Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds

This is what I see while sitting at my kitchen table looking out the windows. It's amazing. There are thousands of them.(excuse the bad photos, I was in a hurry before they flew away)
The birds don't freak me out, it's thinking of all the poo they are leaving behind. No bare feet this summer. LOL! It tells me that the worst of the winter is over... I hope.

Some fun Layouts

I forgot to show ya some things.

Jacque has a couple of new sets out this week (20% off too). Here's the layouts I did.Zoie loves to put make up on. She has tons of different color lipsticks but she always puts on the red one.Don't they look cute together. They look so much a like.

I've been tagged

by mimi.

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7 strange facts about me . . . I may have to come back to that.

The other night there was a beautiful full moon. So I got my new lens out (55-200) and headed outside.
The first picture I took was on auto and it didn't come out very good. Just a big glowing white ball.
Then I played with the manual setting. Scary stuff. I'm always shooting in auto, but I'm trying to play with manual. It scares me because what if I don't have the setting right and screw up a photo that I won't be able to get back? So I was willing to play with the moon which didn't run away from me. It was such a good subject, posing so nicely for me. LOL!

It's not as bright as it was in the sky, something I'll have to figure out. But I love how you can see the craters. Here's the settings: F/5.6 ISO 800 Exposure time: 1/3200 sec.

I will have to come back later to my first part of the post.

No School Today

Jeremy spent the night at a friends. And Zoie hasn't been getting up too early this past week. I thought I would be able to sleep in today. Oh NO, no such luck. Todd called me at 7:30 telling me his work van got broke in to over the weekend. His personal toolbox got stolen and some copper. Heck, there are more expensive tools that they could of took, drills, saws all's that the company owns. So he was on his way to Home Depot to get new tools, about $400 worth. He can't work without them. What's weird is none of the other vans got hit. Was it a personal attack? Todd thinks so.
With some other bad news is his boss is getting sued a ton for money owed. I hope this doesn't effect his job position. Not that he wouldn't be able to find another. He is a great plumber. And I'm not just saying that because he is my boyfriend.
Well I'm off to finish up the laundry and making the beds.

Hearing from old friends

Over a week ago I got a call from an old friend that I meet when I was in Okinawa. It wasn't an unexpected call, I did send her a x-mas card. I looked her up and found her address on the internet. I haven't talked to her since after my mom died. It was really nice to hear what she and her family have been up to. We exchanged e-mail addresses. Which probably will be the best way to keep in touch because I'm bad at not picking up the phone.

And Monday out of the blue I got a call from my moms old friend. We talked a long time clearing up a few things. See her and my mom were friends for as long as I can remember and a few years before my mom passed they stopped talking. Why? No one really knew why. Supposedly it was over some house jacks my mom and her husband borrowed. I wrote her a letter after mom passed asking why and telling her I was so pissed off at her for not coming to the funeral. All these years I hated her for not being with my mom when she battled cancer like my mom was there for her when she did the same a few years earlier. And especially for not coming to the funeral to pay respect to a dear friend. Years have gone by, I grew up a bit and I realized that life is too short to hold grudges. I forgave Lou a couple of years ago. But I now know the reason and how the persons involved are (another but name will be with held). I understand her actions, I may not totally agree with them. But after her explanations and what I already knew before, I got the whole picture. We (Lou and I) are better now. We made plans to sit down and talk some more over coffee. Maybe Lou can tell me some stories of my mom back in the day that I never knew about . Here's a picture of them when they bowled together.

(from left to right: Lou, Mom, Linda and Bernice)

The back of the picture was dated 1982. Mom was 32. I believe they bowled into the late 80's early 90's.

Time to finish up some laundry and work on some lo's with some of Jacque's new stuff coming out tomorrow. Here's a sneak peek of 2 of her kits.

Just getting over a cold

I was sick all weekend. Sore, scratchy throat and I was so stuffed up I could of exploded. I'm feeling a lot better today. My energy is back up, but I'm still a little stuffed up.

Zoie has a playgroup today at 10:30 then we are off to do some shopping. I have to take Todd's glasses back again. Last week it was because the lens had to be replaced due to cracking. Two days ago the screw holding the lens in popped out. I put the screw back in and it just turns. I guess they stripped the hole out or put the wrong screw in. And while I'm at the mall I'm gonna head over to the book store to see what kind of books they have on my camera. The manual that comes with the camera doesn't get into great detail. I need something that spells it out for me. Then it's off to the Sprint store. My 2 yrs. is up and I want to see what kind of new phone I can get. Oh yeah I can't forget to drop the water bill off or Todd will have my head.

The designer I'm "working" for moved stores. Now Jacque's over @ the-lilypad.com

Here's a few more layout using some of her cute stuff.

I had to borrow my cousins Amy's little ones photos for this one because I didn't have any train ones. Ain't he a cutie?!

HAPPY NEW YEAR ! ! ! !

Here's a layout I want to share...

The kids getting pulled by the 4 whlr. They had a blast.