right now.

* i have a major crick in my neck from apparently sleeping at a really weird angle all night or something. i'm not really into it.

* i have been having really long, vivid and involved dreams lately. i'm pretty sure that if i wrote them down when i woke up screenplays and books could be written and money could be made.

* i just filled my very first baseball card page protector with daily cards. 18 of them. i'm pretty psyched that i'm sticking with this.

* i am really digging evan's song for week seven of his (song a week for a year) solo project called into it over it. go have a listen. it's called, "everybody's crazy."

* tv - gg what? i'm not such a huge fan of the writers making me feel bad for chuck bass. ugh! grey's might be making a comeback, it actually had me smirking a few times. and no pushing diaisies last week? heartbreaking!

* i just started watching the final season of the o.c. on dvd. i watched the first disc last night and i forgot how much i loved this show! and 3 out of the 4 episodes made me cry. wth?

* i was going to have a saturday off and do something fun, but my grammee called out of nowhere and sprang upon me the fact that she had a knee replacement and has been home alone. what? so now i'm going down there saturday to sunday. normally not an issue, my grammee and i used to be really close until my dad messed it up and last time i went down there the whole time she just kept asking me if i "had a better brain in my head now" mostly in reference to the fact that she never like me living in philadelphia. anyway i can only imagine what this visit is going to be like and i am pretty close to livid with my father who, even though we haven't talked in years, really could have sent me an e-mail to tell me about grammee's surgery so that i could have gone down there to help out from the beginning. ugh! (sorry rant)

* thank goodness for my usual day off monday. i will have the day to myself to get caught up on some things and then nicole is coming over to scrap the nigth away, yay!

* glenn is back from iraq, yay! one less thing for me to worry about. and my friend nicole who i love to a million billion pieces is back from her travels, most recently greece and england, and we get to have her here in the states for 3 months! yay!

* i'm going to my favorite scrapbook store tonight to pick up the vinyl thickers (orange, black and red) that came in. love the standing request they have in the book for me, "2 of each color, material and font of thickers that ever come in put on hold for morgan" yeah it's an addiction.

* we got the love, elsie "noel" line in for the store and i'm brainstorming my holiday cards. yay!

sourround me with craftiness!

* the wedding was pretty hilarious and i can't wait to go get the pictures printed after work, let's just say; really strong run and cokes, the best music i've ever heard at a wedding, really good yummies and alot of the crazy, i-don't-care-how-loud-i'm-laughing laughter.



* i've actually been pretty good about my daily cards! i skipped one day, but know exactly what i want to do for that day so i'm pretty okay about it.

* tommorow is my day off and my last day of horrible eating and no working out. i'd like to lose the 15 plus pounds i've gained since moving away from philly. look for the tacky weight loss ticker at the bottom of my blog tommorow or tuesday sometime, haha.

* i did another store rearrange and i keep thinking i can't do anything else with this space and then i manage it, haha. i guess like 10 years of retail experience has something to do with that.

* it is my mission a little later to get some sort of bare-bones list of christmas gifts to take care of done. i really would like to make most if not all of them this year. or at least add handmade touches to things. i do have an arsenal of crafty weapons that i have forgotten about over the years, quilting, cross stitch, paper fun. umm yeah, i'm a total grannie. no wonder i don't date. haha.

* speaking of quilting; natalie has inspired me to take quilting back up again and so i am totally on the hunt for place to get really fun fabric, for a scrappy kind of quilt combining log cabin with fun joel dewberry and amy butlers funkier fabrics, with band t-shirts and pictures printed on fabric. any suggestions for awesome fabric sources?

* i want to start playing with canvases. after seeing the awesome ones kristina was working on, the amazing art her friend cheryl does and the adorable minimalist masterpiece that nicole eshelman posted i am humbled but wanting to play!

* even though i have returns to do and a grocery store and post office trip to make tommmorow i want to spend the rest of the day doing crafty things. i feel like haven't scrapped a page in forever! plus i want to figure out my holiday cards!

happy halloween!

this just makes me giggle!



also, if you don't mind a couple of curses check out the robot chicken parody of it's the evil great pumpkin charlie brown.

and the winners are...

the funniest caption was totally;

Little Lulu (aka Laurie Dagg-Labine) said...
"so basically i jutted my hand at his throat in like this pecking motion...and he dropped and that was pretty much it...man...I don't know what he was thinking messing with my tunes...coming at me with a brad paisley Cd...I jsut flipped man...I went completely postal!"

