Oh man, I'm tired right now. I finished the last of the cake jewelry for my sisters wedding cake. Wow, that was tough. My wrist is killing me. Now all I have to manage is a few bracelets. I don't have to do them tonight... I'll probably do them tomorrow or the next day. I'm overstressing myself right now. I can feel it... my tummy gets all upset when I'm stressed. Ugh.
Shoveling Burro Poop
Yup, I was on Poop Patrol this weekend. Did you know that they have stray burros in Moreno Valley? They DO, I've seen them with my own eyes! Crazy stuff, man. The other day, someone was killed by a stray donkey. Car accident... not like a crazy rabid donkey... but still.
Anyway.. back to the poop patrol- we were clearing out my coven sisters front yard- and I volunteered to shovel the poop. So thats what I did. And my mom complains about the cat poop in their garden.
Today, one of the agency reps I work with asked me about my personal definition of success. It was something nice to think about and broke up the monotony of the day.
Here's what I emailed him back:
For me, being successful is being happy. If I'm happy and content with the work I do, the kind of life I live, the lives of the people I touch, help and guide, then that, to me is success. I'm the type of person who takes pride in my work, I enjoy the feeling of doing a good job, and that makes me happy. And as long as I'm happy, I feel that I'm successful. Would I love to own a home? Would I love a Fendi bag? Would I love to be a size 3? Of course! But, I'm happy and content as I am, knowing that I can work toward any of those things- I believe that I could have anything I wanted if I tried hard enough. But I also like my life in the here and now, and I'm not willing to sacrifice my happiness for what society might deem 'success.' I have ambition and dreams, but I'm also practical, and I feel that being happy and planning to achieve my 'someday' goals makes me already successful.
I've bought my new table... and shelves. I bought a tabletop and trestle legs from Ikea. We had to finish the table legs, and as of last night its all put together. Now I'm just trying to organize it all. I also got two shelves at Lowes and a lamp at Ikea. I also got the ever-popular burken jars for my ribbon. They look so cute. I'll be posting pics as soon as I get everything settled. I finally feel like a REAL scrapbooker. I have a QK, a decent lamp (I hope, I haven't plugged it in yet), some foam alphabets and paint, and a basket full of adhesives.
Its funny, really. I remember when I first started SBing, I saw a scraproom with a drawer of adhesives. I was like... who needs that many adhesives? I got my glue stick and a tape runner. HA!
I've organized my paper by color, except for when I buy collections, ie: BG, CBX, etc. I guess what I should say is I've taken all my random paper, slabs, stacks, etc and cardstock (someday I will be able to afford Bazzill) and sorted by color. Everything else is sorted by collection/theme.
I'm really excited... my DBF wants to do something with HIS side of the room, now. Hehehe! I bought these little 6X6 frames at Target a while ago. I think we are gonna blowup some pics, frame them and hand them in a patttern on his side of the office. We'll see how that'll go.