Day 304 (Feb 7th)--A whole lotta new.

Today I went to a scrapbooking crop with consultants and participants I had never met before (I found a new CM consultant online.) There were a lot of other new things about this day. I also wanted to share some of my layouts with you also.

-I never scrapbooked at a Baptist Church before
-I never went to a CM (Creative Memories) crop where there was 5 consultants with their participants there.
-This was the first time I went to a crop where I got a chair massage.
-This was the 1st crop I went to where a lot of the participants had a much non-Creative Memories stuff as me. Though I did get a CM album and pages.

-Jackie

Day 303 (Feb 6th)--Live baby live!

Today some friends and I attended a live recording session of a Worship CD our church is putting out. They are also making a DVD so it is possible we may show up on both. The music was great, it was standing room early (and that campus of the church is HUGE) and at the end we had 4 worship bands and one choir performing. It was so much fun!

Extra Credit: I actually did research on a story line I missed out on because I had small group on Monday nights. I always wanted to know what happened to the Nanny on One Tree Hill and now I do!

-Jackie

Day 302 (February 5th)--Purge Purge Purge

In Scrapbooking when you throw out your unused items it is called purging. I have cleaned out my scrapbooking bag but never as deep as I should have. Tonight I gave my scrapbooking stuff a top to bottom sort and purge. One bag for stuff I did not want (or hung on to since 2002 thinking i would use it but never will), one bag or stuff to give away to a friend and the rest was re-organized and put back into the bag. It is funny the items that ended up in that bad. My nametag from a 2003 Scrapbooking retreat in Wisconsin? Sermon notes? Stickers that were so old they lost their stickiness factor? LOL! I am going to an 8 hour crop on Saturday so I need to be prepared. I am trying to revive this old hobby of mine!

-Jackie

Day 301 (Feb 4th)--Salad in the morning

My stomach was still a bit on the sensitive side today so I had pudding for supper, chocolate Jello Pudding. YUM!

-Jackie

Day 300 (Feb 3rd)--Mexicana

Today we went to to lunch to say goodbye to one of my favorite co-workers who is moving on up in the world and leaving us behind. =( We had lunch for her at Picosa's www.picosarestaurant.com/home.asp which had a great lunch buffet. Regretfully their food is pretty spicy and my stomach did not like that. I had the rumblies in my tummy all night!

-Jackie

Day 299--Feb 2nd--I found a new addiction

Today I was trying to find a place online where one can translate phrases into another language. I found a wonderful creation called Google Translator. I was in a rough spot today but did not want to sound too negative on my facebook status. So I had google Translator translate the phrase to a' la francias and I posted it in French. I think only one of my Facebook friends is fleunt in French so it was perfect. I think from now on I will do that on Facebook when I am in a bad spot but do not want to sound too negative. LOL!

-Jackie

Day 298 (Feb 1st)--Giving back

We have (my husband and I) been very blessed in the past by people who helped us out financially and through care packages when we have been in a tough spot. Today we were able to give back by purchasing pre-assembled bags of Groceries from the Grocery store. We purchased the bags then donated them to the local Food Shelf.



-Jackie