What I did today.

Brought a snake to school.
Spent 3/4 of the day with a headache.
Bought Mother's Day cards.
Folded laundry.
Got more sections in my store.
Made some kick-ass fishing designs in my store!
Make homemade hamburgers.
Pulled weeds at my parent's house.
Got a kid ready for a red-carpet 7th grade dance.
Talked to Kimberella.
Had a backdoor appointment with the eye doctor.

Not all in that order.

Wordless Wednesday - Version 5.8

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Wordless Wednesday - Version 5.7

Asking, pleading, crying out for help!

So if you are a regular reader here, you know I run 2 online stores and thats, like, my job. Sometimes that job actually takes up so much of my time that I forget about this blog! Really, it happens.

Well, now is one of those times and as I'm sitting here asking the dogs for help with ideas and where I should go now I'm realizing that they really are no help to me and I need real ideas and real help! So HELP ME! Please.

Over the next couple months I have to "break up" my InsanityWear.com store into at least one more store. I might do two more, maybe three... thats where I'm stuck. Should I open a "Quotes & Sayings" store and move all my quotes-type designs over to that, should I open a "Fishing & Rec" store and move those types of designs over.... I don't know what the best thing to do is!

Sad thing is, I have to move something to a new store, there is no way around it. Basically, InsanityWear is too big and I have to downsize it, but I'm not deleting anything, just creating a new store(s).

So... please, if you have the time or you are over there shopping & such... could you please help a girl out and give me ideas, opinions... that sort of thing?

I just am not sure the best route to take here. Sometimes I have a hard time looking at my own stores as a "shopper", so if you have any ideas...

Camera Critters, Weekly Winners & Weekend Snapshot for 5.4.

I'm hitting up all the weekend memes all at once because, once again, I didn't get my camera out this week. Yesterday the husband & I went for a walk down one of the trails near by... it's like walking through the woods! I would have had some nice deer shots, but I left my big (nice) lens at home because I figured the smaller lens would be more comfortable walking with. I don't know how many times I said "I should have brought my bigger lens".
So I'm sticking this in here for the Camera Critters, Weekly Winners & Weekend Snapshot.

Ok, I did try to take a picture of the deer... you can barely see her standing there on the edge of the trail.
If I would have had my bigger lens.....

Think Saki enjoys these walks?

If I do this on a Sunday morning, there's a good chance I can kick myself later for not waiting and I'll get some great shots today!

Don't Drink Water - Seriously... LOL

Don't Drink Water


Sometimes I make a design that makes me laugh the entire time I'm making it. My mind was so gone this morning... I wanted to do fishing designs but I just couldn't keep my mind on fishing... LOL

Sometimes I should just not create things.

Wordless Wednesday version 4.30

Hey, it's my turn!

Project Green - the end.

It's the end of Project Green. Sad to see it go... excited to see whats next!

Upgrades, dog toys & sick kids

Yesterday was a nice, different kind of day.... sort of. It started out by realizing it had been 100 days of not smoking, then realizing Demon #2 was still sick, then being stuck between a rock & a hard place by my brother... and that was all before 8:30am!

The rock & a hard place is somewhere where I knew we'd end up eventually. See, my brother is a computer-nerd of sorts (either that or he fakes it really well). He helps me keep InsanityCafe forums running. Without him there just wouldn't be a forums to go to.

We've been behind on updating my site and the husbands site (which, of course, Patrick helps with, too) so yesterday was the day. If it wasn't yesterday, we probably would have been looking at a November or December date. Trying to get his schedules and mine (which stupidly is not very busy) to connect has been pretty much impossible.

So a comment was mention - I looked over at the husband and within 20 minutes we were out the door. It's over an hour drive to Patrick's, so we knew it would be almost an all day thing.

But it was so fun! I have the most wonderful, comical, sarcastic, humorous, caring brother a person could have. Seriously. You just can't be in a bad mood around him - it's just not possible. The only thing that sucked is that we had to leave.