October 26, 2007 8:36 PM

hahahaha, too funny! there were some other really hysterical ones too. and the random pick winner is;

Heidi Joe said...
I think you're recalling the lyrics to the Beastie Boys' Intergalactic...

"I am known to do the wop
Also known for the Flintstone Flop
Tammy D gets biz on the crops
Beastie Boys known to let the beat...
"MMM, D-r-r-rop!"
Now when I wrote graffiti my name was Slop
If I rap soup my beats is stock
Step from the table when I start to chop
I'm the lumberjack DJ AD Rock!
If you try to knock me you'll get mocked
I'll stir fry you in my wok
Your knees start shakin and your fingers pop
Like a pinch on the neck from Mr. Spock..."

October 28, 2007 10:36 AM

yay! thanks for so many really hilarious ones ladies and gentleman. send me you addresses over at sis and i will be sending a box full of rad your way!

a little added time.

i can't pick the random winner of the rak challenge down there until i get home from work near a printer so y'all get a few more hours to enter. 'til about 9 p.m. est actually, so keep me giggling.

the crop i vended at saturday was fun. i got to actually scrap while i was there so it was nice. i got some little projects done; a this is me page, 2 circle journals and my daily card for that day. i still have 2 more this is me challenges to catch up on, but i might actually do that today at work. and i have a daily card to do.

i found a dress for the wedding friday at macy's yesterday with kate. it's a really dark, dark twilight blue silk and there is no way it would have looked good on me before i dyed my hair dark, it's funny how that can open up a whole new world of clothes! hehe. it's pretty, but i'm not like IN LOVE with it, so i'm going to check a couple little places after work today. we'll see how that goes. and when i get home i'll pick the two winners of the rak!

make an awesome caption and win a rak!

so, in celebration of breaking 10,000 views on this lil' ol' blog i'm going to be giving away, not one but two huge packages of awesome scrappy stuff with some other random fun thrown in. how does one have a chance at all that rad-ness? well, this idea has been brewing for a bit and i've been saving it for the big 10,000. this picture of me was snapped in georgetown;



yeah, i have no idea what that face is or what i'm doing or saying. so post a caption for this picture and i will pick someones name at random for the first box and the author of my favorite caption will receive the second box. you have until midnight monday! make me giggle!

a little daily love and some cut throat tv cuts.

so i FINALLY started doing daily cards on tuesday. here's what i've got so far;



the amazing queen of the daily card, elise is the one who started this creative concept, and she has an awesome blog with her dailies. i kept thinking i'd start on the first day of a month or on a holiday or something but the mood struck me tuesday so i figured why not. hence my first cards title being, "just a random day."

so i have decided i watch far too much tv and i want to cut it down considerably, to the shows that i really love. i often catch myself watching something just for the sake of watching something. and oftentimes i'm actually only half watching, so why watch at all? i could be reading, scrapping, writing lettters and all kinds of other fun stuff. so i'm making some cut throat tv cuts over the next couple of weeks. here's the plan so far;

..::the keepers::..
love them, love them, love them

* heroes
* gossip girl
* pushing daisies
* degrassi
* kid nation
* ugly betty
* samantha who

..::the questionables::..
i'm giving these shows 1 or 2 more episodes to make me love them (or in some cases to get back to being as awesome as they were in the beginning)

* greys anatomy
* private practice
* chuck
* about a girl
* america's next top model (do i really need to watch it now, wouldn't a marathon be better)

..::the farewells::..
i can live without these, or watch them in re-runs during the summer

* reaper
* survivor (i keep forgetting i don't really care)
* all csi's
* all law & orders
* numbers
* without a trace
* big bang theory
* tim gunn's guide to style (sooo not good)

..::the mid-season add-ons::..
waiting for these to start.

