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The Hubs' Man Crush and other Randomness

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My husband has a huge man crush on Dale Earnhardt Jr…good ole, #88. It’s his newest obsession. We must have all things with Amp, 88, or DEJ as I call him on it! And we need to get little toy cars, hats, shirts, jackets, bbq covers, license plates…etc!!! Good Lord!! I think he’s more in love with this guy than he is me! heh… Geez, I hope not anyways. lol

Actually, this Nascar thing is not new to me. My dad is a big fan and his fave was Dale Earnhardt. So I know all about the male Nascar obsession. 

I just think it’s amusing and like to tease my dh about it. He went to an amp “Pit Pass” event at a Walmart in Flint, MI on Friday and he took my camera with him. He was hoping that a car would be there, but unfortunately, there wasn’t. He had a good time anyways. 
Of course because we tease like that, I HAD to make a layout using some of the pictures he took!

Credits: 
Template by Andrea Gold
Alpha by Ellie Lash
Papers and Elements from ABC Jump Freebie kits and Add ons by Digitreats

hehe…he may not be too happy with me when he sees that!! oh well…it’s SO true. He has a total man crush on DEJ.

On a similar note…today was the Woodward Dream Cruise. Basically, it’s a HUGE classic car show on a road and it stretches for miles and miles. Cars go “crusin” and there are about a million people there. If you are into that thing you will know exactly what I’m talking about. If you’re not…well it basically looks like this:

I took this photo last year on Friday, but it’s the same on Saturday. Anyway…my Dad and any “real” car guy spends just about the whole week on Woodward with their cars. My dad got interviewed by the local newspaper on Tuesday!!

 

Here he is with my nephew, Elijah! His car is the one on the right. It’s a 1948 Plymouth Convertible. He also has a 1947 Plymouth Coupe that’s black.  

We grew up with classic cars and car shows. My dad has those two cars now, but before that we had a dune buggy, a roadster that he built, and a 56 Chevy. I know some people wouldn’t understand sitting and watching cars go by for hours and hours, but I could and have totally done that. We used to drive to the UP every year for a car show in St. Ignance, MI when we were younger. It was always a good time. I like looking at cars. It’s the hot and the people I don’t like. lol

So, needless to say, I did not spent my day walking around in the sun and heat, breathing in exhaust on Woodward like I have previous years. Nope, not this girl…not this year. I did ride on Woodward last night with my dad, sister and the hubs. We were out there for like 2 hours and drove like 3 miles if that tells you anything!! Oh, and we were in a van and not one of the classic cars. Those cars tend to overheat in bumper to bumper traffic. lol

No, today I went to Red Robin for lunch, had a YUMMY Harvest Apple Chicken Salad and then went to a produce store and went grocery shopping with my 2 sisters. It was a good time. 

Of course, when I got home I had to look for those millions of megabytes of free scrappy things that people are so generous with…oh and I went hog wild on some $1.00 fonts at scrapnfonts. I just love fonts. I have some issues. 

Tomorrow it’s the dam dishes that I started last weekend…but never got around to finishing. Maybe I’ll take a picture and do a before and after comparison…although, it’s pretty embarassing. I HATE dishes. I also need to clean this room up a bit and maybe do some laundry tomorrow. 

Oh, and I need to get food for the pups and also pick up the mess of scripts at the pharmacy. We got my husband’s meds all worked out. I swear we will be spending close to 100.00 for scripts this month. Ugh. Oh well…they’re keeping him sane and alive. 

This got long fast…drank an amp tonight (part of the man crush is keeping amp in the house heh) and omg…never again. I’m all hopped up on the caffiene!!! haha

I should add picture credits for this post: Dale Earnhardt Caricature  & Pict of my Dad and Elijah

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Sunday's Insecurities and Dreamweaver Woes

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I really try to be who I am and be proud of that and everything – not worry about what people think about me because they don’t matter. I try to be that way – always.

Sometimes it’s hard. Sometimes I feel like a little girl who’s so unsure of anything in this world and generally it’s due to dumb dumb things.

Like today, my husband went for a walk in the early afternoon. He went alone and didn’t ask me to come or didn’t take a dog with him. He said he was going to go walk around the park we used to live by a couple times and then come home. Doesn’t seem like a big deal, right?

Well my husband and I have been together for a LONG time and a lot has happened. There have been betrayals and lies told and all has been forgiven…but never forgotten. So when these oddities come up out of no where…like a walk out of the blue…I start to get all paranoid like he’s lying to me and doing something behind my back or he’s leaving to go talk to someone.

