Yes... I am still alive and out there....

Wow. It sure has been along time since i last posted. I was quite busy with a whole bunch of things all happening at the same time. Now things have slowed down again, so i can post again haha.

wow. I was insano busy for a little bit there. I had a 3 week solid subbing gig for the same teacher, my co-op, at Douglas Park School. I love it there. I had previously done a 2 week surgery leave for one teacher, now i did a 3 week surgery leave for a different teacher. I was happy to be working, but even more happy to be back at douglas park school. There is one place i feel like i really belong. I'm not 'just a sub' there. All the teachers know me, many of the younger students know me.... it's just so nice. I have a general idea about the expectations there, i know where everything is, i know who to talk to about certain things, i know who everyone is... I feel like part of the staff there. I haven't had taht feeling since i interned. It's a fabulous feeling.

However, doing a subbing block is much busier than doing a simple day of subbing. For the block, i did paperwork, documentation, short term planning, networking, correcting, organizing... i did about 3 quarters of everything a regular teacher would do. And not only that, but i've also started at the garden center now. Because someone broke their foot, i started off working EVERY SINGLE DAY. Eight hour days on weekends, and i went straight to work from the school. It was insane. I swear, i don't know how i got through. There was no time to cook. No time to see friends. No time to do anything but work :(

And to add to that, i had family in town. Yes.... family in town for dale! My sister came into town to stay with me. My mom came into town and stayed with me. And my grandparents came into town and my grandmother stayed with me over the weekend. So, between the hospital to visit my grandfather (hip operation), work at the school, work at the garden center and spending time with my mom and sister, i had no time for anything, let alone blogging.





So, now that you know why i dissapeared for so long hahaha.....

I have a dilema. I can't figure out how to place my furniture. My mom emptied the storage bin. I now have the piano and the loveseat in my living room. Where the heck am i going to put everything? Everything i do makes the room look strange and over busy one one side.

On the next post i will post pics of my living room with all furniture pieces. What can i do with them? Feel free to tell me any possible ideas. At the moment, it's horrible. Mom, any thoughts would be well appreciated. You did an excellent job the first time.

awwww.... little lisa :) 

So, this is my first photoshop creation that i actually finished. The other one wasn't finished. My official first digiscrapbooking page with adobe. I love this program!!

I am proud of this because i created almost everything myself. I do love downloading free scrapbooking elements, especially papers, but i created this paper myself. The butterfly started out as a simple shape that came free with photoshop, and i layered it and sprayed the edges a little to give it the black and the wing detail. The only thing i didn't create was the silver frame for the words 'sunny mexico'. It used to say something else but i erased the text and added my own. I also played with colour a little. You may notice that every colour on the page is also a focal colour in the photo :).

Adobe Photoshop

my first pic :) 

So, i am sitting at home, enjoying my day off playing on my computer. I have finally figured out how to register the copy of Adobe Photoshop Andre gave me, and i have also figured out how to 'place' pictures (bring other picture files into the pic). It's great. The above pic is my first one i've made. I played with smudging, layers, filters and circle selects.

Unfortunately, i also made my first major mistake saving. When i went back to play more with the background, i realized i had saved it as a jpg but not as a adobe file. So i lost all my layers and can't change things around easily.

So, it wasn't completely finished but i am showing off my first picture with adobe. Eventually i hope to be good enough with the program to use it for my digital scrapbooking. I think it will work great. This will be so awesome.... thanks again andre.

My CD Picture Layout

I got the link from andre's blog. I just got home from Calgary and i am relaxing on my computer... why not? Here is a bunch of pics of cd covers from cd's that i really truely enjoy. These are some of my absolute favorites. If you also own some of these cd's, speak up lol. I expect some... such as crystal owning great big sea, or fletcher owning michael buble, or andre owning U2, but if you think it might be a bit of a suprise speak up haha.

Create your own Music List @ HotFreeLayouts!

Anchovies... not as bad as they are made out to be.... or are they :(

So, for my first time today, i tried.... ANCHOVIES. I found this recipe for anchovy sandwiches. It was part of the Soprano cookbook... and i was intrigued. I knew from tiny bites of fletcher's pizza once that they were extremely salty, but the fresh tomatoes and the melted mozza cheese combatted the saltyness nicely. Anchovies are simply too salty for pizza.... althlough it also has the tomatoes and the cheese... i don't know why. There was just something wrong about it. A sandwich, however, was fantastic. Yes.. I have decided i rather like anchovies, in the right situation.

Haha. Just thought you all should know. I'm doing my part to dispell the myth of gross anchovies, and the myth that anchovies belong on pizza haha.

Later addition: I take back everything i just said. Yes, the anchovies taste pretty good when you eat them but they make you feel nasty sick about an hour later. Ugh....

Calgary!

So, it looks like we are on a roll here commenting has increased :). Then again, it's not hard to increase from a run of 0's. haha. Still.... lets see if we can keep this up people. I don't care if you just type one single letter... just put something. Especially all of you who are reading this and not ever commenting. I've been talking to some people and i was like 'what? you read the blog? i had no idea'. There are some people that took the link from my msn name, not from me telling them. I am happy you are checking this out, it would just be nice to see who all is reading this. I am curious.

So, a friend of mine jessica is pregnant. She is engaged, and yes they wanted this kid. I don't think it was an accident. Congradulations to Jessica.

Speaking of babies, my aunt debby had a baby boy. His name is Trey. He looks sooo cute in pics i have been sent. It is now official, at easter time ray and i will go to Calgary. I will meet the baby trey, meet kim's german boyfriend Thomas, see kim again, see my aunt and uncle again and go to ikea... all good good things in my book. Maybe i should go order the new ikea catalogue? That would be nice to have. It will also be nice to spend easter with family.

Marie, we need to set up a time to meet up in swift current or whatever. When are you traveling again? e-mail me.

Well, i should get going. It's a beautiful day today. Spring is definately on it's way. High of plus 7 today :). What a wonderful thing. I can't wait for all this stupid snow to melt. I love snow... in december and january. By now, i am sick of all the dirty dirty snow. I long to see the green of plants, and to start up again at the greenhouse... where i got a raise :). I do every year, but it always seems like a nice suprise. I wonder if my new greenhouse wage will cary over to the florist shop? I doubt it, but i can dream haha.

Time for a walk.

Firefly :)

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