WATERLOGGED, SUPER RESTED AND DISCOVERED A NEW PATH…WITH SPOD AND DOG

Well I am drinking oodles of warm water, getting some really good sleeps and Parker doesn't know whats hit him.  Walks???  Again????  Woot woot!! 
And speaking of dogs, I had occasion to pick Molly up off our bed this morning and I immediately noticed something.  She weighed a ton!!!  

Andrew and April always fed the dogs but now Spod is doing it.  So I asked April how much they usually had fed Molly.  Three large tablespoons of canned mixed with a half cup of dry.  She has an enlarged heart and needs to stay skinny.  So I asked Bill how much he fed her every night.  Three quarters of a can!!!!  The other quarter he gave to parker.  So she went from 3 tablespoons to three quarters of a can!  And she hoarfs it down faster than you can say Bob's your uncle..(or a not so missed dead stepfather).  No wonder she is fat and can't finish a one block walk!  Becoming way too much like her mom and dad!

It has become clear that I need a desk.  Slowly but surely I am taking over the care of mortgages, houses, bills pertaining to many places and my latest endeavour….scrapbooking (oh God…thats almost as bad as having a gnome in the garden)  Yes.  I am scrapbooking…or at least trying to.

Today I hopped into Michael's thinking I would grab a couple of scrapbooks and maybe some of that paper scrappers use.  Well let me tell you, I think there are some people out there that take scrapbooking dead SERIOUS!!!  First hint? there were six rows, SIX!!!, dedicated to just scrapping (I am calling it that cuz its so much easier to type and I am getting so blind I need it easy!)  What the hell could fill six rows?

So I looked.  Oh My God!  One row was dedicated to just paper…all kinds and themes and glitter and colours!!!  And I tell ya…I got excited.  It was a lot like material and I already have a material hoard…I will never use it,  I just take it out once in a while and feel it and look at it and enjoy it.  The paper I saw today elicited the exact same feeling.  I ended up buying two huge bundles and I won't tell you what it cost.  And I will never use it…its way too beautiful.

Then there was a whole two rows dedicated to just stickers, and baubles and thingies that you can attach, I guess, I don't really know, to a page you are creating.  I don't know a whole lot about scrapping and the further I looked the more daunting the whole idea became.  I did end up buying four scrapbooks.  I have four ideas but now I am thinking I should take one of their scrapping classes.  Oh God!  I can see it now.  A bunch of us overweight, big assed, sixty somethings with too much time on our hands, sitting around the craft table exchanging niceties about our grand babies, and trying to convince ourselves that scrapping is an actual intellectual pursuit.  I see shovel list all over this.  And the bad part is that I will come out of there overwhelmed with over achieving ideas….ideas that will never become reality..my reality anyway.  So maybe no on that one.

Anywhoo, back to the desk.  At dinner tonight Spod mentioned that they had writing desks at Costco.  So I immediately said,  "Let's go!  Right Now!!"  Off we went and yes they most indubitably did and exactly what I want.  But this means I have to move the red dry sink to a different wall, the piano from Purple Room to where the dry sink had been and the desk, after building it, to where the piano now is.  Off to Costco first thing in the morning and a desk we are abuyin'!  All the rest will solve itself.  Things will be moved, scratches on the floor washed away, lamps and pictures moved, filing cabinet brought upstairs….I am tired thinking of it.  Maybe I will take pics and put it in my Purple room scrapbook. We'll see!  TTYL