OHHHH Harry!

Well I am a Harry Potter geek. Yes I have read all the books, and have seen all but one of the movies. And Yes, we always go to the midnight showing to see it first. And when I say "we" it's not my husband and I , it's my God-daughter, her mom and sister. It is always a fun evening.

However, when we first started doing this, we could arrive at the theatre at 10:30p and be in the front of the line. Not so much now! We arrived at 7:55p for a 12:02a showing. C R A Z Y~I know! So many people dressed in costumes, including my God-daughter. (I posted the picture to my facebook page and can't get it on her :0( ). Some of them were totally amazing.

The theatre gave out "Red Bull" for the movie. Have you ever been to a movie, that that the antipaction is building??? OK now think about that, with the "Red Bull" added in. Some hyped up teenagers and adults! My friend and I were talking....what were they thinking? They should have given out pop instead!!

I also saw "Horrible Bosses" and have to say I haven't laughed that hard in YEARS!! If you get a chance you have to go and see it. And I think it is better to go with some co-workers......just sayin'

I am doing 2 work studies in the next two weeks and am really excited about it. I will be "shadowing" at Hour Magazine in Royal Oak (thanks to my friend Wendee) and at Oakwood Hospital Public Affairs office (thanks to my friend Mary). My portfolio class is going well and it's kind of fun being the only student. Spent 3 hours with my instructor last week. I am "branding" myself and it has been such an enlightening experience!

This weekend is a catch up weekend. I need to get some stuff done around here that I have been putting off. Some errands and some cleaning BLAH!

And now it's back to the grind, getting homework finished, a dog walked and dishes done. However, Harry I will be thinking about you.........Thanks for all the "get away
time you gave me!

Summer Time

Hello!

So I was just thinking about my summer. I was thinking on how fast it is flying by and all of my BIG plans are running out of time!!

I am full swing into my summer class and my internship. I have to say I wasn't so excited about either. I was more nervious than anything else! Boy, have I proved myself wrong! I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE them both!!

I am doing my inernship for Camps Connect. This group is a the CYO Camps and St. Vincent dePaul Camps working together to run the camps. They share resources; staff and buildings.

They use fundraising as a portion of their budget. They have a Haolloween Fright Fest in October of 2011. I was assigned to redesign the flyer and have to say I did a good job!

Hopefully, you'll want to take family and friends out for a SCARY evening!

I wanted to hit Salt Lake City this year for the Stampin' Up! Convention, but it wasn't in the "cards" this year. Well, actually not the "cards", more like the bank account! I hope my friends who are going have a blast and I look forward to hearing about all the new good stuff coming through!

Well, I am off to make dinner and to work on my new Stampin' Up! catalog packages. Been kind of busy getting other stuff done. I want these to be out in the mail tomorrow!

:0)

First Day of Internship down.....

Today I started my Internship at Camp Connects in Port Huron Michigan. What a great day I had!! I have a great "boss" and get to design flyer's, pamphlets and postcards for them. I am excited!!! Just had to tell someone!

Where Oh Where Have I Been???

Oh I know how awful I have been for not blogging! I am so sorry. Life sometimes just throws me for a loop!!


Hillary and Humphrey

We have had a lot going on. In January, we had to put Hillary to sleep. She got sick and within a week we had to put her to sleep. We found out she had Cancer. That was one of the hardest days (or so I thought) that I have lived, until May when we had to put our other dog Humphrey to sleep. Humphrey had tumors and took a dive for the worse. 4 months to the day of putting Hillary down, and on his 13th Birthday we had to put him to sleep. Now that was awful......not so much that he was out of pain, but for the pain I had in my heart. You see, that stupid dog was my companion and buddy. He was my protector and confidont. Crazy! I know, that dogs could do that to you. Each day I think about those two, and just hope that they are running and playing in heaven together.

