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Boy, I love it when I get stuff done.  I’ve been pretty busy today and I haven’t even left the house.  Seems like I have a few good productive days a week, too bad I can’t be so productive every day!   And you know what’s the best part?  Only about 90% of it involved a computer.  Now if I could only get that laundry folded…

So what’s been going on?

I’m here waiting for my friend to get here.  She’s got some appoinment here in my town and is coming over afterward, she should be here any minute.

I finally bought Hairspray on DVD the other night.  The local movie store had a buy two get two free sale again on previewed movies.  That’s about the only time I ever buy DVDs these days.  So I got Hairspray, Ocean’s Thirteen, Premonition, and Perfect Stranger.  Perfect Stranger is the only one I haven’t seen yet.  Saw Premonition when we had that girls’ party several months ago and enjoyed that.  I was going to get Deja Vu as I liked that movie, but thought Steve would like Ocean’s Thirteen better.  He kind of complained about it though, I don’t know what his deal is.  But we both ended up enjoying it I think.  Not bad when considering I’ve tried to watch Twelve twice and neither time have made it all the way through…

Um, been doing more digital scrapbooking, of course:

Also, today those three that I ordered came in.  They turned out great but one of them printed smaller at 7.25″ square instead of an even 8.  Not sure why that is.  But I think those that I printed myself turned out just as good.  Granted, if you really really look, you can tell they were done on my printer but for the most part, they’re great.  I’ve loaded all the pages I’ve done into a scrapbook now and they look awesome.

I’ve run into a bit of trouble with ink, though.  I used to take all my old cartridges to Staples and get a $3 voucher for each one of them, right?  Once I took in 8 and so I got $24, so I spent less than $10 on a pack of color and black ink.  However, recently, Staples instituted this new policy that you can’t use more than 3 of the vouchers at a time.  So the last time I only got $9 off my purchase and went home with $9 in vouchers that subsequently expired a couple of months later.  You see, the nearest Staples is about 60 miles from me.  So last week we happened to notice a store in a town half an hour from here that’s called Cartridge World.  I went in there last week with five cartridges and bought refilled ones, black for something like $9 each and color for $11.something each.  Of course, my printer totally freaked when I put in one of the black ones.  AND, today it was printing blank, I only used it a handful of times.  I certainly didn’t get $9 + tax worth of ink out of it.  So, yeah, they’re going to hear from me next time I’m in that town… :P

Did I mention that my friend is always late, no matter where she goes?

I’ve been selling Nutmeg & Cedar candles like crazy.  That’s always good.  :)  Have a new batch going now, it helps with that scent to always have some wax on hand ready to pour.  My big problem though, is that I’m under jar shortage.  The places I buy them seem to have stopped carrying them and now they’ve gone out of season.  I’m grabbing them from wherever I can get them but none are really the type I want.

A website and a few other things I did brought me a very lovely thank you card with a crisp $100 bill inside today.  I totally wasn’t expecting that and it was a nice surprise.  If you’re out there — thanks :)

Been trying to make Elijah clean his room up.  Seems that telling him to clean his room is the only sure way to get him to play with his toys.  Each time I check on him seems his room is messier than the last time… including the stuff I helped him clean up.  Guess it will be a never-ending battle.

Didn’t make it to the gym today.  I want to go back to going twice a week but honestly don’t want to pay for it.  :P  I still need to call our insurance to see if they cover memberships at all.  I keep forgetting during business hours.  But I know I can’t go work out on Thursday so I wanted to do Monday and Wednesday this week.  Looks like it’s going to be Tuesday and Wednesday or Friday.  :P

My class starts up again in three weeks.  I have until then to figure out what to do with the boys and my friend and I could work out together afterward.

Ohh think my friend is here…