Jamie Danford

A little more showsie tellsie...

Here are the last layouts from this weekend's crop...

 
 
 
(Oh yes, I busted out the 1942 wire title... let's call it 'retro-booking!')

 
 
As soon as I saw this skunk paper, I knew I had to use David's mom's famous quote... "You're so purty you stink!" 

 

Man, I did a lot of 2-pagers...

 
And lastly...

 

I sure am glad I got all of these pages scrapped, because THIS is what I came home to...

 

...It's enough to take ALL the creative mojo right out of a gal... damn dog.  Damn diarrhea.  Damn having to be the one who cleans it all up. 

It's a good thing I'm feelin' all refeshed and perky and stuff, otherwise I'd have tossed a pointer in the creek for SURE.

It's all good though. 

I mean if I had doggie diarrhea and accidentally made boom boom on my mommy's unsealed wood floors, I'd want somebody to have mercy on me... so I took a deep breath (in the other room), gathered some paper towels, Murphy's Wood Soap and a handful of plastic Walmart bags and did what Moms do.

Wow... bein' a mom means bein' a BADASS.

I'm glad I'm a badass.

...And a mom.

It's good to be home.

;)

Show and Tell!

 
I'm back from my double A Plus superdy duperdy whoop ass weekend with the girls. Sure, most people go to beautiful Tybee Island to catch some rays, but when Sid, Deiha, Kristine and I go, we hole up in the condo and scrap our booties off. 

There's always plenty of inappropriate stories, FOOD (courtesy of Sid, the super bad kitchen temptress), movies, booze and of course... scrapbooking!

I think I did like 21 pages this time around, which is MUCH better than last time when I got only 8 or so finished.  Most of the layouts are from our July 4th week at Tybee, so it was easy to pack for the crop because I knew that I only had to bring Summer/vaca/family embellishments... this definitely makes things easier when you're a traveling scrapper. 

So, let's have some show and tell... 

(I had to take photos of the layouts instead of scanning them because we got a new scanner, and I haven't invested the time into figuring out how to work the little bastard.  So bear with me okay?)

 

 

I love this next one...
 

I used it to document the differences we saw at this year's 4th of July fireworks show... like the social/friends aspect, and the overabundance of cell phones, and the fact that they no longer use glow sticks for cute little bracelets and instead pop them open and use the (hopefully nontoxic) goo inside of them as body paint.  Nice.

I needed a little more room so I added a flipper...

 

 
 

It was a PERFECT weekend...

 

...even if it was a little bit on the windy side thanks to madam Irene who passed off our shores.

 

 

 

I CAN'T wait to do it AGAIN!!! ;)

Dear Lord...

Please let me get up early enough in the morning to get in at least a two mile run. 

Please forgive me for telling my husband he's a total PEST when he keeps wanting to play "The Hoo Hoo Game."

Thank you for letting me have this upcoming weekend of girls' time with my favorite ladies.

(Have a GREAT weekend everybody!!)

 

First day of school!

 

...HOME school that is!

We made it through our first official day as home schoolers and survived!  We spent last week reviewing at our kitchen table, but today was our first time in our classroom, which happens to be my old bedroom in my mom's house next door.

 
It was kind of boring when Miss Priss was working on her lessons, so I'm going to bring my laptop over tomorrow and spend the time working on my book.  Maybe this way I'll actually get the sucker finished by the end of the 21st century. 

Keep us in your prayers... we need Miss Priss' brain to grow as fast as her feet, lol!

Somethings deserve to be remembered... such as the slip n slide of woe...

Last weekend's drunk-assed, backyard slip n slip event reminded me of another event that long time blog followers might remember...

Check out this post from 2009...

Fun and Woe...

FYI, it's been TWO years and my elbow STILL hurts.  I guess it serves as a gentle but nagging reminder of my stupidity.  ;)

Week in review...

Now that my pc's back up and fully functioning, I need to review the events of the past week so that I can get them on here and OUT of my BRAIN.  Let's see... today's Friday right?  Let's go backwards shall we?

 
Yesterday I took Ruby for her first ever appointment at the doggy groomers (Shampoochies) and asked them to do a lion cut on her.  She's very Mufasa-esque, wouldn't you say? 

 This is the first time in the nearly five years of her life that I've actually seen her little butt cheeks... and they're SO cute!  Yay Ruby!! She hated me for a few  hours afterwards, but now that she's come out from under the bed, she's realized that life is a WONDERFUL place when you don't have dreadlocks hanging off of your ass.  She's embraced her half-nakedness and is workin' it.

In other news... I've lost ANOTHER half of an inch off of my waist. 

 
I'm busting my ass with the daily running/walking/biking and cutting WAY back on processed sugars.  Although in a moment of weakness I went through several ounces of caramel frozen yogurt at Lovin' Spoons... oops.  I'm only human... when caramel frozen yogurt beckons, I listen.

I think so far this week I've propelled my body by either running/walking or biking approximately 42 miles around my neighborhood, and tomorrow (Saturday) is a ten mile day (eek!)  Mendy bought me some of these (early birthday present)...

