Tuesday's Top Five Apprentices

Hi again! Sorry I missed you all yesterday :( Work was a tad crazy and I just didn't feel like blogging last night :(

Today I'm bringing you my top five apprentices in this week's round of entries over in the Little Dreamer Designs Apprentice contest. Have you seen this contest? There are some AWESOME entries in it each week and I am just amazed at all the talent that's been hiding there. Where did you ladies come from? I am putting these in my top order too, so number one here is actually my #1 pick.

1. Sherriejd
2. fufusu
3. misslatrec
4. Ana Amorim
5. vicigreenlees

Well there you have it! My picks for this week at LDD. I think the best part about this contest is that you can get TONS of fabulous freebies and one lucky person is going to get to sell their items at LDD when this is all said and done. My #1 pick up there is my pal Sherrie. I didn't put her in the numero uno spot because she's my friend, I seriously just didn't know she had all that talent in her till she started this contest, it's really amazing what she's created for it so be sure to check out her other awesome entries for past weeks while you're there.

Check ya'll tomorrow!

Sunday's Top Five............

I'm BAAAACCCKKK...........three days in a row, I think that might be a record for me *giggle* I don't have anything important to say today really. Dh is still sick, I've worked that mountain of laundry into a hill, I've done more disinfecting still than I care to ever do again and so far I'm still hiding out FAR FAR AWAY from him, hehehe. It's making him a little upset, he says I'm treating him like he has a disease (which he does) and he doesn't like it. I promised him all the kisses he wants when he's better :)

Okay for Sunday's top five, I'm going to link you up to my top five must read blogs for every day enjoyment...........so here ya go:

1. Confessions of a Pioneer Woman -- This girl is HILARIOUS and she's posting every day with fun stuff. If you've NEVER seen her blog you are REALLY missing out. She has a cooking blog to that I sub up to. On this blog though, she shares her life as a city girl turned country and has some INCREDIBLE photos on there too. Lots of fun little contests as well so you should really sub up to it and take a peek, if you get time be sure to check out the episodes of "Black Heels to Tractor Wheels - A Love Story" it's the best read yet!

2. Inspiration for Generation C -- This blog belongs to Julie Ann Shahin, she's just an amazingly talented scrapper and she's a complete sweetheart. She's always got some great inspiration on her blog.

3. You Just Never Know.. -- This blog belongs to Wendy Reed. I met her only recently at ScrapFreak and she just CRACKS ME UP! She is the funniest thing and she is soooooooooo uber talented when it comes to scrapping.

4. This is My Life -- This blog belongs to Janet Phillips, she's an amazing digital template designer and blogger too! She shares her life through her blog and there are so many fun stories on there. She has a brand new baby that I just awwwwwwwwww over every single time that I'm there.

5. P-Lucky -- This is my friend Katy's blog and she shares her family and her layouts here. I just LOVE her photos, they are just amazing and I LOVE seeing her layouts too. She has a clean graphic style that just amazes me :)

Okay, there you have my addictions. Of course I'm addicted to Authentic Artistry as well but I didn't want to list it since I do most of the posting there for the site ;) Hope you all have a great Sunday and hopefully between work and home tomorrow I can get back in here!

Top Five Songs from my High School Days.......

Well I made it back, that post it note is a great reminder :) I hope it just keeps working!!

Nothing hugely new today, dh still sick with the flu and I'm still staying a MILE away from him, he's quarantined to the bedroom and is only allowed bathroom privileges, LOL. I swear I've sanitized the bathroom 10+ times today. I don't want anyone else here to get, including me! Took ds out today for a while, no where fancy, just wanted out of the house. I'm thinking I MIGHT take him tomorrow to see Horton Hears a Who, it looks really cute and he does want to see it. It will just depend on how I feel and how much work I have to do around here I suppose. I have a mountain of laundry to work through since dh usually does that, ugh!

I bought some AWESOME new goodies tonight that I saw on Tracy Ann's blog. I love and hate when she puts out new products in her shoppe because I ALWAYS have to go shopping and I always spend more than I intend to. Her designs are just divine, I love so many of them and would give my left arm to be on her team. Okay, maybe not the whole arm, how bout the pinky finger? Tracy are you listening? LOL! Go check out those new products on her blog link up there, you'll see what I'm talking bout.

