Happy Friday! ;D

Here’s my portion.  You can find it here.

I’m hosting the September Added Inspiration Challenge at DSM.  You can check out the challenge threads here.

And last but not least I have a new paper pack out called Imagination Yellow.  You can find it here.

The freebie for participation is…

I hope to see you there! ;D

Take these medical issues for example.  I’d rather get it all done at once rather than having it drag on and on and on for what?  Almost a YEAR now.  Sheesh.  So after burying my head in the sand for a week or two I went and saw the hematologist yesterday and made a plan to go after the IVC filter that’s still stuck in me…one. more. time. Well, go see another surgeon who will look things over.  Not overjoyed.  But at least a decision has been made.  My head is out of the sand.  At least for now.

Seems like since school started things have gotten busy busy round here.  I’ve picked up with work.  Started my volunteer work at the girls’ school.  Kids come home with plenty of homework.  Laney’s dance has started.  Ava wants to join the band at school.  She wants to try bass.  So free moments are few and far between.  I find comfort in being busy.  I do.  And I do like it when the kids are gone…cause I can get a little more work done.

Here’s my layout from the speed scrap on Monday.

I hope you are having a pleasant week! ;D

The times are:

11am Eastern
10am Central
9am Mountain
8am Pacific

Here’s what the freebie is if you participate!

Hope you can make it!

Made by the wonderful marketing team at MLAS! ;D

So let it begin.  Activities and homework and activities…wait I already said that.  Gone are the lazy days of summer.  Gosh.  School starts early around here.  Sigh.  I sure miss ‘em!  Yes even when they fight!  Even then.

I always have a good cry whenever traumatic or bad things happen.  It doesn’t always happen right away either.  It could be a week or weeks later.  Yeah.  I had that today in the doctor’s office.  One of the many doctors I see.  Only I got interrupted.  So I was thinking I may pick it back up again.  Bwahahahah!

I saw the hematologist today.  I didn’t want to.  I figured she would be upset that the filter didn’t come out.  I was right.  As in…she wants me to go back in again, to a different doc, and have that horrible, awful, no-good, very bad procedure done to me…again!  Did I say ‘again’ enough???

Do you ever get the feeling that life is being dictated to you rather than the other way around?  I’ve felt that way before.  I don’t like it much.  I especially don’t like it when it concerns my health and I’ve got all these docs that I’ve got to coordinate with…of course THEY won’t coordinate with each other…and get them all on the same page.  Which they NEVER are.  And I’m no medical expert.  Especially about this.  When they all say different things, it certainly doesn’t help.

If you ask me why I have to have the filter out…I guess the reasoning is because having a foreign body inside isn’t the best thing plus I will have to be on blood thinners for life if it stays in.  As it was put to me, “You don’t want that do you?”  Heh.

Meanwhile I was looking up information about IVC filters and found some good pictures.  Here’s basically what it looks like…

Here’s a medical article about it.  I don’t like medical articles much but it was interesting to me cause it was all about what’s inside me!  Anyway…there are some great photos in the article here.  There’s one of what it looks like inside your body. ;D

Ok.  That’s all I have to say at the moment.  I think more of my life took over and I can’t go and have the rest of that good cry.  Too many people need me and too many dang things to do.

Meanwhile…I have done a couple of layouts.  Both speed scraps.  I don’t know if I am in love with the speed scrap concept itself…but I sure find myself doing a lot of them recently! ;D

Layout credits.

Layout credits.