Hello Japan!

So I just had Rory look at my google analytics (tells me how many people read my blog) because for about a month now it has said that I only have one reader, and that my one reader is in Japan. Now I knew I couldn't really just have one reader because know from emails, conversations and comments that you, dear friends from college, high school, seminary, minnesota, nebraska, cousins, sisters and new blog world friends are out there and that you're reading.

But to my one reader in Japan...Konnichiwa! I can't believe I went global so fast.

Scanned + Scrapped = Success

I am completing one layout a day in this Jessica Sprague class. I would post more, but this first week the pages were "all about me" and it just feels very vain. But these last two pages were less about me and more about what makes me me. I borrowed the scanner from work and all my mom's photo albums a few weeks ago so I could start scrapbooking with pictures from my childhood. What a joy! I love mixing old pictures in with the current ones. So fun.

These scrapbook pages are set up as templates, so I simply drop the paper and pictures in and play around in photoshop until I'm satisfied. It means that some of the layouts I adore and others I can handle, but don't love. (ie: I adore the "influences" layout, and can handle this layout below. What it really means is that scrapbooking has never been so easy. Ever. I will print these out either as 12x12's or 8x8's (I am thinking 8x8) and throw them in an album and tada! An album made with one layout a day!

My new job title.

Today I basically had the honor of my life when Mary, the camp registrar and head of the L-Team (Laugh, Live, Love...), came and asked me if I would be this year's Wii Commissioner at Nebraska Lutheran Outdoor Ministries. And she kept saying Wii Commissioner with actual seriousness, filling me in on the responsibilities that come with such a title. I will need to form teams from our year-round staff, pick the sport (bowling was last winter, I'm thinking we might golf this time...), plan the Wii Banquet and tally the totals to award the prizes. I'm honored, I'm thrilled and I'm pretty sure I will to add this new title to my resume.

Another Jessica Sprague class!

Well, she's my fav. I just started another Jessica Sprague class and hope to post my finished pages here. This class is called Beautiful Evidence and is all about the beautiful evidence of a enjoyed life.

My other fav is Rory, who discontinued our lost sprint card and hooked us up with a home internet service. He actually said it was a blessing in the end because with this new plan we're saving $50 a month on internet. I suppose all is well that ends well, but man, I wonder where that internet card went!

Lost and still lost...

I hate losing things. It's the worst am-I-this-out-of-control feeling for me. Because I am a fantastically organized girl, so to misplace something just doesn't work in my world.

So, pretend that a girl was on vacation last week and say she lost her husbands two hundred plus dollar internet card. This would make her bonkers, right? Right.

All this means for you blogland, is that we don't have internet at home until this tiny little important computer part surfaces. And it just has to. Because I actually remember thinking, "that's a good spot, because what if I lost this thing..." while putting it in a zippered pocket of my laptop bag. But alas, it's gone. Along with my inner-peace.

My dad had a box at church for lost and found, and being clever, charming and witty, he had written in his scribbly Paul Harrington font "Lost and Still Lost." I can't wait to find this little guy. Or find $200 laying on the street. Either would be fine at this point.