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Took my mum out of the house for the first time since this whole things started! She and needed new glasses. She was delighted. I was glad to get her back safe inside, though. She is 91
 
I must have been asleep. I wrote a LONG reply to Anne-Marie as well and it's gone! LOL I must have written and then closed the page. But I agree with Lynnie and Ane, GS is just such a wonderful place to be. I love that Ginger has the praise team. Everyone gets comments, no matter what. Praise on content or technique. Whatever it is. And I truly believe that's the most important part. That's what creates the friendships here. And what Lynnie said about no drama. If there is, the customers don't feel it. I also REALLY like the challenges and I LIKE that they're always the same. I like knowing what to expect, even if I don't complete them, which I haven't in ages again!!! I know that I can sorta get ready to do a buffet layout, a font layout, a brush layout, follow a recipe, and they're all really "simple" to use and you get "something" for it! And QUICKLY. A quick reward. I think some of the other store reward programs are so complicated and all you get is credit? To buy something? So... And some don't really even give you anything for participating. So why even. I know that sounds "greedy", but I was when I was starting. I had nothing to play with except freebies and I depended on the praise team and the rewards and blog hops.

SO glad you got to see your mom, Lynnie! Isn't that the best "excuse". I found myself a little jealous that my brother got to take Mom to the chiro the other day.
 
Good morning, ladies. I have a busy wkend ahead. My daughter gave her notice at her apartment so she has 3 wks to pack up and move everything into storage and here. I need to purge to make room for her stuff so will be busy filling bins for charity and the dump. We will be moving cabinets tomorrow into my office (out of the rec room which is now her bedroom) so today I have to start emptying and sorting thru it all. Luckily my back is a bit better but I'm going to have to take breaks and use the heating pad here and there throughout the wkend. I'm going to finish up my desk work today for one of my bosses but then she's gone for a week so I have a lighter work wk next wk so I will have more time to purge/sort etc. Its raining right now but if it stops this afternoon I'll drop off a few boxes to charity later. I need to get groceries later, I want to get hubs a steak for tomorrow and Taz needs more dog chews. Busy, busy.....

I'd better get out of here, get to work for awhile. BFN
 
Carla - I am very lucky, my mum lives with me, so I see her every day. It was her first outing, though, and she was filled with delight!

Rae, I am impressed that you are able to keep up with all the CT duties along with everything else you are doing. I hope your back feels better.

Sherri, how is Alexis doing with this round of lidocaine?
 
Anne-Marie,

I have wandered to various scrapbook sites over the years and GS has always drawn me back in. I love the community feel, I just haven't felt that anywhere else since DSP went away many years ago. I greatly enjoy the challenges and we have such an amazing set of designers that I love to scrap their goodies. When I was on several designer CT groups I would go to different sites if they had multiple stores... but I never found a store that had the right mix for me outside of GS. I also agree that Ginger is amazing and so helpful when I goof in the store! This place is home!
 
I didn't even notice until I got the e-mail this morning, but thank you, Lynnie, for nominating me for Layout of the Week! :)

Looks like I've got stiff competition, but I'd appreciate your vote HERE. Thank you! Mine's called The Dress.
 
Happy Father's Day to those celebrating this today ( Sunday 21st)..... we do not have Father's Day here in Australia until the first Sunday in September.

Lynnie, Elizabeth, Carla and Ane,
thank you for sharing your thoughts about Ginger Scraps which I really appreciate you doing.
I am finally at peace ( if that makes sense) that I am calling Ginger Scraps my "digi home".
Something happening next month is really making me feel comfortable and welcome here.... keep an eye on the "Random Challenges" which you will find at the very bottom of the forum, at the start of July.
 
Good morning, ladies. Things are crazy around here. Moving two households into one is no easy feat. We have been busy purging, moving, taking boxes to charity, cleaning, unloading cabinets to move things around. I'm exhausted but we have to keep at it as we only have 3 wks to get my daughter moved in here. In between doing my job, I'm sorting, purging, packing, moving, etc for 20 minutes here and there throughout the day and then devote the wkend to the packing/moving. We have movers coming in 3 wks to bring Jen's stuff that she hasn't brought herself in her car (she's only 5 minutes away so pops over to her old place a lot for small loads to bring over). We rented a storage locker for a year for some of the furniture and boxes and will renew that yrly until we sell this house and move. Then we'll see what we need to keep or get rid of. We'll have junk truck guys come in a few wks to take away things we won't bother giving to charity. So much work but going at this mad pace will get it all done soon and then we can settle into our new arrangement. She is getting half the basement for herself to have some privacy and that requires a lot of rearranging and purging.

