Happy Saturday

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I am so happy that the weekend is here! I am going to do all the things I have to do then rest and relax the rest of the weekend. Doesn't that sound like fun?

Last week was supposed to be the last week my high school volunteer came, but she came back this week and today was her birthday. We had so much fun picking on her. I took some pictures and hope to get them scrapped this weekend. We have been taking pictures of the kids for a laua setting and made Ms. Katherine wear the grass skirt today. LOL! Thank goodness she has a great sense of humor.

The lunch we ordered in today was great. We all ate so much we about popped. I was so full from lunch that I decided not to go out to dinner with my friends. I just wanted to come home watch this weeks episode of Lost that I TIVOed and take a nap. Isn't my life exciting. LOL!

I'm off to bed now. Enjoy your day!

Today's complaint: Donald Trump

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So in honor of Teacher Appreciation Week The Trump International Beach Resort at Sunny Isles donated 3 special freebie gifts to our school. That was a nice thing for them to do, but we have way more than 3 teachers! So, three names got pulled out of a hat and those three people get appreciated. What about the rest of the teachers? Don't they deserve to get pampered too? I'm betting you can guess that my name wasn't pulled. LOL!

Oh well, the good news is that my name was drawn at Amy W.'s Scrap-A-Lot and I won her NSD Grab Bag. How awesome is that?!? Thanks, Amy!

It's finally Friday! Today's lunch is being ordered from Mario the Baker. People at school just love his lasagna and chicken parm. I like the garlic rolls!

April has posted a beautiful QP freebie. Just look at this...

Make sure you go by her blog to pick it up!

OK, I've got to get some sleep. Enjoy your day!

My printer loves me again

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After giving my printer a time out it decided to play nice again. Thank goodness! The envelopes are finally printed and I can rest easy tonight. Of course, tomorrow I have to put stamps on all of them and get them in the mail. LOL!

At school we're celebrating Teacher Appreciation Week and I had a parent show up this afternoon with Sundaes from McDonalds for my assistant and myself. She felt bad because she didn't realize my high school volunteer would be there, so she left went back to McD's and got another one for her. How nice was that?!?!

I've had a long hard night of envelope printing so I"m going to bed now. Enjoy your day!

My printer hates me and George is hiding!

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I've got a tone of envelopes to address for a party. I've set everything up to print and my printer doesn't want to print them.On top of the normal computer/printer checks I've tried talking sternly to it, I've tried begging, I tried calling it mean names, I've tried almost crying and I've tried threats. Got any ideas for me? I really don't want to hand write these things! Besides, half of them are printed already.

I'm going to give the printer a break until I get home from school on Wednesday. Hopefully it will be in a better mood then. LOL! If it's not, I just may throw it out a window. LOL! That won't get my envelopes printed but it will give me a certain amount of satisfaction.

OK, so word has it that there have been George Clooney sightings here on South Beach. He hasn't called! He hasn't emailed! He hasn't sent flowers! What's wrong with this man? Has he been talking to my printer? LOL! I looked for him at Walgreens, but he wasn't there. LOL!

It's late and I need to get some sleep. Enjoy your day!

They're just jealous!

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So the girls at school thought it was wrong that I leaned up and smelled Mark Consuelos at Walgreens the other day. He was standing right in front of me! What else was I supposed to do? LOL! I think they're just jealous of me. I informed Natalie that she's not the only that gets to hob knob with the rich and famous. Thankfully, she was kind enough not to point out that she hob knobbed at the Oscars and I was only at Walgreens. LOL!

Kim, my friends daughter, has a broken heart. She is a junior at the University of Miami majoring in Marine Science and her now ex-boyfriend is in fire fighter school. They dated in high school, broke up, got back together and have now broken up again. She is sad. Her mother is sadder!

Her mother is sad because there are no magic words to take away her daughter's pain and there is no band-aid large enough to cover the wound. For the first time, as a parent, she feels lost.

It's easy to tell your child that time and space will help. It's easy to try and distract her with other things. It's easy to blame the boy for everything. LOL! It's hard to watch your child cry. It's hard to know that their smile just covers up the sadness. It's hard to accept that they are way past the age where a new toy can fix everything.

