New Year's Resolutions

I need to loose weight big time and so does my grandson so I challenged him to see which of us can loose 30 pounds the quickest. Since he's 15 and 6'4" he probably has a better chance than I do but I figure we'll both be winners in this contest.

My next goal is to learn to scrapbook with Photoshop Elements. This is one accomplishment I intend to persue with diligence since I've had the program for years (began with v1, now have v7) but haven't gotten very far with learning how to use it. I have other digital scrapbooking programs that are far easier to use so I've chosen the easier road so far. Thing is that I just can't do all the things I want to do with the quickie programs so I'll just have to buckle down and learn to use this extremely "user unfriendly" program. I've also been not too happy with the photos made with my little point and shoot Sony Cybershot. It's handy and I carry it with me always but sometimes I want to take closeups from a distance and the camera isn't designed for this. Can't afford an SLR so I did the next best thing. For my 10th anniversary with the company where I work I got to choose a gift from a catalogue and selected binoculars with digital camera. Should be here any day now and hopefully will help with some of the nature shots I'm always trying to take.

My next resolution is to clean out my "junk room" aka my library. Over the years this room has accumulated all the items I couldn't throw away but didn't have a place for. You wouldn't believe how much stuff I can pile in one medium sized room. The room is actually lined with book shelves and over a thousand books but forget trying to get to one of them. All my current books are now located in my computer room aka guestroom or sewing room.

This leads to my next resolution for 2009 - bone up on sewing techniques and use some of my fabric stockpile (10 boxes full and located in the "junk room"). Does this give you the idea that I'm a collector? Well you would be right. But as I've gotten a bit older and hopefully wiser, the time has come to stop collecting and start using or disposing. I'll be 65 on my next birthday so the time is right to do something about this propensity to collect.

Project 365

The Project 365 idea is to take at least one photo a day and scrapbook it. Just took my "picture of the day" of all my Christmas decorations that have yet to be "closeted" lol. Waiting for my oldest grandson to come help me . . . and waiting . . . and waiting. Knew I shouldn't have paid to get his 4x4 out of the shop yesterday 'cause now I'll never see him.

New Info!

Already posted once today but just found out some wonderful info and had to share it. If you've been frustrated by not being able to extract rar format downloads not to mention worrying about purchasing a digital scrapbooking kit only to find out it's in rar format and you can't extract it, then worry no more. Mozz at Forever More Creations had a link to Extract NOW and I downloaded it and guess what . . . it works!!!!!! You can extract multiple rar and zip files at the same time and almost instantaneously. Off to find the rar freebies I've been missing lol.

Get your own,
Jan

First Post

Trying to get into this blogging thing since it seems to be all the rage now. Don't want to be left too far behind in this digital world. I've been looking at a lot of blogs lately and keep going back to several to see what's happing in that blogger's world. Funny how someone else's life always appears to be more interesting than your own. "Grass is greener" syndrome or something.

Anyway, one of my favorite blogs to read is by Kim Broedelet (kimbsdesigns.blogspot.com). She's a fantastic digital scrapbooking designer who lives in South Africa and has such a wonderful sense of humor that clearly show's through in her blogging. Guess you can tell from this that I'm into digiscrapping, not designing though. Afraid my skills are somewhat limited in this area but fortunately for me there are a plethora of great digital designers in cyberland just waiting to share or sell their designs. When I figure out how, I'll list some links to my favorites.


Guess this blog post is living up to my header but I actually do live in a city by a river. In fact my office building is right next to the river so I see it every day and frequently take pictures from the parking garage to show my husband. This is because he's always wanting to go down to the Riverwalk in the evenings and I just came from there so I show him the picture taken an hour earlier to pacify him. Doesn't always work so I'll try to post a picture taken one evening recently.

Bye for now,
Jan