So I'm around sometimes and then other days I'm not around much at all. One thing, I'm sure sleeping better at night :) I'm not used to all this manual labor LOL.

Hope Fathers Day was wonderful for those who celebrate. We BBQ'd steak for hubs as that's his fave.

I'd better get to work now but wanted to pop in and say hi.
 
Ane, My pleasure. I loved the layout. Ladies - this is like an alliance, if you are so moved, please vote for Ane in the BB! She deserves it.

VOTE HERE IF YOU HAVE NOT DONE SO YET

Anne-Marie, when it happens, promote it here. I promise I will join in.

Rae, glad you popped in. It sounds as though you really have your work cut out for you. We have been rearranging and purging. Hubby has had a storage unit for some time and we decided it is wasteful. So everything is here and we are going through it. Well, he is, it is all his. The little that was mine is at the kids storage and it is stuff for the various organizations I belong to and stuff to sell at various faires, etc. for charity. I don't really have much in storage other than that.

Sherri, I hope things are going okay with Alexis. I think about her all the time. There was no news after she said she was getting the infusion. I am hoping she is feeling better. Big hugs to you, dealing with all this.

My life:
Mark is still in jail in Illinois. His trial is in July. I talk to him every day, he is so lonely and afraid. He got one of the books I sent him, The Chronicles of Narnia, but not the other one.

Interesting thing about the other book I sent that went missing. I got a letter from someone at the same facility who received a book that I had sent for Mark. Neither his name nor inmate number are like Mark's. The book contained a message I had put in there for Mark, and this man (Mike) wrote me a thank you. He said no one had ever done anything that nice before. I looked him up and found out that he and two other people, all homeless, murdered another transient during a robbery. I thought about it and decided I would write back and said we would pray for him and I would send him another book that was meant for him if he would let me know what he likes to read. I did it today and decided it was meant to happen and perhaps I could do some good passing through the world.

Still walking most days - somewhere between 4 and 7 miles. Some days as much as 8, but not often. Other than that I have been scrapping a lot.
 
Lynnie, I just went back through the thread to see what the story was with Mark who is your Grandson. How concerned you must be for him. I will definitely pray that all will be sorted out and he be set free.
The story about the book gone astray sounds very interesting. I hope your contact with this person does give him hope.
 
Just thought I would pop in for a minute. I keep caught up on everything going on with each of you. I feel so lucky to be where I am. I hope each of you get well wishes sooner than later. I have just spent the last three weeks with family visiting and working. We started work again a few weeks ago. It wasn't too long and my daughter's family from Seattle area came and spent two weeks. She went home on her birthday and my daughter's family from Arizona came that evening. It has been a wild three weeks of playing and enjoying family. We are doing well and staying safe. I again hope each of you will be able to move on and life can get much better.
 
Katherine, that is good you have had time with family. I will get to see my daughter and her family this coming Sunday for the first time since early March even though we only live just over an hour apart. The town they live in was a hotspot for the virus so we have been hesitant to be with them until now that there has been no new cases in quite some weeks.
 
WOW Lynnie! That's just so cool. A God-thing, for sure.

Can't remember if I told y'all that Anne's arraignment got postponed. Freaked her out at first, of course. The email said something about "the victim wanted to discuss the no-contact order". LOL. But her attorney said it was probably just a backlog from covid. That sounded "fishy". I mean why wouldn't they just say that it was a backlog, but whatever. The good news is that the new date is July 10th and it's a zoom hearing in the attorney's office. So Anne's first thought is, 'well, at least I know they can't want to take me back to jail from there!'... smh. She's right though. So we're thinking that maybe "the victim" (really?!?) decided that he'd like the no-contact order rescinded after the hearing? We do know, through the grapevine that he knows "he screwed up and probably won't get her back". YA THINK? Well, her therapist is working really hard to make sure that never happens, so BIG PRAYERS!!!
 
Carla and Lynnie...prayers are being sent for quick resolutions to your problems.

Katherine, so glad you got to spend time with your family.

Panera called me last week and told me that hours were cut again and I will not be needed, so I didn't work last week. I called this morning and they said I'm not scheduled for this week either. Thank goodness I'm still able to collect unemployment.
I've gotten 9 canvas calls because of the Civil Service Test score. I got a call yesterday and set up an interview for Thursday. Wish me luck. I'm going to have to find something in my closet because of covid and the short notice I can't really get to go shopping for something. At least I got an appointment for a haircut for 9 am tomorrow! I was due for a haircut in March so you can only imagine how long it is now. I like my hair short!
Rest of family is fine. My father went out twice with my brother-in-law. Both times we had to call police service to help him back in the house. I know it is hard but he has to realize he really can't go out any more unless the cheapskate puts in a ramp to help all that want to help him. Yes, he is a cheapskate and always has been. Cuts corners everywhere he can.
 
