Under Construction

Ok, so I apologize for the construction on my blog, I'm having "issues." I am trying to get a 3 column layout, but keep getting it messed up, and its driving me crazy, but I have way too much to do, so hopefully I can make some time later today, to get this all figured out...maybe I will save my money  for a customized blog(ha lol) :) thanks!!

Daylight Saving Time is not my friend

The title says it all...this time around at least. In the past, DST has never affected me really, but that is not the case this "Spring Forward" season...ever since we went across our house and changed the clocks, my life has been in chaos.

Mondays I run all my errands and get groceries, etc. So I try to wake up early, or at least by 9am at the LATEST which that is the longest I have slept in, in a long time..otherwise I wake up mad because I've wasted most of my day...until this past Monday, with the time change, 9am, became 10am...so I was upset, and running behind the entire day.

Every night I go to bed at 10pm, like usual, and I can fall asleep quickly and get a good nights rest...until Monday, ever since then, I seem to toss and turn all night and wake up at odd hours and can't get back to sleep. 

After Tom gets off work, we will go out and about some days, as we did Monday night and Tuesday night. Both nights we will be shopping or something and look outside and say oh we have PLENTY of time to get home and cook dinner, and eat at a reasonable hour. Then we look at the clock. It's 6:30 and we are at least 20 min. away from home. 

So I wonder if we could just set our clocks back and be late everywhere? that would be too confusing. maybe we could set our clocks another hour ahead and just be early. Never bad to be early right? but we would spend a lot of time waiting. I think its best to just stick it out with this monster we call Daylight Saving Time, and hope we become better friends over the months. The thing is, just about the time we get this relationship back on track, it will be time to "Fall Back." It appears to be a never ending cycle. I just don't know why its causing such a rift in my life this time, but hasn't for previous years.  Doesn't matter the reason, I want it to stop. I am ready to go back to waking up at a decent hour, being more on schedule, and being able to tell what time it is. And most importantly, getting good sleep! :-)

Blog Giveaway!!!

Ok, so I apologize for just now getting this posted, its been a crazy day...but because of this...I am going to let the giveaway go till Monday night and will anounce a winner on Tuesday. I will be keeping this schedule from now on, because Mondays are very busy for me. Anyways, so now to the fun stuff..

This week we have THREE ways for you to get entries into this giveaway:

1. leave a comment on this post.

2. post a blog about this giveaway, and come back and leave ANOTHER comment letting me know you blogged about it, with a link to your blog.

3. become a follower of my blog, and come back and leave ANOTHER comment letting me know. If you are already a follower, just simply leave a comment saying " I follow your blog" 

This giveaway will end Monday night March 16th at midnight or so, and I will post the winner on Tuesday. GOOD LUCK!!

First is a birthday card which says "just think, with every birthday you're even closer to being more like your parents" 
Inside of the card...
Another birthday card that says " You're only young once. You can be immature for a lifetime"
Inside of the card...
This is a Thank you card, which is blank on the inside, and on the front has a special paper called black magic, I ran it through my cuttlebug with a paisley embossing folder, and then sanded the high spots. 
This is a Thinking of You card, which is also blank on the inside, and the background on this one is also embossed on my cuttlebug with a different, elegant embossing folder. 
This is a simple, congratulations wedding card. pink and white ribbon tied on the side, and the heart on the top of the cake is raised, also blank inside.
Lastly, another Thank you card, also blank inside...

Happy Friday!

Well its Friday...woo hoo! I love weekends! and its beautiful outside today, like yesterday...I had my windows open, I made the rest of the cards for the Monday giveaway coming up, and deep cleaned my living room. A productive day...and I hope today is just as productive or more!! Nothing like the feeling of having at least a room in my house that I know is deep cleaned and dust free, and the rug doesn't look like its 30 years old with the muted colors...ok, well it wasn't that bad, but it was driving me crazy...

In other news, I offically can get to the basement without having to go outside! Yep, we have new stairs, drywall and all! Hopefully we will be painting this weekend or soon, and then Tom will be doing the trim work next week! Its so great to see progress...the stairs are narrower than we wanted, but who cares, it looks finished, no more nasty foundation wall, or better yet, no more holes in stairs! hahaha :) 

One last thing before I go and try to be productive today....I have to brag about my best friend...You HAVE to go check out her blog, not only is she an amazing person but she can write a blog like no other :) and today's post was great, especially if you are a mother...anyways go check it out here!!

Hope you all have a great weekend and to see you back on Monday for another card giveaway! 

SwagBucks

This is pretty cool! Thanks to Katy for introducing it to me! :) All it is, is you use swagbucks.com to search, just like you do with Google, or Ask, the only difference is that you can win swagbucks when you search, sometimes you win 1 swagbuck, sometimes 2 or 5, etc. Then you redeem your swagbucks for prizes...so you can earn prizes for doing what you do already...searching! so if you want to check it out and sign up, click here ! also if you sign up, and then tell your friends about it like this...then you will earn swagbucks when then do..so check it out! :) 

And the Winner is....

so, I used random.org to pick a random number between 1 and 38, and it chose comment number 26 which was left by "The Dreamer". Congratulations!!! I will be emailing you to get your address. Please come back next Monday when I will be doing this again...and will be adding at least another way to get an extra entry. Thanks for all the comments, it has been fun!

Today is the day!!

Ok, so I have closed the comments on the giveaway, have familiarized myself with random.org number generator....and will be picking the offical winner later today when I get home from running my usual Monday errands....so I will be back later today for the REAL fun!! :) lol