R.I.P. Charlie

This weekend DD's little hamster passed away. She was a very sweet black bear hamster, we had her about 18 months or so, maybe a little less than that. From what I understand Hamster's lifespans a very short.

Slide Show

I finally figured out how to add a slide show!! Yeahhh. It is at the bottom of my blog. The layouts in the slide show are all from an album I am currently working on. It is of my dd's marching band experience from last year. I am almost done, I have maybe another 10 or 12 layouts to go and it will be complete. Then I can start working on this years band pictures!

Some of my layouts

I was able to bring my layouts to work today and scan them. So I am going to post some of my favorites that I did over this past weekend at the Hamburg Hide Away. If you are looking for a great place to get away and scrapbook then I have to highly recommend this place -- AWESOME!! http://thehamburghideaway.blogspot.com/

I will post more later. When I scanned them all they saved as pdf files so I have to convert them to jpeg which I am trying to do without getting caught messing on the computer while at work, LOL. These two layouts are my favorites. These pictures are from our Band trip to Florida in February. They were take at Silver Springs in Ocala.

Monday, Monday....

I hate Mondays!! Especially after having an awesome weekend of scrapbooking!! I went to the Hamburg Hideaway scarp house retreat with Karen. From Friday afternoon until Sunday afternoon --- nothing but scrapbooking!!! I was in heaven!! I got 20 12x12 layouts done and made some new friends along the way. Can't wait to go back again.

Here are just two of my layouts. Once I either take pictures of or scan some of my favorite layouts I will post them.

Virginia Beach Trip

This past weekend I travelled to Virginia Beach with the marching band to participate in the Neptune Festival Parade. It is a huge festival that goes on every year down there to celebrate the end of summer. There are like 50,000 people along the parade route. This is our biggest parade other than the Magic Kingdom parade. We had a football game Friday night (we won by the way) and then had to be back at the school for a 3:30 AM departure!! It rained on and off all of the way there. This first picture is our bus going over the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel. The second is of Katie and the other kids getting into their uniforms on the bus before we arrived in Virginia Beach. When we got to the staging area for the parade it wasn't raining. The kids got off the bus to get their instruments from underneath, put their plumes in their hats and it started to pour! We got the plumes off their hats but the parade went on as planned. It stopped raining by the time the parade started but not soon enough, everyone got soaked. Needless to say Katie's little cold that she has been fighting is now a bad cold and she feels really crappy and stayed home from school yesterday.


Above is Neptune. This is a big statue on the beach right near the parade route. Below are some pictures from the parade.



Here is Katie and another girl from the band who we always room with on our overnight trips. After the parade we drove to Williamsburg and stayed at the Great Wolf Lodge. It is a really awesome hotel.

Katie and Jaime getting "yelled" at by Mr. Peltz the band director! (They weren't really getting yelled out he was just messing around)
Katie enjoying the fabulous room we got. Incredible TWO floor room. She is sliding down the railing. Her and Jaime had a blast. This room had two bathrooms, three tv's, a fireplace and an upstairs bedroom! Looking down from the upstairs bedroom.

Also this weekend my little kitty Sonny went in to be neutered and declawed. He made out fine. I picked him up Sunday night after we got home from Virginia. Although he is not feeling too well today. I have to go to the vet after work and pick up some pain meds for the little guy. Poor baby!!

Allergy Testing

On Monday I went to the dermatologist to get "patch tested". I have had dishydrotic eczema on my hand for about two years and the past few months it has really flared up badly. Went to the dermatologist at the end of August and he thought it might be brought on by something I am touching so he scheduled me for this patch testing. What they did was adhere 65 little metal grommet like things to my back with tape. Each grommet was filled with an allergen. These were the 65 most common allergens for my area, northeast United States. Ok, so Monday I go in and they adhere this things all over my back. I can't get my back wet. I go back today and they remove everything and look at which allergens I may be allergic to. Guess what? I was allergic to the freakin' tape they used to adhere everything and NOT ONE SINGLE other thing tested positive!! So now I have to go back again on Friday and see if I have a delayed reaction to anything. Still can't get my back wet. It has been real fun every morning trying to bathe in the bathroom sink. This morning I washed my hair in my kitchen sink because it has a spray hose. Well, I think I got half of the kitchen wet! Can't wait until Friday when I can actually take a real shower!

Sunday Update

It is Sunday evening and once again I don't know where the weekend went. This past work week was the week from hell. I don't think I have ever been so busy in all of the 12 years I have worked at Riddle Village. It was just insanely stressful, and top it all off I worked by myself 3 of the 5 days. AND on Friday while I worked by myself I had TWO move ins on top of all of the other insaneness of the week. I was glad when that day was over and I even got to leave at 4 instead of 5 which was a welcome treat.

After work I went to the football game. It was an away game against Glen Mills. GM is an all boy school for "troubled boys". It is state run and it is spectacular! I only wish our local schools were as nice. The band wore their uniforms for the first time this season and they looked awesome as usual. Stupid me was so flustered after a crazy day at work forgot to take my camera. I could kick myself because this had to be the most well lit field we have ever played on. It was perfect picture night, but I was without my camera !!! Out football team won to make the night even better. Final score 27-14.

Yesterday was out monthly all day crop. It was nice to get out and relax, although in 8 hours I only got ONE 2 page 12x12 layout done. But I got to kick back and hang out with my friends. Today I took my kitty Sonny, back to the SPCA to get his microchip inserted. He was due to be declawed and neutered this coming Friday, but the girls at the SPCA convinced me to try something called Soft Claws first. They are little rubber caps that glue onto his nails to keep him from scratching stuff, but they don't harm him in away. Here he is with his blue manicure!