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I have an addiction

I have an addiction ...


... it is called scrapbooking ... ya know I thought it would be a nice hobby to take up after the wedding ... ya know put together a book of wedding stuff ... one of honeymoon stuff ... then I realized Jenny's birthday is coming up and I know she loves scrapbooks but doesn't want to work on them ... so I could put one together of her beautiful baby ... then I asked Kris to send me all of her photos [they are just in a big box] and that I would put them into albums for her and sort them all out ... they came yesterday and as I looked through them I kept thinking, "Oh these would look great in a scrapbook" ... started pulling out the good ones and wound up staying up so late last night scanning those ... her birthday is on Wednesday so I figured if I could get this finished by Tuesday I could overnight it to her ...


In the last week as I have come up with these many projects I have spent more money than we have at A.C. Moore buying scrapbooking stuff ... and I haven't even touched the surface of all that I could have ... every day driving home I think, "oh I pass right by A.C. Moore ... maybe I should see if they have ..." ... you can fill that blank in with anything scrapbook-y ...


I will say it is the most productive "project" I have yet to undertake ... there is an end result that has purpose ... lots of my artwork from the past is either hanging on our bedroom wall or stacked up on the shelf in the closet ... some of them are nice but most just take up space ... and I do find cutting paper very relaxing ...


It has also given me a new thing to do while goofing off at work ... there are about a million and a half websites on scrapbooking so I can read articles and get ideas ... but I am obsessed ... I guess when I try and quit smoking again [for the umpteenth time] this is a good project to work on ... which was another of my goals ... and I guess when I do finally get pregnant it is also something good to work on ... but I am spending so much time on it that I haven't even picked up my baby books to read ...


I guess I just can't do anything half assed ... hahahaaaaa ...

Scrapbook crazy

OK so I was totally sick today ... I called in sick this morning really early cause I hadn't felt well all night but about an hour later the other girl in my office called out [she wasn't actually sick cause when she called she had said she was on her treadmill and thinks she got overheated] but whatever ... I couldn't leave my boss there alone ... and I had a feeling there were a couple of things that had to get done today so I put on my clothes that were closest to pajamas and headed to work ...


I was right there were a couple of things that just had to get done today so I am glad I was there ... but all day my boss kept telling me that I didn't look well and I felt hot and that I should go home ... I kept telling her I wasn't working hard ... that I was mostly goofing off but that I wanted to get the important things done ...


So on the way home I just was feeling "ick" so I thought to perk myself up I would stop at A.C. Moore and check out their scrapbook stuff ... well holy shit I would up spending about $80 on the stuff ... crazy ... that did include 2 books ... one I hope to use for wedding pictures and one for honeymoon pictures ... but my lord that is a crazy amount of money to spend on scrapbook shit ... although everything I got was pretty damn great ... and I need a project ... so in the end I do believe it is all worth it ...


See we need to quit smoking ... [I know that is a regular thing that I write but this time I have to] ... we want to start trying to make a baby in November ... and I know that I should quit for at minimum 3 month before getting pregnant ... today was supposed to be the day but I just wasn't up for it ... I'm going to give it a week ... David on the other hand ... I don't know if he can quit ... he spends so much time in the car going from job to job ... on the stupid beltway in hella traffic ... if I were in his shoes I don't know if I could quit either ... the hardest times for me are when I am in the car and right after I eat ... so I am going to tell him that I don't expect him to quit smoking ... especially if he isn't mentally ready but there will be some ground rules ... [I am going to sound like our bitchy frenchy upstairs neighbors but ... if once I am preggers and the smell makes me totally sick he will have to go downstairs to smoke ... or just stay out on the balcony all night ... and that if the smell makes me sick he will have to sleep on the couch ... I am sure he will agree to these ... cause basically the only other choice is for me to throw up on him ... hahahahaaa and I know he would hate that one ...


well I am going to go check out all the goodies I purchased this evening ... my god I am a bit sick to my stomach right now at how much I spent ... I guess that is good motivation to quit ... I can put the money towards the massive amounts of scrapbooking shit there is out there ... not that wanting a baby isn't a good enough reason ... :)

July of our first year

Besides getting married we went on a fabulous honeymoon ... we left on Royal Caribbean's Grandeur of the Sea from Baltimore Harbor and went to Freeport, Bahamas ... Key West, Florida ... Coco Cay, Bahamas and Port Canavral, Florida ... it was an excellent week ...


On July 31st we hosted our first dinner party ... Jason, Jenny, Eliana, Steven, Sharon and Andrew were all in attendance ... David went so over the top with the food it was breathtaking ... he impresses me every day ... the plate presentation was super and all the food was sooooo good ... it really was a fantastic evening and it was so fun having everyone's kids here ...


I would say our first month of marriage was great ... it didn't feel that different in the beginning but everyone kept telling us we look so happy ... and that we are what people wanted to see in a new married couple ... it is nice to hear those things because I am totally happy being married ...

Idea behind this blog ...

July 4, 2004 David and I got married ... it has so far been the happiest day of my life ... I'm so excited to be his wife that I am already working on his first anniversary gift ... since the first anniversary gift is supposed to be paper I am going to make him a scrap book with a page for each month of our first year of marriage ... so I am going to use this blog to keep track of the fun, interesting, hard, exciting and challenging things we go through this year so when July rolls around next year I can fill a book to remind us of this first year ...

Wedding & Honeymoon photos

Well I finally got all of our wedding and honeymoon pictures online for anyone who would like to see ... I can warn you that they are probably pretty boring ... but who knows ... it could be boredom that you are looking for ... :)


Our wedding and honeymoon photos


So now that all the events are over ... and July 4th has come and gone I need to come up with a new background for the design ... any ideas??


PS - don't say you weren't forewared on the boredom factor ... :)

I love being married

Well I am a married ... honeymooned woman ... what a fabulous two weeks ...

 

Our wedding couldn't have been better ... all the work and effort we put into it sure did pay off ... it was the most fabulous day ever ... and everyone noticed all the little touches I did which is great ...

 

a week later we boarded a cruise ship out of Baltimore and went to Florida and Bahamas for a week of bliss ... the two of us are so tan it is crazy ... and the vacation was so relaxing and wonderful ...

 

Ya know what ... I love being married ... it is just so great ... I know it has only been two weeks ... but it has been fun so far ... :)