A Good Laugh

So, going thru my friend Liz's blog I noticed she has this translator on her page and "stole" it to use it on mine. I haven't laughed so hard in ages (well, maybe since yesterday, LOL) but using this translator is the funniest thing ever. It uses words literally and if it doesn't know the word it actually makes it up.

It literally translated "scrap" (as in scrapbooking) into "desecho" or garbage. And for a person like me, that's not too confident in her scrapbooking skills that's a joy-killer. LOL

So, if you read/understand Spanish click on the translator and get ready to laugh.

Getting off to a good start

(Note: So, when I started this blogging thing I didn't want to get too personal, but this layout did me in and I must share personal information with you. Hopefully this will help any woman out there longing for a child. Keep the faith up)

If you know me, you know how lazy I am especially when it comes to scrapbooking.


Well, I surprised myself not to mention almost caused a couple of my scrapbooking divas to have heart attacks (are you reading this, Leelee and Ive?) I have completed 3 LOs already. Well, one was for a Christmas challenge- double, BUT that still counts, right? and the other one is the first LO for my pregnancy album. yipeee!! It was very emotional for me to complete it. Is not the greatest LO, but it meant so much to me to finally get started on my PG album. And most importantly I have the most beautiful proof that the test was right. Sophia is almost 9 months. And this is not something I share every day, but I had two emotionally painful miscarriages before Sophia, so when I took these pictures of the tests, all I could tell myself was: Don't get your hopes up, but then again how could I not hope and pray for a healthy, full-term baby? and guess what? John and I got our prayers answered. Thank you Lord, each and every day for giving us this tiny piece of heaven to raise for your honor.


Without further do, here's my Layout. Is titled What???
















I also wanted to reming everyone in the USA to get your butt off the couch and GO VOTE!!! Every vote counts, people. I'm not telling you who I'm voting for, but maybe we'll cancel each other's votes off, wouldn't that be fun?? LOL

Fear

I think FEAR is one of the things that's keeping me from scrapbooking more.

Fear of:
Messing up
Not being perfect
Using the "cute" papers (you all know what I'm talking about here)
Cutting up the pictures by mistake

BUT I've been thinking (yeah, I do it on occasion) that perfection is overrated and that the main purpose of scrapbooking is so that my daughter can look back and know more about me, about herself, her roots, her family. And I seriously hope she won't look at the layouts of me at 39 weeks pregnant and think: Wow! mami was FAT!, instead of: Wow! my mami looks HOT! or even Mami looks happy and I can't believe she made the sacrifice of waiting for me for 41 (yeah! 41!) weeks for me to come out of her belly only to find out her belly stayed the same size. But I digress.

I don't like New Year's resolutions- must be the fact that by January 2nd I have already broken them, but this year I made a few resolutions and darn it I'll try my best to keep them.

Scrapbook more
Worry less
Go to the gym
Eat better
Not get discouraged if I don't lose weight
Laugh more
Argue/fight less (John's dream come true)
Enjoy each and every moment I spend with Sophia and John
Not give a rat's-you-know-what about what other people think about me (I'm doing really good on this one)
Be a better person
Get more in touch with my spiritual side

I dedicate this post to new and old resolutions.

My First Post

Woohooo!!! Finally my blog has underwear (inside joke, lol).

If you're reading this it means you have quite a bit of free time on your hands. Or it means you're a gorgeous friend who took the time to come see this "craziness in a bottle" I call my blog. Thank you very much.

I hope to finally get the hang of this posting thing and start writing and most importantly posting pictures of my completed LOs. I know there's a group of ladies out there in cyberspace that are just holding their breath to see what "monster" I come up with. Thank you ladies. I Love You!!!!

So here's to many completed LOs.