Project 365: #3 & #4 and 2008 Holiday Review Top 10 List

More Project 365! I decided I would post a week's worth on Sunday evenings, to kind of contain the non-stamping/potentially-boring posts to one per week! lol!

Project 365 #3, January 3, 2009: The recycling container was full, so I had rinsed these cans during the week and absent-mindedly lined them on the counter as I emptied them. I got a 12-pack of this new flavor while in Missouri: Black Cherry Vanilla Cream Diet Pepsi, ummmm, good!


Project 365 #4, January 4, 2009: Yes, I got the new Janome Sew Mini from my fabulous in-laws for Christmas! I took it out of its box this afternoon and gave it a whirl, it is awesome! First time sewing through cardstock, the tension was perfect! It was a thing of beauty!

I haven't discussed my holiday trip much on my blog yet, but the other day I started composing this list and saving it. I thought it would make it easy to scrapbook about later...if I had photos to scrapbook (see #4).

2008 Holiday Review Top 10 List:

1. An iPhone cannot survive an extended swim in a large cup of hot coffee.

2. If you leave Texas and it's 70 degrees and arrive in Missouri and it's 8 degrees and you're just getting over a cold you've had for 2 weeks, forget about it, you're going to develop bronchitis.

3. Playing Taboo and Pictionary with your dh and in-laws while drinking margaritas is a blast!

4. If you're feel a little Scrooge-like and only take 59 photos, you'll be punished when you get home and your computer eats those 59 photos and can't get them back.

5. You realize you're lucky you got a man to marry you when your 5 year old niece tells you while playing paper dolls that your doll's outfit is "NOT appropriate for a date!"

6. Doing crossword puzzles with dh during a 9-hour car drive is great fun, and maybe worth doing not just when you're stuck in a car together.

7. Texting with your very cool, soon-to-be 13 year old nephew who just got a cell phone and unlimited texting is a blast and an excellent way to stay in touch long distance. (Note: can come to an abrupt halt when #1 occurs!)

8. You appreciate Starbucks a little more when you can't pop out and get it in 5 minutes.

9. No matter how old you get, no one takes as good care of you as your mom when you are sick.

10. No matter how much someone fights you on it, INSIST that they use a lid on their cup while in the car (see #1).

There you have it...good times, good times! Thanks so much for stopping by! Hugs and happy stamping!

Project 365: #2

Here's #2...Royal Doulton blueberry china. Our grocery store, Albertson's, had been giving out little stickers with grocery purchases for months and long story short, we got 7 free place settings. You had to redeem your stickers by January 6, so I went today and got them. Not sure what to do with them now, I really don't like the pattern. My father-in-law suggested donating them to charity and claiming the retail value for a tax write-off, which seems like a pretty good idea. Any other thoughts?

p.s. Thanks for the comments and the warm words on the first photo! FYI, those are the boxes (except the waffles) that I take to school for lunch! We can cook, Donna, (although I choose not to, hee! hee!), my dh is a great cook! The waffles are for when I work late and when I don't like what he cooks...they were buy one, get one free! lol!

Project 365: #1

As I was catching up on my Google Reader, I read a post by Kazan here about Project 365. She read about it from Margie here, who also read about it from other people, etc., and Becky Higgins has info here. It's basically about photographs and journaling. The photos and meanings and goals seem to be different for each person, but I thought it was a cool idea and I had just happened to take a picture of our freezer on the morning of the 1st...so it seemed like destiny!

Why a picture of the freezer? We had just stocked up on groceries on New Year's Eve and dh put most of them away. When I went to get a glass of ice for my diet soda breakfast on the 1st, I cracked up when I saw the "tower" that dh had built in the freezer! It's like a piece of art, like a sculpture...there's no way I can remove any of it!

Anyway, I thought the Project 365 might be a cool project to try. I like the idea of scrapbooking our everyday life, the boring bits. You forget so much stuff as you age, it might be fun to look back on 2009, say 30 years from now! Plus, we don't have kids, so there's only so much material I have to work with, ya know! I don't know if I'll be able to keep it up...I have trouble sticking to things...and most days are pretty boring, so I'm not sure what I'll be photographing, but I'll give it a go! Are you up for it too?