Came home to a kid that was still sick (she wasn't dying... she's just sick. She was going to sit in front of the computer/tv all day long anyway, so whats the difference if I'm there to watch her or not?), 2 hyper dogs that had obviously been neglected attention-wise all day and a sink full of dirty dishes.

Speaking of dogs... Patrick has a Goldendoodle named Coco. Cutest big lump of fur you'll ever meet. Coco has this squeaky toy... all I know is that it looks like a dinosaur and it's made in China. If you try to feel the inside, it's not hallow, it's got some sort of material in it. It look indestructible and Patrick said they've had it since Coco was a pup (almost a year).... so it survived her puppy-chewing stage. He has absolutely no idea what this thing is called or what brand it is. We stopped at Petco and couldn't find anything close to it. Does anyone have any clue what this could be? We want to buy like 15 of them for Saki, because Lord knows she chews through everything and this is the toy for her!

Send a word out to your critter-friends and help us solve the mystery!

And that, my friends, is your Monday morning ramblings. Check out the work we did at the forums... join up, come talk to us! We love new people... we hand out cookies.

Oh... demon #2 is home sick today still.

Drum Roll, Please....

Today is a very special day. A milestone. It's pretty amazing that we are now talking triple-digit numbers now. Today is, officially, 100 (one-hundred)... not 99, not almost 100, not 90something... but 100 days since the husband & I quit smoking!
Neither one of us finished the Chantix prescription, but please... don't take that as that you shouldn't if you are on it. My parents have both quit smoking a few weeks before us and they both are still on the prescription.
I still find this drug amazing... and coming from me, thats a huge thing. I hate any kind of medicine. When the husband called me that one morning back in December and told me that cigarette prices were going up in Wisconsin....

.... Cig prices went up in Minnesota a long time ago. But being married to a truck driver, we get the luxury of price shopping between states. He goes to Wisconsin everyday and cigarettes were $10/carton cheaper there after the MN prices went up, so... he bought our vice every week.....

..... so he called me and said they were going up and that we should quit. There was this rush of panic that went through me. He'd said it before and somehow I always talked him out of it... but this time? I didn't think I could talk him out of it, maybe I didn't want to, I don't know, but I didn't want to quit. As stupid as that sounds, I didn't. I think only a smoker can understand that thinking. I mean, why would you want to continue bringing smoke into your lungs, right? Dumb, yep.

So I agreed. Yes, it's time. I called the doc and got the meds and we started them... if you've followed along in the beginning on this blog you read how easy it really was. This drug is amazing. It made me, someone who had no interest in quitting smoking, not want a cigarette.

Ok, sure, yeah... I guess part of me had to want to quit or I still wouldn't be a non-smoker.

Do I still want one? Yep. Everyday. Not all the time, but at least once everyday. At the strangest times, too, like - as I type this, because I'm talking about it. Makes me think of it, so I want one.

And, yes, I gained weight. 20lbs to be exact. I don't care about that, either. I'm still not fat, just a little chubby. I can live with that.

So today is 100 days without a cigarette. I think I'll celebrate with a hot fudge sundae.

Weekly Winners (Losers) & Camera Critters

I have to say that this week sucked as far as picture taking. My "winners" for the week are actually sorta losers, but they work for the Camera Critters meme.

Our weather has been freakish this week... 70 degrees on the day I raked the yard and neighbors were mowing theirs, then we had a day of rain. All day rain. Thats where these pictures come in... it was Saki's 1st "rain storm". She ran outside and when the rain started hitting her... well, she didn't know what to think! Snow doesn't feel like that!

Speaking of snow.. we got a couple inches last night/today. And now, at 8pm, it's almost all gone.

Strange week. But just not much of a camera week. Sorry. We've been sick, too, so maybe if we (I) are feeling better tomorrow there will be some last minute weekend shots thrown up.

Project Green. The Book version.

Project Green again

And I'm admitting one of my addictions. Little House on the Prarie. The books... and the show. *hangs my head in shame* Yes, my friends, you will catch me watching this show all the time. I can't help it. I love the show! I always have. I swear I am the only one left on the planet that DOES watch it.