CoCo

The Chin has got to go go... I want CoCo!

I cannot believe this ridiculousness. Conan was given the Tonight Show because he earned it. He put in his time and this was the next step for him. Jay was given an unjust opportunity to stay on and try something new AND it failed. BIG TIME. Do the math. If Jay wasn't getting viewers at 10pm and the affiliates weren't getting viewers at 11pm (which is why they want to make this lineup change), then of course Conan wouldn't be getting more viewers at 11:35pm. It took Jay years to get the ratings he did on the tonight show so why is Conan only getting 7 months. I think the fact that Conan has said he will not move to 12:05 is very classy. He is not only thinking of himself and the big slap in the face that gives him but what that does to the Tonight Show and Jimmy Fallon on Late Night. Of course Jay could careless who this affects anyone but himself. I am completely biased here. I have NEVER like Jay Leno. As a kid I remember watching that movie about the Jay and David Letterman drama and I always thought Jay was a slime bucket. This is a lot like when NBC screwed over David Letterman... obviously NBC doesn't know funny men when they have them. Well where ever Conan goes, I will follow. I was able to see him in San Fran while hosting Late Night and I also was there for his second night of the Tonight Show where he got his infamous nickname "CoCo". I am going to try to get tickets before Feb. 12 in preparation for the inevitable end of the Tonight Show as we know it. I want CoCo!!!! Pin It

... new year, new look

Okay so instead of taking lunch today... I have sat at my computer giving my blog a brand new look! I found this great site Shabby Blog that had really awesome backgrounds and tags. I designed the header and i think it turned out pretty good. Back to work I go... my boss just came by so I need to look busy :) lol Pin It

... a new year

Hello Hello 2010! I have been a bit MIA enjoying my vacation from "real life". I did take time to reminisce the past year and of course took some time to scrapbook!!

There are my top 5 moments of 2009

1. Turning 30! enough said!
2. Graduating from Chico State with my MBA (Masters in Business Administration)... it seemed to take forever but it was all worth it!
3. Moved into my first apartment! I know this sounds crazy after seeing number 1 but my job has always required me to live in a residence hall apartment. For the past 8 years I have been a professional live in staff member who runs the day to day operations of a college dorm, supervises the staff, and keeps the students from getting into too much trouble. Basically when I went off to college in 1997, i had lived in a dorm ever since.
4. I got a new job... hence moving into an apartment where I have to pay rent and utilities. Crazy but I love it!!
5. Lost 50 lbs!! I still have a long way to go until I get to my goal weight but hitting the first 50 was a huge milestone.

Now on to the scrapbooking... here are two layouts I did this weekend. This first one, that I titled the Many Faces of Paul is my entry for How Much is Too Much. The challenge was to use 22 circles... Paul is obsessed with Coldplay and the song Clocks so I decided to make 22 clocks... If you look at the two close up pictures you can see them all. I tried to make them all different sizes, styles, and colors. I wont lie it was a lot of fun creating all the clocks.... I did actually cut out two from a magazine and use them on the page as well.
I had finished scrapbooking my Dressler staff and found these four pictures i love that had not found a home on any other page so I decided to put them together. I also wanted to make the title pop and I had these thumbnail images that came with my digital prints I had ordered online. I had held on to them in case I came up with a use for them and did I... it took some time to get them to all fit on the BIG but I think it looks really cool. This layout is for the Scrap Room Blog Challenge #52.

Lastly, I used the invitation for the wedding to create this layout of my friend and former RA, Roxy's wedding. The red box with love written in multiple languages, the flowers, and bride and groom on the O of LOVE were all elements from the invitation.... of course I forgot to take a picture of it before I tore it apart so you'll have to take my work for it.
Well that is that. Goodbye 2009! I look forward to a great new year!!!! Pin It

... OCD

Happy Sunday! I am getting ready to watch the season finale of Survivor (Go Russell!).  So I had plans to be super productive this weekend and get lots of layouts done HOWEVER I got a case of OCD and starting re-organizing my scrapbook supplies.  I have so many chipboard alpha's and a year ago I got the idea to sort all the alpha's by letter cause that would make it easier to find what I need.  This weekend I decided that it would be easier to have them sorted by color, like so many of my other things (like my brads and buttons!!!).  After a day of organizing, I got back into the swing of things today and completed 3 different layouts...

 My first layout is titled WiNNERS and this is my take on the challenge at How Much Is Too Much.   The requirements were:

• 12 Buttons
• 1 Word Title
• 1 Funky Border Strip or Punch
• 9 Stickers (this can include your title alpha)
• 7 Patterned Papers
• 1 Stamp

 

This layout is for the SPCC Color Challenge using the ScrapRoom Blog sketch.  This is an emotional layout for me.  Four years ago, while working at Eastern Washington University, one of my students, Sara died in a tragic rafting accident.  Two of the hardest things I have ever done in my life is tell Sara's RA, JoBeth that she had died and then taking her parents to her room to pack up her things.  Sara was such a great person and this will be my way to remember her... Take a look

 

Lastly, I am just want to show off the layout I made for my boss.  She loves Wizard of Oz (just like myself) and I thought it would be fun to give her some art for her office.  I tried to use as many images that reflect the overall story... One of my favorite things is the tiny strips of black & white fabric I put at the bottom.  It is suppose to be the shriveled up legs of the Wicked Witch of the East.  Of course I love the ruby red slippers too!!!

