Have you seen the new Design Team collab at DSM for Sept? ;D

Here’s my portion.  You can find it here.

I’m hosting the September Added Inspiration Challenge at DSM.  You can check out the challenge threads here.

And last but not least I have a new paper pack out called Imagination Yellow.  You can find it here.

I’m hosting another Speed Scrap at DSM on Monday morning 11am (EST), 10am (CST), 9am (MST) and 8am (PST).  You can find the thread for the speed scraps here.

The freebie for participation is…

I hope to see you there! ;D

Hard to believe it is time to do a call again.  But here it is! ;D

I like to bury my head in the sand.  Sometimes. It is not part of my “regular” self.  It likes to come out and play when things flare up that remind me of childhood.  Usually in a fight or flight situation…I’d rather fight…get it all over with…and move on.  Most of the time. I don’t like things hanging out there.  Drives me bananas.

Take these medical issues for example.  I’d rather get it all done at once rather than having it drag on and on and on for what?  Almost a YEAR now.  Sheesh.  So after burying my head in the sand for a week or two I went and saw the hematologist yesterday and made a plan to go after the IVC filter that’s still stuck in me…one. more. time. Well, go see another surgeon who will look things over.  Not overjoyed.  But at least a decision has been made.  My head is out of the sand.  At least for now.

Seems like since school started things have gotten busy busy round here.  I’ve picked up with work.  Started my volunteer work at the girls’ school.  Kids come home with plenty of homework.  Laney’s dance has started.  Ava wants to join the band at school.  She wants to try bass.  So free moments are few and far between.  I find comfort in being busy.  I do.  And I do like it when the kids are gone…cause I can get a little more work done.

Here’s my layout from the speed scrap on Monday.

I hope you are having a pleasant week! ;D

I’m hosting another Speed Scrap at DSM on Monday.  It is another brunch time one.

The times are:

11am Eastern
10am Central
9am Mountain
8am Pacific

Here’s what the freebie is if you participate!

Hope you can make it!

Made by the wonderful marketing team at MLAS! ;D

Skits is sitting on the back of one of the couches staring out the window.  As we all predicted he would today.  He is lonely and depressed.  Waiting.  Waiting for two girls to come home and play.  He’s been with them all summer you see.  If I were a dog…I’d be doing the same thing.  I feel the same way on the inside.  I just can’t get away with acting like that!  Muahahahah!

So let it begin.  Activities and homework and activities…wait I already said that.  Gone are the lazy days of summer.  Gosh.  School starts early around here.  Sigh.  I sure miss ‘em!  Yes even when they fight!  Even then.

Seriously.  I’d like to be done with all this health…ehem, insert expletive…stuff.  I really would.  But I’m not.  And I’m tired of having to go through all these emotions and trying to write them down on my blog.  Cause I don’t want to.  I’m over it.  So over it.  I guess I could not write about it.  But then I think I might have another long hiatus.  Again.  And I don’t think I want that either.

I always have a good cry whenever traumatic or bad things happen.  It doesn’t always happen right away either.  It could be a week or weeks later.  Yeah.  I had that today in the doctor’s office.  One of the many doctors I see.  Only I got interrupted.  So I was thinking I may pick it back up again.  Bwahahahah!

I saw the hematologist today.  I didn’t want to.  I figured she would be upset that the filter didn’t come out.  I was right.  As in…she wants me to go back in again, to a different doc, and have that horrible, awful, no-good, very bad procedure done to me…again!  Did I say ‘again’ enough???

Do you ever get the feeling that life is being dictated to you rather than the other way around?  I’ve felt that way before.  I don’t like it much.  I especially don’t like it when it concerns my health and I’ve got all these docs that I’ve got to coordinate with…of course THEY won’t coordinate with each other…and get them all on the same page.  Which they NEVER are.  And I’m no medical expert.  Especially about this.  When they all say different things, it certainly doesn’t help.

If you ask me why I have to have the filter out…I guess the reasoning is because having a foreign body inside isn’t the best thing plus I will have to be on blood thinners for life if it stays in.  As it was put to me, “You don’t want that do you?”  Heh.

Meanwhile I was looking up information about IVC filters and found some good pictures.  Here’s basically what it looks like…

Here’s a medical article about it.  I don’t like medical articles much but it was interesting to me cause it was all about what’s inside me!  Anyway…there are some great photos in the article here.  There’s one of what it looks like inside your body. ;D

Ok.  That’s all I have to say at the moment.  I think more of my life took over and I can’t go and have the rest of that good cry.  Too many people need me and too many dang things to do.

I can’t stand the in between phase…when my brain says do a million things and my body says no freakin way!  Talk about frustrating.  If you are type A you know exactly what I am talking about.  I am overall better…Corey would point out…doing more than the day before.  It often doesn’t feel like enough.  Again…type A.

Meanwhile…I have done a couple of layouts.  Both speed scraps.  I don’t know if I am in love with the speed scrap concept itself…but I sure find myself doing a lot of them recently! ;D

Layout credits.

Layout credits.

I am hosting the Added Challenge/Inspiration for August at DSM.  You can find the challenge forum for DSM here.

The ad inspiration that I chose is this…

I made a template for this challenge that you can download for free here.

Here’s my take…

And my creative team…

JenF…

AnnB…

AmyL…

I hope you can stop by and join the fun! ;D