living in a quentin tarantino movie

or maybe just a bad, B horror film. Lately I've been working a lot starting in the mornings, and as such, I have to enter the store through the back tunnels. The bowels of the mall, as it were. Ok, here's the crazy thing.....They pipe music into the halls , but you can only hear it sometimes. So you'll walk through the hall hearing nothing, then turn a courner and all of a sudden hear the mall music perfectly. It's got that tinny sound to it and is always some obscure song that you remember hearing before, but can't quite place it. Add to that the leaky pipe dripping into the Home Depot bucket that only gets emptied maybe once a month and therefore is constantly full/overflowing and thus doing absolutely no good, and you can totally see why I fully expect to see John Travolta dancing with Uma Thurman or some other full on Quentin scene to pop up on me or even just some scary monster chasing a girl who can't help but keep looking back at him and doesn't watch her step, so of course, she falls down and then can't get back up, scooting along screaming.

I love the gay bar

seriously...the bulk of the bars I've been to latelyhave been gay bars & I've had the most fun ever

Stretched.Too.Thin

That would be me. Lately I've been stretched too thing. I'm wearing myself out. Well, me and the Apple Store. And, I haven't been practicing very good time management.

In my last post, I mentioned Creative Escape. Wow! It was awesome. We didn't go on the tours. Instead, we spent time at the hotel/resort hanging out. They had this amazing system of pools called the River Ranch, and the first day we spent like 7 hours there. No lie. They had this great lazy river, and we spent hours on end there. It was fabulous. A couple of times, we even got adult beverages and lazy river-ed with them. For the most part, we were the only scrappers at the pool....out of 600+!! The second day, we registered late so we could spend more time at the pool. Turned out to be a good idea, as the only thing we missed out on was lines, lines, and grumpy, gripey ladies.

Most of the people there were crazy obsessed about the scrapbooking. Obviously, we are too, or we wouldn't have spent a premium to attend, travel there, and stay there. But, we really wanted to use this as a get away. And we did. It was fabulous. We both had ime to relax and really enjoyed the scrapping and the classes. And, but the time it was time to come home, we were ready.

I'm not going to rehash all the details for the 2 people besides me reading this (nope, my mom doesn't even read it....she forgets I have it for long periods at a time), but the gal who organized it all, Heidi Swapp, did a big review on her blog, here. (PS - I wasn't so excited about the so called yummy dessert, but then it was a mousse-like concoction with nuts in it, and we all know how I feel about crunch stuff in my soft foods.....totally not intended by God....and yes, he told me)

We got home Sunday and I took over a guy's 4-9 shift Monday night at the Apple Store - thank goodness there was a double-header of Monday Night Football and I actually got to seem some (they had a meeting at the store Sunday night, but I told them before-hand that I wouldn't be there), then I worked my regular schedule of 9-5 Tues, Wed, Thurs. Wednesday we had Financial Peace University.

Friday morning, Bob and I left for Fin n'Feather and the annual scrapbooking retreat put on by Scraphappy's. I'd spent all of my free time that week getting ready for the retreat. In the past, I've carted down skads and skads of stuff, but this year I found tons of sketches and planned out the pages. (most of the ones I used were from the website Valerie's Sketches). Of course, we stayed up late and scrapped every night. We had a great time! The weather was just gorgeous, and Bob and I drove the hour + drive down with the top down and had a great time together. I finished 11 pages, which wasn't too bad considering I didn't feel great Fri. afternoon and took an hour and a half nap and had to do the same Sat. afternoon. (and I didn't wake up grumpy...that's a novel concept when i nap!)

This week, I work every day from either 9 or 9:45 til 5 (expect tomorrow when I work till 6). That's 35 hours! What happened to the 20-25 I told them I wanted when I signed up? Let me tell you, that stone floor is wearing me out. But, I have to do something for myself, so I'm also working out in the mornings. By this time of night, I'm just worn down. Needless to say, I haven't been a very good friend lately. In fact, I've been a rather crummy friend! Oh, and yes, I have pictures of everything, but i'm too lazy to put them up here right now!

one more sleep

Tommorrow, Rachel and I head off to Arizona for Creative Escape. We're super excited!! Goobers, we are. We're so excited over a scrapping retreat. But, we signed up for it back in like February or some fool thing. To tell the truth, I haven't been all that excited about it, but all of a sudden tonight I am. I'm actually all packed and ready to go. Kind of a novel concept. Ready to go the night before. Don't have to stay up till 4 in the morning doing last minute things. We're staing at the Squaw Peak Pointe Hilton. (isn't that a weird name?....just more money in Paris' pocketbook!) Looks like a pretty nice joint!! And, we get a discount at the spa. Sounds rather inviting. So long as they keep their paws off my feet. Blech!! We're missing out on the Bazzill warehouse sale, but I think we'll be okay even without that!

In completely unrelated, no scrabooking lunatic news, I've finally started working out again. I was doing awesome there for a while. I was really starting to notice a difference. But then the store opened. And I was going to not do a couple of days for fear that I'd tweak my back while we unloaded the semis (yes, WE unloaded them, and yes, that was plural) and hefted boxes all over the place. Then, I was so tired from working so much. Those stone floors really take it out of you! And all of a sudden, 2 months had elapsed. Finally, I said enough is enough! And, I'm back in the saddle again. Four whole days in a row. And I even went to a Weight Watchers meeting. Just in time to go out of town, but still....better than nothing! Yay me!