trying this...
Typepad is not letting me post pictures!!! WTH!!! (It's also not spelling words correctly either!)
So, my post I have been trying to post for about 6 days now is still not able to be posted. So, I am either going to have to run 2 different posts (One for pictures and one for words) or I might switch back to blogger (SUCKS!)... I love my little home here. Even though I have been neglecting her so lately.
So, below you will find pictures of what I wanted to post about. I'll just type the descriptions now...
The first is my layout for the Pretty Committee challenge. It was for the challenge... What traditions do you have? So, since we have managed to change things year to year and without covering the usual suspects (baking, decorating, etc) I chose to do a layout about what tradition I want to do with my girls. We so want a pink tinsel/foil tree to make all girly and pretty.
Then, the next grouping of pictures is my daughter singing at a Christmas event at the local mansion. The mansion was awesome! She did a wonderful job singing her Christmas songs. It was a fun day.
Then a few pictures of our Christmas Eve Baking Extravaganza. The boys made fudge, Christmas shaped chocolate covered pretzels, and a gingerbread man shaped cake. The girls made the gingerbread house. We all had so much fun!
Then, you'll see goofy me. I got The Office DVD game for Christmas! I won it with using scotch tape to make a face. (LOVELY PICTURE ;) ). And since I won by mostly answering trivia based on The Office, no one will play with me... ;(
Then for Christmas I got a GPS navigation unit. Which is great! For the first time since we moved here, I have somewhat a sense of the true direction. The bad part... I almost tossed the GPS out the window. The address it was supposed to take me to... It didn't exist. This thing led me into the mountains. (It was dark and the side mountain roads have no lights. Did I mention that there was snow and ice on the roads as well... They don't believe in guard rails either.) So driving in the mountains already freaks me out. So, I was really stressed out. It says "You have reached your destination... and there was no driveway... no place to see. No place to turn around. FREAKING OUT HERE!!! The girls were in the back seat. They were wondering "what the heck?" I had to drive almost 6 more miles up the tiny road UP THE MOUNTAIN to a spot where I could turn around. Then I had to go back down... Down the part where you are next to the edge with no guards and it goes straight down. DONNA NOT HAPPY! Before we left, I had to try and reprogram the whole thing... It wouldn't do anything except tell me that my POI (point of interest) doesn't exist! There was no cell phone service up there either. So, no calling or anything to get a specific address, or ability to use my phone to get Internet for directions. At this point, the girls were crying, I was getting so upset... I did roll down the window... I did almost throw the thing out the window... but, I didn't. I was thinking I could get a refund for it.
So eventually we made it out of the mountain area. The phone picked up service again. I left one #%$^&^v of a message on the person's phone about the piece of crap they gave me for Christmas! It's what they get for not answering to give me an address. So, as I was driving home, I was noticed a sign for the exact place I was trying to go. I followed the road signs and got to where I was trying to go in the first place.
So, the girls and I went to the Trail of Lights at the Botanic Garden. It was something fun and COLD to do. We warmed up with hot chocolate and followed the trail of lights. It was beautiful and fun. We also toured an old ranch house that is original to the property. It was neat seeing the old furniture and how tiny things were way back when (1890 I think).
On top of that, I received both good news from a friend and horrible news from a relative. The second has been really hard for me to deal with... The first still has me giggly happy.
So we had an eventful Holiday Season. The biggest thing of this year so far is that my middle daughter has lost both of her front big teeth. She lost them on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day. She is the first kid I have had that has both of the teeth missing at one time. And she's #5 of 6.
So as for this year, I have no plans. It's weird for me. The one thing I was counting on was being able to move this year. That plan has changed. I am so depressed about that. I'm happy that my kids are happy, but I have lived my year + here. I really want to go somewhere new and do different things. (I must have been a nomad in a former life. I can't stand staying in one place for more than a year or two.) I have no idea what I want to accomplish... Should I try to continue on the path for another Design Team? Should I try launching my new thing thathas consumed my life these past few months? I'm not sure where I want my life to go this year.
And lastly for my post... I apologize for the quality of pictures I posted. My camera is having a focusing issue. It won't focus correctly in any setting. It was taken to one shop (without my knowledge) and they were told that there was no issue. Stupid person must not know or understand how to work a camera. The only other place to take the camera doesn't repair cameras on-sight. So I have to pay them $200+ to take it and look at it before they can even say if they can fix it or not. So, now I am torn between paying to hopefully get my camera fixed, should I take that same money and buy a nice point-and-shoot camera, or should I live with what I have now and save for The rebel or Nikon D-something?
Lots to contemplate about this year for sure.
Later all.