* lost (although this could end up on the questionable list, we'll see how it starts)
* project runway

is it gross that there are 7-8 shows i love? that's a lot of tv in a week, but what better than how many i was watching

oh so obsessive.

yes, i do have a bit of an obssesive personality. i find something i love to do and i want to share it with everyone, play all the time and own it all. scrapbooking supplies, albums, cute flats, big earrings... once i love something i love it big time. so, it's always nice when a new obsession is a healthy one like good reads. it's an awesome website that i've been hearing people like elise and vee talk about and just remembered to check out today. you know that when people you totally love and respect like something chances are it's worth a look, and sure enough...OBSESSION!

you can rate and review books you've read, are reading or want to read and add friends to your profile to check out their lists and reviews. i even added that fun little widget over there --------------> isn't he cute?

so, check it out peeps. you won't be dissapointed and while your at it, add me to your friends so i can see what you are into!

photo hunt, polaroids and escargots. oh my!

yeah cheese fest! so what? haha. so i'm gonna go ahead and kick this in list form.

<3 happy mail as of late; 2 fun new circle journals to play with, replacement thickers from american crafts (complete with 2 additional sets, including red vinyl, yay!) and my coconut records cd, which is jason scwartzman's musical solo project. the raddest part has got to be the fact that when you order the cd directly from him you also get a polaroid that he took and a cute little note from him with your cd. here's mine;




<3 the magic hat night of the living dead variety pack + transformers and a trip to parsnip, the not-so-divey dive bar that brought us a few games of not-so-g-rated photo hunt with some giggle worthy high score names.

<3 watching horrible day time tv, getting ready in slow-mo, half-assed scrapping (on my part) and lazy chill time on the couch with these ladies



<3 blasting inxs at top notch and bopping along on our way past silver cup studios and over the bridge, much to the dismay of nearby drivers with their windows open and chloe.

<3 the awesome matte sequin trim we scored at m&j trims i need to go back for some crazy yardage for holiday cards!

<3 laughing our way hysterically into anthropologie where i was then tortured by this little temptress, the "changing colors swing coat" i really almost bought it, but managed to abstain. i did come away with some ridiculous sunglasses with mustard colored frames though and high hopes for the purchase of the coat in the near future.

<3 going out with people who really know food. it's such a great learning experience. kristina, jonathan, chloe, nat and i went to pastis for dinner last night, and holy wow! the food was amazing. plus, i tried some great stuff that i have never had before. gotta love a family style ordering where it has to come in several waves because there wasn't enough table space for all the food we ordered. can you say; oysters, escargots, steak tartare, skate, mushroom ravioli with sage, patte and all kinds of other yummies. not to mention the adorable photos after.

<3 watching heroes at the waldorf astoria and chloe rose taking a liking to her namesake? priceless!

mixed by morgan....

... introducing "music to unpack to" ta-da!



love how this mix turned out. i'm telling you,
kristina revolutionized the way i look at cardboard with her, "right now" class. anyway, this little baby is being shipped off to miss michelle who just moved back out to california. it's filled with music to unpack to. here's the track listing;

01. the gift - angels & airwaves
02. lazy eye - the silversun pickups
03. natural's not in it - gang of four
04. i don't feel like dancin' - the scissor sisters
05. touch the sky - kanye west
06. don't change - inxs
07. breakin' up - rilo kiley
08. i feel it all - feist
09. golden years - david bowie
10. nowhere again - the secret machines
11. super duper love (are you diggin' on me) - joss stone
12. young folks - peter bjorn and john
13. fraud in the 80's - mates of state
14. kissing the lipless - the shins
15. daft punk is playing at my house - lcd soundsystem
16. back in yoru head - tegan & sara
17. automatic girl - lola ray
18. this is it - ryan adams

does this count as my monday mix? haha. i'm going to be in long island/new york city sunday to monday, yay! hanging with two of my fave scrap ninjas and meeting up with a third for dinner monday night.

so, did anyone else read the twilight trilogy; twilight, new moon and eclipse? i absolutely loved twilight, new moon was rocky at first, but then sucked me back in and i was digging eclipse until the end. did anyone else feel a little ripped off? if so e-mail me and we shall discuss, haha.

off to clean up my scrappy stuff and get ready to dash home, pick up my mum, hunt for a couple cute jumper shirts and meet my aunt for her birthday dinner. i'm digging the whole jumper style that's going on right now. it's the perfect way to mask all the thermals, tees and such that i have accidentily shrunk so that they are too short, haha.