June 7, 1997 – June 9, 2007

Jun 10, 2007 by

So yeah. It’s been a long time since I’ve made an update in here!

I don’t know why I haven’t done it, but the week just got away from me. Work hasn’t even been that crazy or anything.

Some highlights of the past week include:

  • Cropping with Katie on Thursday night.
  • Going to the Rockies on Thursday.
  • Making Margaritas with Brian and watching “What the Bleep, Down the Rabbit Hole”.
  • And of course, going to my 10 year high school reunion this weekend.

Let’s talk about the reunion.

All and all it was good. I was actually pretty excited to go and not really all that nervous. It turned out to be a pretty fun night. There weren’t too many people there, which I think made it a bit better. The food was crappy, but the company was good. Some people NEVER change and it’s funny how some people just molded themselves right back into the roles they had in high school.

I didn’t have the courage to talk to all the people that I wanted to, but I talked to the important people to me.

Before going to the reunion we went to Marci’s house and went over our year book to refresh our memories. Then we went over to the event. Right away we saw Elizabeth, who we’re not on good terms with. That was immediately awkward. Besides that I caught up with old childhood friends and the atmosphere sort of reminded me of how it was the night we graduated from high school. Cliques sort of didn’t matter because we had all be friends since childhood.

I had some sort of sad conversations with people. One that is now sticking with me was with this guy who is now a teacher at the high school. Something about talking to him seemed sad. He seemed sad. Like maybe he feels left behind and really close to it since he works there. I feel that way when my college friends come to campus, so I was able to relate.

Anyway, I found it sort of funny that one person I felt the most comfortable talking to was this guy Brooks. He lives and works in Boulder and went to CU. Of all the people I graduated with, he’s been the one that I’ve bumped into the most without trying. His wife is also an alumni and she works in Boulder too. We easily had the most to talk about in terms of real life.


After the reunion we didn’t go to the after party. Instead we went back to Marci’s house to dish about it.

Today there was another reunion event that we didn’t go to. I sort of wish we had. I feel so disconnected to Pueblo and that makes me a bit sad. I miss having my family so close. They all hang out with each other all the time and I am just this visitor who sometimes comes by. I’ll never know what that’s like.

However, I can honestly say there was a bit of relief when we got home today. Like I was back in my real life. It’s amazing how I put my real life out of my mind when I am down there and I feel different.

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What's For Dinner?

Jun 4, 2007 by

Ahhh….back at work and bored. I have been in a real funk lately with work. I just don’t want to do anything. The day was going by really fast until 2 p.m. Now I feel like it is crawling.

Mike is out today and no one else is around so maybe that is why. Brian comes home tonight so that is a bit exciting! I’m trying to think of what to make for dinner…hmm…maybe I’ll cruise over to the WW site.

…After browsing for recipes….

I never find anything on the WW site. But I did find an awesome site, which I think I have been to before called “My Recipes”. I got there through Cooking Light. You can do amazing searches and browsing.

Sometimes I go through these phases where I want to cook elaborate meals. Other times I just want to make quick and easy things. I’m in a quick and easy phase right now. Super Target’s meat selection is great and their ready to cook stuff is pretty sweet. I got some chicken fajitas that were so delicious and some kabobs too.

Still don’t know what I want for dinner.

Anyway, the blog is not the place for this.

So It’s now 4:04 and I am thinking that I’m going to leave in ten minutes.

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42 pages later…

Jun 3, 2007 by

As reported in my last entry, I embarked on a cropping weekend at home. It’s been going pretty good. I did venture out yesterday to go eat lunch, go to starbucks, and to BlockBuster to get some movies, since my latest Netflix movies haven’t arrived.

While cropping on Saturday I watched “The Holiday” and “Deja Vu.” Both were great. Tonight I’m going to watch “The Lake House.”

I was able to complete another album, making 10 regular albums total over the past five years. I feel kind of lame putting thousands of dollars into this hobby over the past five years and I only have 10 albums. Hmmm. I do have some smaller specialty albums as well, but it doesn’t feel like much.

Today I’ve cleaned the house and continued cropping. I moved the operation back into the office.

I have taped down 42 pages, which I feel pretty good about. Here’s a view of what I did…

Anyway, I think I leave the rest of the pages in my Power Layout box and add to it tonight with pictures from 2007. Thankfully not much has happened this year!

Brian returns tomorrow and I am excited to see him!

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Scrappin'

Jun 1, 2007 by

Scrapbooking is not only a heavy hobby. It’s not only an expensive hobby. It is also a very messy hobby.

It gets even messier when the hubby goes out of town and leaves me here for the weekend when I have the urge to Crop.

I moved my cropping table out of the office and into the living room and here is what happened:


Maybe it’s because I have more space to put stuff or because I’m feeling especially free to do what I want. But this is one big mess.

The cats are freaking out and running around. This is like when we are putting up our Christmas tree. They LOVE disorder.

Anyway, I plan on leaving this up all weekend. I’ll probably straighten it up though. I have run out of power layout guides (and I have 50 or so), so I will be taping down tomorrow.

At work today I picked out all of the wedding photos I want to have printed. It took a few hours and I chose 542 pictures. That’s out of 1,450. I feel happy that it is way less than half. I have 181 honeymoon photos. That makes 723 photos. I’m so glad I pre-paid at CM. 750 pictures for $90, making the prints $.12 each.

So I’ll keep my blog updated on how the weekend proceeds, with maybe some pictures of some pages I make.

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