great meeting Melissa and Tanya as well! We were pleasantly suprised that they were able to attend for no matter how long!
I'm looking forward to seeing the gang again soon and can't wait to head back to Navcan!
I'll post pictures a bit later this week. I fortunately took the day off today to "recover." I had big plans to unpack my stuff and spend the day scrapbooking. As it turned out, most of my day was spent doing laundry and sleeping!
I did get my room unpacked tonight so I'm all set to get creating tomorrow night.
On one final note I have to say a big thanks to Stephanie for her friendship and for brining me into a such a wonderful group of ladies. You came into my life at the perfect time sunshine! Here's to many more memories...
Well, I'm going to paint my nails and head to bed - the old nails too a beating this weekend!
night lovelies,
me
Monday, September 22, 2008
Thursday, September 18, 2008
A very happy anniversary indeed
I just got off the phone with my mom. It seems I forgot a very important anniversary today. Today marks 19 years since they took the yucky cancer from her body. 19 years clean. For someone who has had malignant melanoma this is huge.
I remember that day like it was yesterday and I'm happy that 19 years later she has been around for my most important memories. Love you mom ;)
I don't have much time to write tonight, I've been a busy girl packing for the weekend. A weekend I have dreamed about since I started scrapbooking and heard every other scrapbooker in the Ottawa area talk about...a NAVCAN weekend. I cannot believe that I will FINALLY lose my NAVCAN (in my head I said Afghan what is that all about????) virginity!
Denis just finished helping me pack up the Jeep and as he looked at my stuff at the front door he said "good thing you are going alone eh?" The Jeep is pretty full. I don't know how I managed to do so but I packed up nearly my entire scrapbooking room into a series of totes and bags and boxes and more bags and more totes and boxes. Then there is the cooler and my duffle bag with enough clothing to last at least 6 weeks (even though I'm only going for two nights). I think I can quite accurately predict that I will use somewhere in the neighbourhood of less than 10% of what I'm taking...but you know what? I don't care!
I'M GOING TO NAVCAN!!!
And I'm going with a group of ladies I've never met (when I told my mom that she said "well dear, that's never been a problem for you before" - she knows me well my mom).
I need to try and break my 1 page record from the last "scrapbooking" weekend I went on with Chris and Cawi.
Then again, I'm taking Rockstar so that might be hard.
If you want to see where I'm headed, check this out
NAVCAN
It may not be the Ritz but it just doesn't matter. I get to spend the weekend scrapbooking with the Lady Bugs and the Ya yas and new friends all around.
Life is good
Well, I best jump into the tub...
'night lovelies and have a wonderful weekend!
I remember that day like it was yesterday and I'm happy that 19 years later she has been around for my most important memories. Love you mom ;)
I don't have much time to write tonight, I've been a busy girl packing for the weekend. A weekend I have dreamed about since I started scrapbooking and heard every other scrapbooker in the Ottawa area talk about...a NAVCAN weekend. I cannot believe that I will FINALLY lose my NAVCAN (in my head I said Afghan what is that all about????) virginity!
Denis just finished helping me pack up the Jeep and as he looked at my stuff at the front door he said "good thing you are going alone eh?" The Jeep is pretty full. I don't know how I managed to do so but I packed up nearly my entire scrapbooking room into a series of totes and bags and boxes and more bags and more totes and boxes. Then there is the cooler and my duffle bag with enough clothing to last at least 6 weeks (even though I'm only going for two nights). I think I can quite accurately predict that I will use somewhere in the neighbourhood of less than 10% of what I'm taking...but you know what? I don't care!
I'M GOING TO NAVCAN!!!
And I'm going with a group of ladies I've never met (when I told my mom that she said "well dear, that's never been a problem for you before" - she knows me well my mom).
I need to try and break my 1 page record from the last "scrapbooking" weekend I went on with Chris and Cawi.
Then again, I'm taking Rockstar so that might be hard.
