The countdown has begun

Hi there,

Well, the countdown has begun. Only 3 more work days left until my holiday begins. And I can't wait cuz even though it's the easiest job in the world, it's a drag. I'm hoping the weather will hold too. The snow is supposed to be here in Ohio on Sunday but since I'm driving north who knows what the weather will do. I know that this past weekend they got about 8 inches or so. It may be a white Christmas after all where I'll be. Snow on Christmas Eve would be nice, cuz I have to work the day after Christmas so we'll leave mid afternoon to come back. If it's snowing that day, we'll have to leave earlier which will bum me out. I miss not being near the family and watching the girls grow. But you can count on it, I'll have tons of pictures of them when I get back.

Who knew that yesterday when I made the comment about Chris Farley that would be every one's choice to comment? I just heard about it on the radio on my way into work and thought that it would be filler. Too many good funny people lost in their prime to a life of pain and excess.

Oh yeah, I really have to brag on this one. Last night when I got home from work, I got a nice surprise. As many of my regular readers may know, Shannon gets laid off for the winter. I've been coming home to dinner almost on the table quite often lately, but last night I also got a completely clean kitchen. Woo Hoo. He's pretty good about picking up this time of year, but he had every last dish either done and put away or in the dishwasher. Now if I could just get him to put his socks in a hamper out of Jazi's reach. lol.

Some of you know that OAKS was/is having issues. Well the files were corrupted and the site will need to be rebuilt. Everything that was on there is gone. Since I joined up with the Scrapz pack, most of my lo's went into that gallery. So even though I have them on my drive, they are not in cyberspace. I think that since I've been having mojo issues that unless it's CT related I'm not going to put it in a gallery. Just post it here. I've realized that I need to learn to scrap for me not the approval of others. So this is my first step. Of course, challenges will still go into galleries and of course anything made with CT stuff.

I've been listening to the station that only plays Christmas carols at work and there are really only so many out there. I've come to love TSO Canon Carol (I think that's the title- TSO Transiberian Orchestra), Bing Crosby/David Bowie's Little Drummer Boy/Peace on Earth is still one of my favorites and of course Merry Xmas -War is Over by John Lennon. But one that always makes me pause when I hear it is Grown Up Christmas List, I think it's by Amy Grant. So here's my Christmas Wish for all.

The lines that get me- Everyone would have a friend. Thanks to scrapping, I have found so many friends that I cherish and look forward to hearing about and from. And right would always win - with all the controversy going on in the community lately, this is especially true. You have to believe that in the end right will prevail. And love would never end- any and all love. This is my Christmas wish for you all.

Scrap happy!

Web Hosting Choice

Have you ever thought about setting up your own website? Maybe for family or maybe for business. Well to do that you first need to have a web host to set your site up on. That's the tricky part of any website. I was looking into setting up a site for a designer's CT. I found a great free site that helps guide you to choosing the web host that best suits your needs based on several factors; disk space, bandwidth, monthly costs and set up fee. This site is Web Hosting Choice and I think it's a great place to start for anyone who is looking into starting any web site. This site offers a wide variety of information as well as the search capability. There is a Quick Start Guide as well as a FAQ page and even an Advanced search area for those who know a bit more about web hosting. In addition there is the learning center area that has in depth information on potential scams among web hosting sites, domain names, cheap hosting sites and dedicated servers and why you should look into those. All in all, the site is a complete overview for web hosting and I am glad that I found it. It will make my job much easier as I continue to look into the CT forum site.


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Tagged for Christmas

Ok I'm finally getting around to getting this on the blog. It's been done by just about everyone already, but here's an insight into my world at Christmas.

1. Wrapping paper or gift bags? Wrapping paper with bows (

2. Real tree or Artificial? Artifical Chrsitmas tree if I put it up and lights on our palm tree.

3. When do you put up the tree? Not going to this year.

4. When do you take the tree down? n/a

5. Do you like egg nog? Love it...its a once a year treat

6. Favourite gift received as a child? A silk blue baseball jacket like Andy Gibb wore on the cover of one of his albums.

7. Do you have a nativity scene? Not anymore

8. Hardest person to buy for? mom

9. Easiest person to buy for? Josh, my nephew

10. Mail or email Christmas cards? both

11. Worst Christmas gift you ever received? I don't really remember. Oh yeah red Ohio State sweatpants that my old man bought and started to wear the day after Christmas. I don't think I've ever worn them.

12. Favourite Christmas Movie: I love them all

14. Have you ever recycled a Christmas present? yes

15. Favourite thing to eat at Christmas? food

16. Clear lights or coloured on the tree? colored but solid strands

17. Favourite Christmas song? Silent Night has always been one that has touched me, but it's had a special meanning for me and my dad since my grandmother died in 1986. I cried like a baby last Christmas cuz my dad wasn't strong enough to stand to sing it at Christmas eve services last year. So I sat right beside him and held his hand. I don't know if I'll be strong enough to go to Christmas eve services this year without him.

