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And...here we go!
1. Hilton Head Island is my favorite summertime getaway.
2. My favorite John Hughes movies is Ferris Bueller's Day off.
3. Scrapbook paper is something I love to touch, I know, really...
4. The full moon can be creepy.
5. Time for my morning coffee right now.
6. When daylight fades we know winter is approaching. 
7. And as for the weekend, tonight...

Made another mini over the past few days.  Part of that list I made the other day when I looked at my stash and said I need to get creating!

I will post more pictures later...
Left early this morning to visit Trish and do some shopping at her garage sale and then it was off to Ikea with Val and the kids.

I've never been to an Ikea before, but let me just say.... I will be back!

You could...

It's very hard to have a simple, uncomplicated good time with a narcissist. Except for odd spells of heady euphoria unrelated to anything you can see, their affective range is mediocre-fake-normal to hell-on-Earth. They will sometimes lie low and be quiet, actually passive and dependent -- this is as good as it gets with narcissists. They are incapable of loving conduct towards anyone or anything,...

Things to do in the next 4 days
 Finish another mini I put together after going through my scraproom and realizing I need to start using all this stuff!
 do some shopping at Ikea
 Hit up Trish's garage sale
 Finish cleaning my scraproom
 Put together projects to do for gifts
 clean kitchen counters (how does this stuff pile up?)
 Shinto for dinner! yeah!!
 Finish reading one...

My first time being called for jury duty and I wasn't sure what to expect, but I was up for the adventure!
The day began when I arrived at court at 8:30 am, went through security, signed in and received my $10.  I then was told to go into the court room and sit in the one of the last three rows.  After a few moments the bailiff came in and let us know the procedure of how things would be happening,...

Well as of tonight it wasn't cancelled so tomorrow morning I have jury duty

It's Monday and back to our routine of summer after spending the weekend in Chicago.  Tomorrow I have jury duty, it is my first time going so I'm kind of excited about it.
Some of my favorite pictures from our weekend in Chicago

Seeing the Blue Man Group

Pizza at Giordano's

Navy Pier

Finding the beach in Chicago!

The Bean at Millennium Park (after it was just washed)
Did you...

Do you know a narcissist?  For years I didn't realize one was living in my family, but as with any catastrophe in life, once the dust settles you can look back and see all the signs that were right in front of your face.  
One day when explaining the situation to a friend she told me to look up the definition of the word, I swore my family member's picture should have been next to the list of traits...

It was so fun and so easy working with this kit!  The August kit has to be one of my favorites, although I know I've said that before, and I'll say it again...
You can find them here
and more inspiration here and here
as well as the flickr site here