new toys

I am so excited to get going with making cards! I really need to carve out time to get them done. One of my friends has just gotten her craft room flooring and windows in! We get to start moving stuff in there this Thursday! I can't wait! I have so many ideas floating around in my head and scratched onto my sketch pad! I have a few new Cricut cartridges that I have been dying to try! I hope to post pics soon of what I come up with! Hmm...so what's new? Well, I am totally addicted to Close to my Heart. I just can't seem to get enough of their stuff! Love the stamps, the paper, the ribbon, the embellishments, and their tools! Just love it all! Everything is coordinated so it's very easy to compile something quickly.
I am really hoping for a full-time job soon. It is hard jumping back and forth between a flex and a part-time job. I love them both, but it's taking a toll on my body...my sleep pattern, my eating pattern, and just my general overall health.
I went shopping the other day and bought a couple of new shirts and new cute undies:) I am loving feeling cute! I feel cute almost every day now (and that's a big deal because for a long time I did not).
I have been spending much needed time with friends more often! House night with one of my bestest friends, crafting with another good friend, home parties with friends I haven't seen in a long time, nights on the town with coworkers...love it!
Have been keeping close with my family. I love them so much! Spending time with my siblings has been amazing! My parents are wonderful and I really do enjoy spending time with them! In fact, we all just went bowling last weekend as a family and it was a blast! Now, if only, I was able to head out of state to be with more family. My grandfather is in the hospital and not doing well at all. Definitely keeping him in my thoughts. I continue to hope for a full-time job. I think that is about it. There is so much love and joy in me that hasn't been there in so long! I am officially in love with life!

I am amazed

I am amazed that something from my past coming back into my life can be so overwhelmingly incredible! I have a permanent smile on my face! There is "a hole the size of Texas deep inside of my heart" that has been filled finally! Yeah, I know...I am back to my old self with my music! I missed my songs! Now every day is a new set of lyrics. Everything I do reminds me of a song! Music is amazing! Words or no words. It has the ability to change your mood; to relax you; to uplift you; to energize you. It is just amazingly beautiful!
So...there really was a huge hole in my heart. I am just amazed at what an awesome feeling this is. No holding back. No hiding who I really am. No fussing over the little things. Nope. The real me. That's who I am again! Oh how I missed me. Welcome back Kelly!

The New and The Old

New:
-Second job! Different hospital, same work. Training this past week and next week! Loving it!
-Won the Monday Mug contest at work. The prize this time was a plastic football shaped tray (like for chips and dip), beef jerky, cheese popcorn, onion ring flavored chip things, buffalo sticks, raisinettes, mini butterfingers, and junior mints! What an awesome prize!

Old:
-Found a couple of old friends on Facebook! So great to see old faces and catch up on things going on in their lives.
-Sorted through my old clothes and am donating yet another garbage bag full! Sadly, it is not because they are too big for me...ha ha! They aren't too small for me either though...just some shoes, some pants, and a few shirts that I don't wear. Hopefully someone can use them.
-School...want to start back up. Have to drive to Lansing twice a week if I do though. Currently not in the budget.

Had a great time last weekend with my mom and some friends from her church! We scrapbooked the whole weekend! Well, okay, so we ate, slept, chatted, and shopped too! It was so cheap and so much fun! Thanks Amber for letting us come this time! I hope to make this at least an annual thing if not more frequent!

Been working on some cards for the craft show mom and I plan to do sometime this year. Oddly enough, I've been doing some Christmas cards. :) I did a couple sets of all occasion cards earlier. Next I think I will focus solely on Birthday cards. Birthday and Christmas are always the ones we seem to run out of the quickest!

Off to enjoy some of my Monday Mug prize and just think...gee thanks Steve!

job interview

Had a job interview today! At a different hospital doing the same thing! The interview went really well. Much better than expected. I won't hear anything for 1-2 weeks because of the holidays. Wish me luck:)

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