Another week has past..

I can't believe it's been a whole week since I've posted anything, where did the time go??
I actually did some scrapping today--yep, I started my Civil War Battlefield album! That's right, I said Civil War Battlefields. My DH is a real Civil War buff - doesn't get into reenacting, but loves to go to the battlefields. In the past 18 yrs, we've been to just about every battlefield except Charleston, S.C. and the Savannah, GA. area--we've even been back to some twice--so you can imagine how many pictures I have to do. I've gotten smart about this though, because I have two of the Pebbles Inc. Share and Tell three ring albums with both 12x12 pages and the 4x6 sleeves for 12x12 books, so I'm doing a couple 12x12 pages, then the extras will be put in the 4x6 sleeves. I did this with our Arizona trips 2000-2008 and they worked great. I also have discovered that my Corel 6 Photo Album program has a collage template printing option so I did collage 8x10 size of the battlefield I scrapped today (we did this one on a digital camera, so I could pick pics to print). I have one more battlefield that was taken on a digital camera to do and that's Harper's Ferry in West Virginia---all others were taken with our old film camera and I can guarantee that we have 100's of pictures from each battlefield. Now you know why I chose to do the Pebble Inc. album...it will hold alot of pictures. Anyway, slowly but surely I am getting caught up with stuff that I want to scrap--I saved the Civil War stuff for last because I thought it would be rather boring to do and I was right...those fields all look the same and so do the cannons. I'm doing this for my DH though so I will trudge through it.

Work was going really good this week until Saturday when our computer crashed on us. Well, we think it crashed, it will not power up. Unfortunately, since I work at a LSS we really need this computer...it runs our cash register, item scan, and credit cards. Without it, we're manually adding up items on an ancient calculator (it has no tape runner either) and writing credit card/debit sales by hand then they will have to be called in to the card company individually, which thank God I don't have to do...that's the owner's job. It made for a bad day of working and I have to work tomorrow (Monday) and Tuesday, so it's not going to be fun to go in at all. I don't know when the owner will be able to get someone to look at it or when they can hopefully fix it...so work isn't something I'm wanting to do at all. Thankfully, I only have these two days this week then don't go back until the 17th & 18th....by then things should be taken care of, hope, hope!!

That was the excitement of my life this week---some life right?? This upcoming week and weekend will be full of visiting grandsons though. They have a four day weekend-Friday through Monday-so we're driving to Ohio Thursday to get them when they get out of school. I think we'll probably try to take them to Chuckie Cheese on Friday just to have something to do here while our school's are in session---no crowds that way. Then Grandpa has some projects for them to do in the basement...it should be a nice visit that is if the weather doesn't get bad. We will be able to cook out this coming visit though, last time we had too much snow and it was freezing so we didn't get to grill and our oldest grandson loves to cook on the grill---he's 10 and loves to help Grandpa cook. I also picked up a couple of games that we can play so we can attempt to keep them from watching TV all weekend. That's my story for now...will post later.