Quick announcement!

Ok friends! I know this will come as a shock to some of you but I've decided to make a few needed changes in my life in hopes of simplifying. I'm realizing the importance of this new self awareness and am excited to make a few changes.

I've decided to stop crafting right now!!! It may sound strange of me to give up something that appears to be a positive outlet for me but in all honesty it's become stressful, a disappointment and financial burden on me that is wearing me out!So goodby Roberts craft, Hobby Lobby and Jo Anns!!!! No more craft supplies for me! I'll be finishing up the projects I already have supplies for and I have discounted all my inventory on my BLue Cricket blog for hopefully quick sales. I just need these things gone! The endless reminders of inventory just sitting in my storage room is enought to drive me mad!

So the good news is all my stuff is marked down and to be honest if you see something you like I'll probably take anything you offer just to get it out of here (that's the good friends only discount!!! don't share that news!!!)! So jump over to my blog and see if there is anythign you want or need. Tell your friends, link my blog, make a post about my sale!!!Anything would grately be appreciated!

I'm sure I'll still make a gift here and there but I'm done with mass production of certain things! The ribon boxes may be the only things I continue to do but I'm still un sure!

I appreciate your help in getting the word out!!!No need to worry about me having some sort of mental break!I'm just become self aware and I have to say it feels great!!!!!


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I know! I know!!!

It's been too long but man have I felt swamped!!! I am getting ready for a big trip by myself this weekend that I can't not tell you how much I need!! I am planning my first and ony trip away by myself. I knew exactly where I was going!!! It makes it easy when some of my favorite people in teh world all live in one place!!! I'll be headed out to Phoenix and I could not be more excited1!! Bryn can you email me your number!!!! I'd love to see If I can pop in on you!

I've been running around trying to get so much stuff done! I signed up for a swap that I need to finish getting ready to ship and still need to pick up a few things! I need to make sure I have the girsl cloths all picked for the weekend so Mike won't putt his hair out trying to find and fight with them every morning when it comes to getting dressed!! That in and of itself could put the cabash on future trips!!!!Macy can be that difficult!!! I have to finish getting together my baby gifts for my dear friedn Shireen who I will be seeing!!! ANd I still need to pack! Seems like a ton.I am hoping to finish the bulk of it today so I am not in a panic tomorrow!

I am still dealing with a bum knee. Yesterday was teh first day I noticed any differance. Now I can "somtimes" walk up a stair or stand up with out it killing me but it seems to ache more when I'm just sitting and sleeping is a joke! It's really a joke! I'd love to get this taken care of, whatever that means, as soon as I can. We are planning on getting knocked up this summer and I can not imagine being fat and preggo and on one good knee. I may hav eo see an Orthopedist next week if it's not better by the time I get back.

ok... I better hit the ground running!!! Ton's to do! I am off to see if I can make a dent in my to do list! This will probably be my last post till monday so soak it in!!!!

here's a few words of wisdom to tide you over!

- Be sure you search your car thouraly before you tell your husband and your neighbors that some one broke into your car and stole your garage door opener!!! It will save you a lot of embarrassment and anxiety!!!
- Just becasue the B cup bra makes you look like a shell of your old self, it still calapses upon hugging frineds and causes interesting stares!!
- There is nothing wrong with bribing your kids at 9 pm with a Sonic Drink if they help you look for a missing $300 gift card! Nothing wrong!!!!Especially if they would have found it!
-Check that one bathroom that rarely gets used more often and especially before guests drop in. Luck would have it that one of your kids may have used it and once again forgotten to flush!!! Nothing says "Welcome Friends" life a present like that!

Lost, pain and drool.Yep! That about sums it all up!

I can't find my thing-a-ma-jig that up loads my photos. Darn!!! I had some fun stuff to show you all.... It will have to wait I guess!!!!

I went to the doctor yesterday for my knee and my jaw!!! My knee was getting worse and while I was paying a copay I thought I'd throw in the jaw pain for good measure! So basically I have an inflamed knee and cartilage issues, what ever that means and I have TMJ. I got a prescription for an anti inflamatory and had to pick up a mouth gard to sleep with at night to help my jaw.

