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It’s Back!!!!

| cristina

My Mac is Back!!!!!!

Yaaaaaay!!!
I had almost given up hope, since we were waiting on a part and I figured, with the long weekend, it would never come in. But it did and it’s working and I can catch up with all the things I missed this week. 🙂
Too bad I have to go back to work tomorrow! 😀

Almost Over

| cristina

My holiday is almost over, and after Labor Day my schedule is pretty busy.

I’m not really that eager to go back to work, but I’m not dreading it either, so the holiday did me some good. 🙂
My Mac is still at the Apple Store and I’m still very unhappy about it, but resigned.
At last, Indiana Jones has arrived at our discount theater, so on Tuesday we’ll go and watch it for $ 1! I’ve been waiting for it to arrive all summer! 🙂

Happy Birthday to Me!

| cristina

Today’s my birthday!!

And husband’s cooking me a nice meal tonight. 🙂
I was hoping to get a phone call from the Apple Store saying my computer was repaired and ready to come home, but no.. not even as a gift for my birthday!
I’m really feeling hopeless now. I’ve been waiting on 3 important things this week (computer repair, exam results and ScrapMatters CT call) and heard nothing from either! I’ve been trying to be really calm and patient, but after 4 days of useless waiting I feel I’m getting a bit nervous now.
But never mind, it’s my birthday today and I want only positive thoughts!
And tomorrow we’re spending the day at a museum so I won’t have a chance to think about the answers I’m waiting for.

Operation Spruce

| cristina

After spending yesterday at Letchworth State Park (loved it!!) today we went and bought a baby blue spruce to plant in our garden.

I’ve wanted this for a couple months now, and we finally went to get it today.
We chose the smallest (and cutest of course) of all the ones for sale
and as soon as we got home, we were very, very glad we did that!! In fact, the people at the nursery put the spruce in our car, but once we got home, we discovered it was awfully heavy!! In fact, my husband and I together could not lift it, and resorted to roll it over the grass to the designated spot.
After digging for almost 2 hours, with me getting really dizzy because of the sun, we finally managed it and achieved this:
We’re SO happy with the result!! It was a harder job than we expected, but totally worth it!
Now we’re almost ready for Christmas! 🙂
(In case you were wondering… The 3rd day is now over and my Mac is not ready yet.. And it should have taken “a couple days”…)

Science Center

| cristina

Today we went to the Science Center + Planetarium. It was fun!!

We spent about 6 hours there, doing all the activities.
I didn’t take many pictures, but I think a LO or two could come out of this. 🙂
There’s a Speed Scrap at Scrapmatters tomorrow evening (find info here) but I’ll miss it because it’s at dinner time for me and tomorrow is our monthiversary (plus, my Mac is still being repaired.. ugh!). Too bad, because I love speed scraps!! There’s also an awesome partecipation prize by Ellie Lash.

Mac News

| cristina

OK, here’s the news: we brought my iMac to the repair center today and it should take “a couple days”. I hope it doesn’t take longer than that, because I already feel unlucky enough that my computer broke during my holiday (=big scrapping time).

So, the plans for the next couple of days is to build some nice memories for me to scrap when my computer comes back home. 🙂 And if I really can’t resist, I’ll seize my husband’s notebook for a quick scrapping session.
Now we’ll decide what to do tomorrow: museum or historic village?

The Dark Knight

| cristina

Yesterday we went to the cinema! My husband had been wanting to go to see The Dark Knight for a long time, so I finally gave in since he deserved a treat too. 🙂

I usually am totally opposed to spending $10.50 at a regular theater when you can watch the same movie for $ 2 just a few months later, but this time, since he really wanted to go, and since the movie was at the IMAX, we went.

The movie was good and I must say I LOVE the IMAX!! 🙂

Zoo!

| cristina
Yesterday we went to the zoo! It was fun!
We love to visit zoos but hadn’t visited the local zoo yet. So finally we did it!!
The zoo does not have that many animals, but we enjoyed it. 
We especially liked the events such as the feeding of penguins and alligators, and a show about animals’ tails.

I already started scrapping some of the pictures we took (even though they’re not great, thanks to our point and shoot.. 🙁 ), but here’s some raw pictures to start with before I get my LOs ready.
  

I’m done!!

| cristina
Yaaaayy!!!! My 3-day exam is over!!!!
So I’m finally back to a normal life! For the past 5 weeks I did nothing but study and scrap. 🙂 My dear husband was such a great support!
And this week he was so sweet, too! Monday after the first day of exams he bought me sushi, without knowing I’d been secretly craving it for a few days!
Then today, after I finished the final exam, he gave me as a gift a Bamboo tablet!!!!!
He’s such a dream! And he’s letting me speed scrap at ScrapMatters tonight. 🙂
Off to dinner!
OK so here’s the LO I mentioned earlier.
Credits:

Template by Melanie on Ellie Lash’s CT
Hanging clips, glittery dust and paper on bracket mat from I’m A Dreamer by Britt-ish Designs
Balloon (recolored), glitter swirls and journaling strips from New Beginnings by Rasberry Road
Center and horizontal papers (recolored) from Secret Sage by Erica Zane
Other paper (recolored) from Friday Flea Market collaboration kit at ScrapMatters
Twirl Alpha by Shabby Princess
Font: FG Bonnie’s
I did this following the color scheme for the Photography Phriday Challenge at SM (we also had to scrap about something new) and also for the template challenge at Ellie Lash’s CT blog.

Almost Done

| cristina

I’m about to start Day 3 of my 3-day exam so I’m almost done!!!

I must admit that I couldn’t resist and yesterday night I started working on a new LO. I should be able to give it the final touches later today, then I’ll post it. 🙂