If you want to see where I'm headed, check this out
NAVCAN
It may not be the Ritz but it just doesn't matter. I get to spend the weekend scrapbooking with the Lady Bugs and the Ya yas and new friends all around.
Life is good
Well, I best jump into the tub...
'night lovelies and have a wonderful weekend!
Sunday, September 14, 2008
Weekend layouts
I managed to get caught up on my Got Sketch "homework" for the week over the weekend.
My first layout had pics of Rylee spreading her fairy dust...
Next I did two layouts with exactly the same sketch mostly because it was a great way to use up lots and lots of pictures!
Fr. Conga is a 2 page layout of our priest leading the conga line at our wedding. HOW FUN IS THAT! He even led it up and down the escalator. We had so many people in the line from little kids to a couple in their 80s! It is seriously one of my very favourite memories of our wedding and possible of all time. To look up and see so many of your close friends and family having that much fun is such a great memory to have....jpg)
And finally, I did "Garter Dive" - a two page layout dedicated to Denis aka James Bond the scuba diver going for the garter!
I find it SO HARD to do "boy themed" pages because so many of my embellies are "girl themes"
I had a wonderful day today while D was golfing although it went far too quickly. I got one layout completed and I think it is possibly one of my favourite layouts EVER. I plan to submit it to a magazine or two so I can't post it. I just have journaling to finish on that and another layout and then I'll be submitting them..fingers crossed that it all works out!
OK, must get to bed. I have an urgent text due early tomorrow morning so this cat can't sleep in.
Now that I'm taking this class I actually enjoy Mondays! New sketch tomorrow...YEAH.
NIGHT LOVELIES!
There's nothing like Sunday morning...
Hi lovelies!
You might want to grab a cup of java - this one might be long...
I'm finally feeling myself again and it's been a busy weekend. There is so much going on my head is spinning but fortunately it's all good. It's all very very good.
While D was out visiting family on Friday night, I stayed in for a quite evening to fight the last bit of my bug. It turned out to be a rather unexpected GLORIOUS evening.
For starters I had a marathon phone conversation with my niece Rylee. She's 8 and fortunately enjoys talking on the phone. Since we live a few thousand miles apart, we've been speaking on the phone since she was a baby. In the early days I would have to pretend I was the Teletubbies to get her to come to the phone and she would just coo and laugh. As she's grown, so have the length of our conversations but Friday truly was an exception.
We've always had a special bond and one of our favourite things to do is discuss and dream of things we would do if we could be together. Friday she suggested I fly to *kidnap* her and bring her back to my place for the weekend! I explained that having the police chasing us might cut our weekend plans short! Her idea was to "lock ourselves in the scrapbook room and have Uncle Denis (aka Farticus - her name, not mine) bring us breakfast, lunch and dinner! What a kid.
She also explained how babies were born, asking me that when I have a baby, do I plan to push it out of have the doc pull it out? Pardon? Ah yes, apparently she's been watching a lot of a baby story and you have to "spread your legs really wide in the air and push the baby thru the - you know - V word" Good old TLC. Aparently she learned all of this on a Baby Story!
I then headed inot the studio (cue the allelujias) to work on my "assignments" for Got Sketch this week. I also had the football game playing in the background and the BOMBERS FINALLY WON...TRIPPLE ARM PUMP. And against the Argos no less! Argos suck!
Ah - I forgot to mention, Denis made a trip to Ikea on Friday to pick up stuff for his new office. We debated about picking it up last weekend when we were there but FORTUNATELY he had to calculate exactly what pieces he wanted. Turns out on Thursday I got an e-mail from Ikea saying that the unit he was looking at was on special - 20%of the purchase price back in Ikea giftcards...JACKPOT!
He ended up doing a fabu job in picking out his new storage system for the office. It's actually a bedroom wardrobe system but we just couldn't resist the space and organizational potential.
These are a few pics from the website:
You might want to grab a cup of java - this one might be long...
