It’s almost 5am and since I can’t sleep what better time than now to update my blog.  Sorry for not posting anything lately, life has just gotten in the way.  I’ve been busy, working two jobs and just trying to get stuff done.  The second job is actually going pretty well.  The last two weekends I’ve done really well sales-wise, too bad I don’t work on commission.  Everyone at the store is really nice and so far we all seem to get along.  The extra income is going to be nice for the holidays. 

The real job has just been crazy.  While I was on vacation my group went through a reorg and two groups were combined and then split up again.  I feel sorta out of the loop with the whole thing.  I feel like they are not sure what to do with me.  I’m trying my best to show what I bring to the team but it feels more like a scene from Office Space.  I’m in Linux training all this week and when I return to work next week I hope to get some real world experience to help reinforce the training.  My thought is that if I can take the crap work off the admin’s plate then it frees up their time and thus making me more valuable.  Plus it paves the way for me to move into a more technical role and more pay.  The training is going well.  It turns out that I already knew a lot of the basics just from playing with the backend of this blog.

I’ve also had a jolt of creativity with my scrapbooking lately.  I’ve got a ton to scrapbook from the wedding and all.  I’ve got some of the pictures from the photographer but I think she has more to send me.  The deal I had with the photographer was that I would do all the post production work because I wanted more control of how the images were manipulated.  She shot the event in RAW which will make it easier for me to make adjustments but last I heard she was having problems pulling the RAW images off of the memory card.  I have the JPEGs so it’s like the images were lost, it would be a lot easier on me if I had the RAW images.  From 250 images I’ve narrowed them down to 140 and I hope to get them done this weekend.

To encourage my scrapbooking habit I’ve decided to start another blog just about scrapbooking.  My plan is to make it more of a product review blog.  I’ve noticed lately that a lot of the scrapbooking blogs I read are becoming more about how much blinking advertising can I cram into my sidebar than about scrapbooking.  I want this site to be a place where scrapbookers can come to get real opinions from someone who doesn’t work for a magazine or isn’t on a design team.  A place where you don’t feel like you’re being pushed to buy stuff that doesn’t work or that you won’t use more than once.  I hope to have the first video reviews done this weekend.  I’ll post the link here when it’s up.

Boy, this is turning out to be a long post…

Today was a busy for me.  I got early, went to weigh in, had a bagel with Courtney, and then got ready to scrapbooking with my friend Stephanie.  I love scrapbooking, I really do.  I’m feeling a little bit more motivated to create lately and that is exciting for me.  I’ll post pictures of the layouts tomorrow.  We got a TON of stuff at the crop today since it was CKC weekend.  I love free stuff!

After scrapbooking I went straight to my second job at Sur la Table.  Yes, I went back, this time on the sales floor.  Its not many hours right now which is fine.  Things will kick up as the holidays approach.  It’s not a hard job and thankfully I’ve done it before so I don’t need much training.  Everyone seems nice so far.  It will be nice to have the extra $$ for the holidays.

Stick a fork in me, I’m done!

I remember hearing about this accident in the news and I didn’t completely make the connection.  Plus with all the wedding hoopla I didn’t have time to think much about anything.  I was reading Ali’s blog like I do everyday and she had a post about this family.  I don’t know the family but I am familiar with Domestic Bliss and their Blissful Studio, I am such a fan/admirer of what they have done over there for the creative community.  I am deeply touched by their outpouring of generosity to help.  I’m posting their information here to get the word out, I don’t know how much I can help but I am believer that every little bit counts.  Please say prayers for this amazing Arizona family.

If you would like to help or for more information please visit their benefit blog.