...and my blisters are quickly healing.  My rather personal issue (as seen on Facebook) of titty heat rash has also healed, and baby powder is now my constant companion (thank you to all who suggested it.) 

Aren't you glad we're friends? 

And speaking of friends, I got to see some fun friends who came in town this past weekend...

 

My mom's boyfriend's daughters and grand-daughters came to Savannah for his mom's 99th birthday party (you got all that?)

Here's 'Mum'...

 

She's a beautiful soul, and we're lucky to be her friends.  We're also lucky that Tom's daughters are so cool and fun to play with.  Case in point, the drunken splip n slide event that took place in my backyard after most of the guests had gone home from the birthday party.

 
No, that isn't me down there on the soapy tarp wallering around like a twenty one year old sorority girl... those would be Tom's grand-daughters.  And yes, that is my husband, the evil instigator.  Holy goodness I laughed and laughed and laughed! 

Especially when they took him down...

 

Serves him right!  You may also notice that there were children lurking around and giggling nervously at the drunken adults.  But how could we refuse them the opportunity to slip n slide on the tarp of doom at ten o'clock on at Saturday night?

 

They don't look scared or traumatized right?

Right?

Don't worry, they traumatized us earlier in the day with this little stunt they pulled WHILE THE PARTY WAS IN FULL SWING...

 

You've gotta love these little hooligans...

 

 
I mean heck, what's a 99th birthday party without teenagers having a marsh mud fight and adults drunkenly throwing themselves down a thirty foot tarp?

I'd say it was a total success.

And on that stellar note, I think I'll conclude my week in review and get ready for dinner with my favorite boy.  I think I just heard him pull up in the driveway.

Have a GREAT weekend!!! ;)

Oh thank the LORD!

My laptop is fixed!! YAYYAYAYA!!  I've gotta say a big fat THANK YOU to my adorable friend Guy. 

It's so funny... we've known each other since we were in middle school, and became best friends when we were in high school (we lived down the street from each other.)  So we got to experience all the stupidity of teenager-dom together... egg wars, proms, thinking we were growing pot, but it ended up being parsley... you know, all the fun stuff.

Fast forward a whole bunch of years, and here we are...

(Of course, this has been a few years ago... perhaps it's time to take a current picture?)

Nowadays Guy is a married father of two beautiful girls (who Miss Priss babysits) and works as some sort of computer geek when he's not serving our country as a Georgia Air National Guardsman (is that right?)  Needless to say, my party boy grew up and became a man.  I, on the other hand, am still a total screw up.  It's okay though... I embrace my worthlessness and enjoy wallowing in it. 

And thanks to his geekness, I've got my laptop back, so I'm thinkin' this is a pretty damned good situation to be in. I gave him a bottle of Resolve stain remover as a token of my appreciation (I got four bottles of it FREE today with my coupons at Publix lol!)

I love him.

Good thing he still loves me.

Thanks Guy!!!

(PS... anytime you wanna rock the flight suit in front of an audience just let me know. MEOW!!)  ;)

(PSS... Lisa, um I guess you can watch the flight suit show too... afterall, he's YOURS.  Thank goodness.)

(PSSS... Big Dave says he wants to see the flight suit show too... uh oh.)

Oldie but goody...

Since I'm at the mercy of the decrepit netbook, (see previous post about my laptop) I thought I'd look through the archives and find one of my favorite posts.  This one popped out at me because Big Dave just adopted another free bicycle from somebody's trash heap, reminding me of the Bicycle of Dooooom.

A couple of funny things...

1.) This post is from March of 2008, which is when I was first experimenting with the 'excercise' thing. 

2.) I was only walking 2.2 miles?  Man, I've come a long way (thank the Lord!)

3.) I finally did get a real bike, I'm sure you remember my ode to the vagina-friendly bicycle seat right?

Okay... here she is... "The Bicycle of Doooooom"

#$$@^%!!!

My laptop got ATTACKED by some sort of EVIL assed cyber terrorist so I'm stuck using Miss Priss' old netbook.  (It usually lives under her bed with its broken 'J' button and microscopic ten inch screen.)

Needless to say, it leaves me feeling very uninspired and unblogful.

Ugh.

My laptop's at my friend's house... hopefully getting a new lease on life.  Until then my sweet friends, I bid you adieu.

 

"Summer in a Day"

This would be the name Miss Priss and Neighbor-Girl came up with for their big day yesterday.  Apparently the duo decided that they hadn't taken enough photos this Summer, so they decided to head out with cameras in hand to capture their adventures.

I happened to find the sd card and decided to download it to my computer... let's take a looky at what I found...

 New haircut!  (Bangs and layers.)

 

Cuteness and joy...

 
 
 Ohh... that's why there are teeth marks in the float.  Sugar!!

 Don't let her fool you... I'M the one who does the  mowin' around here!

 
Monkeys.

 

 

 
 
Um... I don't think she knows what a pole dancer is... that being said, HOLY CRAP WHAT IS MY CHILD DOING????

 Ah, much better.

 

Wait a minute>>!>!>!!!>./.??!?!?

 
Bwahahhahaah!!! That's her mother's daughter right there!

I'm so proud.

;)