i'm here, i'm here, i'm still here......

i AM still here.. just busy and trying to keep up.
actually, a friend and i were doing our usual bout of complaining on the phone last week about housework... then she said GROUNDHOG DAY! i don't know if you've seen the movie, to be honest, i haven't, but i know what it's about.... and he gets up every morning and relives the same day...can't even kill himself if i remember correctly??
anyway, last week i spent 5 days tidying up so i could vacuum..... but each day i'd go to vacuum, realize i needed to tidy first and on it went!!!!!!!!!
sigh....  but c'est la vie!

haven't taken many photos... just toooo darn busy. doing what? nothing other than the everyday... but i guess it's the added stress in my mind that makes it seem like more?? i dunno.

OH! found the funniest book ever!!! it is soo not my 'type' of book, but for some odd reason, i just wanted to read it.... now, you may go and get it and find i have a wacked out sense of humour, but this book! it's killing me! it's called The Marriage Diaries, by Rebecca Campbell. i guess there are supposed to be some teary parts... but i have yet to find any! hahahaha. anyway. LOVING it.
it's a difficult read, witty, intelligent and honest. i will be sorry when i am done it.... i'll even admit, geek that i am, i've been underlining parts of it........ i'm such a nerd! drawing it out, trying to make it last.......

and i have heard so much about this Ken Follet... so i went out and bought a book of his called World Without End.... it's HUGE, which has me salivating! i want to read it, but at the same time i want to put it off so it doesn't go to fast.... it's the anticipation..... i love it! actually speaking of which... in the book i am currently reading, the marriage diaries, they are both kind of 'flirting' with the idea of having an affair... and he admits to his friends... he doesn't want an 'actual affair', but wants it to come to that moment, the one where you look at eachother, and know, and you start to lean in toward eachother, your mouths open slightly, your eyes begin to close, your belly tightens.... and that's where he wants it to end.... stupid right? cause how does it just 'end' there.... but OH i so wish that was possible! sigh, cause that really truly is the best part, the time, or moment BEFORE the mess of reality.... ok, so that was a little off topic, hahaha.

and Justin is reading up a storm. he is right at the tail end of the second book in the Percy Jackson series.... you know the lightening thief.. i LOOOOVE that he is a reader... all my kids will be of course, but i am enjoing this time with him right now... corey laughs at us every evening, snuggled in my bed together, each totally absorbed in our books! hahaha. i have 5 different series ready for him...  hmmmm.  and don't get me started on the books  i have already collected for Bella in anticipation of HER love of reading.... yep. i have issues. i don't just love reading, i love books! the smell, the feel, the limitless vastness of what they can offer....

ok. off to read....

why can't all good books be 3000 pages....

hopefully i'll be back soon with photos, and maybe, gasp, scrap pages???? my designers have such wonderful things coming out, and here i am unable to get 'into' the scrapping mode. i wish i could put together a page in half and hour to an hour..... but i am not wired that way.......... gotta figure it out...

oh and if you have any good suggestions on books or authors.... i am so open to hearing them... nothing better than discovering a new author....