I really need to start taking pictures of my completed projects… that and I need to join a procrastinator support group at some point. Today is Valentine’s Day. The day comes every year: can’t miss it, it’s on the calendar, so it’s not like I didn’t know it was coming. OK, so this happens on all important days – birthdays, holidays (Christmas cards that arrive before Christmas? Is this possible?)

So back to the need to take pictures. The story starts back on Wed., Feb. 9. It’s my brother-in-law’s birthday. I should make a card because, heck, I have everything to make one easy. I was home all day with L – had his follow up with his pediatrician and his IEP meeting at school. Can’t come up with a single design. Oh well, we’re celebrating Friday night. I’ll make it tomorrow night.

Thursday: first day back at work. Busy, busy, busy catching up and making tactile diagrams for a blind student taking an oceanography course. Get home, I’m exhausted. Instead of a stamped card, I’ll use my Silhouette die cut machine. Look through my laptop to see if I have any digital designs. Can’t find the library – ever since the one day we hooked up my laptop to the big screen, the library disappeared when it got disconnected from the TV. That’s okay, because my main library is on the home computer. Go to the home computer, found a design, select the paper, grab the Silhouette. Can’t find the cutting sheet, power cord, or the computer cable. Too tired. I’ll borrow a cutting mat from a friend tomorrow and make the card before we go out to dinner.

Friday: Borrow a friend’s Cricut machine cutting mat. Get home from work to test it: not going to work. The Cricut cutting mat is only 6.5 inches wide; I need 8.5 inches. Belated card it is! That’s just like me anyway! Off to dinner

Saturday: I administer the ACT test in the morning. Chris and V are at the College too setting up for Heavier Than Air’s mystery dinner theatre that night. After fetching lunch for us, Chris tells me to look in a particular drawer for the power cable. The computer cable is probably in the cabinet. I get home around 2:30p. I’m tired and need a few minutes to myself (aka, cat nap for 20 mins.) I then go rescue Grandma from L. I haven’t eaten my lunch yet (a sub sandwich) and I’m getting hungry, but I want to at least start a load of laundry. Food will be my reward. Done. By the time I’m done eating, the wash is finished and I get the next load started. While that’s running, I need to clean up the kitchen from the past week. It doesn’t usually get bad, but considering what happened earlier in the week… done and the dishwasher is on timer to run later that evening. The washing machine is done and the dryer is almost done. I think I’ll catch up on my farm on facebook while I wait, maybe play a game of Zuma. L is watching Spongebob through Netflix on Chris’s laptop. Dryer done, next load in, fold laundry, and put it away. Repeat the info after the dishwasher. After the second load is put away, I find the power cord and computer cable. L is hungry for dinner, I’m not since I ate lunch a couple of hours earlier. Tend to the boy and his needs. Nighttime falls and we go to bed.

Sunday: lazy day. Chris and V didn’t leave the College until midnight. After taking someone home and driving home, they got home close to 1 a.m. Chris needed to go back to the College to restore the sound equipment for Monday’s choir class. He was so tired that napped on the couch for a couple of hours – sitting up. I figured I needed to get started on P’s b-day card. I figured out that I can still cut without the mat, just need to be careful with changing the blade for the thickness of paper. Card and enveloped done within the hour. Yes, it took that long because either the paper tore while being cut or the blade didn’t go deep enough to cut through the paper. Signed it and sealed it, then thought I should have taken a picture. Oh well, I should get started on L’s Valentine cards for his preschool class. I had to make two sets because the paper I used was a quite a bit thicker (110 lb). The first batch, the cut didn’t make it to the back side of the paper. I had to double the image on the computer so it would cut twice. By the time I was done with that part, I needed to start making dinner. At some point the devil boy managed to take scissors to two of the cards. Neither one of us was happy after that.

To end this story (so I can get to bed), there were several tiny hearts around the border that needed to be removed, along with the greeting of “Happy Valentine’s” in the center; it needed a backing, a sentiment stamped inside, signature, and envelopes to put them all in. By the time I finished putting everything together, signed, and sealed, it was after midnight, and I still had nothing to show for my work. (sigh)

Chris and I did nothing special on this Hallmark Holiday. We ordered pizza and watched TV, then put the kids to bed. As I finish writing this, the devil boy got himself into trouble yet again. He got a hold of Chris’s phone and tried too many times to unlock it. Chris’s phone is wiped clean to manufacturer settings. Everything is gone. Contacts, e-mails, v-mails, texts… all gone. Hmmm… this could be a good thing. Maybe he’ll taper down what he puts on there so it doesn’t constantly crash.