online crops force me to scrap

2peas held an online crop night tonight and I swear, under pressure and with challenges, I am able to scrap within a few hours. It's awesome. I spent the night chatting to fellow peas and scrapping with Chelsea. She's so funny when it comes to being crafty and since she's gotten her netbook, it's like she's totally disregarding talking face-to-face. We were sitting next to each other, scrapping the night way, yet she insists on having a conversation via msn as well! I think it's because she loves to use all the emoticons

:)

The 8pm challenge was to scrap something, anything that you love, but it must include some journaling. Luckily, I've already been meaning to scrap this photo of Ryan and I & I already had a sketch in mind, totally ahead of the game this time around ... (the ladies on the forum scrap super fast!, it's so hard to keep up with them!), but I managed to finish, woohoo!

Ok, must sleep now, work at 9am, whomp.

what a wonderful surprise!

I know this should be posted in our house process blog, BUT I'm just so freaking excited!

I've been meaning to take the drive down to Milton to check out the progress of our home. I haven't seen the site location since Ryan and I went down after Mattamy U (which was on Jan 22nd), and it was much too dark to see anything yet alone take any photos. But, at 5pm today, out of complete spontaneity ... I drove down with Chels and A, racing the sun, hoping that it wouldn't set before we got there. And my my my, what a wonderful surprise!

*As of February 4th

(Almost 3 months until closing!)

I mean, it's not the best photo in the world, but I was just so excited to see so much progress was done! Tarion has 1 more day to let us know if there are any delays with the house, crossing my fingers that we don't have any! I can't believe what I'm seeing, getting so excited. I need to somehow convince Ryan that we have to drive down every day to see the progress on the house. I have TWO photos in my "house process" album, lol, TWO. So from now on, I must see all the little details go on. Even though this photo is worth a thousand words, the feelings still haven't sunk in. It still feels surreal, but oh-emm-gee, we're almost homeowners.

beautiful kitchens

*Refer to post on house process blog - here :)

will we make it? will we?

Let's fast forward to 8 months time & let's see how we're making out.

Is it possible to be completely happy yet have so much worry about what's going on around you? It sums up all the feelings that I'm going through right now (not to mention that it's also the time of the month, which could possibly explain the reason why I'm beyond emotional).

C: Babe, are we going to make it? in life? will we be ok?

R: Hell ya.

Simple, yes & my insecurities fly out the window. When the person that I love the most (aside from Aiden, obvs, hehe) tells me that it's going to be ok, what else can I ask for? He tells me in two words that we'll make something out of our lives and that we'll do it, together ... hand in hand. Truly, I am blessed.

Now let's fast forward.

On a craftier note, I scrapped last night. Started and finished all in one day, love when things just click for me. Loved how this one turned out, but still need to find a way to photograph my layouts better. Natural light would be best, but given the season, it's too damn cold t be photographing outside. Here, take a peak:

my application is in!

I meant to send it last Sunday, but after spending the entire night writing, editing, refreshing and editing my CV ... the online application asks to "describe yourself"! GRRR. Didn't I just do that in my 3 hour long process of writing my CV and updating my resume? So I got discouraged and stopped the application process. I let a week go by until I knew that if I didn't force myself to do so, there may be a chance that I miss the deadline. So tonight, it did it, I wrote one more paragraph about myself and a customer service experience and I clicked submit. I clicked it.

Now,

I wait.

Thank you for your interest in the grad@Loblaw Program!

We have received your application. If selected for an interview, you will be contacted by e-mail.

I dislike playing the waiting game.

Now, I wait.

& I cross my fingers.