So here's how my night went last night witht he new fancy mouth gaurd. I put it in all excited for possible relief only to look back in the mirror in horror seeing a stranger looking back!It's not pretty! Trust me! I lay in bed trying desperatly not to think about the fact that I have a huge plastic tray in my mouth that my upper lip doesn't even cover and I can feel spit swimming in my mouth. That obsessive thougt process went on for oh about a few hours. When I finally started nodding off I was only to quickly woken up by the gross feeling of drool seaping onto my cheek and onto my pillow!!!GROSS!!! That was it! Lost sleep and a drenched pillow were not helping the cause so out it came! Not sure if I can ever get used to such a contraption.

Today I'm just beign lazy! 11:11 and still in my robe...gotta love it!

The Good !The Bad and the Ugly!

Let's start with the good!!! Ok...I'd rather call it the fantastic!!!Introducing my very own!Super cool!!! Never thought I'd have such a great logo but now I do..... Blue Cricket Design Logo!!!
How cute is that!!!! Thanks to a super talented, amazing, awesome gal and friend we like to call Hannah, I have this great logo for my business! Jump over to my Blue Cricket Design blog to see it in action!!! Thanks again Hannah for showing off your mighty talents for me! I love love love it!So simple and so perfect and so me! (not that I'm perfect!!HAHA but so my style!)

More for the GOOD department... we had a great turn out for the first ever book club meeting!I was worried, and still am, because it's a church book club!We'll see how it goes! It's not like I read bad books but when it's a group full of church ladies, all not being as cool as Tara and Shelly and Jennifer and Angie, it may get stale. We picked our first book and I can't wait to get started! The girls stayed way past the meeting just to chat and get in our girl time!I so love this group of girls and this ward is proving to be one of our favorites!

We'll be reading Small Change by J. Belinda Yandell.

Also good...Fathers Day!!!Gotta love a day that we can shower our special men with special attention and foot rubs!!! I (heart) my hubby!!!He's a great dad and we had a wonderful Sunday together honoring him!

Now for the BAD... Not sure when, not sure how, not sure why, but my knee is so messed up!!! It's like I've become this old lady and my body is slowly turning on me and turning me into an 80 year old!!! My left knee is shot. It's swollen and achy it's just one more part of my body that ages faster then the rest of me!!!It must be my left side because on my left my knee, jaw and shoulder are all giving me attitude!!! Can you really hurt your jaw by sleeping on it wrong!!! that's my only explanation. My shoulder sucks because I raised two 105th percentile babies and toddlers on my left arm and I favor sleeping on that side!!! So what the heck is wrong with my knee and jaw!!!

I better start buying convalescent care insurance! I'll be in a home sooner then I will qualify for Senior Citizen discounts at Denny's!

Another bad... So yesterday I get two comments on my blogs. One being my family blog and then this private blog. I had no idea who they were from. The name was ambiguous and the tiny picture by the comment was too small to recognize anyone in it. And I was pretty sure I only sent out invites to people I knew! When I tried to jump to their blog from their comment it sent me to a page that read Profile not found! Great!!! DEAD end! So I first go and block them from my private blog seeing as I have no clue who they are or how they got in. I was so curious who they were because they sounded like they knew me but never identified them selves.

I finally posted a "I'm trying to figure out who you are post" and this morning figured it all out but not before totally making this sweet person feel bad. YIKES!!! What was I to do!!! I had no way of knowing who they were!!! Luckily it was a sweet girl from my ward. Had I been able to jump on her blog I SOOOOO would have known. She felt so embarrassed. HELLO!!! I'm the lame-o over here!!! I had to ASK who was out there! Oh the joys of blog embarrassment!!!

Hopefully it got all cleared up and she feels welcomed on my blog!!!! I am so looking forward to getting to know her more!

And CRAZY how an invite got sent out with out my knowing it!!! I'm still wondering how that happened.

Has that ever happened to you guys!?

Now for the UGLY... So I bought two Angel Food cakes for the book club and we collectively as a book club only ate one of them. Sadly I must confess that I polished off the entire second cake by myself over the following few days! Now that's ugly...but man was it good!!!

so girls... in the future if you ever come to my house and see a dessert made for the said gathering, PLEASE, please, PLEASE help eat it. We know what I'm capable of!!!You've been warned!