Petrol Goes Up

New month, first Wednesday and the price of petrol goes up AGAIN! Got this quote in an email and thought it was most appropriate!

"Car sickness is the feeling you get when you pull up to the petrol station. "
~Author Unknown

Happy Birthday

Hehehe... not for me or for friends or family (yet!) but for a blog site... hehehe... yip there is a blog that is turning ONE today... http://papertrunk.blogspot.com/ - so have a very HAPPY BIRTHDAY and hope that all the blog celebrations go off without a hitch.

A new month..

Wow it's July already... not nice knowing that the year is already half over. Where has the time gone... just the other day we were looking forward to Aaron's first day of school and now his first year is half over! He is spending the school holidays with Poppa & Granny... having a great time. I'm having a "holiday" too... holiday from getting up too early, driving to school and having to be "mommy" all day long! Nice to recharge my batteries.

And then I also get to SCRAP... hehehe.... haven't done much in the last month. Worked out this morning that I only did 10 layouts for June.... bad girl... but hey three of those I did yesterday alone!! hehehe. And I started on my first one for my July quota today before going to work... hopefully get a few more in this afternoon.

The other thing I have to look forward to in July is my best friend turning 40. Seems like there are lots of us doing that this year... I found a blog this morning about another lady, Beverley, who is turning 40 in August and so thought I'd fill you in about it. Check out http://www.craftymoments.blogspot.com/ and see what she is up to.

Right back to work now...

this month...

Hi again all my friends who read my blog.... hehehe... I hope there are at least some out there and I'm not just talking to myself. Anyway..... I'm sure you've been dying for an update here. Well in my head I keep posting updates but I never seem to actually get to do them.

This month has been full of ups and downs. I've replaced the harddrive in my home pc.... after reinstalling/reformatting three times in one week. And then to crown it all I think it was really just my Outlook that was corrupt because last week when I tried to migrate my outlook to the new harddrive the pc crashed again!!! So scrapped that email file and am now starting from afresh.... so if you don't hear from me directly I might just have lost your email address... hehehe.

THEN to crown it all I got a new laptop at work last week too so spent Friday setting it up. So have now done two pcs in two days. Such fun what!!!

Well my highlight of the last month was getting a new fridge at the beginning of June... so our kitchen is now OFFICIALLY finished... 18 months later! This past weekend was a long weekend so I spent most of it scrapbooking... had a whole day of it on Saturday and Monday with some very special friends. I managed to do 3 double pages and 2 singles... am very chuffed with them... will hopefully upload them this week still.

School breaks up on Friday for the winter holidays and I will be having a break from my early morning routine for a while.... Aaron is going to Poppa & Granny for the three weeks... I can sleep in! Okay maybe only till 6:30 but hey an hour is an hour extra sleep! So with Aaron not being around I hopefully can scrap up a storm and tackle my outstanding layouts. Here's hoping!

Till next post... keep in contact (somehow!)

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Our anniversary

Well Keith and I are now officially married 13 years... sure feels longer some days! Okay and it was on Tuesday too... so this might seem like old news but it's where I am at at the moment. We had planned to go out to dinner on Tuesday night but circumstances ran away with us and it never happened. I ended up making scrambled eggs on toast for Aaron and I at quarter to seven after having given up waiting for Keith to come home. he had take aways!

Anyway the upside is that we did eventually make it out to supper... nothing fancy mind you... just to the local Spur at Clearwater Mall. I had lovely cheddermelt chicken schnitzel and Keith had ribs. Aaron did the fish finger and chips thing. Aaron also enjoyed playing on the different computer games... paddington and happy feet.

So guess we will now look forward to the next anniversary and see what happens then!

Otherwise just to inform you that my "scrap a page a day" plan is a bit on hold again.... I'm busy doing quilling... trying to make lots and lots of creatures for a competition I want to enter in September... so you will have to wait a bit to see the final result... don't want to let the cat of the bag too early on this one! BUT.... I did manage to scrap a page yesterday... okay confession I started it on Sunday afternoon but only managed to put it together yesterday... must still journal before I can scan and upload.

You asked...

and I had promised.... soooooooooooooooooo eventually (!) I have uploaded ALL my scrapbooking layouts... you can view them in my picasa album. Please check them out and comment as you feel free.

Reckon you need an update...

