Everyday Chatting & Waffling {2023} Let's get to know each other!

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Good morning ladies. I've been editing holiday pics and need to catch up on household chores today but first I'll get out to the dog park with Remi. Glad Sherri is going home. Hopefully I'm around for another zoom. At this time of the year I find I'm busier with outdoor activities so trying to fit a bit of scrapping in later in the day now. Early morning is better for getting out to the park before the heat hits.
 
Hello from New Orleans!

Glad you are ok Karen. Best wishes to you! I’m glad Sherri made it home all right. I’m totally up for another zoom call.

will be here until Wednesday morning, then home for a vacation from vacation, lol! :)
 
So, every July since the 1970s, our company sponsors students to a leadership camp in beautiful Steamboat Springs, Colorado. Since 1998, I bring the students from Oklahoma and Kansas. Once there, we meet up with students from Wyoming and Colorado. All in all, we have about 100 high schoolers for the week.

For most of my students, they earn the trip at the local level (it's 100% paid). Most have never traveled before, or seen mountains, or gone rafting, or been anywhere without their folks. It's a lot of firsts. So we work very hard to make sure we are organized and present an incredible trip for these youth. Many have told us that this camp was life-changing for them.

This year, my counterpart in Colorado has retired and the group that is planning the camp is making me question their abilities. I find myself wanting to beat my head on the desk as they are unable to complete simple tasks by deadlines that have been communicated months ago. For example, the list of all WY and CO counselors and students was due on Monday. With that list, they needed to include the participant's names, sponsors, cell phones, and photos. I was expecting to receive a spreadsheet and folder as I have in the past so we could design the program. What I got was multiple links to multiple drop boxes filled with all of their documents, emails, and texts. Incomplete spreadsheets. Photos of students not on the spreadsheet. Lists of students but no photos. Inconsistent lists of adults. I'm pulling out my hair.

This is telling me that I am going to have to be on top of things during camp week to make sure that the ball doesn't get dropped. The success of camp is at the mercy of the Colorado camp director. We have had a run of awesome years, but I remember nightmare years where the camp director "forgot" to order food for the kids, or another year when all the Colorado adults disappeared (I found them making cookies in the camp director's cabin and watching the movie Twilight while the other state's chaperones were left to monitor the students).

Oy vey... if you're so inclined, pray for the success of our camp this July! We're going to need it!

Thank you for letting me vent and not go strangle someone.
 
Hi everyone, couldn’t sleep ( woke from. A bad dream). I started at the end of this post abnd worked myself back to the beginning gc off May.
congrats on baby Lynnie, loved seeing. Your trip Rae, missed seeing your trip somehow Karen, thank you to all the well wishes, and my thoughts to alll of you, I read the. Posts but just couldn’t comment on all.

alexis will do another formal update sometime later today. But I thought - I’d say high.

may just disappeared for me. I was busy working on INSD stuff, and Friday May 5 stuff, I’m not even sure if I got my buffet threads posted. Then. May disappeared. Just poof gone. I’m tired, so tired, didn’t help alberta was on fire and smoke settled for days in. The valley my city is in. It’s hard on heart patients. And ordinary peeps too.

alexis has worked as hard as she possibly could to be an advocate for me as I wasn’t able. She is only 22 and that is a lot. I’m so incredibly proud of my daughter. So proud. But I hate we both know this could as easily been her as me. �������� I am lucky to be alive and know that. She knows that.

love to all
 
Happy Thursday everyone,

Sherri, happy to hear you are home and to see back here. You have an incredible daughter but I know you already knew that!
 
Sherri, it is so good to see your posts this morning. Welcome back! You were missed.
 
Welcome back, Sherri! I'm so glad your health has improved so much that you could be back here with us. :)

I got home from New Orleans last night and was just too pooped to party. Now I am behind on my scrapping, LOL! I need to finish the challenges and do some CT work, so I am off to do that. Happy day, everyone! :)
 
Good to hear from you Sherri. You and your daughter have a great relationship, supporting and caring for each other. Cherish that. I am sending all the healthy, healing, caring vibes and prayers I can for you.
 
Happy Friday, all! We have a three-day holiday weekend, so most of my coworkers took today off, as well. It's sooooo quiet here today and I'm loving it!