Alrighty then, let's move on to my top five songs from high school. Is it sad that most of these are attributed to my memories from boys? ROFL! These are in no particular order....

1. Don't Know Much -- Linda Rondstadt and Aaron Neville
2. Forever -- Kiss
3. Gonna Make You Sweat -- C&C Music Factory
4. Strike It Up -- Black Box
5. I Do It For You -- Bryan Adams

There were sooooooooo many others that I loved but these are the five that stand out the most to me, the ones that I played over and over and over and well you get the point.

It's time for me to go work on that mountain that I've been putting off. Hope you're having a wonderful Saturday!!

Top Five Hotties.....

Okay, I'm going to try doing some top five posts to get me back in the spirit of personal blogging. I've been doing plenty of site blogging over at Authentic Artistry but have neglected this poor lil blog of mine :( I noticed some of the girls over at the Freak have some top five lists on their blogs so maybe this will help get me in a routine. I stuck a post it here at my computer so I can keep up, LOL.

What's up in my world lately.............hmmmm............not much! I've been working a LOT and I am just completely exhausted lately. I haven't been "resting" well for some reason, I'm thinking it's stress. I sleep every night but just wake up with that exhausted feeling still there which stinks! I was so mentally exhausted yesterday morning that I just had a breakdown over the fact that I could only find one sock in the pair I wanted to wear, WTH? ROFL! My hubby was looking at me like I had three heads I swear! I hope that problem resolves soon though, I just have way too much on the brain lately. And today, Daniel wakes up with what I think is the flu, ick, yuck, I don't want it! I'm just staying far away from him, hehehe. He keeps telling me that I'm supposed to be his wife, his nurse and taking care of him. I agreed and said I would be glad to medicate him and bring him washclothes for his forehead, etc.........but no way am I cuddling up with him right now, LOL.

On the scrap side of things, I haven't done a layout in over a month, eek! I just have no mojo even though I am really missing it, the creativity is not there. I did do some church brochures for my mil and they turned out awesome as always, go figure. I feel like I've let my designers down by not scrapping but I'm hoping they all understand and know that I'll be out of the rut soon! I have a guest spot this month with Shabby Pickle Designs which I'm really excited about, it hasn't started yet because of some delays over there but I'm patiently waiting and hoping to get to play soon!

Alrighty, nuff chatter, on to my top five for the day. Today I'm posting my top five male hotties in the acting/celebrity world today. There's something about each of these men that attracts me, I just lurve looking at them, hehe. This is in NO particular order here.

Will Smith:




Shemar Moore:



Dominic Purcell:



Ty Pennington:



Jared Padalecki:



and honorable mention is the other Supernatural brother:



Well there you have it, five hotties for the day. I'll be back tomorrow with a new top five ;) Have a great Friday!!

Gone Too Soon -- A Belated Freaky Friday Challenge

This week at ScrapFreak, our challenge for blogging was brought on by the sudden and tragic death of Heath Ledger. Out topic this week is our thoughts on celebrities that we think were taken too early and why we miss them. I'm not a HUGE person when it comes to focusing on celebrities (I will at the end) so for now I want to tell you about two stars in my life that are "gone too soon", two people that were ripped away from me and that I would give anything (well almost) to have them back.

The first is my mom, she was my absolute best friend, the ONLY person that I felt that I could trust 100% to always be there for me. The main person that I could tell anything to and not fear hearing her laugh at me. She was had the absolute best heart in the world, she was the type of person others would say is nuts because if she could bring a homeless man into her home and help him out onto his feet she would. She never turned away someone in need even if it did get her scammed in life a couple of times. I would love to find those people who scammed her today and just tell them what I think of them but I know she wouldn't approve of that. Anyhow, I miss her dearly. I miss not having her to call and bend her ear. I miss not having someone in my life that I know without a doubt that I can trust 100% with ANYTHING. I miss having my best friend around. I miss her smile and her laugh. She was the glue for my family and I have slowly watched it unravel without her which saddens me to a point that I can't describe. I miss her!

