I'm loving it!!!

Happy Friday!!!! Hope your day is flying by! IT will be the weekend soon!!!

Personally, I have what my momma would call the "lowaggiepoggies" - I just feel blah. My tummy hurts and over all I have no motivation to do anything!!! I think it is probably stress related - it has been a month of "stuff" to say the least....

One really cool thing has happened today though!!! The mail lady brought me a package!!! First of all - if you recall my love language is receiving gifts.... well this is a gift I purchased for myself - but I have to tell you - I am soooooo totally loving it!!!!

See as most of you know I got a new car a few months back... my DREAM car to boot!!! (My hubby is just sooo awesome!!! Of course I may never see another birthday or Christmas present again, but hey!!! LOL)

Well when I got the car - they had one of those license plate frames that advertises for the dealership! I think not! Not on my dream car!!! So I promptly removed it as soon as we got home. I have been on a quest every since then - looking for just the "PERFECT" license plate frame.

Do you know how hard it is to find a license plate frame now days! Sheesh!!! Finally, I found THE ONE!!!! Of course you have to know the story behind why it is soooo perfect!

Being an Army wife has its ups and downs to say the least - but just one year after we got married - hubby got deployed for the first time...... I had never been through a deployment before and it was very rough! Needless to say, I had good days and I had bad days through out the nine months that he was gone.....

Well on one of those "bad days" Hubby just happened to call home. I was crying and carrying on (according to his version of the story) about how I couldn't do this anymore, how I hated the deployment, yada yada yada.... Hubby being a rough and tough Army Ranger, Airborne Paratrooper was having none of this... and his reply to me was, "Suck it up Ranger and Drive on!"

I went from sad and depressed to PO'ed in two point two seconds! I was like - ARE YOU KIDDING ME!!!!!! LOL

Well to this day - we still laugh about this. As a matter of fact just a few weeks ago hubby said him and some other guys were sitting around in the mess hall over in the sandbox and one of the new guy's was talking about how his wife was upset and not dealing very well with with him being gone. He asked the other guys - like hey - what do you say to your wives when this happens.... My hubby pipped up real fast and real loud - "I know what NOT TO say!!!" (Who said you can't train up right?!?!?!) Bahahahahahahaha!!!

So now, having heard this story, you will totally understand why I now (as of today) proudly display this license plate frame on my new car!!!!

(Sorry about the blur - but I didn't want to post my plate number to all of cyber world!)

Hope this post got a smile out of you... Don't forget to sign up for Pirate Bingo at the Paperthread's forum - the prize list is growing fast!!!!

Have a great weekend!
Until Next Time!

Cya ~
Lori

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So have you heard.....

Yep that's right - I am hosting BINGO - make sure you sign up on the Paperthreads Forum!! It is going to be a wild ride and before we are done - I am sure that someone will be forced to walk the plank!

(A very special thanks to my friend and fellow designer - Chris Durnan for making this awesome image for me!!)

It has been a crazy day - will try to catch you all up tomorrow!! But for those who want to know- I did start on my project - spray painting is complete!!!

Until Next Time!

Cya ~

Cpt BK (aka Lori)

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Projects, Projects and More Projects!!!

Hi and Hello! Sorry for the late afternoon post today it has been another busy one for sure!!! My day started off with a two hour conversation with the GA Dept of Revenue where I was transferred not one, not two, but 16 times!!!!!! Grrrrrrr!!!!!!

Then the restoration company came out and say a thank you - they are FINALLY done with the repairs from the leaky roof I had - hmmmm - TWO months ago!!! But the good thing about having a leaky roof (I am trying to be positive here and think of only the good things!!!) is that I got my living room, dinning room and kitchen repainted - and that has inspired me to do some home improvements/updated decorating!

Hubby will be home in four weeks!!!!! Whoooo Hoooooo!!! And we are having relatives come in for a week for "Mock Thanksgiving!" So it will be nice to have a newly decorated, warm cozy house to entertain in!

So on that note - here is a photo of the supplies I purchased last night after having dinner with my lawyer friend. I am going to keep you hanging on this one.... I guess you will just have to keep checking back to see what these supplies become!!! (But I do have to say I am very excited about this project!!!)



Oh - and here is a bargain shopping tip for you.... My friend Amy tooted her horn on this glue called Zip Dry Glue..... well you know me. If someone says that they love love love something I want to try it out! So I did an Internet search and the cheapest I could find it was $5.29 on ebay! Well you know I am cheap - so I decided that the next time I went into town I would look for it. Wally world didn't have it, but AC Moore did! It was $4.79 so that was cheaper than online and no shipping!


I took my bottle up to the cashier to pay for it - and she had this big grin on her face - and said "This is going to be less than you think it is. It is actually on clearance but we haven't had time to print the stickers out"...... Any holly cow - it was $1.75!!!!!! So you know I had to go back and get another bottle!!! Then I called my designer friends and asked them did they want me to pick them up some too!!! So two trips later and five bottles of glue - I am a HAPPY CAMPER!!! (So if you want to try this glue out - check your AC Moore, in the glue section - and if it isn't marked down - ask them at the counter!!!)

Hope you are having a great day.... I'm off to work on my project!
Until Next Time!

Cya~
Lori

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