Well it's been awhile hasn't it? Many things to talk about.

1. I have been Life Simplified! It's amazing what a difference Cheryl & Dawn made to my scraproom. We got rid of a lot of junk and then it was just rearranging what I had. No 'before' pictures here but a few 'after' ones that I just took now.










I have such organized closets & cupboards now! Isn't it lovely?

2. BCLA. I was away the end of last week at the annual BC Library Association Conference in Burnaby, got to stay 2 nights at the Hilton Metrotown. The conference was quite good, especially the Askaway session (picture dozens & dozens of librarians sitting around complaining about schoolkids in Surrey!). I met up with my old friend Marjory and talked with a couple of other old friends from library school. Then I spent Friday & Saturday nights with A-M in Vancouver. On Saturday we had a great day - wandered up Main Street, went to Ruby Dog's Art House and bought some stuff from Lazarworks which has opened up some space at the front of Ruby Dog's. Then we had a fabulous dinner at Vij's. What a fantastic place, incredible food & ambience. I'll definitely go again. Crazy - A-M lives just a couple of blocks away and she'd never been either.

3. Speak of Ruby Dog - my Ruby dog is not really any better although she's been on anti-inflammatories for a couple of weeks. She hobbles up & down the stairs, no walks, and now she's started pooping etc in the house. I just feel terrible about it! Guess I'm glad we never did replace the carpet after Layla died. I guess I'll need to call the vet again, maybe we should get a second opinion.

That's it for now folks!

What does Your Name Mean? (thanks to Tara)

What Fern Means

F is for Fancy E is for Extreme R is for Rich N is for Natural

http://www.blogthings.com/whatdoesyournamemeanquiz/">What Does Your Name Mean?

OK I'm waiting for the rich thing to kick in. And would that be Extremely Rich? I am waiting...

How do you spell relief?

I've been fretting all week about Ruby. A week ago Saturday I took her over to Westbank with me and she met Cheryl, who noticed that when Ruby got out of the car she was holding her back leg up. Well it's gotten progressively worse in the 10 days or so since and so today the vet came and took Ruby in for x-rays.

The good news is - no signs of anything broken, torn ligaments, cancer, etc. And although Ruby was whining & yelping considerably when Diane was here and examining her, she was much better at the hospital. So - pulled muscle perhaps? She'll be coming home later this afternoon with some doggie pain-killers and we'll see what happens. I guess a party at the dog park is not happening in her near future after all.

Other than that we had a good and busy Easter weekend. On Thursday night I got home to find Greg, Holly & Ruby in the backyard at our little homemade fire pit. They were roasting corn dogs and generally having a bacchanalian good time.

On Friday my cousin Nita came over - she lives in Robson - and we had a great visit and lunch out at Manteo. Saturday we had our annual Easter Egg hunt, which was low-key and impromptu this year. Very little in the way of eggs - it was so warm out that the chocolate was melting right away and we hadn't coloured any real eggs. (Read it and weep you Haligonians!) The neighbours were over for awhile in the afternoon and then we went to their place for dinner. Sunday was at Greg's mom's and we still have leftovers! Holly and I went out and did a bit of shopping on Monday and that's the end of the weekend.

Holly was asking me the wedding questions in this month's Simple Scrapbooks. After nearly 14 years I had a hard time remembering the answers, that's for sure. But since I haven't finished the album yet, they'll still come in handy. Seeing how these pictures turned out, it does remind me that some people used to think that Greg and I were brother and sister...

That's what I call customer service

When we were in Bellingham last week we went to a most wonderful scrapbook store - Treasury of Memories. We spent a fortune. One of the things I was going to buy was some of the cute little journaling cards put out by Fontwerks. But somehow (perhaps in the excitement of seeing all the transparencies at the checkout) I didn't get them. When I was going through my stash I couldn't find them and thought maybe I'd lost them, or left them behind or something. And then I couldn't find my bill. So I emailed them and asked if they could check if I had purchased them. They said they'd look into it. In the meantime I found my bill, and lo & behold, no FW cards. boo hoo. I let them know they weren't on the bill.

Anyway today in the mail I got a card from Treasury of Memories with 4 FW journaling cards and a little note saying they were sorry I hadn't gotten them and they hoped this would tide me over till the next time I could get to the store.

Am I ever impressed!!!