Laura Vegas

just random stuff in list form for you today.

• i spent a good part of my day yesterday working on my blog book for 2007. the idea of having your blog actually printed in a hard-bound book for years to come … pure genious! the actual making of this book … pure hell! lol! maybe it would be easier to just pull it all up (the easy part) and then hit "print". but no, i wanted to go through and check each page … changing the design for if i had photos on that post, and how many photos i had. i started with 420 pages. i went through the last half (did the first half earlier this year) yesterday. now it’s down to 320 pages. not bad. but last night and today … i cannot get the book to open up … it keeps locking up on me. i’m seriously pissed … i was totally on a roll with it and coming close to being done and ready to print.
• and to think … i want to do 2005 and 2006 books too! lol! i think this year, i’ll upload a month at a time and work on it. that way i can make it all look prettier. when you have a year at a time to do … you go for simple!
• i’m in between projects right now. i do have one layout that just needs to be journaled. but nothing else started … and no assignments as of right now. so i’m doing some organizing. i went through a bunch of albums yesterday and am trying to re-think my process with all these layouts. i actually took some out and peeled off the pics to use on something else … more on that later.
• we had opening day for softball last saturday. kind of spread out. opening ceremonies in the morning. then a 4 hour gap. team pictures. then we watched amanda’s game while we waited for sarah’s game. we had the last game of the day … at 5:15. it was crazy cold and super windy … and it even poured rain for about 5-10 minutes in the middle of the game. nice, right! they did pretty good for it being their first game.
• one thing i thought was nice … was that sarah was having so much fun saturday. she’s a crazy kid … but yet really quiet around other people sometimes. she was having a blast! goofing around in the dugout, yapping and dancing with her teammates. i don’t know if it helps that she has her friend tawny on her team. they’re both silly, crazy girls … and yet like to pretend to everyone around them that they never talk. lol! but i’m glad to see her having so much fun with all the girls on her team!
• while i was practicing my patience during this blog book making …. i thought i’d listen to some music to try and calm me. so i dug out sarah’s cd player. but the only headphones (or are they called earphones?) i could find didn’t have a very long cord. so there i am with this cd player (remember those?) balancing on my lap … not being able to move too much or the headphone plugs would come out. a few times i got up to do something and clipped the darn thing to my jeans. so NOT cool! am i the only one that doesn’t have an ipod? joe’s been bugging me for one for a while … he says all the guys have them at work. although since he’s one of the dudes in charge at night at the store … i’d think he’d need to hear what’s going on around him. lol!
• slow week here so far. yesterday i only had nikolas … and amanda after school. today i only have haley … and amanda after school. although wednesday and thursday are half-days for the older girls at school … so then it’ll be busier. and then they’re off track for a month.

guess that’s it for now. i’m off to try to get the blog book to pull up again. then it won’t work … and the computer will lock up … and i’ll spend another 5 minutes trying to get it to close out … and then i’ll be tempted to toss my computer across the room. not sure why i put myself through these things!