18. Travel at Christmas or stay home? Usually AWAY- Now that I have nieces and a newphew, Christmas is about the children. I am very fortunate that I have been able to spend the last 2 Chrsitmas' at home(mom & dads)

19. Can you name all of Santa's reindeers? Dancer, Prancer, Donner & Blitzen, Comet & Cupid & Vixen and I guess not.

21. Open the presents Christmas Eve or morning? Christmas morning

22. Most annoying thing about this time of year? that the commercials start so bloody early...very commercialized....& the family gets their face in a knot if you dont want to travel 6 hours in a snowstorm to get a crappy gift...LOL

23. Favourite ornament theme or colour? Santa's

24. Favourite for Christmas dinner? Don't know since I won't be cooking, that's the joy of traveling.

25. What do you want for Christmas this year? An EHD

I signed up for PPP!

I've been approved to join the hundreds, no thousands of bloggers who are making the most of a great opportunity; getting paid to blog. I've joined the Pay Per Post program. It was very simple to set up. I just clicked on the icon on the right that says Get Paid to Blog. That took me right to the site. It's very self explanatory. Enter the information to register your blog. It takes about a week to get approved. I did have to issue a tracking ticket through customer love, but they did respond to the ticket very quickly and I was approved. There are different opportunities for you to blog about. You see what you are qualified for, reserve the opportunity and then do a post about it. There are different subjects and different dollar amounts available. Some I'm very qualified for, other's I'll need to do a little research on, but the subject still interests me. There are a few that I know nothing about and really don't care to look into. Those are the opportunities that don't fit my style so I won't bother with those. So I post once or twice a day and after 30 days, money starts rolling into my paypal account. I've seen other's who have done it. Yen was the first person and I know that she does several posts a day. Heather also started a little over a month ago. She said she's getting paid daily now and it's helping.

So why try Pay Per Post? Why not. I have a lot of credit card bills and even more now with the holidays. Why not use any extra income I earn to help make those extra payments. I'm long winded and a sales person by nature. Why not do what I can do best - talk. So we'll see how exciting I can make these posts. I know that I've read and learned a lot at some of the other blogs. Who knows, one of these posts may be of some benefit to you. Maybe this one. Want to try it out for yourself? Just click on the icon to the right and sign up for yourself.


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Short today

Hi there!
Not much going on today but wanted to say hi anyway. For those of you who remember my post last week about the Kitchen Aid mixers, I got so many favorable comments from people who have them and they last forever. I decided to do a little research. You know how lots of places have a spot to review the items for other shoppers? Well most of the less expensive mixers didn't get the most favorable reviews so I decided to go ahead and get her the Kitchen Aid. She's gonna have a fit, so I'm gonna blame it all on you guys. lol. Actually I found one at Target on sale, someone posted about a coupon site so I got 10% off, my cash back for being an ebates member and FREE shipping. Couldn't beat it. So thanks all.

So I've been hanging out at the chats over at SBB for their Holiday party. It's been pretty lucrative so far with nice giveaways and it's always good to see old friends. There's a chat at noon today EST, stop by if you get a chance.

If you are on Blogger and use the Slide for your layouts/pictures and know how to get them to stick on top, please email me at carjaziscraps "at" gmail "dot" com. I'm sure I could figure it out but that would make me think way too hard this morning.

One last thing I heard on the radio today that made me feel old. Ten years ago today the comedienne Chris Farley passed away. Strangely it doesn't seem like it was that long ago, but also feels like it was. Does that make sense? The Chippendale dance skit with him and Patrick Swayze has always been one of my favorite SNL skits ever. Useless trivia.

Have a great day and scrap happy!

Made a few changes

Hi there,
Hope you all enjoyed your weekend. We were supposed to get snow, but it all went north of us and all we got was rain. So that was good. The bad part was Shannon was supposed to help a friend of his do snow removal. Can't plow with no snow. The joys of unemployment for the season.

So I've been doing a little scrapping. Still not at the point where I'm happy with the way things are turning out, but did some pages anyway. Worked on my vacation photos a little bit. Been having lots of issues though getting the layouts loaded into the various galleries. Seems to be a bit of a bug going around. OAKS looks like it will be down for awhile. SDD I'm not sure what's up there. SBB got theirs fixed, but lately the gallery isn't as friendly as it used to be. Maybe it's cuz I'm not a permanent fixture there anymore.

So did you notice I switched things up a little? Was getting bored and since Christmas is only a week away, didn't want to just mess with my blog header. I'm thinking my slide gallery isn't going to be a permanent thing unless I figure out how to make it a sticky. You can see some of the new layouts there. I'm not in the mood to list out all the credits right now. Once I get them uploaded to a gallery, maybe I'll put em here too.

Enjoy your day! Scrap happy.

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