Life in Color Photo

So I’m a Virgo, an apparently we like this just so (me? no!). Well I love the vertical paper storage by Cropper Hopper. I switched all my cardstock over to it months ago and just thought it was ever so pretty (plus I had so much it didn’t fit in my old bins). Well Angela and I went together and got a bunch of the Doodlebug Bazzill. When I got that I also got another paper holder. To my dismay they had changed the design slightly. Well when my holders were all lined up now they looked lame! So Sue had one of the older models and agreed to trade with me. I spent a very happy morning this morning reorganizing my paper into a rainbow of perfection!  Thank you so much Sue! And doesn’t it look pretty sitting on my desk (also I love this picture because if you went by this you would think my room was really clean, and it’s really not).

I forgot I took a couple photos at Bj’s going away lunch yesterday so I was laughing my head off when I uploaded these into iPhoto. Some one said, "Josh feed Bj," so of course he did. Those guys are such goofs. See Bj’s still kind of pink from when they put the sombrero on him to sing Happy Birthday (His birthday is really just about a month away, but what the heck, right), and I love it when he blushes! I am going to go work on my side bar (over there ⇒). I already updated my about me a tiny bit, but I am going to update my playlist. Peace.

So today was Bj’s last day at I Remember When. I am so proud of him for all of the great work that he has done there. I know we will miss all of the consultants that we loved so much (I left IRW in mid-December). It’s weird to be in this place in your life where things are always changing and friends are all doing different things (from hiking volcanoes to studying in Italy to starting their careers). I don’t think there is any right path or anything like that, but I know looking for a "grown up job" with benefits and everything seems like the right thing for Bj to do and I really support him in that. For me the right thing to do now is start my own company. I watched my dad work crazy hours and saw all the cool rewards to doing that (great employees and awesome projects). I had my mom always helping me to be as creative as possible, and for that I am truly thankful.

I think I have found the perfect combination of those two things in starting my company, The Ribbon Jar. I am going to be selling very pretty ribbon and trim. I couldn’t find this stuff anywhere when I wanted it so I decided that the world needs a Ribbon Jar. The ribbon is fun, funky, colorful, and exquisite, nothing you’d find on any normal store shelf. I also have really cool fabric strips from vintage to silk, and trims. I hope everyone is as excited as I am. And for all of my friends who are getting married I am offering a custom ribbon matching program so that people who like things just so like me can get everything to coordinate on their special day.

Right now the site just says coming soon, but it will be up in a few weeks or so. That jar on the left is my logo, I drew it so tell me what you think, actually tell me what you think of the whole idea, you know I love comments!

The Masters at my Dad’s was everything I thought it would be. Brent drove Bj and I to Salem to watch and we settled in for a day golf clapping, fist pumping, and missed putts. I was voting for Tiger  of course, but my dad wanted DiMarco to make a push for it so he could see some playoff action, he got his wish. I’m sure you all know that Tiger wins in a sudden death playoff with a birdie at 18. What I want to talk about is 16 and that sweet shot (so sweet it was sick really). Paul had shown up to catch a little of the action and I was playing a super cool game on his new PSP (it was like Tetris, yessss!). Bj was telling me when to pause so that I could see all the shots (there is lots of walking around and fluff and stuff when you watch golf). So I paused for Tiger’s chip at 16. We all kind of stood up a little as it landed and then started rolling in a curve towards the hole. Then it slowed down and started a straighter course… RIGHT FOR THE PIN, we started yelling, screaming and pumping our fists around, I’m sure "Go in the hole," was heard for miles around. Then it paused right on the edge of the cup, like so many balls do, but we kept screaming, "go in, go in!" like the crazy golf watching maniacs that we are, and low and behold, it did. It was awesome. After that shot I calmed down a little and proceeded to kick butt on this Tetris type game getting the fourth highest score!!!  It’s no wonder Tetris is the only game played more by women, it totally makes sense (oh, and there is no killing, which I appriciate)!

After all the golf hullabaloo and my Dad gave Paul his $5 bet (Dad: "So, it was the best five dollars I’ve spent, now that’s action." about the sudden death playoff) he made us burgers, yum. We came back and Sciarrino, Bj and I watched Bridget Jones Diary: The Edge of Reason. I thought it was pretty good, but I did not laugh as hard as I did for the book, which was the first book to really make me cry laughing. Yesterday we watched Finding Neverland, um, could the boys in that movie BE any cuter or more adorable? No, no they could not. We also watched some In Living Color that we had rented (my favorite? "The title alone gets two snaps up!") from DVD World. This rental store is the best; it’s locally owned, it has tons of random stuff you wouldn’t find anywhere, and you can rent whole seasons of TV shows for only 9 bucks. I was signing the rental agreement thingie and I noticed in the corner they have a little warning. I looked at the cashier and said, "$1.00 rewind fee, seriously?" He just laughed and I said, "that’s awesome!" Little things like that, they just kill me, I was laughing the whole way home.

Hey ladies out there. Bill gave me this cool link to Shiny Shiny. It’s a blog/ tech review site by girls. It’s so cool. Think I need this:
Oh ya!!!! (I’ll take the blue one please).

This is not about me, and I did not take these pictures, but I had to share. My brother just got back from the Masters. He was there on the practice round days, so he got to take pictures, and he got some good ones, so I thought I would share. I love cool signs so I love the picture above. Some more are below, thanks for sharing Brent!

I love this picture because 1: Tiger is hot and 2: Those guys sitting on the left are my cousin, dad, and uncle. Okay I also have to say that my family is probably the best at watching golf. Now my dad is a pretty good player, but he is even better at watching golf. People might thing it’s a  boring sport to watch, but not with my dad. With him there’s yelling, hand rubbing, gasps, and everything. It is the perfect thing to watch while scrapbooking or crafting too. So that’s what I’m planning on doing this weekend so I’ll post updates.

So, there has been this red car sitting in the parking lot outside our townhouses for a good while now (months). Our parking lot is set up with little alcoves that only two cars can park in at the front of each person’s "property." This car is parked really annoyingly right in the middle of one of those alcoves. I kept just thinking it was someone who lived there kind of like, reserving the spots, or whatever. Then earlier this week my neighbor walked down and asked us if we knew whose it was. I was like, "oh, it’s not yours?" No, and it wasn’t anybody Else’s either. So he was trying to figure it out. It had a Greek house’s sticker on it, and OSU stuff too. Sciarrino’s guess was that someone just got drunk and forgot where they parked (I’d bet that’s pretty common), but I was afraid like the person had been abducted or something, especially since Brooke disappeared around here. Today coming back from errands I see two guys standing by the car. So I walk over there, and it turns out the clutch went out on the car so they just left it. I think that is so weird, it’s a decent car, not old or anything. Well maybe the lot isn’t the best place for red cars. Proof from the ice storm last year below:

Okay so Liesel gets a special place in my heart for giving me this google map link. I have played around with Keyhole on PCs, but didn’t know I could do this map thing on my mac, YEAH!!!!!  And yes, she is right, you totally can see my townhouse: so cool and a little creepy! Please everyone read Brave New World and make sure this kind of stuff doesn’t take over. 🙂 But really it is a good book (and WHO has my copy, own up!!). And for one more link: My eBay Stuff!  Five cute little albums and a big lot of stuff I had to clear out. After I got back from the last convention I couldn’t put everything away so I had to do a major clean. Hey, it’s only at a penny so bid away (of course the shipping on 35 pounds kind of sucks, but whatever). Now get ready for my next post, because you know what tomorrow is (oh, if you don’t it’s Wednesday).
P.S. I miss you too Katie!