Katie the Scrapbook Lady

A New Me

My daughter found this video a few weeks ago and I just had to share it!

 

I’m also putting off the new me until tomorrow. lol!

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Some silliness

I’m in the mood for a bit of silliness today, so I thought I would share some funnies.

 

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These are from an old email sent to me by my Father-in-Law – Silly Signs

 

In a Podiatrist's office:
"Time wounds all heels."  (read it again)
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On a Septic Tank Truck:
Yesterday's Meals on Wheels
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At a Proctologist's door:
"To expedite your visit, please back in. "
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On a Plumber's truck:
"We repair what your husband fixed."
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On another Plumber's truck:
"Don't sleep with a drip. Call your plumber."
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On a Church's billboard:
"7 days without God makes one weak."
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At a Tire Shop in Milwaukee :
"Invite us to your next blowout."
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At a Towing company:
"We don't charge an arm and a leg. We want tows."
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On an Electrician's truck:
"Let us remove your shorts."
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On a Maternity Room door:
"Push. Push. Push."
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At an Optometrist's Office:
"If you don't see what you're looking for, you've come to the right place."
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On a Taxidermist's window:
"We really know our stuff."
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On a Fence:
"Salesmen welcome! Dog food is expensive!"
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At a Car Dealership:
"The best way to get back on your feet - miss a car payment."
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Outside a Muffler Shop:
"No appointment necessary. We hear you coming."
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In a Veterinarian's waiting room:
"Be back in 5 minutes. Sit! Stay!"
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At the Electric Company
"We would be delighted if you send in your payment.
However, if you don't, you will be."
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In a Restaurant window:
"Don't stand there and be hungry; come on in and get fed up."
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In the front yard of a Funeral Home:
"Drive carefully. We'll wait."
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At a Propane Filling Station:
"Thank heaven for little grills."
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Sign on the back of another Septic Tank Truck:
"Caution - This Truck is full of Political Promises"

 

Hope you got a smile or two from these.

In case the world ends tomorrow

Have you seen the forecast?

 

I saw this weather forecast floating around Facebook a few days ago and it made me chuckle. There are some who believe we will all be gone tomorrow when the Mayan calendar flips and we cease to exist. My kids both became concerned about this possibility early in the year when they started to hear talk of how the world would end on December 21, 2012. I assured them that it would not end and told them that we would have a party that day to celebrate. We have been joking about our “end of the world party” for quite a while now and I’ve had to remind them that people have gone through these fears before. I remember everyone being very freaked out about the whole Y2K thing when the calendar switched from 1999 to 2000 and it ended up being a big non-event.

 

In case anyone has fears about all of this, here are some great resources to help:

• NASA: Beyond 2012 and why the world won’t end
• December 21 Apocalypse: NASA Publishes 'Why The World Didn't End' Video A Week Early
• 2012 phenomenon and misrepresentations of the Mayan calendar

 

We plan to have some fun and document our day of December 21, 2012. I’m thinking it would be cool to serve some Mayan food and it looks like chocolate should totally be in the plan!

We have a silly card game called Munchkin Apocalypse so we are going to play that.

 

 

I think we should also listen to R.E.M.’s End of the World song.

 

If anyone else has some fun family-friendly ideas for making the end of the world more fun, please feel free to leave a comment! I’ll be back tomorrow…unless the world ends. Then at least I won’t have to worry about not having all my Christmas shopping done yet!

 

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True Confessions

Confession #1 – I realized about an hour ago that I forgot to do a blog post for today. I strongly considered just bagging it all together for today. Then I went on Pinterest and saw a few things that made me cringe and/or laugh and I decided to share them here. It made me realize that documenting your pet peeves would be a fun scrapbooking topic. Oh, and its therapeutic also!

 

Confession #2 – This elf on the shelf thing is a head-scratcher for me. I mean, I get it – it’s fun for kids to wake up each day and figure out what the elf has been up to, but let me just say that my kids are the type who would have run screaming into their rooms if they walked into the bathroom to see a doll fishing for crackers in the toilet. I would be right behind them! I would have also spent the night awake in my bed worrying that the elf would fall into the toilet by morning. Yep, that’s how my brain works.

 

Confession #3 – I get tired of hearing skinny chicks complain about their weight. I know that’s just kind of mean to say, but come on!

 

Confession #4 – I’m SO tired of politics and I’ve seriously had to hide some people on facebook. I don’t mind that they have their own opinion, I just don’t understand why they don’t realize not everyone feels the same way they do. My biggest pet peeve is when I get included on mass emails for political “facts” that they think everyone should know. Have they never heard of snopes.com? This particular one has been going around my neighborhood for awhile now and it’s just false. Just because you get an email about it, doesn’t mean it’s true. It also doesn’t mean that you need to send it to everyone in your email address book! I think it’s sad that people are so quick to jump to hatred when it comes to politics.

 

Confession #5 – Some days I just feel like a failure. It’s nice to know that I’m not the only one out there who struggles with this. A friend on facebook posted a link to this article last night and it was just what I needed to read. Be sure to follow the links to the other articles mentioned because they are great as well. Our society has some strange ideas on what mothers should look like these days – the “Frankenmommy” comment is just right on.

 

What are some of your confessions? Have you ever written them down? Have you ever scrapbooked them? I’m definitely going to turn some of these into pages!

P.S. - Don't forget to take 12 pictures today!

Send in the clown

Apparently, when I was a baby I had a “jack-in-the-box” incident. After receiving one as a gift, I came unglued and my Mom had to take it back. I’ve never liked them and I never bought one for either of my kids – even when my daughter begged me for one. They are creepy. You know what else is creepy? Clowns! I’m serious about this, I’ve never liked them. I’ve been teased about this, but I don’t care. As far as I’m concerned, they are pure evil. And believe me… watching Poltergeist as a teenager did nothing to help my feelings on the topic!

That said, I do have the ability to laugh about this matter. I recently watched an episode of Frasier where he treats a patient who suffers from the fear of clowns and I found the whole thing hilarious. This particular clip makes me giggle so I just had to share it.

 

So silly!

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