busy busy busy

i've been going thru some of the mounds of paper that has been taking up space in my room. i have no clue as to why i was hanging on to some of it. did i see a future project in it or something? who knows...i'm purging it if i can't remember why. i'm also accumulating a fair-sized shred pile that is going to work with me to the big shredder.

i have also run across some of my old calendars/agendas/notebooks while i was cleaning out my desk. these i can't seem to part with as they contain the roadmap of my and janelle's life. i just finished looking at one from 2002-2003. i discovered this family organizer at one of the bookstores. i have used 3 of them and need to buy one for 2007-2008.

as i looked thru the organizer, it took me back to janelle's time in middle school, specifically 7th grade. there were entries for football games, church activities, hair appointments, orthodontist and doctor visits. boy were we busy! not much has changed over the years though....

i got the idea to include some of those things from the organizer and put them in the altered book i want to make for janelle. i want to fill the book with pictures and memories and letters from me recounting our fun time we had together and how i've watched her grow into the beautiful young lady that she is. i think she might like that. it will give her something to look back on when she's older.

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we got up early and headed to columbia for an fbla meeting. this time it was at lower richland high school. i went to the chick fil a on garners ferry road (nice folks!) and hung out for a little bit. i was knitting on the knit cuffs i'm making for my pen pal, barbara. a lady who came in with her husband immediately came over and asked what was i knitting. we talked a little about knitting and she told me where i could find a hobby lobby just a couple of exits down i-77. she said they had been having some really good yarn sales. so you know i had to check it out. i found some yarn to make a scarf for robin and the cotton yarn to make the market bag for jane.

on the way back to the school i stopped by barnes and nobles to chill for a while. i grabbed a stack of books and headed to the starbucks cafe inside and got a toasted marshmallow mocha. it was delicious. i did get a little aggravated by a couple of moms who let their kids just run amok. they just blah, blah, blah'd while their kids ran around touching anything and everything they could get their grubby hands on. i was waiting for one little boy to drop the glass tea pot he was messing with. fortunately i had peace and quiet to that point and it was time for me to go anyway.

after picking janelle and the other kids up after the fbla meeting, we met mr. harris and the others at zaxby's to eat lunch. it was nice listening to the kids talk about how they did with their different events. their chapter will represent sc at the regional meeting in november for the battle of the chapters competition. they beat out all the other sc chapters and knew the right answers at the right time.

well, i'm going to go now. i'm sure the charlotte race has started by now and i want to watch my elliott sadler race. i'm hoping he'll do good tonight. he's had a rough season and deserves a good run like he had going at talladega until he got caught up in someone else's wreck. :(

kisses....