looks like I missed everyone tonight. :( Hope everyone had a great day today!

Is Abby doing any better today?

Hi Marci~ thanks for asking about Abby. :)

She is better but she hates her cough medicine so I battle with her to get it down. I think in a few days she will be just fine. She is sleeping quietly right now.

How are you?

I'm doing good. My MIL finally left last Friday (after being here for three weeks) and I am trying to get back into my normal routine. Noah has started coughing again as well and his nose has been running pretty bad but I think it's just from the weather changing here so much.

I'm sorry to hear that. There is so much sickness going around here it's unbelievable! Wishing you and your family well!

Thanks same to you. I think I am going to head off to bed now. I will chat with you later. I hope that you have a wonderful night.

just going to finish up some papers and then I am off to bed too. Nice chatting with you!

Hi everyone :)

hiya LJ~

Hey Tracey! Whassup?

just finishing up grading some spelling tests. Headed to bed. Sorry I can't stick around and chat with you. :( Niters

I'm headed to bed too (just waiting for my hair to dry as usual!)

Sweet dreams! ;)

sounds like a great lesson. I'm sure the students love it. Very cool!

hey gals. it's cold here tonight...and it never gets cold in Austin. I came out of a restaurant and there was ice all over my windshield. Weird because it was 75 at lunch today. Good night for cozying up!!

It's supposed to get down to EIGHT DEGREES here.... 75 sounds REALLY NICE to me right now :mrgreen:

HOLY COW - IT'S SNOWING IN AUSTIN, TX!!! :shock:

see, maybe I should have bought you that Colts sweatshirt afterall mama!!!!!!!! lol, I'll have to tell Chris he was RIGHT for once ever........

Just went through some of my swap cards, left overs, and ones I made at shoe box swaps, and realize I prob. had enough x-mas cards so don't have to make them. Had grand ideals but these'll prob. do ;)

That's a darn good idea! Reward your successes and withold something for motivation... if you can stick to it, you'll find yourself doing an extra fifteen or twenty minutes a day anytime there's a release party around the corner. ;)

good morning... i'm stayin' home today. my dd is running a fever.

YIKES...probably won't stick very long though.....unlike up here where there are 20 FOOT piles of white stuff all over the place :lol: sledding anyone?

YAY Joy! Congrats on making the Shortcuts DT Team :)

thanks girls!

I'm so glad you found some cards Yoorah, yeah, I use a lot of my swap cards for b-day cards and thank yous for work and stuff when I don't have time to whip up a card!

Nope it's not staying very long. Our roof was covered with snow ans ice this morning, but now it seems to all be melting. :(

Yeppers (Good grief - I sould like KelliJo!), tomorrow we'll probably be wearing flip-flops again. . .:rolleyes: ;)

someone needs to fill that gap. it is just not the same round here without her!

someone needs to fill that gap. it is just not the same round here without her!


apparently it needed to be said twice...

Hey Su!

I do the same thing as Jackie! I've got it (and an e-mail distribution list as well) at home if you would like me to send it to you this evening???

MWAH!

Hey Diva Ho!

Will you PM me your physicist's name (and title)?

Christmas cards. . .:rolleyes:

MWAH!

Good Job JOY! :) We knew you could do it!!!
I am off today - lots of rain here! A good day for naping and stamping! :)

will do... hang on

sent...

I woke up this AM to a blinking clock. It said 5:00 so the power had been on for five hours. I caught up on all my email and threads, went downstairs to start my tea and reset the clocks. About two minutes after I got them all set, power went out again.... Oh yeah, and elec stove, so had to wait for my tea, too! :( I am debating whether to bother setting them all again...

My ideal place would be someplace that I could wear flip-flops year round! Certainly not Kentucky:(

Alright, The NYC metro area Ho's are going to have a little get together in January. I don't htink I can wait til July anymore so I can settle for seeing part of the Ho Group. We're tentatively looking at Jan 18th ( a Saturday) anyone interested in coming over? Will u be in NJ?. It's low key, stamping and sharing images. If you're around let me know and your welcome to come over. PM me if you're interested and then I'll start arranging everything. Very informal gathering- perhaps a shoebox swap, but what we love most is sharing our stamps.

so far it will be me, scrappy, most likely jackie,
- other ho's nearby: Su, Bonnie, gael
-anyone else?

I know everyone else probably knows this already, but what exactly is a shoebox swap?

The 17th is a Sat and is open for me right now... :-D:-D:-D

Gael, it's like a card kit swap...but you put all the stuff in a shoebox, each person goes to each station and makes the card/project and keep rotating until you get them all done. You put all the stuff for one person in a bag (like paper, embellishments), and then have the supplies needed for the project in box (like stamp, ink pad, crop-a-dile)

oh, now except if you're me, you don't take a crop-a-dile all the way to Austin, and some cow gripes about having to use the old style way for eyelets :twisted:

Then (the cow) gets slapped down by Scrappy! ;)