Why do some people get on your nerves

Why is it that some people get on your nerves more than others? I know, I said this blog would be my thoughts on teaching, but I've got to get something off my chest first!

I consider myself a good friend, probably not a great friend, cause I'm pretty self absorbed. Now, if my best friend needed me to keep her kids for a weekend or even a whole week, I'd do it. I'd probably be dead by the end of the week, but I'd do it and I'd come get her from any situtation I needed, but no, I don't talk to her on a schedule. We talk when we talk. And when we talk... wow, we talk. But, now that Emilee has little girl friends, I feel like I should be friends with their moms, but honestly, most of them I'm not. I tend to stick within my group and don't sway too much. I was the first of my "click" to have a kid so mine is the oldest, which means I'm meeting new moms. One of Emilee's best friends has an older mom and most of the time, I'm okay spending a little time with her, but our values, opinons, life is SOOOO different and honestly, I can only take her in short, short amounts. Do you know someone like that? Her kid is a little strange or at least different than mine. But the past two times I've come in contact with this mom, I've had to get away from her. She gets on my nerves. She seems to have a negative attitude about most things if they aren't done exactly like she wants them to be done. And I'm so not like that. You know, each to their own. Anyway, I know I'll deal with her, cause Cheerleading season is upon us and I'm sure we'll be spending a lot of time together ..... joy for me!

Now, on to teaching. And I'm talking teaching at scrapbook conventions. Let me tell you, I'm scared to death to talk in front of people. I HATE it! I don't even like talking in a 8 person meeting. I feel like nothing I say is important enough for someone else to hear. Now, I had a former boss (loved him!) that told me that for me to feel that way, I had some deep socialigical problem. But basically, I think its just because I grew up knowing that children are to be seen and not heard! But, I taught my first convention in March at at CK convention! Talk about sweating it, boy, I was almost sick before my first class. But after getting started, getting the project started and feeling like I was in control, I LOVED IT! So, I agreed to teach at a recent covention for my design team and again, it was great. Now, I do have this thing about teaching in front of people I know, I don't like to do it. But this convention, I had a person in each class that I knew! But, I still did okay! I really hope to get the opportunity to teach more, I think everytime you do it, it gets easier to do!

More later............

Blogs ..........

I've spent some time this morning finding scrapbooking personalities blogs. Just catching a glimpse into someone elses life is pretty neat. I mean, I don't get real personal in here, but I've only been doing this a couple of months. Maybe I'll open up more the more I write. You know, someone once told me to write my feelings because I could express them better that way.

Scrapbooking ....... I have a lot of friends who don't get scrapbooking. I have a lot of friends who love looking at my stuff and think its cool, but end the conversation with, I don't have time. And I have a few friends who actually do it. And I have one or two friends thinking about it. My biggest supporter is my mom. She thinks I'm way better than I actually am. She thinks I can do way more than I can and she thinks I should be a professional. I wish I had the confidence in me that she does. I love being around my "amateur" scrapbooking friends. They think I hung the moon. It's such a wonderful feeling to see them oohh & ahhh over my layouts - I know they aren't that great, but they thinking they are. And it does the heart good to hear good things about your layouts. I've stopped trying to get published. It'll happen when it happens. Right now, I'm happy concentrating on my design team responsibilities with Reminders of Faith. We have a calendar coming out 2007. Its the kind with the layouts on one page and the calendar on the other, like the CK calendars. I'll leave spots for the pictures and the consumer can stick their own pictures in the spots. The problem with this assignment is the pages can't be "trendy" and I'm doing them with the art director for ROF, who totally intimidates me. She is SOOO creative! Her stuff is so cute! Anyways, the trendy part is hard. I'm a total distresser and I think distressing is a fad, as is inking, ribbon, rub-ons and sewing. Beth, the art director, did say, "you know, people buying these calendars aren't scrapbookers, so they probably won't realize it", which is true, but the task is still daunting knowing I can't be "trendy".

Now, I know you're thinking, you're aren't good, but you're on a design team? Well, I fell into that. I met Sandra Joseph and the rest is history. We hooked up on email, I sent her copies of my layout and she says hey, be on our design team. At the time, we weren't an offical team, but now, we have a design team leader, Gina, and we have assignments - which are different than the calendar. I hope I can keep up with everything!!!!!


Next time: my thoughts on teaching......

Days of Our Lives

I'm a huge DOOL fan. I've watched the show since I was about 10 yrs old staying with my grandmother during the summer. Its amazing how you can watch the show once a week and stay up on the happening!

Now, the most stupid storyline ever was the posessed Marlena line. Who believed that one? Then the next one is Marlena pregnant at what age? 55? I know, I know, it happens, but you'd think this women couldn't ......... anyone ever hear of menopause? Then theres the whole Roman, John (who is the worst actor ever!) Kate, Marlena triangle ....... whatever!

Now, Belle and Shawn hold a soft spot in my heart. I'd really like them to get together and stay together, happily. But I know, its a soap opera!

And there's Cloe and Brady. I really like Cloe, she's a beautiful girl. Brady, he's okay. But their story line is getting old too!

Oh yea, how can we forget Sami, she's such a good actress and her storyline is sometimes believable, but most of the time not.

Since I work full-time and we don't have Tivo, I read spoilers about DOOL at http://www.pcpages.com/spoiler/. Its cool to read the next days shows! Take a look, you'll find that reading them is much better than watching (no commericals!)

Wednesday is one of my favorite days

On Wednesday's DH plays softball, so DD and I get to go home and do exactly what we want for a couple hours. I don't have to cook or talk or think about anything but what I want. We usually eat junk, watch cartoons and I sometimes scrapbook. Don't get me wrong, I love my DD dearly, but just one night a week, its nice to be just the girls!!!

Tonight I've got to get some preplanning done for my monthly crop, Friday night. I'm currently working on our 03 Cruise album. I'm taking my time and working on other project while doing this album. I'm using the new Scenic Route Festival Collection and some of the Rusty Pickle papers in the album. Its turning out very nicely! The LSS where I crop started their crops by letting people use their stuff, but they soon found out that things get messed up or "lost". Most of it was the owners personal stuff, so now they keep their stuff put up. But I called and asked the one of the owners if I could use her QK fonts to make some titles. She said yes of course, especially since I asked so nicely. :)

Monday Morning ...........

Today is Monday May 2 ..... this is important because in just 16 days at this time, I'll be in the air on my way to Disney World with my daughter, husband, Mom and Dad. I can't wait. Although I can't decide what I'm more excited about, Disney or 13 straight days of no working!!! We're only in Disney for 7 days, but I'm taking a couple of days off after we get back to get things back in order and then Memorial Day is Monday May 30 and its a holiday for us. I can't wait!!! I am pretty pumped about Disney. DD will turn 8 while we are there. AND she doesn't have a clue that we are going to Disney. She'll miss the last 4 1/2 days of school and celebrating her birthday with her friends, but in the long run, she'll be okay with all that ......... who wouldn't, she'll be in DISNEY with Cinderella on her b-day!!!!

Here it is ...... I'm usually the last

For some reason, I'm usually the last to do anything. I hate to jump on a bandwagon, but I've been reading other blogs and I can't help but think, hey this is pretty cool! I have a pretty boring life, so they'll be little to read.

I've been in a scrapbooking block the last couple of days. I've been reading "The Last Juror" by John Grisham, so I've been preoccupied. I finished the book tonight and almost have a layout down, well at least I've got it layed out, but not glued down. It's a layout for Reminders of Faith. It's turning okay. The picture is of Emilee (of course) and its a really, really good picture of her, so it makes the layout stunning!

Gotta go watch Survior!