Labor Day ~ Looking for a new dish wand brush thingie!

 

It's Labor Day! And I'm off work, of course...praying and hoping that all goes well with our contract tomorrow and everything. I'm not worried about it, but I just want it to be over...either way. Let's just get on with it and move on...I hate this unknown and waiting bullshit. lol enough already!!

I'm finally trying to get the dishes done. Every time I've went to do them, I've done a load and that's all...so then they continue to pile up. Well I have one load in and when it's done, I'm going in for the next load. I would like to finish them if possible! They need to be done.

I'm having a problem with my dish wands though. Right now I have two that are like the one below on the left. One is a Scotch Brite one and the other is from Target I believe and may be an o-cel-o one or else it's Target's brand. They both leak soap. Now that I'm looking...they're both made by 3M.

 

I also have a different scrubbie wand like the one on the right that does not have a soap dispenser on it. I got it at Bed Bath and Beyond and I love it!! It's made by Casabella. They had one that had a replacable brush on it, but I don't think it had a soap wand.

I'm looking for a good soap dispensing wand that doesn't leak. I may try the oXo ones, they have a few different ones. They even have one that's metal! LOL

Does anyone have any suggestions?? I hate that these leak!!

Thrilling conversation, isn't it... Ok on to different and better things...how about scrappy type things??

I read on Vicki's blog that if you register for Scrap N' Art's eZine you will get three free full kits. She showed pictures of two of them and the other was a surprise. I registered and I'll be honest...it was originally for the freebies, but it's actually a really good magazine!! I loved reading it and seeing all of the digi layouts and hybrid projects. Plus, it has some how-to's in there too. I also downloaded the last issue (and got those freebies!) and that one was also awesome. They do a great job! If you haven't checked it out, make sure you do. Oh!, and there's also coupons to their store in there. LOTS of them! Like every artist has one. Check it out, you won't be sorry!

I've been saving this and adding to it inbetween doing the dishes. They're almost done. 2nd load is in...see, I told you they were ALL dirty!! lol...we are pigs, I know. I despise doing the dishes! But one more load and they will be finshed and the kitchen will be clean!! Woo Hoo!

The hubbs is on his way home...he worked a full day today, so he'll be really tired. He's got a full schedule this week...which is good moneywise, but not really good for his health. We're going to BBQ these yummy apple maple chicken sausages and have chips with them. I want to eat outside, but he probably won't go for it...lol not after working in a hot store all day!

I will try to make a scrappy page later on, since my shows are on tonight and I'll be in here most of the night.

Sunday's Insecurities and Dreamweaver Woes

I really try to be who I am and be proud of that and everything - not worry about what people think about me because they don't matter. I try to be that way - always.

Sometimes it's hard. Sometimes I feel like a little girl who's so unsure of anything in this world and generally it's due to dumb dumb things.

Like today, my husband went for a walk in the early afternoon. He went alone and didn't ask me to come or didn't take a dog with him. He said he was going to go walk around the park we used to live by a couple times and then come home. Doesn't seem like a big deal, right?

Well my husband and I have been together for a LONG time and a lot has happened. There have been betrayals and lies told and all has been forgiven...but never forgotten. So when these oddities come up out of no where...like a walk out of the blue...I start to get all paranoid like he's lying to me and doing something behind my back or he's leaving to go talk to someone.

Do I really think these things are going on? Of course not. But I cannot keep these feelings from cropping up when incidents like this happen! I wish I could.

And yeah, I know that it's odd behavior and I should trust my gut and all of that...but I also know that if something is going on, I WILL find out sooner or later. Plus, i'm the type of gal who has always said..."if you don't want to be with me then there's the door." I'd rather be alone than with someone who doesn't want to also be with me.

So, I asked what was up when he got home and he said nothing. I hope he's telling the truth. I trust him about 99%...but there's still the lies from years ago that linger in my head.

Ahh well, all will reveal itself if there is something going on. It always does!

On to Dreamweaver. I love computers and everything, but when it comes to html, unfortunately, I am a hack and don't know enough html to not use a WYSIWYG website editor.

So I have used Microsoft Frontpage for years! Everything worked well with a few little snags here and there, but I've always been able to get around them.

For some reason Frontpage stopped working for the APSFA webmaster stuff that I do. I don't understand why either. I think it may have something to do with my new firewall but even when I disabled it, FP still would not work.

So I've been trying other WYSIWYG programs. I tried an Adobe program called "Contribute" which worked for a couple pages, but I couldn't get to the html to edit it. I didn't really play with that program for too long to look for it either. I kind of knew once I used it a couple times that it wasn't really what I was looking for.

