The saga continues

Our work IT issues that is.... yesterday the IT guys arrives and changed, changed and changed again the settings... everything was working by the time I left but they said they would have to come back to change it again! Sooooooooo this morning, they were there again... and yip all changed again! But I can print, scan, email and browse the net (s-l-o-w-l-y mind you!)... so for now we are back in connection.... sure hope it lasts this time!

Well on a more positive note, I scrapped again yesterday... decided to give my 2008 pages a bit of a break and tackled one from 2007.... just pulled one out of the pile and did it....

So tonight it is back to Line Dancing... looking forward to doing that... so hopefully the weekend will see me scrap up a storm again and have lots to post next week.

Another thing that is keeping me busy, is that I've started a blog for my son's school.... everyone is soooooooooooooooo excited about it and we hope that it will give the pupils and parents a bit more up to the minute (ok day!) info. You can check it out at here.

I managed to scrap

The wheels fell off my target of "a page a day" and I haven't scrapped for a while... I did sort out my new shelves for my scraproom (guess I best show you those pics too!)... but this weekend I managed to scrap again...yippee....

Did these two pages on Friday night:

On Saturday my friend (and scrap buddy) came over and I did another page, but unfortunately it's still not finished... got tons of journaling to do for it first. So last night instead of doing that journaling, I tackled this double page:

I'm chuffed that I managed to get some more done... now just to get back on track with a page a day and I will feel MUCH better.

I can definately relate....

Something new

I took on a new adventure yesterday.... I signed up to do a class of Line Dancing... yip I was so taken with the barndancing last year and having heard that there are classes, I decided what the heck and signed up. So now instead of joining a gym (which I would NEVER EVER EVER do) I can dance and have fun while sweating (ew!) away the excess kilos and getting fit.

Let's hope it lasts!

So last night was my first class.... thoroughly enjoyed it but definately felt like I had two left feet for half the night. I know I'll get better with time so no problem there... just need to figure out how to practice it at home too... no music, no steps and can't remember what we did! hehehe.

Please support

My friend Helen in England is having a sale on her Misi shop.... please if you can, support her... she makes lots of different beaded stuff... including braclets on cards which are great birthday present... I should know as she sent me one for my birthday... see here!

I'm back

YIPPEE... we now have internet connection at work again... see me doing the little dance... I'm sooooooooooooooo happy to be reconnected... now I feel like I'm part of the world again! And the problem was..... the little surge box between the modem and the wall got hit by lightning... just took Telkom over a week to come and replace it!!! Sort of thing we should have spares of and replace ourselves. Would save a ton of heartache.

Re the network problems in the office... those are scheduled to be sorted this morning, but who knows.

Other news.... I watched The Apprentice last night... and was quite happy with Mr Trump's decision to vote both girls off... they really didn't seem to shine to me... will be an interesting finale next week (or 2).

Besides Aaron having a snotty nose this week (swimming lessons postponed), we're all carrying on with life in general... sitting in traffic in the mornings, homework each afternoon and just general catching up on things.

One other highlight that I sooooooooo wanted to blog about last week and never did, was Aaron lost his other top tooth.... at all places at a birthday party! And we can't find the tooth either... I think he swallowed it while eating. He was so brave through the whole thing... bleeding in front of all his friends... but within minutes the kids were all laughing and it was just another topic of conversation. The new tooth is making it's appearance fast and furious now too. And to crown it all, about two days later the filling in his one back tooth also came out... so I had him back at the dentist on Monday and the brave little guy didn't utter a single sound while they cleaned it out and refilled it. Now he proudly states that he has a "silver star" in his mouth (heard the dentist asking for that!)... just a silver filling. I think he really would like a GOLD one... like his Aunty Judi... but I've said "you've got to pay LOTS of money for gold, so not happening!"

Okay, off to do some work now... yip even that is happening this week!

and so....

the saga continues. Another week at work with no connection! Hopefully (holding thumbs) it will be fixed within this week. I didn't even have connection at home yesterday as my pc had to sleep at work for them to connect me to the network and printer.... and guess what.... yip it WASN'T done!!! Now that is definately the last time I'm leaving my pc for them. Such a bind. But the good news (sort of) is that for now I'm temporarily connected to the printer so at least I can print again.

Right enough about all that... reckon you want to know what I've actually been up to hey?! Well last week I built another puzzle... and found ONE piece missing... bummer. Am now trying to get hold of Smile to see if I can get it replaced.

Spent the weekend just reading and not doing too much. Did scrap two pages on Sunday though and another one last night... see below.

Last week while passing time at work I also scrappped my first digi page... okay cheating a bit ... I used a QuickPage, added my photo and some text.... I did get brave and try and do a pop-out... not too successful but it is my first so, not tooo shabby Nige!

And that in a nutshell is me.... till next time.

ps... Helen, I hope you're not toooooooooooooo snowed in in England!

Progress report..

NONE.... hehehe... still without connection at work and now the phone lines are down too.... lines are obviously water logged with all the rain of the past two days... who knows WHEN it will all be fixed. We hope soon soon.

Thank goodness I do have a connection at home and so I can browse, blog and email from here..... just not for quite as long though.

Will hopefully update and post pics over the weekend to keep you up to speed. Off to dinner with some girlfriends tonight... night freetime for me.

In case you miss me...

I haven't blogged for a few days now... not sure if too many people will actually notice.... but the one reason is.... I have NO internet at work.... which is when I do most of my surfing and blogging... makes the time go by when I have nothing to do! So now I'm just feeling very frustrated :( and unconnected..... found out this morning that it is actually a Telkom line problem and not our ISP/IT. The company is busy looking into various options to upgrade (???) our network.... changed from super fast adsl to very slow wireless when we moved and so it's not been a happy two months..... sure hope they fix it soon soon. So I reckon I will post from home and do some surfing in the evenings.... but won't be around as much as I am out a bit too.

So please don't miss me too much... I will be back!

Do you remember???

I did history at school for Matric.... barely passed but I did! And I remember learning about the French Revolution and Marie Antoinette.... about the only thing about her that stuck in my head was her saying "Let them eat cake" when there was no bread to be had. Well now there is an artistic award going around which I received curtesy of Desire... thanks my special blog friend.

I have to pass this along to 7 people, who also have to pass it along to 7 people who inspire them. You link to the person who gave you the award and to the people you give it to.

So here's who'se in line to get it now.....

1 Ro - ScrapGirls rocks!!!

2 Helen - keep on beading, you're doing a great job

3 Helen - congrats on making the Little Shop of Sketches design team

4 Stefanie - ditto congrats.

5 Jacki - Can't wait to come scrap with you

6 Candice - I love your blog cupcakes.... so yummy looking

7 Jacqui - you always seem to know when someone is giving something away... love your blog

Now you go do like wise please.... and remember "EAT CAKE"... preferably CHOCOLATE... hehehe