When we put Hillary to sleep, we noticed that Humphrey was lonely, just not himself, so we started "shopping" around for a new dog. We knew we wanted a puppy (oh, how I had forgotten how much work they were!) and found "Madison". Now, knowing how my husband works, I knew it would take a while for him to warm up to the thought.....and it did. I had been checking Petfinder (http://www.petfinder.com/) . My friend Carol found "Madison" so I inquired and she was still available. We set up an appointment to meet her. The day of the appointment, my husband said don't get attached "just in case". REALLY? REALLY? Well, let's just say, it wasn't me who got smitten right away! We adopted her and brought her home the same day. Now, while driving to my parents, (gotta show off the new fur-grandbaby) we had tochange her name. Not in the "H" family. Larry came upon the name "Holly" "Holly Madison" and I joking laughed when we got a new boy dog, would he name it "Heff". So Holly Madison is now her name and she is loving it here! She is a typical puppy and we are now living through her puppy chewing and digging phase UGH!!!

Holly at 2 months Holly today at 4 months

I have been busy with school, just plugging away, with graduation in December. I know Holy Cow!~ I am doing my internship this summer and am quite excited about that.

I did do something fun yesterday, I was part of a FLASH MOB! I know, COOL! My friend Laura works for BCBS of Michigan they were planning a flash mob for the Detroit River Days this weekend. So she asked a few of us if we wanted to do this and I was sure. I then started thinking about it and got nervous. I pratriced with the video and was ready to performance time. It was C R A Z Y! It was so much fun. I had it listed on my "bucket list" and now I can truthly cross it off! Here is the link for the video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcXldLmFQw0

I promise now that I am off for the summer I promise to post a little more, no really I do!

Two Days in a row???

REALLY?? I know, had a few minutes and thought I would post.

First day back after two weeks off. Wasn't as bad as I thought it might be. I only have 34 more work days until Winter Break. I think part of my "problem" is that it gets dark so early that I get that closed in feeling. Crazy, I know!

I promised to post a card today, so here you go:

This is the card I made my cousin for his wedding. I love the colors. Seems I am liking grays, browns and blues again.I am planning on doing some stamping this week. I seem to have the "itch" to do so!

Had dinner tonight with friends and family. It always make my heart feel good when I hang out with them. We exchanges Christmas presents, had a Spaghetti Dinner and finished up some Christmas goodies. Still have some hershey candy cane kisses left...maybe they will find their way into my freezer for my summertime cravings!

Want to leave you with this thought:

"New opportunities are often things you haven't noticed the first time around."

Catherine Deneuve

Food for thought.......until we meet again................

Happy New Year

Hello!!

I know awful blogger. Been putting all my energy towards my school work instead of the fun stuff!! I am almost done and am excited to say I only have 7 more classes after the Winter Term. I am hoping to graduate in the Fall of 2011. Keeping my fingers crossed!

So what have I been up to?? Hmm.....celebrated 12 years of Marriage, went to Florida, had an awesome summer of swimming, stamped a little and scrapped a little....worked a lot!

Held a few classes last year, nothing like I had in previous year, but that to will change in a few months. I have, co-chaired twp scrapbook weekends for St. Vincent dePaul and the CYO camps. Get weekend to get some uninterrupted time to work on your books. Our next weekend is in April 7-9, 2011. If interested you can click on this link for info: www.cyodetroit.org/programs/CampingServices/tabid/92/default.aspx It has the flyer up from 2010, prices haven't changed so the form can be used.

I am also hosting a St. Vincent dePaul Day Crop fundraiser on January 15, 2011 at St. Maurice Church in Livonia. If interested, email me and I will send you the info!

Next post I promise to post some cards that I have made.....my stamping has been sparse!

Once again, Happy New Year everyone! I know that this year will be AWESOME....I can feel it in my bones!

Another Day......Another Dollar!

Good Morning!


It's a wonderful day in the neighborhood.........



I am off today and tomorrow because of our school winter break. It's kind of nice to have that break. I am working on homework and I am OK with that. I did get a little goofing time this weekend.....my niece's birthday party.....Our VALentine turned four yesterday. Her party was on Saturday. It was a Barbie party and my sister made the cake. I though she did an awesome job on it! Val loved it and was so excited to show everyone when they came over. Uncle Larry and I got her the Princess Tiana Doll, and Pj's to match. She LOVED them!! She is also my God-Daughter so we also got her a pair of ruby heart earrings. For her 5th birthday I am hoping to start her on a charm bracelet. I have a year to find one.......