Tomorrow, assuming the weather cooperates, my youngest nephew is playing two games in a soccer tournament. The games are only about an hour and a half away, so I'm planning on going to watch him. Other than that, I'm hoping to work on some pages and just relax before my big youth programs kick off in less than three weeks. :)
 
Good Morning! It has been such nice weather here this week that I have tried to get outside a bit more to enjoy it! The heat and humidity will be taking over all too soon and the first of June marks hurricane season for all of us along the Gulf Coast.

Welcome back Sherri! Shana, your youth program sounds interesting and fun for the kids. I wish you great success!

Off to get a few layouts posted and then tackle my large pile of laundry! No special plans for this weekend. If it is nice, I might jump in the pool!

Have a great weekend all!
 
Hello Ladies...
Looks like we might get some rain today. But at least it's not cold, so not complaining... Sherri glad your back. Plan to make a couple layouts today. I went shopping in the shop, bought a couple goodies, but passed up a couple that had no solid papers, I can't afford all the packs so I have to choose wisely sometimes.... If I could I would buy them all... LOL I have a busy summer with the grandchildren, will be watching them more now that school is out. It can wear me out, but I love the time I get to spend with them. And I might be taking a plane trip for the first time with my son soon, to visit my sister. Not sure how I feel about that, but I know I should give it a try... LOL But looking forward to a busy summer. I hope you all have a long wonderful weekend! Stay safe! Will pop in again soon...
 
Hi everyone!

Sherri, it is lovely to see you here. Just relax on your CT duties, I am sure Ginger will give you a rest, and you can pick them up when you are ready. We are in awe of Alexis. Her writing is lovely, and her description of everything is clear and concise yet filled with easy-to-read detail. She is very gifted. We will schedule a Zoom as soon as you are up to it. That will be fun.

Shana, that camp sounds crazy. I would be tearing my hair out, too.

I have many big events in a row and am getting ready for them. I have scheduled NOTHING new after June 7th, so I will relax and get more scrapping done then. I have one more for the challenges for this month, and I will get that done. Even with an event to celebrate the Coronation planned for the 30th, I will attend a Scottish Festival on Saturday. Some friends are coming over for lunch; then we are heading to another friend's for wine and cheese on Sunday. I love my life!

The following Saturday is a June Faire for my British club. I have a million crafts for it, so my daughter and I have frantically been crafting, sewing bowl cozies and aprons, heat pressing bags and shirts and baby clothes, painting pine cone flowers, making mason jar crafts - the list is endless. It is a lot of fun, but hard work, too.

Then I have a presentation for the history club on daily life in WWII in England. I am presenting my mother's story. I was not there, but she remembered it well. She was from the Liverpool area, which was the most bombed part of England after London.

Then I am done! Rest rest rest, scrap, scrap, scrap!
 
Happy Friday everyone.
YaY Sherri- you are home!!! Prayers continue... Stay strong and feel better.

Today- the last day of school for the g'kiddo's. They are excited... me too - more photos to scrap. LOL

I'm now going to be on CPAP mask #5. Here's hoping and praying!!! I must say: Nationwide Medical is a stellar company with such great caring staff whether on the phone or on one of those 'chat people' to talk to. I like them - even better than the doctors! And he's pretty good.

I'm excited that Kimeric Kreations will be selling here starting in June. If not familiar with her fabulous kits- she was such an excellent designer and her color palettes - superb! She passed away a couple years back but 2 of our GS designers [Karen Schulz and Tami Miller] have taken over her kits ... per her husbands request so her gift to digi and life- remain.

Took Sarah fabric shopping [surprise]. That girl has opinions as to what fabric should be made into what kind of garment- and she means it! WE created a 'new' dance coverup - ready for recital... because as she says: " Gwandma- the one we made 2 years ago doesn't fit like it should and maybe got shrunked". [or maybe... she grew!]

Looking forward to a low key weekend.
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So glad you are back home Sherri, what a terrible time you have had. I am in awe of your daughter's ability to provide such concise and informative updates in this thread amidst her no doubt huge anxiety and stress!!

