SCRAPPILY YOURS

"If I had only one thing to tell the world,it would be to love.
Blessed are those who understand what miracles love can accomplish, for it is the power of love that makes all dreams a reality."
---Music Composer/Perfomer Medhi

Tuesday, August 28, 2007

Sommerfly

It sure has been an ummm interesting week shall we say! I managed to kill my C drive and lost everything on it in reformatting but luckily had alot of it backedup. It takes ages to reinstall things tho ugh! Hopefully it's all in working order again!

Here is the Sommerfly Kit



You can find it at

Friday, August 24, 2007

Ok don't faint and a rant and babbling

Three days straight!! Wow don't go fainting on me if you actually read this lol.
I made myself a promise to keep up on this no matter what so trying to make time each night yay!

Em's mom got home and actually picked her up early and took her shopping for school clothes so at least I am not worrying about her first day as she has been a basket case. Preteen girls are just as bad as teenage girls trust me!

We did her school physical today so that is in order too hooray but I am so fed up with the dr's office I went on a rant and called their office manager who seemed to be horrified by what we went thru with the front office this past week and assured me not once, not twice but THREE times she would make sure Em's dad was NOT billed the extra copays incurred because they did not do their job the first time. Lo and behold when her daddy was seen in the afternoon didn't the front office refuse to see him unless he paid the 20.00 (that's two 10.00)copays and told him that was tough and he had no choice! By the time he got home and his wife called to tell me what happened I was livid and made yet one more phone call and you guessed it..she was gone for the day. I left her a rather pointed message so lets see if she calls back on monday and takes care of it and refunds it. I am so sick of employees who either need retraining or attitude adjustments concerning "customers" whether it's a store or a dr's office we are still a PAYING customer and should be treated correctly. I don't have a rude bone in my body normally but this past few months I have had my fair share of rude, arrogant people and enough is enough. I left two phone messages for another person who is dh's claim adjuster on her voice mail and when i called back..you guessed it again..she left early. After all it is FRIDAY! Dang I sure wish I could have left early on Fridays just because I wanted to all the years I worked! One would think she could have had the courtesy to at least call and say she could not answer the information until Monday but instead she just left us hanging yet AGAIN!

My dear grands stepmom has taken the habit of calling me at all hours of the night when their 6 children are not listening and while I love that we can have a good relationship I simply can't deal with all of it anymore. Bless her she loves his three (my grands) as much as their 3 and 6 kids can be handful for sure but she is the MOM in the house ..I am only Nana....I raised my kids and they came out fairly well for the most part and I LOVE kids and adore my grands but there comes a time in life when I have to learn to say NO MORE and guess this is getting to that point. I told my daughter that on the phone today and she agreed all of them really do bug me over things they can perfectly well handle and did handle when I was first ill. Now that i have good days they seem to forget I still have more bad days than good ones and stress is a high NO NO when you have Lupus and some of the other health issues like I do. I hate that it has done that to me but it has plain and simple and now after what 6 years I finally am saying NO and I CANNOT do this for you. We all need to be needed but sometimes it comes to being overneeded and right now I am just plain worn out both physically and emotionally. I find myself forgetting my own name more often than not lol --well not literally but you get the gist of it! Add the stinking hot weather we are having here and the storms rolling thru that make my body hurt like someone beat me with a baseball bat and well you get the picture tho pretty it is not!

Boy I am re reading the posts I made and I guess I really am on rant aren't I! I just feel better getting it out and sometimes it just helps me feel better even if I am the only one who reads it it still helps me get it out instead of sitting and stewing about it or worrying til I make myself sick. Guess there is something to this blogging thing in many ways. Kinda almost like a diary depending on what you say haha.

Regardless if you read it thanks..if not so be it. Am not here to please the world although it would a lovely thing to be wouldn't it :-)

I just love what I do when I can do it and just feel like sometimes I need this blog to just say what I need to. I would never hurt anyone meaningly (is that even a word?) so you will not ever see that kinda crap here..i saw enough of that lately at a trash the digi designer's postings on another blog and even sometimes when there are "cat fights" and "drama queens" in some forums. I remembered why I rarely post in forums and even more rarely read posts for that reason. Everyone is definitely entitled to their opinions and I am all for that but when it gets to "name calling" and cussing like potty mouths (who need a good spanking or mouthwashing)I just can't stand it. If you do not like a product then don't buy it and don't support that site but be adult enough not to act like a teenager with the neener neener I am better than so and so routine. I am way too old to listen to that crapola for sure. Digi designing USED to be alot of joy and fun but a few have made that very difficult and over the past year I have seen more people hurt and even some friends leave the business and it's just sad to think of the wasted energy that could have gone to better use(sigh) because some women who claim to be adults can't act like adults and have a decent conversation about something they may not agree about without resorting to swearing and name calling! I choose to stay away from places with that type of drama but unfortunately happened across some messy ones last night that took me hours to figure out just what the real question was..go figure! Mostly I remain in my happy little quiet corner and just want peace and quiet and time to learn to do more scrapping and some designing while I have the chance in this life to do so. Too soon I will not be able to pass on what I want to for my family and to me that is more important than worrying about who said what about who in some blog someplace kwim?

Ok enough of my babbling. Bear with me til I get over this hump ..hopefully over the weekend I can get some much needed deep rest and life will perk me back up again. Just really in the basement caves at the moment sorry.

