Alright, I'm a big time Food Network fan. I mean like just about everyone else I like Paula & Giada. I used to love Good Eats way back when AB was humble. But two of my favorites are the newer Guy Fieri and Robert Irvine. So to my shock and horror, RI is being replaced on Dinner Impossible next season! They've filmed episodes with him but are apparently not choosing to air them-yet. See they are replacing him the winner of Next Iron Chef, Michaels Symon. And I do like MS. I'd love to see him have his own show. But does it have to be at the expense of losing my Robert? Big, strong Robert?
Wheew, I got a little dizzy there for a second. Don't tell DH. Anyway, I'm just saying. I'm sure there are some people out there who are thoroughly hurt by his resume scandel, but me-not so much. I'm going to miss RI!
Yaaaaaawn. I finally have a few mintues to myself. Not long enough to scrapbook, mind you. So I figured I'll check a few blogs, get some inspiration. Maybe get the creative juices flowing so that come tomorrow morning I'll have the desire to get off my tush and create the next in my series of recipe pages.
I began scrolling down the list of my bookmarked blogs and almost ALL of them are old. Now I can't fault a company for not posting each day or each week. I even can understand not posting each month but that's pushing it. But come on, 4 months?! I've just had a baby and I'm still maintaining 2 blogs. Is there really nothing new to report? Not so much as a joke of the day? How 'bout a scrap of the day?
I don't know, maybe I'm an addict. Alright, I know I'm an addict. But these days my mind is less and less devoted to scraping and more and more devoted to remembering doctor's appointments and storytimes at the bookstore. So when I sit down to scrap I need to know what I'm doing. I used to sit down and putter about, playing with inspiring things at my desk. I'd play with scraps, arranging and rearranging a page until I had it just right. Now I've got to have things all ready in my mind and that means I lean on outside inspiration more and more [read: I scraplift].
So what's a scrappy time-challenged girl to do? Well, tomorrow I'll be pulling out books on scrapbooking from guess where-the Scrap Book Club. I've got some really good ones but haven't looked at them for a while. Now's the time. And since I've rambled on long enough I'm going to go pull out some books to get ready for tomorrow.
I can't remember the last time I made my husband say "Wow!" It's not that he doesn't dig the creative and/or thoughtful things I do. It's just that he's a guy and something of a hardened one at that. There aren't many things that impress him and he's rarely surprised.
So when I saw this funky cake pan that makes a gigantic cupcake at Target I thought, "Eh, he probably will think it's stupid." Then when I saw it on sale at A. C. Moore I decided to get it anyway because I knew I could use it for Sav who'd totally dig it. I figured if ACM has it then Joann must also sell it. But 2 trips to J's later I still had no pan. Back to Target. No good, they weren't selling it anymore. Come on! Nevermind, it's not worth it.
This morning I woke up ready to bake a regular round 9" cake. Until I remembered that we were out of eggs and I hadn't thought to get them yesterday while grocery shopping. Back out to Publix and since Michael's is nearby I might as well take a coupon and check there. So I scoot out the door to M's and they are carrying it but the spot was empty. I asked for help and got a lukewarm, "Well, we've been selling a lot of them. There probably aren't anymore." Uh, any way to find out for sure since I'm standing here ready to pay for it? Not interested in making money at this particular moment? Yes, by this point I was more than a little miffed. Could ya tell? Well the woman "helping" me couldn't. But then someone else came up to help and she actually found me one after about 5 minutes. YES!! And then the first chick redeamed herself by swapping out my 40% off coupon for a 50% off one. Spiffy! Ready to see?
By now you may have caught on to the fact that I'm a Florida chick through and through. I love all things tropical. So it's no surprise that I'm a Parrothead. For those of you who don't know what that is, simply put it's someone who's a Jimmy Buffett fan. For those of you who don't know who JB is, well all I can say is Google him cause that's a whole blog unto itself.
Back on track. Me=parrothead. Then it's not shocking that I scrap through the words of JB's songs. Afterall, I was raised on that calypso, reggae, creole, country blend. My first daughter is named after a JB song and shares her name with his daughter. My youngest daughter was born to the sounds of JB playing courtesy of the anesthesiologist. Like I said, Me=parrothead.
So when I sat down to scrap these photos from our last trip to the Keys in December I heard the words of one particular song in my head. Biloxi. It's one that I've known since I was a kid. The words give me chills. And I thought they were perfect for this layout of my dad, daughter and niece. In part it's because everyone has always thought that the two girls are sisters. They look more alike than they look like their own sisters.
The trip was to scatter my mom's ashes in a spot where she and my dad used to vacation together. It was memorable, bittersweet. And since I believe that part of my healing process is to remember the good to soften the bad this layout has been scrap-therapy. It's going into an album for my dad for Father's Day. It is one of my most favorite-ist layouts ever!