I'm finally feeling myself again and it's been a busy weekend. There is so much going on my head is spinning but fortunately it's all good. It's all very very good.
While D was out visiting family on Friday night, I stayed in for a quite evening to fight the last bit of my bug. It turned out to be a rather unexpected GLORIOUS evening.
For starters I had a marathon phone conversation with my niece Rylee. She's 8 and fortunately enjoys talking on the phone. Since we live a few thousand miles apart, we've been speaking on the phone since she was a baby. In the early days I would have to pretend I was the Teletubbies to get her to come to the phone and she would just coo and laugh. As she's grown, so have the length of our conversations but Friday truly was an exception.
We've always had a special bond and one of our favourite things to do is discuss and dream of things we would do if we could be together. Friday she suggested I fly to *kidnap* her and bring her back to my place for the weekend! I explained that having the police chasing us might cut our weekend plans short! Her idea was to "lock ourselves in the scrapbook room and have Uncle Denis (aka Farticus - her name, not mine) bring us breakfast, lunch and dinner! What a kid.
She also explained how babies were born, asking me that when I have a baby, do I plan to push it out of have the doc pull it out? Pardon? Ah yes, apparently she's been watching a lot of a baby story and you have to "spread your legs really wide in the air and push the baby thru the - you know - V word" Good old TLC. Aparently she learned all of this on a Baby Story!
I then headed inot the studio (cue the allelujias) to work on my "assignments" for Got Sketch this week. I also had the football game playing in the background and the BOMBERS FINALLY WON...TRIPPLE ARM PUMP. And against the Argos no less! Argos suck!
Ah - I forgot to mention, Denis made a trip to Ikea on Friday to pick up stuff for his new office. We debated about picking it up last weekend when we were there but FORTUNATELY he had to calculate exactly what pieces he wanted. Turns out on Thursday I got an e-mail from Ikea saying that the unit he was looking at was on special - 20%of the purchase price back in Ikea giftcards...JACKPOT!
He ended up doing a fabu job in picking out his new storage system for the office. It's actually a bedroom wardrobe system but we just couldn't resist the space and organizational potential.
These are a few pics from the website:
The unit
He bought a bunch of organizer type things - I'll post pics when it's all done.
These are the doors:
With the gift certificate, he picked this up - I have been wanting it for a few years now...
We have it leaning against the wall in our front entrance and I LOVE IT! It is so big and chunky and totally looks great in the space. Eventually I'd like a long table or a bench and we'll hang it horizontally but for right now it looks great!
What I was REALLY hoping he'd find was this but no such luck...
Saturday we got an early start on the day because we had many errands to run. It was "D" day. We picked up a few new pairs of dress pants, a few shirts and a pair of shoes at Moores. He's going to be a Godfather in two weeks and we want him looking spiffy. Next it was off to Home Depot to find paint for the office.
I was able to help a total strager with her choices but it was much harder and more difficult helping D. He wanted a faily grey tone for the wall sto help with photography colour correction. I suggested it might be nice to have a green or a blue on the walls just to bring in another colour. In the end I said it was his room, his decision. We spent a lot of time choosing and he chuckled about how easy it had been to choose my colour...pink. How simple
In the end we decided on the paint colour with the worst possible name...squirrel. Even the guy mixing the paint thought he read it wrong when he saw it. Squirrel. Yuck.
Fortunately we like the colour...
We then made our way to Place D'Orleans to pick up a few more things for D but we were unsuccessful. We were pleasantly surprised to run into Sharrie and Dylan while in the food court so we ended up having lunch and catching up with them. Dylan has grown SO MUCH. He has the same birthday as our Jeep Liberty - they both turned 5 last week and you know what that means???
N O M O R E P A Y M E N T S ! ! !
Life is good!
Denis spent the afternoon emptying his old office into our spare room and taking everything apart while patching and sanding the walls. The plan was to get at least one coat of paint done yesterday but that didn't happen. At 1 a.m. we were SO CLOSE to starting but I didn't think I'd be able to survive and entire coat so we just called it a night.