PSP SCRIPTS and PS/PSE ACTIONS







I have ventured into the realm of PS/PSE actions and PSP Scripts. Have added both commercial and personal versions in several packages at all 3 shops.
You can choose the 2 paper version, the 4 Paper version or a combo pack for PS, PSE and PSP.
They have been tested and work in multiple versions.
PS versions work in PS7, PSCS, PSCS2 and PSCS3
PSE versions work in PSE2 thru 5 ( they include the additional needs that are required to use actions in PSE)
PSP versions work in PSP 8,9,X and XI.

Thursday, August 23, 2007

GADS

I really am a horrible blogger anymore! I keep meaning to do it daily and know I want to do it daily but somehow it just escapes me!!!! Shame on me!!!!!
This past month has been a trip to say the least! Between grandchildren and a hubby I am not sure who I am these days!! DH got hurt at work the end of July and we have gone without even his work comp paycheck til this week when he finally got his first one and he went back to work on light duty monday..go figure! Course that made it a million times harder to pay bills and get the essentials so did get some new kits and some actions/scripts up to see if that will help some. Will post previews here in a few.

Our "Cat" as her pappy calls her seems to be going thru some real issues...Now keep in mind this munchkin is going on 9 now but THINKS she is much older of course. For some reason she is in the phase of pitting her divorced parents and her stepmom and making them nuts which results in extremely late(like 1am and long (like3 hours) phone calls from her stepmother because this little rugrat will not go to sleep no matter what we do! It all got bad when she was in her cast after her surgery in the spring and it's gotten worse and now is to the poing we are all ready to throw up our hands! She admitted she does not want her daddy to go to work despite the conversations he has had with her explaining why he must work, despite her loving stepmother's attempts of bribery to threats and nothing works until she goes and calls Cat's mom and she goes and gets her. Now Miss Cat has decided she wanted to go live with her mommy ( my daughter) except when Daddy is off work which was okayed by both mom and dad and respective stepparents. HOWEVER this seems to not have solved her issues as she now takes total hissy fits when she goes back to dad's and he has to go to work. So much so I got angry and I NEVER get mad at my grands but I sure was at 1am the other night and drove to their house and basically flew up the stairs..Her eyes about popped out of her head as Nana does not get mad at her and Nana does not do stairs lol. I sure did that night! To make a long story short she ended up going home with her mom yet again but the topper was that when her daddy talked to her two days later she denied any of it even happening!!!!!!! I only know right now that our precious child has some problems and we need to seek some other help for her as she is now also wetting the bed which is another sign of something is not right! Her dr. saw her and she does have an Upper Respiratory Infection which can account for some of her tantrums due to not feeling good but it does not explain her total behavior change and issues. He gave us the names of two wonderful child counselors so hopefully we can get to the bottom of what may be troubling her. She is well taken care, loved alot and none of us totally get what is going thru her little mind but keeping her in our prayers and with some help maybe we can get answers!

We spent almost 10 days with little to no phone service thanks to a storm and some crossed lines! I about choaked the phone co customer rep the day I had enough and called them..I got a well it did storm and sometimes that messes things up! DUHHHHHHHHH I know that except for one thing...Our Phone lines are UNDERGROUND and that did not explain the constant static and the ability for me to listen to my neighbor's phone calls from the apartment across from me! She could hear me as well lol ...good thing we are friendly and we knew each other's voices! When they finally sent the service guy here a week later mind you it turns out all our lines were carroded in the outside terminal box and once he fixed that the static was gone BUT in the process it crossed lines and all our phone calls were being forwarded to someone about 5 miles away on the other side of the big Highway!!! How they didn't know but it took all day and 4 service dudes to finally sort it out! The lady on the other end was none too nice either to them or us and kept hanging up on the phone co when they tried to explain what was going on..talk about RUDE! It seems to be mostly okay now but when we got MORE rain again tonite i got some crap on the line again so guess who is getting a phone call again tomorrow?

I am long winded YEP sure I am ..am really wound up tonite lol.
Lets see what esle..well we have had our Em here for a week..her mother said she was being sent to FL for work and even tho we have suspicions she may be elsewhere like in jail we can't prove it so accept that for now. Last Thurs night Em was at a friends and jumping on their trampolline and managed to get tangled in the net twist her arm and strained/sprained her shoulder. When she got to cheer practice her coach called me as she is a family friend and wanted to let me know about it as they could not reach Em's mother YET AGAIN! I advised Em to call me if she got home and her mom still was not there which she did and was crying as she was hurting pretty badly. I drove the 20 mins to her house to find her mom STILL not there and not answering her cellphone. This woman has had her car impounded and has no phone in the house and leaves her 11yr old daughter to fend for herself..THIS IS JUST WRONG! The people at CYS see nothing wrong with it but we sure do! No child should have to be afraid every day when she goes to bed and nobody is there! The more I talk about it the madder I get I guess. I took her to the ER with the help of her aunt(my daughter) and my daughter was able to finally reach Em's mother who showed up at the ER as we were done! Let's see that was over 8 hours from when someone first tried to reach her to tell her Em was hurt! What if Em did not have me to call what then? I so worry and my son (her daddy) worries himself sick over it but we cannot make CYS understand the turmoil this has put this child in!

Gaw I really am on a roll aren't I!!!! I guess I am just plain TIRED and fed up with things over which I have no control..with the lack of common sense in people...with the lack of responsibility for their actions....with the uncaring, unloving parenting I see around me sometimes...with the system that allows it.....with alot of other crap and it finally has gotten to me.

If you read this far thanks for letting me vent lol. SOmetimes just venting helps ya know!