It's Monday morning and Arjan is on a plane back to the UK for the week and along with him went my power cable for my beloved laptop. His cable had been bad for quite some time and finally just gave out. He ordered a new one but it hasn't arrived yet so I let him take mine. I sure hope the new one gets here in the next day or two because I'm a bit lost without my own laptop.
I really thought it was going to put a huge cramp in my scrapping for the week, but I've found a workable solution...I hope. We have his mom's old Dell laptop that we are supposed to reformat and refresh for her so I can at least get online and check forums and all that. I just downloaded the trial version of PSE 8.0 and hopefully I can figure that out fairly quickly since I am used to PSCS 4. So, yeah, that should work...I'll find out a bit later after I get the housework all finished.
We had the 2010 Kickoff party at his work Saturday night...1.5 hr drive there...pretty boring party and the food wasn't really what we were hoping for but I did get to meet several of his colleagues and now can put a face to the names of some of the people he is always talking about. We left the party 2 hours early because of a terrible snow storm. It was slow going on the way home but the snow eventually turned to rain and we made it home safe and sound and I was quite happy to get out of the SUV and into my own house.
I don't do well with icy roads since my car accident back in 1993 where my ex-husband was driving too fast and the tire caught a rut in the ice and flipped us off the road. Nothing like flying through the roof of a car and landing on your head a mere 2 inches from the edge of a cliff to make you not want to be in a car during ice and snow storms.
Not a lot planned for the week other than a cleanup of the house and to finish cleaning out the secretary and get the paper work all sorted again for the year. Other than that just a lot of scrapping on the schedule.
18 January 2010
13 January 2010
Scrap Happy!
The materials I ordered for Cathy Z's "Design Your Life" class that I ordered 2 weeks ago finally arrived today...so I've been busy scrapping. Here's what I got accomplished today!
12 January 2010
What a week!
Arjan's first week back to work in the UK didn't go nearly as smoothly as we'd planned. We'd been having some issues with the combi-ketel (heating/hot water system) for several weeks, but we didn't worry too much about it since it was due to be serviced and we still had heat and hot water. Tuesday morning I needed to get something from our spare room, which at the moment is home to a billion boxes of books and office supplies while we work on remodeling/redecorating the office...I almost cried when I opened the door and saw what was waiting for me...the floor was waterlogged! The radiator had sprung a huge leak! Several boxes were wet, but thankfully several others were not. All of our books made it out and most everything else, but I did cry when I got to the worst of the boxes for it was all Arjan's university stuff and it was wet and moldy. He took it a million times better than I did and thinks he can probably just photocopy the majority of it once it is all dried out. We've got the leakage under control for the time being and will be replacing the radiator in the coming weekend.
This week is going much better so sunday evening we took down the Yule tree and yesterday I got all the rest of the decorations and packed them up. Today I'm just doing a bit of housework and then working on some paper scrap pages this afternoon. I did manage to get a digi page done this morning while having my morning coffee and chatting a little bit with Jacinda. :)
I just love this kit by Heather Roselli at Sweet Shoppe Designs Petshop - Crazy Cats and it was perfect for this photo I captured while getting dressed this morning.
This week is going much better so sunday evening we took down the Yule tree and yesterday I got all the rest of the decorations and packed them up. Today I'm just doing a bit of housework and then working on some paper scrap pages this afternoon. I did manage to get a digi page done this morning while having my morning coffee and chatting a little bit with Jacinda. :)
I just love this kit by Heather Roselli at Sweet Shoppe Designs Petshop - Crazy Cats and it was perfect for this photo I captured while getting dressed this morning.
01 January 2010
Happy New Year!
What a whirlwind the last month of 2009 were for me and it appears that things are going to continue on through 2010.
First we had my birthday which was on the 8th. Arjan and I celebrated on the 4th when he came home for the weekend from the UK and he truly spoiled me rotten with many wonderful gifts; Three copper Egyptian statues for the living room, a new bone folder set, a beautiful wall clock, Cluedo and he made me the cutest wolf at build-a-bear complete with his own little wolfie bed. Way more than I ever would have expected.
Then his parents came on the 6th to celebrate with us and they spoiled me as well with some great gifts; Two books from the Cirque du Freak series, the Minutes to Midnight cd from Linkin' Park and both Bridget Jones DVDs. Then Arjan surprised me with an additional gift of an absolutely gorgeous 9ct white gold and diamond collier. Isn't he just the best? But he wasn't done quite yet, on my actually birthday the doorbell rang and there was the delivery man with a stunning couquet of 3 dozen roses with a card telling to go look in Arjan's office for another present. (he was back to work in the UK at point)
Arjan has been home since the the night of the 23rd and we've really enjoyed each other while he's been here. On the 24th we had to go do all of Christmas shopping for his parents and then opened our gifts that evening. I got him an iPod Touch, some iFrogz earbuds for the iPod, a book of letters that Jean-Philipe Augustine de Merode wrote to his lover, (has to do with the castle ruins that Arjan is a volunteer at), Dragon Age PC game and I made him an altered can for his tips and other money from the ruin tours that he saves up for more books on the castle and the surrounding area. He got me the "Pride and Prejudice" audio book, "Unseen Academicals"(the lastest in the Disc World series by Terry Pratchett, Blinky the snowman from Build-a-Bear, the cutest stuffed owl that he made for me at Build-a-bear, a bottle of CK One, a bottle of CK One Summer, a purse/pocket ashtray and the matching earrings to the collier that he gave for my birthday.
We had the most amazing Christmas both here at home and also with his parents in Heerhugowaard. I'm so blessed to have these amazing people in my life and can't wait to be able to truly call them my inlaws in June.