The second one is the one that I miss the most. My heart aches for him every day of my life, there's not one day that goes by that I don't think of him and remember him. That is my oldest son, Joshua. He was an amazing little boy and three and a half years of him is just not enough. To have him ripped away from me the way that he was is just so wrong, my heart still breaks for that. I wish that I could say that my memories of him are always good but sadly since I was there when we had our house fire and I was there when we let him go, those are often the first memories that come to mind. I hate that too. There are lots of good memories that I have of him, lots of things that I miss. I miss that little stubborn strut he got when he was upset. I miss how he always brought in a crowd with her personality no matter where we went, even in Wal-Mart. I miss his smile and the love that he had for me, his dad and his brother. He was the MOST loving little boy and he always looked for love and was always hugging and kissing us. I miss those hugs the most. He would have been 12 next week, I often sit and wonder how he would be, would he like sports, would he be smart like me, would he be as handsome as I imagine, there are just so many thoughts that race about him. I don't think my heart will ever heal properly but it does get a little easier each day.

Okay, I'm getting all teary so I need to get back to the "real" subject at hand. There are two celebrities that came to mind as soon as I saw our topic this week. The first is Anna Nicole, I know I know, silly and all but I really do hate that she was ripped from this world so soon after her little girl was born. It was so sad to see what her baby girl had to go through after she was gone, so sad to see her tossed around like that by some people that I think probably only cared about the money attached to her. Anna N wasn't so bad, she was rather funny at times to sit and watch her and she was a beautiful girl at all of her weights. The other person that immediately came to mind for me was Tupac Shakur, I LOVED that man's music. I miss his smile. I miss his songs. I miss oogling at him, you have to admit he was easy on the eyes, LOL.

Anywho.........that's my post for this freak challenge. I know it's not totally on topic but it's mine and now I'm done. I have to work the next few days so I won't be around. Holla!

Another Freaky Friday Challenge -- Our Song

This week over at the Freak, our blog challenge was to post about "our song". Now this song could be with anyone, your spouse, a parent, a sibling, friend, worst enemy, etc.... Okay, I added in that worst enemy part just because I can and no that's not who I'm dedicating this post to. I've had "the song" with a few people in my life, most of them are no longer part of my life, but there is one who is still with me and hopefully always will be, that would be Daniel. He and I met working together at Wal-Mart in 1993. He used to stalk uhm I mean swing by the fitting room where I worked and say Hi and we became really good friends. He asked me out on more than one occasion and got shot down every time because we live in a very small "set in their ways" kind of town and the mixing of races isn't always smiled upon. I thought he was a fabulous guy and he made me laugh like no other. I continued my downward spiral of dating loser after loser but remained friends with him throughout and then finally I gave up on the prejudice thoughts of this town and made the move on him, LOL! We dated for about a year and a halfish and then we got married. Sure, not everyone in our families were happy but hey they got over it and we've been married for almost twelve years now and we have had two wonderful lil men to show for it! Seriously, they were awesome years even with the troubles we had to pull through. I love him like no other and I think he's just as giddy about me *wink wink*

Okay, nuff rambling. Our song came about simply because we didn't agree much when it came to music. I grew up country and he grew up loving rap and hip hop and those genres just don't mix well. There was one group that we both enjoyed -- Aerosmith -- and that's how our song came about. We both just love it and it became "ours". I decided rather than boring you with the lyrics that I would change my video box on here to that so if you haven't already silenced your computer to close it out then you should be well into the lyrics of "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing" by now, hehehe. And as for our mix of genres, well those have been fixed now because I can't stand listening to country anymore, go figure. Got tired of the heartaches and lost dogs/wives/money/beer. Before I run off I wanna share this pic of Daniel and I, it's a couple of years old but I love it and have scrapped it a couple times, think I might just scrap it again too, LOL!! Here we are:

Well I think I have rambled enough and tomorrow if I can get my brain together I'm going to come share some funny things I've found myself or that have been shared in various communities so until then ((HUGS))

Important Message of the Day!!!

Got this in an e-mail tonight from my brother!! He always has the funniest things!

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Important Message for the Day:

NEVER tick off a guy who owns a backhoe!!!



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There you have it! Hope you heed the important message, LOL! Hope you all have a great night too! ((HUGS))