And it's all Adam's fault. Let me explain. For my birthday, Adam bought me 2 Scrapbook layout materials. But Nicole, you don't scrapbook. Well that's true I don't, yet. You see a friend of mine from college is a Stampin Up dealer, and Jess and I went to a stamp party she was having. I got so excited about the idea of stamping and scrapbooking after that, but I couldn't bring myself to spend the money on yet another hobby that I wasn't going to really follow thru on. So what did Adam do, he spent the money for me. Now I'm all excited about starting scrapbooking, and what does he go do? He buys me all the stuff I need to make hand stamped Christmas cards for our anniversary! The man is fueling the fire!
I've already planned the layout completly for one of the pages he bought me for my birthday. and the second one is in the works, I just have to hunker down and pick pictures. But why do I have this sinking suspicion that he just wants me to have another hobby so he can spend more time on his hobbies without getting crap from me....oh I hope I haven't caught MHS from him!!!
I finally did it. Last night I went out and attacked some of the weeds in the garden. Adam had taken the string trimmer to the section of the garden that was growing nothing but weeds on Sunday, but hadn't gotten to any of the purposely planted areas. Last night after work, I tackled the area around the tomato and pepper plants. Now I have to admit that it wasn't my intention when I headed out to the garden to attack the weeds, but rather to save the tomato plants. You see we didn't get cages around all of them when they were planted, and now about half of them were FAR too big to hold up their own weight. Adam had tried to tie them up, but even that wasn't holding. So after a trip to Wally World and Fleet Farm I was out there armed with bamboo stakes and old tiki torches trying to support these poor plants. However, in order to figure out where the base of the tomato plants were to stake them up properly, I had to get rid of the weeds too. SO be it. Now the tomatoes are completely weeded, and I'm motivated to do the zucchini and acorn squash next. Maybe
Today is a very sad day for me. Today was the auction of all the sets, props, costumes, and everything else that was in Creatures Crypt Haunted House. That event holds some really special memories for Adam and I, including our first date away from campus way back in 1998. (WOW can you believe it's been that long!!!) Adam volunteered there for all 12 seasons, and I've been involved for 10.
John and Laura, we love you. Thank you for so many years of fun. We will never forget the great times we've had and the good friends we've madebecause of Creatures Crypt.
Well I think we're finally back in the swing of things after vacation. I have to admit this week was the longest week of work! 5 whole days! I haven't worked that much since the week after Thanksgiving!
The cruise was fantastic, although the 100 degree temperature change from when we got on the plane in Miami to when we got off in Chicago totally SUCKED! I hate cold weather! We took over 400 pictures, and I'm hoping to start getting them all uploaded (along with working on the gallery in general) a little bit tomorrow.
I'm also going to start harassing Adam about getting the comments fixed somehow. So if he still hasn't fixed it, feel free to send him an e-mail harassing him too.
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