Isn’t she perfect?! I think every girl knows what it’s like to think ‘I wish I had Angelina Jolie’s lips…or Britney Spears hips…or Deborah Messings hair’. You know what I mean, we all wish we could change something about our appearance. To me, Chely Wright would be the perfect package. If I could just switch I’d take the whole nine yards. The brown eyes (always wished mine were brown), the perfectly straight, perfectly white teeth, the cute nose, the gorgeous long hair (and surprise surprise, she’s got a perfect body too), and she can sing. To me she looks flawlessly gorgeous yet sweet and approachable. Pretty tough to pull off that combination.

I’m sure she has things about herself that she’d change if she could. I don’t think there’s a person on the planet who doesn’t. I guess it’s human nature. I think it keeps us humble. To me the biggest turn-off is a person who thinks they’re all that and a bag of chips. Confidence is one thing but you know the feeling of being in a room with someone who thinks they look better than everyone else there, or are smarter than everyone else, or funnier…drives me crazy. I think it was Jenn last night who said we’re our own worst critics. So true. I think it’s because we are the ones who catch that glimpse in the mirror first thing in the morning when our hair is a disaster and there’s no make-up to cover those imperfections we all have (or at least most of us). At that moment the only ones who can find beauty are those that can see past the mess to the stuff that’s really important.

I’ve seen this little list on so many blogs that I follow and this morning I discovered that Lisa had been tagged and in turn tagged me. I’ve been avoiding her blog because she told me there’s a ‘Dreamer’ spoiler post on it and I want to take the neats to see it sometime this weekend but I had to check in and I averted my eyes from the post about the movie. :) So here’s my answers:

2 names you go by
Shawn and Shawny
2 parts of your heritage
Dutch and Christian (is that a heritage?)
2 things that scare you
snakes and big spiders
2 of your everyday essentials
laptop and breakfast
2 things you are wearing right now
monkey pajamas (it’s not even 7 am) and sweatshirt (it’s cold)
2 of your favorite band or musicians(at the moment)
Nickelback and Michael Buble
2 favorite songs(at the moment)
Breath of Heaven (Amy Grant) and O Holy Night (Celine Dion) – it’s Christmas time :)
2 things you want in a relationship
*honesty and respect
2 truths
*I need to read my bible more and my priorities are not where they should be
2 physical things that appeal to you(in the opposite sex)
Eyes and hands
2 things you want really badly
a mini cooper and a great looking desk to scrap at more comfortably (& productively)
2 places you want to go on vacation
Greece and Croatia
2 things you want to do to before you die
Travel to Europe and open a digital scrapbooking cafe
2 ways that you are sterotypically a dude/chick
won’t leave the house without my hair done & mascara on and I’m sensitive/emotional
2 things you are thinking about
whether to get in the shower or go back to bed and my dear friend Shari who sadly will be attending a funeral on this Thanksgiving weekend.
2 stores you shop at
Target and the Limited
2 people i would like to see take this quiz
Dawn and Lauren

*Lisa’s answers were too ‘right on’ to change them.

Who IS this guy!? I vaguely remember having a crush on him when I was probably like 10 but WHAT was he on?! For the life of me I can’t remember. Started looking on his website after stumbling across his song for my video of the day but I thought maybe it’d be more fun to see if anyone out there in blog world knows (out of the handful of you that follow my blog that is). LOL I’m not an ER fan but I’m gathering from his website that he’s had a role on that but I’m thinking MUCH longer ago. Charles in Charge comes to mind but I don’t think that’s right. I’m sure if Tammy reads this she’ll be rolling her eyes. I’m the person at every movie that can’t stop trying to figure out what tv show or movie each of the actors were in. Drives me crazy! I have a terrible memory really. Usually remember just enough to make me nuts trying to figure it out. So please help me – what tv show was this guy on 20 years ago?! :)

CREDITS: Doodles – Taran Conyers, inked edge & staples – Gina Cabrera, flower pebble – Rhonna Farrer, Word tags & messy stitches – Katie Pertiet  FONTS: Beer Dip & AL Uncle Charles

Trying to ease back into scrapping so I played around with a few photos of places I’m going to in Mexico in a couple weeks. I love doodles lately so it was fun to create something that seemed so fitting for them. :)

I’ve also been working on a blog for the DDE team that I’m really excited about. It’ll be nice to have all of our conversations and info in one place and I’m thrilled that the team members seem really excited about it too. I wanted it to be pretty when they first went to it and not look cold and impersonal so I tried my hand at a blog header using Gina’s new kit (which was another good way to ease into scrapping again). Here’s a peak and if you haven’t gotten the new Forever Greatful kit you MUST check it out. So many fun things and the colors are fabulous!

And then I also started a seperate political topic blog of my own. Mostly to collect articles and information that I find. My brother says I should be posting this stuff in my regular blog under a political category but then I wouldn’t be able to create a fun political style banner. ;) He just doesn’t understand. Just did a quick one for now but hopefully I’ll think of something more creative down the road. (After I change the one on this main blog). I also don’t like to force my political views on anyone or be defined by them. Anyone who knows me though knows that I’m somewhat of a political junkie. I watch Fox News more than any other television shows combined and I love a good political discussion. So anyway, it seemed fitting to have a blog about something I’m quite passionate about. Don’t hate me ‘cuz I’m conservative and I’ll continue to try and understand why those of you who are liberal think the way you do. ;) Just kidding. Sorta. LOL

Okay, off to work. Short week this week. Gotta love that! :)

Well, I am really behind on the blogging thing. I hate it when I get this far behind because I feel like I need to go back and catch up. I really should just post as if my last entry was yesterday. That’d be so much easier. My laptop went completely capoot (or is that kaput?) on me last weekend and it is currently at the ‘hp doctor’ hopefully getting restored back to just as it was last Friday morning. Hard drive intact and all. My fear is that I’ll have lost everything on the hard drive though. The tech at Circuit City called the screen that flashes by for a split second the ‘blue screen of death’. That doesn’t sound good. :( Luckily I have MOST everything backed up on my external drive. All my photos, all scrapbook pages and very importantly all of my digi-scrapping kits are backed up safely, thank goodness.

Looking forward to this week though, laptop or not. I LOVE Thanksgiving. It’s quite likely my favorite holiday. This year I’m having dinner at my mom’s where the turkey is cooked to perfection, the gravy didn’t come in the form of powder from a package and the potatoes can be eaten with a fork. First time since I’ve been married that I’ll be having dinner on my side. Then our family tradition is to rent out the local skating rink with friends and family and spend about 5 – 6 hours skating off all those extra calories. Great music, great potluck food (and leftovers), family, friends and fun exercise. Perfect holiday traditions. :) Hoping to see a movie or 2 this week too. Walk the Line looks really good, Just Friends looks hilarious and Dreamer looks like a great one to see with Andrew, Celena & Paige.

Well, enough for now. Hopefully I’ll be able to keep up on this more throughout the week even without my laptop. Can’t wait to get that thing back so I can work on a new blogheader ‘cuz this one drives me crazy. It’s way past halloween now. LOL Time to watch my favorite tv show. :)