Handmade cards

This is a card I made for my niece's first b'day coming up in March. It's a copy of a card from the Card Maker magazine. I changed the flowers and "bling" at the bottom of the card to suit me....plus I didn't have the vellum flowers they used. I actually really like how it turned out. I'm typically not a card maker but I like going to classes and accumlating 10-20 cards that way. I copy cards rather than design my own. There's nothing wrong with that, right?I used the Memory Makers purple "funky" font letter stickers. I really like this font....I bought many packages of each color from Ebay as they were becoming harder to find in the stores.

I made these cards, plus 4 others, at a card class. It was 20 cards for $40...can't even buy cards that cheap in the stores unless you're at the dollar store. All these were done in one night...the last 4 had to be done on a different night.

Maxine - Brrr....it's cold

I received an email with the following comics in it and thought they were hilarious.

This first one is my favorite.

A University Update

Just this past Thursday I broke down at work because the stress and difficulty of the math course I've enrolled in, is taking a toll on me. I took half of Thursday off and all of Friday to get a break from things and to make a decision or two without any distractions.

I made a phone call to the university to confirm a couple things and ultimately ended up withdrawing from the Math 209 course with plans to re-register at a later date. I have re-registered for Comp 200, which I withdrew from last year, and it will start in March. There is a bit of a silver lining to all this. I can still work on my math, without a tutor, and when I re-register I will be further along in the course, will be able to hand in the assignments, and complete it within the first deadline (and that's my theory.)

I suppose a bit of a weight has been lifted by doing this but at the same time, by doing this, I may have jeopardized my funding from my union. I think even if I stayed in the course I wouldn't have completed it by the last deadline anyways, and that would've put a Fail on my transcript. By doing what I did, I get a WF (withdrawal failure) but it's not on the transcript.

Now it's Monday and I didn't take my math stuff to work today. I had been doing that for the past couple months as my work days are very slow so I'm able to get in a couple hours of studying.

I hope I made the right decision. I'm rarely confident that I do make the right decision with big things such as this but this one had to be made.

Crisp, Winter Day

This was taken last week in the middle of the day from the balcony of the house I'm house-sitting. Is it postcard worthy?

A snowy day on the lake

The hot tub on the balcony. I'm estimating about 3 feet of snow has accumulated over the past month and it's impossible to shovel/push without a snow blower...and that I do not have.

This was taken just after my driveway was plowed. The night before I got about 8 inches of powder/heavy snow and I got stuck at the bottom of the hill just before the train tracks. Luckily, through the power of the cell phone and a round-about way of arranging things, I was picked up by a co-worker also going to work. If I wasn't able to be rescued I would've sat in my car until day light so I could see where I was walking going back to the house. I wasn't wearing boots and I didn't have the winter coat on either because it was only -3 degrees and there's no need to over dress when it's that "warm".
Have to make a walk way for the old, decrepid kitty I'm living with.

2008 Wrap-up

As I chose pictures to upload to this blog entry, I forgot that they show up backwards so bear with the non-chronological story.This is our New Years' eve outting at the Grapevine, the local pub/bistro. We were probably the loudest in the whole restaurant!! Actually the 4 females at the far end of the table were the loudest....while being completely sober too. After dinner we went our seperate ways and I doubt we stayed awake until midnight too. Such party animals we are!
This was taken on Christmas Eve at Caitlin & Brad's house. They hosted a Christmas eve party for both sides of the family. This is Bellard....aka Bella. Bella became Bellard when Caitlin & Brad realized she was a he. When he gets fixed, he might go back to being Bella.
Christmas eve again. Notice the coordination of colors? Black, brown, black, brown. Brad is beside Caitlin and then there's Brad's dad, and brother. This was taken on Dec 13th when my 2 step nieces opened their Christmas gifts from the Bonk family. Alicia and Cassidy went to Hawaii with their mom and family for Christmas. I gave them camera cases for their trip. Another pic from Dec 13th. Here is Saibry....lovin' the gift wrap that surrounded her that night. Such a cutie.