Busy Bee

Wow, time flies when you're busy! I've been working more due to year-end stuff. Then every night I've scrapbooked because I'm doing the Layout-A-Day Challenge over at Big Picture Scrapbooking, and I've had to upload my page by 11 PM every night. I'll get a chance to write more (and recap the last few days) later. I said I'd show you the picture of us with Santa at Disneyland, and also one of his reindeers. So here is a page I made with those pictures.

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Food, cooking, etc.

I made cream of mushroom soup from scratch on New Year's Eve. Cream of mushroom soup is one of my favorites, and Todd found a recipe at Cooking Light that makes it delicious and healthy. I follow the recipe, except that I half it because Todd doesn't eat mushrooms. Also, instead of pureeing the WHOLE pot, I take out a few ladles worth of the ingredients (mainly mushrooms as the other veggies are pulverized by heat by then), then puree the rest. Then I put the chunks back into the pureed soup, so that there's chunks of mushrooms in there. Yummy! The rest of the New Year's Eve food consisted of:

• Peruvian Anticuchos (beef kabobs)
• Texas Sheet Cake
• Izze all-natural soda

So that was our New Year's Eve. We enjoyed our own favorite home-cooked foods and watched football to our hearts content! We also watched this movie, which is one of our FAVORITES!

A while ago I purchased a custom handwriting font from Darcy Baldwin at The Digi Chick. So I scanned my handwriting and sent it to her, and yesterday she emailed me my very own customized handwriting font! Check it out!

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What I do with your holiday cards...

I actually keep every one of them. I really do. Every year I put them all into an acid free brown kraft envelope, and write the year on them. I put all the yearly envelopes in a box. I don't throw them away because I like to look at them, and see how much my friends children have grown, what everyone's been up to, etc. I especially liked the snowmen ones this year, so I picked out some favorites and scrapped a page about them. These are purely chosen based on the card asthetics, not on who sent them! Just so you know... :)

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I'm Photo of the Day!

I went over to Pink Ink Studio's blog and what do I see??? I'm the Photo of the Day over there! What an honor! I'm so surprised! To celebrate the occasion, I made a page out of it. It is also for my Big Picture Scrapbooking's "Get a Load of This!" class, in which we create one page a day. That's going to be a challenge, but I think I'm up for it!

On today's list:

• Work (bleh, back to work after 4 day weekend)
• Workout
• Clean up desk
• Make chart of "Consistent" activity tracker
• Maybe run to Target

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One little word: CONSISTENCY

Today is New Year's Day and I've been running around the house, getting my to-do list done! And watching bowl games, of course. Instead of point by point new year's resolutions, I thought I would choose one word and stick to it.

My little challenge to myself. You can join me if you want. What is your one little word for 2008?

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