Do I really think these things are going on? Of course not. But I cannot keep these feelings from cropping up when incidents like this happen! I wish I could.

And yeah, I know that it’s odd behavior and I should trust my gut and all of that…but I also know that if something is going on, I WILL find out sooner or later. Plus, i’m the type of gal who has always said…”if you don’t want to be with me then there’s the door.” I’d rather be alone than with someone who doesn’t want to also be with me.

So, I asked what was up when he got home and he said nothing. I hope he’s telling the truth. I trust him about 99%…but there’s still the lies from years ago that linger in my head.

Ahh well, all will reveal itself if there is something going on. It always does!

On to Dreamweaver. I love computers and everything, but when it comes to html, unfortunately, I am a hack and don’t know enough html to not use a WYSIWYG website editor.

So I have used Microsoft Frontpage for years! Everything worked well with a few little snags here and there, but I’ve always been able to get around them.

For some reason Frontpage stopped working for the APSFA webmaster stuff that I do. I don’t understand why either. I think it may have something to do with my new firewall but even when I disabled it, FP still would not work.

So I’ve been trying other WYSIWYG programs. I tried an Adobe program called “Contribute” which worked for a couple pages, but I couldn’t get to the html to edit it. I didn’t really play with that program for too long to look for it either. I kind of knew once I used it a couple times that it wasn’t really what I was looking for.

Dreamweaver is closer to what I need. I got it to upload, but now I’m having a problem with one of my pages. I cannot see anything in the WYSIWYG part, but the html is all there. I need to figure out what is making me not see it. I’ve been playing with it for hours, with no avail.

That’s been my Sunday so far…oh that and the dishes. YUCK…I seriously hate doing dishes so they always wait until we have so many and they are SO nasty…it’s dumb, but I just hate doing them.

No layouts today unless I need a break from Dreamweaver – which I may later on…I’m stumped.

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Stormy Saturday

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It’s a yuck day today…big thunderstorms rolling through. And our internet is messed up. I guess the cable company is having internet issues in all of Michigan and they couldn’t give me an estimated time it would be fixed. It’s so stupid too, because I can’t get on any blogger pagers but my own, and I can get on MySpace but not into the support forum for my husband’s disease. I don’t get it. I’m sure they will get it going soon.

So…since I can’t do my webmaster duties for the APSFA, and I’m totally avoiding cleaning the nasty kitchen, I’ve been working on some layouts.

On the Scrapmatters blog, they have “Template Tuesdays” and they were talking about nicknames and posted a template freebie. I couldn’t wait to use that and what a cool idea because all of our animals go by their nicknames more than they do their real names!

I did Malcolm aka “Mooshy’s” for the template challenge:

Credits:
Template by Sya @ scrapmatters
Papers & Elements by Thao Cosgrove @ Scrap Girls

Then I did Alex aka “Fanna’s” next:

Credits:
Template by Sya @ scrapmatters
Papers & Elements from ABC Run kit by Digitreats or add on kits by various

And then I made Onyx aka “Missy Girl’s”:

Credits:
Template by Sya @ scrapmatters
Papers & Elements by Kay Miller Designs

Here is Razzle aka “Yidda’s” page:

Credits:
Template by Sya @ scrapmatters
Papers & Elemets from Felty Cat & Dog kits by Calico Designs
Alpha by Misschifis @ scrapmatters
Kitty tag by Major Tigger Scraps

Here’s Topaz aka “Puppa’s” page:

Credits:
Template by Sya @ scrapmatters
Papers & Elements by Kay Miller Designs

And finally, here’s Jellybean aka “Beans” page. I wanted to make her page all girly because she is SUCH a little prissy girl. I am convinced all girl cats are this way because of her. haha

Credits:
Template by Sya @ scrapmatters
Most Paper & Elements by Jessica Edwards (glitter also)

I tried to use different pictures in these layouts because I know that I’ve been using some of the same ones over and over. You’d think with over 5 gigs of pictures on my husband and my’s picture site, I could find some different pictures to use! lol But I have my favorites!

So basically I spent the day digiscrapping! lol…actually, I did a few other things…but mainly I scrapped. It relaxes me.

I need to look up the credits for all of these and then post them. I also need to go back and post credits for the other ones that are missing them. I’ll work on that.

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