 That is all for now... Have a wonderful night.

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... Christmas Movies!

I love Christmas! I love Christmas Music! AND I LOVE CHRISTMAS MOVIES!!! I tivo all those cheesy christmas movies on lifetime and the hallmark channel and watch throughout the month.  My sister and I went through all of our movies (we have 275+ movies) and found all the ones that celebrate Christmas and put the titles in a cup.  Every night when there is nothing to watch we pull a movie out and watch.  It has been nice to not have to make a decision about what movie to watch.  This got me thinking though... I definitely have my favorite movies.  So here are my top five favorite movies and can't live with outs during the holiday season.   

1. Christmas Vacation: This is my absolute favorite! I think this is what the holidays are really like for people... crazy things happen and from the outsider looking in they seem really funny but to you in the moment they are frustrating.  In the end though, you have to remember it's family and that's the true meaning of Christmas.  It's the little parts of this movie that still make me laugh... Clark reading a magazine in bed with sap on his hands, the way the daughter says pajama's when they are standing outside the house waiting for the lights to come on, the look that Clark give Eddy at the dining room table when Eddy believes that there was a report on the radio about Santa being spotted flying over the city, etc.  There are so many great moments.  It has become part of my Christmas tradition to watch it at least once every december!!!
2. Rudolph, the Red Nosed-Reindeer: This movie makes me feel like a kid.  I remember how much I loved that little elf, Hermey.  I actually have a quite extensive collection of Hermey items.  For those of you that do not know Hermey... well he wants to be a dentist! I am surprised that I never wanted to be a dentist myself... maybe I will marry a blonde dentist (LOL).  Between Berl Ives singing Holly Jolly Christmas and Hermey pulling out all of Bumbles teeth, this movie is a christmas classic!!! If you haven't seen it in a while, you have to check it out. 
3. Love Actually: OMG... I love LOVE love this one too! My two favorite story lines are the father and the son and the prime minister and Natalie.  When Hugh Grant says, "ooooooh would we call her cubby?" or "of course you did you saucy mink", I fall in love with him all over again. This is a great movie for people with short attention spans... because the story line is always changing.  
4. ELF: "This is Buddy. What's your favorite color?" Will Ferrel is a comedy god!  You have to watch it to understand what a great movie it is.  If only everybody could have a great attitude like Buddy.  
5. Santa Clause: How can you not love Tim Allen turning into Santa Claus.  The idea that if Santa falls off the roof and hurts himself, whomever puts on the suit because Santa Claus is a great premise.  Although the movie is like 16 years old, totally worth watching again.  I also really enjoy the second one!!! 

Well those are my favorites... what are yours?
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... pressure

I am starting to feel better which is good because I have to go to work tomorrow.  I am suppose to be putting together a team building seminar at 9am and of course I am not ready.  But I am great under pressure! I have no doubt I will rock it out in the morning... tonight (instead of planning) I did a little scrapbooking.  I worked on a page dedicated to my little Markocina.  I met him when he was 17 and a freshmen in college.  He had lot of ideas and sometimes his energy was a little misguided but all he needed was some direction.  He tells me that I was one of those people who mentored him into the strong leader and man he is today.  I don't know if that is true but I sure do love this guy and all the fun memories we have acquired over the past 7 years.  I based this layout off of the awesome sketch from Pencil Lines!! Check out my take:

 

The little cut out man above my journaling was actually cut out by Mark... he thought it looked like him.  I use to have it on my computer screen because he would make me smile.  Night Night!

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... feeling under the weather

It really sucks being sick.  I can't sleep cause I feel like I can't breathe and when I finally get motivated to do something, I get sleepy.  Despite being sick, I did a bit of scrapbooking.  Of course, one of the layouts took me at least five hours not because it is so technically hard but because I kept getting distracted.

My first layout is from a conference I attended in 2006 called NACURH.  When I was cleaning out some old boxes, I came across a plastic bag for some store called National something.  The bag was covered in N's and I thought it would be fun to use that on a page. I am really trying to repurpose things these days... it gives me the chance to be inventive and saves me money for other supplies like rub-on letters (have I mentioned I am obsessed -OBESESSED!! with rub-on alphabets).  Here is my take on the sketch from Sketchy Thursdays. I had planned to also do a layout based on the CreateItGreen sketch but once I finished this one, I felt like my layout could fit to both of these different sketchs.  I plan to send it in for the Create It Green Design Team Call. 

 

 

I also worked on a layout with pictures from the day my best friend and I went dress shopping for her "Perfect" dress. The big poofy dress pictured at the top on the right side is the dress I picked out for her... she wouldn't even leave the dressing room, she hated it that much.  I kinda figured she would but as the maid of honor she told me I could pick out one dress and I wanted to pick something I knew she would never try on herself. If I have learned anything from watching Say Yes To The Dress is that sometimes the dress you least expect to like ends up being the one.  Of course for my bestie this was not the case.  When she had given up all hope, we went to a little boutique and found a dress that she liked.  Of course it was a size too small and it was the only one.  She tried it on just to see and it fit her perfectly... the moment she came out of that dressing room I could tell by the look on her face, it was the perfect dress. 

That's all for now.  Wish me healthy days to come!!

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