Alta, regarding solid papers, I always appreciate their inclusion in the kits, it is annoying to have to buy the solids separately, if that's what one chooses to do. There was a thread making a wish that a designer would create a pack of plain white papers in the forum a while back, can't remember who started it...I was using Ilonka's gorgoeus The Earth Laughs in Flowers recently and she had a pack of black papers in that kit. Maybe she could be enticed to create a pack of white papers.

michi, I was pleased to read that Kimeric's designs will be available here, I spent a few months at the Digichicks when I was looking for my next forever digi home after DSP closed and I loved her style. I still have some of those kits somewhere. It will be lovely to see her work again. I know her kits have continued to be available but I dont buy from stores other than GS so it will be nice to have access to them again. Re Miss Sarah...I think you might have a future fashion designer on your hands:)
 
Good morning ladies. I've got a quiet morning here until I get a call to go pick up my hubs at the hospital. He's got Crohn's disease and every once in awhile he gets a fistula, so poor guy has been in agony this past week (but refused to go to the hospital, I guess he was hoping it would clear up on its own, that never happens but I know that is what he always hopes for). So I took him in to Emerg last night and 3 hrs later, at midnight, he was still waiting to be seen. Hopefully they get him in this morning for surgery and I can bring him home today.

That is good that Kimeric's Designs will be here. I remember her designs from years ago, I know I have a few kits somewhere.

Lynnie - you are always so busy. It's nice that you are going to have some quieter time soon to relax and scrap more.

Alta - About white or plain paper, I know it's a few seconds more work, but try desaturating some paper to white or recolor the paper. I enjoy doing that with paper so I end up with exactly the tone/shade I want. I do agree though, a few good pieces of cardstock in a kit is a good idea.

I'm going to go finish up my Tinci's template challenge page, hopefully before I get a call to go pick up my hubs. I'd like to get that finished up today. If you haven't done it this month, it is a really great template IMO.

Hope everyone has a great wkend. BFN
 
Oh Rae- I "get" the GI stuff...as does my daughter too. Prayers this is a short visit for him.
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Good morning ladies. Hopefully hubs comes home today. They thought he might come home yesterday but b/c the surgery was more intensive than last time (fistula, complication of Crohn's), he is still receiving painkillers and IV antibiotics. They will arrange a daily visit from home care for wound care, so if they arrange that today he might be able to come home. He is enjoying his hospital visit, doped to the gills, so happy and keeps saying he is in no pain, feels great LOL. His room mate is a nice fellow and very chatty so they are talking a lot. Last night we all chatted for a few hours about cruising which him and his wife have done a lot of. The nurses have been wonderful too, joking with the two of them a lot and constantly popping in to check on them. They are getting pampered.

This morning I will edit photos and wait for the call to go pick him up today. Or if he has to stay another day, I'll head up this afternoon to hang out in his room for a few hours. It'll be a quiet day.
 
Happy Memorial Day everyone!

I don't know of any of my ancestors who died in war, but plenty of them have served. I hope you all are having a great weekend!

Rae, I'm glad your hubby made it through surgery all right and is feeling better. :)
 
Rae, hope hubby is home soon and on the mend. Not a fun thing to have to live with.

We have our Memorial day in Canada in November but always remember all those around the world that served. My brothers were in Air & Navy cadets when they were young and my BIL was in the Vietnam war. I did a layout not long ago about my paternal grandfather's brother who served in WW1. I was hoping to go to Vimy Ridge when I was in France but time did not permit. His name is on the wall as he was killed in his second day of duty, very tragic. https://gallery.gingerscraps.net/showphoto.php?photo=563631&title=pvt-cyril-osmonde-juniper&cat=500

I am back to work and getting back to some normalcy since Mom's passing, at least I can talk about her and smile once in a while. She is missed so much by everyone who knew her.

Almost the end of the month, where has the time gone! Happy scrapping everyone!
 
Still running around like a chicken with my head cut off! The coronation dinner is tomorrow and the Faire is on Saturday. I can't wait until that is all done.
 
Happy Tuesday, all. We had gorgeous weather for the nephew's soccer tournament. We didn't stay the whole weekend, but his team made it to the championship... and lost in sudden death to one penalty kick. So they got second place. Not too shabby.

Went with my in-laws yesterday to put flowers on all the graves. (My FIL puts a pot of petunias on about two dozen graves scattered across three cemeteries all in the same town). So that was good to be able to spend time visiting and helping him.