From his parents we each got a Bioscoop bon (movie GC), he got new fountain pen for left-handed people, some ink refills for the pen, a book relating to the castle ruins, and a tie and cufflink set. I also got "The Proposal" DVD, "The Open Door" cd from Evanescence and a jar of my favorite face cream. Then we had a wonderful dinner that his mom made for us, bell pepper soupf starter,deer steaks with homemade cranberry chutney, that his dad made, 2 kinds of potatoes, broccoli, cauliflower, and salad for the main course, and chocolate mousse with icecream and chocolate stars for dessert. YUMMY!
Second Christmas day we stayed home and had stone grill for dinner, which we both love but don't have too often, which was made even better since I got a new Christmas themed gourmet servies this year.
On the 28th we met up with some friends and their children for dinner at Etenstijd, a wonderful buffet restaurant, for 3 hours. We exchanged gifts, both for Christmas but also for Jeroen's, Floris's and my birthdays. We really enjoyed the evening and we plan on doing it again next year. We don't get to see them much now that Arjan is in the UK and I really miss them.
The rest of the week we just basically hung out at home and vegged other than a couple of trips to the grocery store.
Last we invited Anita, Michael and his brother Richard over to ring in the New Year and also to celebrate Anita's and my birthdays, since here's is today. Arjan got to light his fireworks and hopefullu I got a couple of good photos of them. They all left a little after 1am and we finally headed for bed around 3am.
I'm going to be really trying to get more productive with my scrapping and photography this year and I'm already signed up for a couple of courses that started yesterday over at BPS. I'm also going to do the project 365 this year. No trying, I'm doing, period! The new challenges at Sweet Shoppe Designs look amazing and I'm alo going to follow some paper challenges over at De Scrapheap this year.
Well I think this post is long enough for today. I'll be blogging more this year too. We're off to very good start to 2010!
First we had my birthday which was on the 8th. Arjan and I celebrated on the 4th when he came home for the weekend from the UK and he truly spoiled me rotten with many wonderful gifts; Three copper Egyptian statues for the living room, a new bone folder set, a beautiful wall clock, Cluedo and he made me the cutest wolf at build-a-bear complete with his own little wolfie bed. Way more than I ever would have expected.
Then his parents came on the 6th to celebrate with us and they spoiled me as well with some great gifts; Two books from the Cirque du Freak series, the Minutes to Midnight cd from Linkin' Park and both Bridget Jones DVDs. Then Arjan surprised me with an additional gift of an absolutely gorgeous 9ct white gold and diamond collier. Isn't he just the best? But he wasn't done quite yet, on my actually birthday the doorbell rang and there was the delivery man with a stunning couquet of 3 dozen roses with a card telling to go look in Arjan's office for another present. (he was back to work in the UK at point)
Arjan has been home since the the night of the 23rd and we've really enjoyed each other while he's been here. On the 24th we had to go do all of Christmas shopping for his parents and then opened our gifts that evening. I got him an iPod Touch, some iFrogz earbuds for the iPod, a book of letters that Jean-Philipe Augustine de Merode wrote to his lover, (has to do with the castle ruins that Arjan is a volunteer at), Dragon Age PC game and I made him an altered can for his tips and other money from the ruin tours that he saves up for more books on the castle and the surrounding area. He got me the "Pride and Prejudice" audio book, "Unseen Academicals"(the lastest in the Disc World series by Terry Pratchett, Blinky the snowman from Build-a-Bear, the cutest stuffed owl that he made for me at Build-a-bear, a bottle of CK One, a bottle of CK One Summer, a purse/pocket ashtray and the matching earrings to the collier that he gave for my birthday.
We had the most amazing Christmas both here at home and also with his parents in Heerhugowaard. I'm so blessed to have these amazing people in my life and can't wait to be able to truly call them my inlaws in June.
From his parents we each got a Bioscoop bon (movie GC), he got new fountain pen for left-handed people, some ink refills for the pen, a book relating to the castle ruins, and a tie and cufflink set. I also got "The Proposal" DVD, "The Open Door" cd from Evanescence and a jar of my favorite face cream. Then we had a wonderful dinner that his mom made for us, bell pepper soupf starter,deer steaks with homemade cranberry chutney, that his dad made, 2 kinds of potatoes, broccoli, cauliflower, and salad for the main course, and chocolate mousse with icecream and chocolate stars for dessert. YUMMY!
Second Christmas day we stayed home and had stone grill for dinner, which we both love but don't have too often, which was made even better since I got a new Christmas themed gourmet servies this year.
On the 28th we met up with some friends and their children for dinner at Etenstijd, a wonderful buffet restaurant, for 3 hours. We exchanged gifts, both for Christmas but also for Jeroen's, Floris's and my birthdays. We really enjoyed the evening and we plan on doing it again next year. We don't get to see them much now that Arjan is in the UK and I really miss them.
The rest of the week we just basically hung out at home and vegged other than a couple of trips to the grocery store.
Last we invited Anita, Michael and his brother Richard over to ring in the New Year and also to celebrate Anita's and my birthdays, since here's is today. Arjan got to light his fireworks and hopefullu I got a couple of good photos of them. They all left a little after 1am and we finally headed for bed around 3am.
I'm going to be really trying to get more productive with my scrapping and photography this year and I'm already signed up for a couple of courses that started yesterday over at BPS. I'm also going to do the project 365 this year. No trying, I'm doing, period! The new challenges at Sweet Shoppe Designs look amazing and I'm alo going to follow some paper challenges over at De Scrapheap this year.
Well I think this post is long enough for today. I'll be blogging more this year too. We're off to very good start to 2010!
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