While he was busy doing "boy" stuff, I was busy doing my thing in my studio. That included completing 5 pages total! Two double layouts and a single that I had started Friday night. I will post pics later. I'm really REALLY getting tired of working on wedding stuff. I know that sounds horrible but I want to do so many other things and I have so many other ideas but I won't let myself stray from the wedding. I still have at least 150 pics or so to go. Yikes. Will it ever end?
I did exactly the same layout for both double pages yesterday, I just changed the colours and pictures. It is a great layout for getting LOADS of pictures in.
I also worked on another "project" I've given myself...Season 4 of Grey's Anatomy. D picked it up for me this week. We finished Season 3 while at the cottage and I'm determined to watch Grey's this year, for the first time ever, in REAL TIME. That means, I have to get through Season 4 by September 25th. That doesn't leave me with much time considering I'm away all next weekend!
Today I have a glorious "me" day planned. It's off to a great start!
Denis brought me "breakfast in bed" - Tim Horton's no less and he is off on a company golf day. I'm going to get ready, run a few errands and then plunk myself in the studio until late tonight with Grey's in the background and lots of creativity flowing. I plan to spend my day working on layouts to submit to magazines...
Even if nothing gets chosen it's still something fun to do and a way for me to push my creativity while scrapping something OTHER than the wedding!
Just five more sleeps until NAVCAN. Five sleeps!
Have a WONDERFUL Sunday - take a little time to enjoy the fall air. There is nothing like a September afternoon...
Thursday, September 11, 2008
Fun with the Ipod
Hi lovelies
I’m trying to work my way back to my old self but still not feeling too hot. I went to work today but it was BRUTAL and I was counting down the seconds to get out of there.
I headed straight home to bed and was at one with my pillow!
I should do some scrapbooking because I’m now behind TWO sketches for my class but I am just not up to it and I’m quite excited about the sketches so I don’t want to ruin them by feeling poopy.
While browsing a few of my favourite blogs earlier I came across this post and thought it could be fun. I’ve seen it on a few other blogs but have never taken the time to play along.
Here she goes and I hope you’ll play too!
1. Put Your iTunes/music player/cd player/radio on shuffle.
2. For each question, press the next button to get your answer.
3. YOU MUST WRITE THAT SONG NAME DOWN NO MATTER WHAT!!! After you've answered all of the questions, tag three other people to do the meme themselves!
IF SOMEONE SAYS "IS THIS OKAY" YOU SAY?
Into the Fire, Thirteen Senses (from Grey’s Anatomy Soundtrack)
Apparently I don’t think anything is ok and the pyromaniac in me believes everything should be burned!
WHAT WOULD BEST DESCRIBE YOUR PERSONALITY?
Feel so Free, Ivy (once again from Grey’s)
How cool is that? Good song to land on I think – then again, it sounds like it could be a commercial for feminine products or something.
WHAT DO YOU LIKE IN A GUY/GIRL?
A Cold Wind Will Blow Through Your Door, Bill Richinni
Ouch! I was SO TEMPTED to hit next again but decided not to cheat!
HOW DO YOU FEEL TODAY?
Clonie, Nellie McKay
Not sure what this means.
WHAT IS YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE?
So Good, Boyzone
Yes, life has definitely been so good – hopefully it is only getting better! Hopefully my life’s purpose isn’t to be so good because um…I screwed that up in my 20s!
WHAT IS YOUR MOTTO?
Priere Paienne, Celine Dion
Hmm…why didn’t “My Heart Will Go On” show up?
WHAT DO YOUR FRIENDS THINK OF YOU?
Looking Through Your Eyes, The Corrs
Apparently, my friends just want to look through my eyes. Aw. Presh.
WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR PARENTS?
Fuoco Nel Fuoco, Eros Ramazotti
Does this mean I don’t understand them? Actuallly Google Translate says it means Fire in Fire – true for my mom and I, I would say. Or at least thru my teen years!
WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT FREQUENTLY?
Only One Road, Celine Dion
Hmmm – one track mind? Maybe…some days. Ok a lot of days lately!
WHAT IS 2+2?
If You Asked Me To, Celine Dion
It rhymes! How crazy..Or are you asking me to do your math homework for you?
WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR BEST FRIEND?
Momma’s Boy, Tim Myers
Funny – I consider D to be my best friend (as cheesy as that is) and I’d definitely say he’s a momma’s boy!
WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
Love is a Losing Game, Amy Winehouse
Ouch, harsh. What does she know anyway?
WHAT IS YOUR LIFE STORY?
Je Danse Dans Ma Tete (I dance in my head), Celine Dion
How very true. My life is one big dance (in my head).
WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU GROW UP?
Dreamin’ of You, Celine Dion (man, I have a lot of Celine on the Ipod).
I want to be dreamin of you allll the time
WHAT DO YOU THINK WHEN YOU SEE THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
Sister Kate, Ditty Bops
Sounds like a happy song!
WHAT DO YOUR PARENTS THINK OF YOU?
Roboxulla, The Jealous Girlfriend
Apparently they don’t understand me either
WHAT WILL YOU DANCE TO AT YOUR WEDDING?
Call the Shots, Girls Aloud
How fitting! I tend to “call the shots” around here and if memory serves correctly there were quite a few shots at the wedding!
WHAT WILL THEY PLAY AT YOUR FUNERAL?
La Tortura, Shakira
Oh man! Does this mean that I am going to be tortured to death or am I going to torture everyone else until I die!
WHAT IS YOUR HOBBY/INTEREST?
Where Does the Good Go, Tegan and Sara
More like Where Does the Money Go?
WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST SECRET?
The Name of the Game, Amanda Seyfriend (Mama Mia)
Ha! Boo yeah!
WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR FRIENDS?
En Amour, Celine Dion
True dat. How fitting – I am “in love” with my friends.
And now I'm going to pass the tag on to anyone who wants to do it! That means you! And you! And you, too! (That was me tagging 3 people.)
And just after finishing this, I found this:
1985? For real? Am I THAT out of touch? Although I think the description fits me to a tee!
Night lovelies!
I’m trying to work my way back to my old self but still not feeling too hot. I went to work today but it was BRUTAL and I was counting down the seconds to get out of there.
I headed straight home to bed and was at one with my pillow!
I should do some scrapbooking because I’m now behind TWO sketches for my class but I am just not up to it and I’m quite excited about the sketches so I don’t want to ruin them by feeling poopy.
While browsing a few of my favourite blogs earlier I came across this post and thought it could be fun. I’ve seen it on a few other blogs but have never taken the time to play along.
Here she goes and I hope you’ll play too!
1. Put Your iTunes/music player/cd player/radio on shuffle.
2. For each question, press the next button to get your answer.
3. YOU MUST WRITE THAT SONG NAME DOWN NO MATTER WHAT!!! After you've answered all of the questions, tag three other people to do the meme themselves!
IF SOMEONE SAYS "IS THIS OKAY" YOU SAY?
Into the Fire, Thirteen Senses (from Grey’s Anatomy Soundtrack)
Apparently I don’t think anything is ok and the pyromaniac in me believes everything should be burned!
WHAT WOULD BEST DESCRIBE YOUR PERSONALITY?
Feel so Free, Ivy (once again from Grey’s)
How cool is that? Good song to land on I think – then again, it sounds like it could be a commercial for feminine products or something.
WHAT DO YOU LIKE IN A GUY/GIRL?
A Cold Wind Will Blow Through Your Door, Bill Richinni
Ouch! I was SO TEMPTED to hit next again but decided not to cheat!
HOW DO YOU FEEL TODAY?
Clonie, Nellie McKay
Not sure what this means.