We have "mandatory fun" at our office this afternoon. We're supposed to go play mini golf. It's been raining and honestly, I hope we get rained out. I really don't enjoy spending time with my coworkers, especially outside the office. Some are good people, but others... not so much. A couple of my coworkers have already found excuses to get out of it. I wasn't thinking fast enough to schedule a doctor appointment or something this afternoon! LOL!!!

Hope you all have a great day!
 
We call chickens "chooks" here downunder, Lynnie, and why am I not surprised that you are running around like a headless chook? I wonder if that saying stems from what would always happen during my childhood growing up on the farm when my Dad would dispatch a chook for the family dinner and it would actually flap around headless for a while....too graphic?? We were freaked out the first time we saw it but, as you do on farms, we grew accustomed to the basic necessities. Dad would give us the feet with sinews attached and, by pulling on those sinews, we could make the claws contract....traumatising any visiting city cousins for life probably:D

Mini golf is lots of fun, but not in the rain and not unless you are with fun people:) Hope it pours, Shana
 
For sure Jill, that is where the saying originates. The detail about the retracting claws would definitely have made this suburban girl squeal!
Did you folks eat the chicken feet? Only asking as it is a Chinese thing. But I did not know that until I moved to Hawaii and then they are offered at dim sum. (And last week, I noticed them in the butcher case at Whole Foods! So somebody is cooking them.) My (haole) husband orders them when we dim sum. He eats them by himself. Though Makani's college room mate gamely tried it when he came to visit. I have tried them: crunchy yet gelatinous, definitely NOT satisfying. (to paraphrase Pumba!)
 
I can't recall us ever eating the chook feet, glee, but I remember my grandmother making chicken stock with them along with the bones and other bits of the bodies. I can't imagine that there would be much meat on them.
 
Hubs is home, has antibiotics and painkillers for a few days more and is already walking around better than he has for quite awhile. After discussing with the hospital, they figure (b/c of the blood work and tests they did) that along with the fistula, he had a bacterial infection that may have been wearing him out for weeks/months. That would account for the lethargy, increased Crohn's symptoms, sweats and chills, often had a loss of appetite, which he had been getting for a long time, at least a few months. Poor guy. He says he can't remember feeling this well for quite some time. That's what happens when you don't have a doctor to discuss things with. He is supposed to get wound care from the clinic but they said they are too busy and won't see him. Maybe next week, they said, but maybe not. I am so fed up with the Canadian BC health. I don't know if we'll do it but I'm considering a move to another province next year if things don't improve. This lack of medical care is very concerning. So, I'll keep my eyes open as to what's happening in the other provinces and will talk with family next spring.

On a happier note, the weather was glorious today. I went out with a ladies group for coffee in the park and we sat around and gabbed for over 2 hrs. It was fun. Tomorrow night I'm going to book club although I didn't read the book (Michelle Obama's book). It's more a social outing than book club so it doesn't matter that I haven't read it.

I'm getting off the computer to go make dinner and binge watch some TV.
 
Rae, I'm glad you had nice weather. We had good weather until late afternoon. Then the storms came. I made it home just before the hail hit. We had 60 mph winds in our community. Between the winds and the hail, we had some tree limbs go down, but that was about all the damage anyone saw. So not too bad.

Today is my daughter's 24th birthday. She wants to have a nice dinner in Kansas City, so we'll take her out tonight. We've invited her grandparents to join us, as well. She wants to get home at a decent time as she's planning to go out partying with her friends afterward. In her job, she works four, 10-hour days each week, so today is her "Friday."

I'm working on assembling my binder for my youth tour. I have a huge, zippered portfolio where I keep every phone number, reservation, and detail. That way, if my electronics fail, I have a back up of everything. Between carrying the binder and the camera, and all the walking we do, I get quite the workout! LOL! Speaking of which... I need to make a chiropractor appointment for when I return! LOL!
 
Rae, I'm guessing it's Mobama's newer book. I finally watched tge TV special(maybe Oprah, already forgot) that had been on my dvr for weeks.
As for your hubs, having gut issues does not go well w being on a cruise! My dh still loves to tell how our one and only cruise(w the kids to Alaska!) got him to his heaviest weight. (He's a beanpole, no one else sees gaining weight as bragging rights.) I remember back in the day when I still had a colon and all its issues, sometimes I would just not eat. Then I didn't have pain.
 
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