Anne-Marie, I am worried about him, but since I can't do anything about that, I can send letters and pictures and anything else I can to cheer him.

I am glad you got to see your daughter and family. It is always a concern when there is a hot spot.

Katherine, nice to hear from you. I am glad things are going well for you and you are spending time with family.

Carla, that is so crazy. I hope he feels terrible and lets everything just drop and she sees sense and never goes back to him in a million years.

LilyAnn, good luck with your interview. Glad that unemployment is still going strong. I hope your dad sees sense and gets a ramp put in.

My Life:

I had a nasty fall today, thank heavens not as bad as it could have been. I have injured my nose (it bled everywhere) and scratched up my glasses, the glasses put a huge scrape on the bridge of my nose, my eyebrow is swollen and my lip is swollen. I will probably end up with a black eye.

My wrist and ankle hurt too. I feel very very sorry for myself right now. (mandatory awwwwww should be said at this point!)

How did it happen you ask? Grace and Elegance were walking up the steps with me and walked right past. Clumsy tripped me up.
 
It is actually not that bad. No make up, My eyes are a little puffy. My nose got the worst of it. My glasses are a bit of a mess. I have a wretched headache, but the rest of me feels okay now. I think it was the impact hurt a few things temporarily. My face may take a few days... the bruises are just starting to grow. It is a little more swollen than it looks in the picture, and it hurts like the ****ens, but I will be fine.

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Lynnie, that completely seems like something that would happen to me. I really am the world's biggest klutz.

For me, my car is still on the fritz. Stinks so bad, got the part that the mechanic told me it needed replaced and guess what, it is still doing the exact same thing. So, it looks like it is a sensor, which is actually what I said in the first place. But, what do I know, I am just a girl. Seriously though, with a mechanic it is so much like a doctor. You don't get listened to if you tell them what is wrong (like me going to the doctor and saying I have a sinus infection). You are so much better off to just describe the symptoms and let the professional come to the same conclusion that you already know.

Hubby has court on Thursday and I would appreciate any well wishes, prayers, etc. It has been too long and with every day that they are holding him, it is that much more that we are losing.
 
Oh Lynnie! That looks terrible! I can trip over a carpet thread so I know what you're saying. Heal quickly!

Dorann, extra special prayers for hubby (and your car).

BIG prayers for good interviews and a brand new job for you, LilyAnn!!!
 
Oh Lynnie...that looks so sore. Hope it heals quickly.

Dorann - prayers for your hubs are sent.

I'm busy with CT work, desk work and the DD move-in. I am sleeping really well each night b/c I'm exhausted by the time I go to bed (a little earlier than usual). We're getting lots done but there is still an insane amount of things to do over the next few wks before the move-in is complete.

Have a great day everyone. BFN
 
I have been so absent lately that I would have to read pages and pages to see what everyone is up to. I"m sorry for that. This Covid thing, the riots and looting, and just general heart aches in life have really made me retreat into my house and not want to go anywhere or do anything. That keeps Melissa in, and on my computer. I can surf FB on the phone, but scrapping and chatting really need a full on keyboard and computer.

We are FINALLY going to be able to have a Celebration of Life service for my MIL. The churches are open to 50 people. Even though we have to wear masks, social distance, and sit where they put us, we will at least be able to have a funeral Mass and gathering. It will be Saturday.

My weight is out. of. control. My temper is at an all time high, and my motivation to do anything about it is nil.

I keep you all in my prayers - it's the one solace I find lately that doesn't anger me. I hope this ends soon. When I saw a statue of Jesus defaced with the word "HATE" scratched across his forehead, I just lost it in tears.

THIS HAS GOT TO STOP!!!!!
 
I look absolutely dreadful - it got even worse by the end of the day, but I am quite cheerful! :) I love the love, though :)
 
FormbyGirl said:
It is actually not that bad. No make up, My eyes are a little puffy. My nose got the worst of it. My glasses are a bit of a mess. I have a wretched headache, but the rest of me feels okay now. I think it was the impact hurt a few things temporarily. My face may take a few days... the bruises are just starting to grow. It is a little more swollen than it looks in the picture, and it hurts like the ****ens, but I will be fine.
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Oh dear Lynnie!!! I am so sorry you are hurting, your injuries look so painful and no doubt there will be lots of impact soreness on the rest of your body. Take care. It is such a terrible feeling to fall....out of control....you know its happening....you cant do anything....and it seems to go in slow motion.
 
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