You want me to do what?

Just when things seem to be looking up and things start going as I *want* them to, life gets busy again. Can it stop already? I just want to sit and relax for a few weeks. Enjoy the scrapbooking. Sip lemonade. Design more digital scrapbooking page kits. I don't want much. Really I don't.

So I have. . . I believe. . . 6 kits started. That is a HUGE improvement over a month ago. Of course, they are not ready for "public release" just yet. I still have things to do. I just need time. More of it. I have 2 that just need the finishing touches (Terms of Use, converting everything to proper formats, etc). The other 4 are still needing little things to make the kit *feel* complete. . . then again, the finishing touches. It isn't that I don't want to finish them for another 6 months. Gosh, I'd have them ready for release tomorrow if I had the time.

Life is just too busy right now. Of course, I could be working on those kits (or any number of other things I have to get done) instead of typing all this. I'm taking a break!

My class is coming to a close. It is out mid-May. This is good. However, the final is the FINAL PROJECT that is a real site for a real-life, legit company. No big deal. HA! This project counts for more than HALF of my grade. So, I have to do my best on this project. No half-assing it. Of course, the "schedule" for completion just caught me off guard. I am going about my daily life, thinking "there are 3 weeks of class left." *laugh* Who would have thought that you'd actually have to turn the project in EARLY?!??! So I have to finish the first draft for submission BY Friday. No big deal. I've already got it started. I just need to plug in the information and finish the layout for the subpages of the website.

Then while I am still thinking that I had 3 weeks of classes left. . . there are only 2 weeks left now. . . my "web business" partner calls. We've got an unhappy client. No big deal, we'll make the customer happy. Or at least try our hardest. So I also have a site REDESIGN to do on top of this major project. *scream* Fortunately, it shouldn't be too hard. It is just that I have so much other stuff to do. I'll get it done somehow. ASAP is come and and almost gone.

Oh, but home life doesn't let up either. We've started painting the house. We started the baby's room. I was supposed to get a 2nd coat of paint up this week. NOT HAPPENING! I've got 2 websites to do instead.

Let's not forget that other people demand things of our time as well. . . tutoring, computer tech support, shopping for things, phone calls, on and on and on. . . Oh, I ran for office of the Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society -- Treasurer. It was an uncontested race. . . hmmmm. . . I wonder where I will find the time to devote to that.

Can I sit down and scrap?

The good news is that in all of this, I have MANAGED TO SCRAP!!! Yes, REAL DIGITAL SCRAPBOOK PAGES! Not kits. PAGES! I have started two 2-page spreads. That's nice. I have yet to finish them, but with everything else that is going on, I am surprised that I even got started. BUT the biggest move for me in the digital scrapbooking world is that I entered a digital scrapbooking contest. I entered the digiscrappin.biz's Ultimate Digi-Scrapper 2006 contest. I don't know why. It is insane with everything else going on. The first deadline is 11pm on Friday, May 5th. *panic* How am I going to get this done?!?!?!?