This month's madness

Boy oh boy but I think I will be glad when September is past..... please remind me next year NOT to do this to myself again!  Here's how crazy this month has been....

1. I signed up to do the following challenges:
a. ScrapU at Scrap-Friendzy
b. School at Scrapbook Nook
c. Sketch-a-thon at Sketches for All
d. Cosmo Cricket layout competition at ScrapAttack Scrapbooking
e. Design Team application at ScrapAttack Scrapbooking
f. September challenge at In2Crafts

2. I attended the International Scrapbook Convention

3. My family descended (on mass!) for all of last week so my scraproom got turned into a bedroom. And to compound the situation we had no water for 36 hours.

4. Made lunch for the whole family on Friday to celebrate my Mom's 70th birthday

5. I have 4 sketches to make layouts from for October for Nuts About Sketches

and you've guessed it.... it's the end of the month tomorrow and I'm NO WHERE near being able to do justice to ANY of the above.  Okay the family thing was a pleasure and is now over, but not scrapping for a week put a serious dent into all the above.

So what DID I manage to do I hear you ask?

a. ScrapU  - did 7 layouts, a few quizzes and a blog hop

b. School Nook - did 1 layout and three cards - I eventually flunked out!

c. Sketch-a-thon - made 3 cards

d. Finished all 5 of my layouts for ISE

e. Had fun bonding with my sister-in-law and nieces

f. Attended a funeral for a church friend's husband

g. Read two books

h. partially finished one NAS layout

So now I need to do the following in the next day or two....

a. Cosmo Cricket layout at ScrapAttack Scrapbooking - still to do before tomorrow!

b. Design Team application at ScrapAttack Scrapbooking - need to have 3 new layouts done and in by Sunday

c. September challenge at In2Crafts - need to do this by Monday

d. The rest of my NAS layouts

e. Try and complete some ScrapU layouts but very much doubt it

f. Try do more of the sketch-at-thon challenges.... all need to be finished by the 4th

Oh and in amongst all this there was school, school Talent Show, and now school holidays, so thankfully I have two weeks "mommy holiday" as I call it.  I also need to fit in a few visits with some friends.  So if I collapse in a heap and don't get around to googling, surfing, commenting or just plain answering.... you'll know why..... I'M EXHAUSTED!!!!

Just remembered too the cherry on the top.... my laptop crashing and being out of action the first week of September when I had to get organised for ISE.... thankfully I got it back just in time.  I now also have a brand new super duper extra big and fast desktop pc at work to play with.... so am copying data, installing programmes and just in general BEING BUSY!!!

Can I please stop now??????

Hope your month hasn't been quite as crazy.