in all fairness.....here's the scrapbook guru herself. 

my famous friend Danea is so talented, here is more of her amazing work. I hate having my picture taken, but these I really like. Thank you Danea! 

God's Superdogs

we went to the PNE yesterday. ]
Andrew's favourite thing was all the rides he is now big enough to go on.

My favourite event was the SUPERDOGS. It's really the main reason I go. I love the superdogs because it's about mutts. Really we can all relate to the mutt. I'm not a purebred kind of girl. I love that the dogs would rather run on top of the tunnels as opposed to through them or that they escape from backstage and run amuck. I can relate to a mutt.

The SUPERDOGS are mainly rescued dogs, given a second chance. It's really all about redemption, being abandoned, rescued and loved. It's about the underdog (haha...) the forgotten and the imperfect, being loved and accepted for who they are. Given a second chance.

I can relate to a mutt.

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this one's for kelly..... 

you're only as old as you feel....

went bowling last night.
my legs are so sore!!!!
when did my body start rebelling like this???

Slugs have a very small world view.

While Andrew and I were camping this week, Andrew discovered a new pet he aptly named Bannana Peel. He was fasinated by the slug and kept putting small rocks and sticks in it's path to see how it would meet each challenge.
From where I stood it seemed obvious that the slug could have saved itself so much trouble if it just moved slightly to the left or right and go around the obstacles. But from the slugs point of view all he could see was the mountain straight ahead, so up and over he'd go.

I can't help but wonder if God stands over us shaking his head, wondering why we don't move ever so slightly to avoid the mountain of trouble ahead of us.

Got increasingly frustrated at work today. My boss left me with the job of pulling all the picture frames and the brackets that hold them off the wall and then putting them all back up again according to the new planogram (big fancy LD word...) .
I pulled them off, and he was going to put them up...... never happened. This left me to work on it today. It's been a 4 day job and it shouldn't have been. Brackets were breaking (causing frames to fall and break), more than half the new frames don't have assigned homes and the guys who sit at their computers and map these things out, don't actually live in reality and don't realize that just b/c it works on paper doesn't mean it will work in real life......it went downhill from there.
I explained to one cutomer this morning that I had a big project ahead of me and pointed to the piles..no, mountains...of frames stacked on the floor. He wished me good luck. Hours later when he returned he felt the need to comment on how it looked like I hadn't made any progress
(is it wrong to swear at customers?)
I was going to leave the finishing touches for the boss man to do in the morning.....then he called in sick. So that means I'm coming back in the morning to do it. I was soooo frustrated. I whined and complained all day. Then I had a rolo Mcflurry, gained a little perspective and headed back my Mt. Everest. I declared to the AVS guys that I was changing my attitude, no longer would I complain, instead I would view it as a challenge, the goal was simple...the frame wall would be done by 9am. (Hmmm... I might have to get there at 6am tommorrow.)
So I left with a new attitude, until at the end of the night when David called the all clear and said we were free to go home and then he added (jokingly) "Except Carolyn, who will be spending the night working on her planogram."
(Is it wrong to swear at coworkers?)