Christmas Tree 2007

Ok, so this year we got another tree. See we got one last year too... brought it home... put it up in the living room... Hubby put some white (they have to be white) lights on it and that's as far as it got. Well NOT this year! We picked out a great tree from a friend of a friend's Christmas Tree Stand and brought it home. We went down to my MIL's house and got her stand since she got a fake tree this year... brought that home... got the tree hooked up to it (it's quite a contraption with chains and s hooks and wing nuts and all that jazz) - last night we put lights on it after LJ went to bed. Tonight we are going to actually decorate it! I'm kinda excited about it too. I usually don't like putting up or taking down a tree... dunno why... just do... maybe because year after year of doing the tree at my parents house and not being there when their tree is taken down to put everything away correctly (I swear my Dad just takes the ornaments off the tree and throws them in a box - no rhyme or reason - no real protection...) so that the following year they are all mixed together... hooked together... some are broken... blah... blah... blah... But this year I got out of doing thier tree and are just doing my own. Problem with that is it's been so long since I've had a decorated tree I don't know where all my ornaments are. My Mom really likes to buy and give ornaments so I have quite a collection - all in various places. Ah well... we shall see. If i can figure out how to post a picture I will so you can see my beautiful tree.

Ok, I'm here... now what??

Ok, so my Aunt has been a blogger for I don't even know how long and now I'm just getting into it. Actually I thought I had an account... more on that later... I was/am on myspace and I'm just really tired of it to be honest. This seems to be a more "grown up" kind of thing to do. I write what I'm thinking and my friends comment on it. Simple. Right? Well... I guess I have to blog in order for people to comment huh? Well here I am. I guess I should tell you something huh? Well at this moment I should be working on my swaps for the annual Stampin' Up! convention, but instead here I am. This happens to me all the time... I start out doing one thing and end up doing another. In my family we call that flitting - and my Grandmother was the master of it! On top of which I'm a total procrastinator too. So ok... back to the beginning... I was starting to do my swaps... I picked out a stamp set I wanted to use and went to one of my favorite websites for inspiration and for some reason I remembered I hadn't checked my Aunt's blogspot in a while (and actually wondering if I've been mentioned lately) so off I went... and then I was pokeing around and wondering if I had started an account a while back or not... so I typed in my regular online personality name and lo and behold it came up! So I tried to log in and I got in! Imagine that! So to answer one of my previous questions... yeah I do have an account but I never filled out any information in my profile and I haven't posted a blog yet... well folks... here you go... so now my mind seems to be flitting... what was I talking about again... ah yes... swaps... in case you don't know what they are (and I'm finding that not many people do) they are stamped card fronts that Stampin' Up! demonstrators make and swap with each other so that we as demonstrators have samples to show our customers (or hoard for ourselves) to get them to buy the stamp sets that were used to make that sample or "swap". I've been a demonstrator since 2002 - yes 5 years ago! - At first I thought I'd just be a hobby demonstrator which really means I'd purchase enough to keep myself active but mostly for the discount. But as I got more and more into it I started branching out and doing workshops (parties) and had a few events/classes... but then life kinda got in the way. I met a wonderful man, sold my current house, bought a new one and got married. Shortly thereafter I had a baby and now a year and a half later I'm kinda getting back into it. Over the last 2.5 years I've struggled to make my minimums but I did it and never lost my demo status. Also over the last 2.5 years I may have been purchasing product to achieve those minimums but I've barely picked up a stamp! So now with the new catalog out (btw... it's AWESOME!!!) I'm starting to get back into it... so I need swaps right??? Well that's what I started out doing and instead... here I am blogging to all of you... actually I don't think there are any of you because I haven't told anyone I have a blog here... well anyway... I'm here now... and I hope to blog more. So feel free to comment on my ramblings and my lack of paragraphs... cuz I don't really "do" paragraphs. I just type what my mind thinks us and sends down to my fingers!