Yesterday Larry and I spent the day doing nothing!! Well I worked in the dreaded homework. We also watched goofy movies. High School Musical 3 and Hanna Montana. I know, I know!!!
We did redeem ourselves and watch Paul Bart Mall Cop. We aren't big on Valentine's Day because our wedding anniversary is in two weeks and that's when we do the celebrating!


I am hoping to maybe do a little stamping today. I have a mid-term test today in marketing so that will be my reward once the studying is done! (You'd think I was a kid!)


Enjoy your day!!! Do something just for YOU!


Until later...........................

Happy Valentine's Day!

What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork! ~ Pearl Bailey

Happy Valentines Day! Hope your day is filled with more love and less paperwork!

My Valentine's Day present to you......SAMPLES that I have promised!~

until tomorrow ..........

Happy Superbowl!

Happy Sunday!!

As a Stampin' Up! Demonstrator this is my favorite time of the year.......SALE-A-Bration! For every $50 spent you get a free selected stamp set, punch or paper from Stampin' Up!

http://204.228.150.61/catalogs/NovCatalogs/SAB_10_US.pdf

I am all about getting free stuff!! Check out my website at http://crazyboutstamps.stampinup.net/ for more information regarding the sale.

I have a 12 Card Birthday demonstration in Royal Oak next weekend. I love that my demo's have gone to the next level. I enjoy doing fun stuff like that. HOWEVER, I have yet to start designing any cards yet. I know, I know!!! I can't seem to get my act together in getting myself to plan ahead of time! I have tried, but I always think I have more time than I do. One day........

I am also working in a fundraiser scrapbook weekend for St. Vincent dePaul. It is set for the last weekend of April 23 -25, 2010. The cost is $85.00 for the weekend. If you pay by March 19, 2010 save $10 and pay only $75.00! The registration forms can be found at http://www.svdpdet.org/ozanam.html

Schoolwork has been a lot, but I hate to say this out loud......It is getting a little easier! Lots and lots and lots of papers to write, about 2 a week, but I am getting the hang of it.

I can't wait for the commericals tonight.....love the Superbowl Commericals!

Enjoy your day.......

Until next time.............................

I have a dream......

Martin Luther King Speeches
I Have a Dream - Address at March on Washington
August 28, 1963. Washington, D.C.


Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of captivity.

But one hundred years later, we must face the tragic fact that the Negro is still not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languishing in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. So we have come here today to dramatize an appalling condition.

In a sense we have come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men would be guaranteed the inalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check which has come back marked "insufficient funds." But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. So we have come to cash this check -- a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice. We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to open the doors of opportunity to all of God's children. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood.

It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment and to underestimate the determination of the Negro. This sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. Nineteen sixty-three is not an end, but a beginning. Those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual. There will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights. The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.

But there is something that I must say to my people who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice. In the process of gaining our rightful place we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.

We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force. The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny and their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom. We cannot walk alone.

And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall march ahead. We cannot turn back. There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, "When will you be satisfied?" We can never be satisfied as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities. We cannot be satisfied as long as the Negro's basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one. We can never be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote. No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.

I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow cells. Some of you have come from areas where your quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality. You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive.

Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed. Let us not wallow in the valley of despair.

I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal."

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at a table of brotherhood.

I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state, sweltering with the heat of injustice and oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.

I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

I have a dream today.

I have a dream that one day the state of Alabama, whose governor's lips are presently dripping with the words of interposition and nullification, will be transformed into a situation where little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls and walk together as sisters and brothers.

I have a dream today.

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together.

This is our hope. This is the faith with which I return to the South. With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.

This will be the day when all of God's children will be able to sing with a new meaning, "My country, 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrim's pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring."

And if America is to be a great nation this must become true. So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania!

Let freedom ring from the snowcapped Rockies of Colorado!

Let freedom ring from the curvaceous peaks of California!

But not only that; let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia!

Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee!

Let freedom ring from every hill and every molehill of Mississippi. From every mountainside, let freedom ring.

When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, "Free at last! free at last! thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"