Soon, Kim will be going to the Keys to do a summer internship at Dolphins Plus. If you happen to be down there and see her, please tell her to keep her chin up, better days are ahead. If you see her mom, please offer her a Kleenex and a strawberry daiquiri. LOL!

OK, enough sadness! On to happier topics. Summer will be here before you know it and I am so looking forward to being on vacation! In the mean time, I'm still getting ready for the luau themed party. I made a label that fits a 3 oz bottle of bubbles. I bought my bottles 3 for $1 at the dollar store. Once again I used graphics from Shel Belle's part of the Sunshine Beach blog train. I also used graphics from her Tropical Punch Kit.



Here's a picture for you to see...



Sorry the picture isn't better. If you would like the label, you can download it here.

It's past my bedtime! Enjoy your day!

I sorta, kinda followed directions...

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OK, so I finally took the time to try Tammy DeYoungs' tutorial at AimeeAsher. She put together a great set of directions, but I'm not the best student so I didn't read them all the way through. LOL! Anyway, here's what my attempt at making a background paper looks like...



Next time I'll read all the directions. LOL!

I've been working on things for our end of year Luau and the graphics in the Sunshine Beach Blog train have been perfect! I made these Play-Doh Labels using Shel Belle's portion. These make perfect not too expensive end of the school year gifts for kids.



Shel is kind enough to let me share the label with you so if you grab it make sure you go by her blog and check out everything else she has to offer!

Download Aloha Play-Doh Label here

They've announced that two schools in Dade County are closed due to suspected swine flu cases and neither one of them is mine. Guess I'll be going to school. Bummer! Oh, I am so bad!

OK, I'm going to bed now. Enjoy your day!

I can't believe I did it!

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There are a couple of things I did today that I can't believe. First off, I can't believe I set the alarm clock to go off on a Saturday. LOL! I had errands to run and I wanted to get them done before the NSD fun started in the forums. Of course, I just turned the alarm off and went back to sleep. LOL!

I got my errands run and spent lots of time online today. Didn't get anything done around the house, but who cares! We had so much fun on the Stuff to Scrap Forum today. I took part in my very first speed scrap, played bingo and spent way too much time in the chat room. The result of my first speed scrap are in the post below this one and it's not very pretty. LOL! But the hotties from the SWAT team are pretty!

The second thing I can't believe I did was talk to the guy I was waiting in line behind at Walgreens. The guy I was behind was Mark Consuelos! Do you know who I'm talking about? He played Mateo on All My Children and is married to Kelly Ripa.



My Walgreens always has a line at the pharmacy and they never have enough people working! Today was the first time I didn't mind. LOL! There was one customer being waited on and two more waiting. I got into line behind the cute guy thinking he looked familiar. Once I realized who he was I decided that I just had to talk to him. So, I leaned up and asked him if he had been waiting long. I am such a dork! He said that he hadn't but that he felt like it probably was going to be a long wait. I told him that wasn't good news, but in my head I was thinking, "I'm enjoying the view so I don't mind!" LOL! I told you I was a dork!

Well, the line moved and someone else came to help at the register so it was his turn and he was at the register farthest from where the line started. I turned to the girl waiting behind me and told her who I thought he was and we were both staring at him and smiling from ear to ear when he looked around and caught us. LOL! They asked him his last name and he confirmed that I was right when he said "Consuelos"

Apparently he has a sick child. Poor baby! He was told that he had a 30 minute wait for the medicine. When I left he was standing in the parking lot talking to his taxi driver. By the way, I'm 5'4" and he's not really that much taller than I am, but he does smell good. LOL!

I haven't attempted Tammy's tutorial at Aimee Asher on making a background paper yet. But, I have seen some that others have made and they are looking good. Maybe I'll fit that in tomorrow.

April is letting me share a coupon to her store at Scrap it Sassy with you. It's good for the whole month of May! Spend at least $10 in her store and you save $3.00. That's a pretty good deal, but they have a sale going on now so it gets even better! Make sure you get the code off the coupon.



By the way, the wine tasting was lots of fun the other night. Too bad I didn't have my camera with me!

I'm heading off to bed now. Enjoy your day!