Dreamweaver is closer to what I need. I got it to upload, but now I'm having a problem with one of my pages. I cannot see anything in the WYSIWYG part, but the html is all there. I need to figure out what is making me not see it. I've been playing with it for hours, with no avail.

That's been my Sunday so far...oh that and the dishes. YUCK...I seriously hate doing dishes so they always wait until we have so many and they are SO nasty...it's dumb, but I just hate doing them.

No layouts today unless I need a break from Dreamweaver - which I may later on...I'm stumped.

Fabu Friday!

Today is my luxurious day off and so far it's about 3:00 and I have done nothing. Heh, it's all good though. I actually felt rested when I woke up this morning at like 6:30 to a dog nose on my arm. I ended being up for an hour just about wide awake sitting there thinking how I could go to work right then and probably have been fine all day.

I think i know what's been wrong with me all week. I was completely out of one of my medications for a week due to the whole check mixup...and I was able to get it filled and get back on it. I know it will take a few days to get into my system, but I think I felt better just having it in the house again and being able to take it.

So, a good night's sleep and a whole day to do what I need to do. Sounds like a winner to me.

I wanted to write quick and post the page I just finished before I go get started on the dishes...ugh...the most dreaded thing on earth!

I found this great word art today during my freebie search and it fit PERFECTLY with the picture of my nephew and my dad that I used in the layout the other day, so I used it again and I even found another one and was able to use two smaller pictures.

Credits:
Template - Curth's Digital Designs
Papers: Digitreats Add On Jump Freebies by Kimmy's Keepsakes
Arrow by Melanie
WordArt by Silvia
Post It Note by Lighthouse Scrapping
Star from "Cherry Cheesecake" by Vicki

Lazy Sunday

This weekend I was supposed to work on website things for the APSFA. I am so behind in everything, but for whatever reason Frontpage wasn't cooperating and I cannot connect to upload. I don't understand. I tried to turn the firewall off and everything. I messed with it for a few hours yesterday and then again for a couple hours today. I'm just get frustrating and I keep getting that dreaded "default beep"...a noise I hate. So I guess I'll look at it again tomorrow.

I was also supposed to do the dishes this weekend. I HATE doing the dishes. I will let them completely stack up until we don't have any dishes clean before I do them. I know that's nasty, and we even have a dishwasher, but I despise doing dishes. I'll have to bite the bullet and do them one day this week. Maybe tomorrow.

What I did do today was organize my scrapbook stuff on my external hard drive and downloaded some more freebies. The organizing took a long time, but it's worth it because everything is nice and neat now. I even downloaded a new little program to extract zip and rar files. It's much better than Winzip. It's called "ExtractNow" and it works really quickly and can do multiple files at once!!! Which is something that really annoyed my about Winzip. So now I can just download and extract scrappy things much much quicker. lol Lord, help me!

I made this page today:

I need to find the link where I got the template, but all of the papers are from Michi and they are a freebie mega kit called "Endless". The ribbon on the side is also from there and the crown is from somewhere else that I'm not sure of.

Like I've said before I was just downloading and never saving where things came from, so most of my kits and everything, I have NO clue where they came from. Most are freebies. I didn't change the filenames so some I can figure out. If I'm posting pages here I'll try to figure it out so I can give credit where I can. Just assume I made NONE of the papers or embellishments because I have no clue how to even color something!!! LOL I'm learning though!

The picture is of Jellybean, aka Beans or "Missy Beans" as she's more recently been called. I guess I should have put her name on there somewhere. She's our only girl kitty and she's a rescue. We adopted her from a shelter that we volunteered at for a while. Actually all but one of our cats came from that shelter. Good thing we're not still there or we'd have many more cats!! Beans is 2 yrs old I think now and she's just a little bitty thing. She's been more social lately and comes out more...she used to just hide mostly.

It's not a great thing to have so many cats in the same age range. Especially boys!!! I totally prefer boy cats to girl cats for many reasons, but they are so bad...it's like a house full of toddlers here. They're just into EVERYTHING and I swear, they get together at night and conspire against us!! lol

Tomorrow I'm going to make a scrapbook page using a photo of my two nephews together. It's a silly and cute picture of them sticking their tongues out. I don't know if I am going to put it up or not. I'm not sure if I should put their pictures out there for all to see. Maybe it doesn't matter, so many people do it. I'll have to think about it. I'll probably put it on here. I'm really going to try to make a page a day...or a couple a week anyways.

Well I need to put the food I made for my breakfast tomorrow away in the fridge and my bed is calling me. I hate having no food and no money. Hopefully that stimulus check comes tomorrow!!!