Here I am. KC requested whole costume view, but in the first one, I look as tired as I feel, so I added the second one, where I'm holding the other Heather's handcuffs for her prisoner person costume, and then the last one, I'm at least smiling, so I added it. for grins!
And obviously, they show up in reverse order. :)
We did it! Put on a Fall Festival, had a great turn out, no rain until we were just about out of food anyway, and I think a good time was had by all! A few pics:
Burge's twins
How cute are these three? There are 4, but one didn't make it back from a trip to the states in time for the fest. One of the grandmothers made all the skirts!
Kwood's boys
Sick. Been sick since Tuesday. That's almost a WEEK! I went to the dr, got penicillin and naproxin. Now the disgusting pus pockets (sorry!!) are gone from my throat, but I have a stuffy head/gravel gurty throat thing going on. And SB is complaining today that his body is starting to hurt...oops...sorry. :( I tried to go to a scrapbook get together Saturday. Felt crappy all day, got very little done, and left early.
Luckily, though, the illness didn't settle in for good until just before Mary and Chris were about to leave, and we had a great time Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and they had a great time Wednesday! :)
I know this sounds crazy (maybe it should have been on my 7 quirky list?) but I'm 38 and before this, I had never fried a corn tortilla. Well, not in my very own kitchen. I may have turned one or two at my aunt/uncle/cousins house in San Benito. So I've been dreaming of a tortilla burger for quite some time, but since the commissary doesn't sell flat (tostada style) tortillas, I had to fry up my own. Just to see if I could, I made tacos/tostadas first so that we'd have a back up for dinner, as we had flour tortillas in the frige. The result was a flashback to many a summer in San Benito. I even had to get out the ketchup, because that's how we eat 'em there! yeah, that freaked SB out a little bit, but he got passed it. :)
The elements.
Golden goodness.
mmm, combo tostada!
Stephen's double decker.
at the table.
YUMMY GOODNESS!I don't know why "they" make the Soldiers and the Dept of Public Works people clean up all the leaves (and they are many) that fall on the grounds around the buildings and in the streets on post. They are pretty. Yellows, reds, even the browns. I like to walk through them. shroosh, shroosh, shroosh.
Fall is my friend Christy's favorite season. She has a little bit of Autumn Envy. I can see why. And we don't know where we're going from here, but I hope there is some Autumn involved.
Pass on the long winter, though...had some ice on my windshield today.
I see it has been 10 days since my last post! Ohhhhh, the shame of it. What have I been doing? Going to and heading up MEETINGS! Millions of them, it seems! I was late at work all week, so it's been a fun one. Also, I'm trying to get some scrapbook projects finished, but someone in Stuttgart gave me the great idea of putting "kits" in 2 gallon ziploc bags. The idea is to put paper, pics and embellishment stuffs in a bag and then take it where ever you are going to crop so you don't have to haul ALL your stuff there. Well, I have taken this as an open invitation to start pages and then decide I don't have the mojo left to finish them, so I just bag them and move on! I have about 8 half done pages and you know it's FREAKIN ME OUT!
So, today I am going to try to get some things finished up.
I really need to since I just ordered 122 more pictures from Snapfish. oops. ;)
OK, well...I've been tagged by my IRL LL friend KC. And it actually gave me stress. This, in itself is #1.
1. I stress about the silliest things. What am I going to say? Can I repeat one of her things? oh, goody! My other IRL LL friend CGB did it, too! Maybe I can copy hers! What is that about? Even I think that is freakish. Random and/or weird? I don't know. Definitely not useful in life.
HA! While thinking of #2 I went to Octamom's site and saw she is also concerned about the question!
2. I have lately started dating things to see how long it takes us to use them. I figured out that we are done buying fabric softener sheets in Germany. It took us more months to use the last one than we have left here. :) I tried to pass it off as planning, not having a ton of 1/2 used things when we get ready to pack out. But I know it's weird because of the look on my husband's face when I said, "That's the last box of fabric softener we have to buy here!"
3. I love football and fantasy football even more. Personally, I think those who do not are the ones who are off, but everyone seems to think I'm the different one. I have been in one league with 13 guys for 7 years. I've been to the playoffs every year, the World Domination Bowl twice, and have the trophy proudly displayed as I type this. Yes, I just looked at it and then back at the computer smuggly. I have also been in 2 other leagues for 2 years.
4. I don't like caramel, mint chocolate chip ice cream, or any meat on the bone. Yes, that means ribs, fried chicken, all that. ick.
5. I am freakishly afraid of mice. Freakishly. I can't even look at or dispose of something that has obviously been gnawed on by a rodent and am having trouble thinking about it long enough to type about it.
6. Recently I had to upload photos to two differnent photo galleries because one was having a sale on prints, but the other is the one ALL my albums are on. It made me crazy to not have everything organized and in one place. I'm still kind of having hives about the photos I uploaded to facebook of high school. They are out of order. BADLY out of order. ugh.
7. I watch the following reality shows. Never saw one episode of any reality show before we lived here. Now? Top Chef, Survior, Amazing Race, America'sNextTopModel, Beauty and the Geek, Hell's Kitchen, and most recently, Project Runway. I would not be surprised to have forgotten some. It's what you do when you have one tv and only what AFN carries!
and just cuz, here are a few that I agree with: Mayonnaise ROCKS, on everything. Salt is also awesome. I am also scared of birds. And cockroaches. and because of the cockroaches, jasmine!
NEXT:
Jessica
Jill
Paulette
Cara
Heather
Kristi B
Greg
Ree
Saturday, I drove to Stuttgart to scrap with my group there. We had a great time as usual, but we also raised money for breast cancer research. Everyone paid to crop and then donated for using different machines and water and tea, etc. Basically everyone gave what they could, and once the room rental was paid, the rest when to the cause.
I made this page in honor of Stacey. I have had it and the album kit since 1999. I finally decided it was time to do a book of cherished friends in my life. So I started with this one since it was this special day, and will continue to fill it with pages of friends.
Tuesday is Erika's birthday. She is the "ring leader" of the bunch, so we each (secretly) made a "me" page for her and presented her with the book. She was very touched and loved it!
These are the ones who could make it to the crop! There were a total of 22 or 23, a great turnout! and it was 11am-11pm! SO much fun!
Discussing something very important. Layouts, embellishments...where we're getting lunch...
Cheryl ponders which challenge to do next! We had 4 we could do if we wanted, get our name in a drawing to win little prizes. You know...just for fun! the Pink challenge was a pink page, the sketch challenge was a sketch you copied, 3-2-1 was 3 papers, 2 pictures and a journal box, and pick 3 was to choose three of the embellishments from a list to use. I did all the challenges! :) Won a $10 gift card to Stampin Up! yeah, I already ordered, about 10 minutes later!