WHAT IS YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE?
So Good, Boyzone
Yes, life has definitely been so good – hopefully it is only getting better! Hopefully my life’s purpose isn’t to be so good because um…I screwed that up in my 20s!
WHAT IS YOUR MOTTO?
Priere Paienne, Celine Dion
Hmm…why didn’t “My Heart Will Go On” show up?
WHAT DO YOUR FRIENDS THINK OF YOU?
Looking Through Your Eyes, The Corrs
Apparently, my friends just want to look through my eyes. Aw. Presh.
WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR PARENTS?
Fuoco Nel Fuoco, Eros Ramazotti
Does this mean I don’t understand them? Actuallly Google Translate says it means Fire in Fire – true for my mom and I, I would say. Or at least thru my teen years!
WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT FREQUENTLY?
Only One Road, Celine Dion
Hmmm – one track mind? Maybe…some days. Ok a lot of days lately!
WHAT IS 2+2?
If You Asked Me To, Celine Dion
It rhymes! How crazy..Or are you asking me to do your math homework for you?
WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR BEST FRIEND?
Momma’s Boy, Tim Myers
Funny – I consider D to be my best friend (as cheesy as that is) and I’d definitely say he’s a momma’s boy!
WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
Love is a Losing Game, Amy Winehouse
Ouch, harsh. What does she know anyway?
WHAT IS YOUR LIFE STORY?
Je Danse Dans Ma Tete (I dance in my head), Celine Dion
How very true. My life is one big dance (in my head).
WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU GROW UP?
Dreamin’ of You, Celine Dion (man, I have a lot of Celine on the Ipod).
I want to be dreamin of you allll the time
WHAT DO YOU THINK WHEN YOU SEE THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
Sister Kate, Ditty Bops
Sounds like a happy song!
WHAT DO YOUR PARENTS THINK OF YOU?
Roboxulla, The Jealous Girlfriend
Apparently they don’t understand me either
WHAT WILL YOU DANCE TO AT YOUR WEDDING?
Call the Shots, Girls Aloud
How fitting! I tend to “call the shots” around here and if memory serves correctly there were quite a few shots at the wedding!
WHAT WILL THEY PLAY AT YOUR FUNERAL?
La Tortura, Shakira
Oh man! Does this mean that I am going to be tortured to death or am I going to torture everyone else until I die!
WHAT IS YOUR HOBBY/INTEREST?
Where Does the Good Go, Tegan and Sara
More like Where Does the Money Go?
WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST SECRET?
The Name of the Game, Amanda Seyfriend (Mama Mia)
Ha! Boo yeah!
WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR FRIENDS?
En Amour, Celine Dion
True dat. How fitting – I am “in love” with my friends.
And now I'm going to pass the tag on to anyone who wants to do it! That means you! And you! And you, too! (That was me tagging 3 people.)
And just after finishing this, I found this:
You Belong in 1985 |
 Wild, over the top, and just a little bit cheesy. You're colorful at night - and successful during the day. |
1985? For real? Am I THAT out of touch? Although I think the description fits me to a tee!
Night lovelies!
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
HOW COULD I FORGET???
OH MAN!
my brain definitely isn't working today
how could i forget the other exciting news????
while i was in dreamland this morning lesley was busy on the phone getting us SWEET ASS TICKETS (can I say that on blogger?) to the CELINE DION concert in Ottawa.
That's right kids. I'm headed back to see Celine. This time in Ottawa. And I couldn't think of anyone better to go with (except D of course but we did that just a few weeks ago). And maybe Cheech. But he's in Spain so that isn't going to happen.
It's all lesley's fault (he he) that we ended up in Vegas! We came up with the idea last summer to go together and see Celine. She's the psychic one in the bunch because she didn't end up going and therefore she didn't have the disappointment of CELINE CANCELLING!
So yeah, 10 days before my birthday I am off to see Celine with an amazing friend. We are going to have such a great time!!!
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