Well after having last week off and then back at work this week I reckon you are wondering again what I've been up to.... well last week I SCRAPPED... yip did lots and lots and worked out that in the 10 days of having set myself a goal of a page a day I had actually managed to do TWO... did twenty pages in ten days... boy am I chuffed. But since then... well I've only done 4 pages in May... will have to get butt in gear asap. Going on an all day scrap tomorrow but without photos so won't be doing any concrete scrapping as such... just a nice relaxing "spoil myslef" sort of day.

Aaron did his spell-a-thon at school today and made me very proud... got all 20 words right... what a good boy! And as a reward I bought him a new engine (NED) and a truck (oil car) for his thomas train set.... had promised him ONE and ended up getting both as we couldn't quite decide and the shop didn't have the one we really wanted. Anyway he did a good job so why not!

Ok off to install some computer games for Aaron... chat again soon... and hopefully by then I will beable to upload some layouts for you to see!

The latest...

We'll another few weeks/days have past since my last post and I guess you keep wondering "what's up with Cathy".... hehehehehe... okay now you know where I got the name for my blog!! Well anyway I've been working hard and also scrapping hard.... I decided a while back that in order to catch up on all my layouts that are outstanding I had better scrap a page a day... well deciding and doing are two vastly different things... anyway I have managed to scrap one page or so every other day... did about four since last week alone... so am feeling good about that. i have planned all my pages up to the last lot of photos I had printed (10th April) so now it's just a case of get on and do. The last two nights I sat sorting out papers for some of my 2006 layouts... got about 1/2 of them done so reckon I'll scrap those then plan the rest.

Next week we have off... school is closed, I've taking leave and Keith is also off work... why you might ask... well we have two long weekends so the work week is only 2 days long and I didn't see the point of going in... so decided a holiday was in order... plus I couldn't bear the thought of having Aaron with me at work for two days... the last time I took him in I got hardly anything done!

So now you know... I'me scanning my layouts as I go but must still "stitch" them together so hopefully within the next few months I can get all my outstanding ones loaded onto the net for you to see... but don't hold your breathe while waiting.

Holiday report back

Well I promised to give you some pics and a report back from our holiday.... so here it is!!!

The Train was a HUGE success... highly recommended form of transport to get from A to B or should that be from Jhb to CT... hehehe... this is something that I think we will do again and even do the return trip too... such a relaxing and enjoyable trip. yes there were glitches... but they were minor... like our doorknob on the compartment that was bent so we couldn't lock the door from the outside, we couldn't go for breakfast in the diningcar as there were two huge groups who had booked it out (but we got to experience "room service" instead!), oh and we shared 2 beds between the three of us as by the time we got our beds they had run out and only had two left (note to self.. get your bed as soon as you climb on the train and they offer it to you!).

So here are the train pics...

And here are some pics of the many things we did.... we went to the MTN Science Centre, Grandwest Casino (for Aaron to do the kiddies rides ... didn't even venture near the gambling!). We took a peninsula bus tour.. was really enjoyable. Visited with family and shopped for a new lounge carpet (see below).

The last year has really seen us "renovating"... with the saga of the geyser bursting (see previous post on my other blog!) and redoing the kitchen we ended up with the whole of our downstairs being redone. Well once the tiling was finished we decided that the old carpet was VERY grotty too and needed to be replaced, so Keith put done laminated wood flooring. And now after sooooooooo many years of him asking me to replace the curtains and me saying "only when the floor is done" I have now DONE the new curtains... just finished hanging them today! And also due to the new floor we decided we needed a centre carpet for the lounge so spent a day or so in Cape Town looking and eventually found one we liked at a price we liked, so bought it and flew it home on the plane with us! Oh and in January Keith put up a retractable awning as well. Things are definately looking much better now in the Sanders' household!

Next on the list... hmmm let's think..... well Keith is looking for a coffee table now, and we still would like to get a piano but I think the next major project better be building on the bedroom at the back of the house that we have planned for over two years!

Aaron is on school holiday at the moment and is spending this week with my parents... so I'm having a break too (hehehe)... I have been doing som scrapbooking as well (in between making curtains, reading and some shopping!). And looking at how far behind I am I am thinking that I must set myself a goal of "scrap a layout a day"... maybe that way by the end of the year I can be finished with 2004, 2005 and 2006 and maybe even make a start on 2007, oh never mind 2008... I must still PRINT my photos for this year! Okay off to sort those out for now.... till next time.. :)