ramblings on Sunday

I got some good news this week.... :)

Creative Escape 2008 is in Phoenix, AZ in Sept 08. LONG time away. anyway, they had a lottery draw of 600 names to be able to go to this HUGE event. last year they had 550 seats and 1200+ on the waiting list so this year they had a lottery to draw the names. and I got drawn! how cool is that?
Anita was the one who wanted to go and so we both put our names in for ourselves plus one. so if she got drawn, we both go and vise-versa. i got this cool email last monday and yippee skippy!
and then she got an email too!!!! what are the odds? great stuff! so we're both going and Janice (anita's friend and co-worker) and Dawn G (a scrapping buddy of mine!) are all going! how cool is that?
now to work out the rest of the details - like coming up with the $

AND on Friday, the CO called me into his office and offered me CR04 until end of the year! I'm to be doing more fin management stuff, so it's all good! CR04 is a step up from CR03, which i am, and it's a wee bit more $. so that'll help with the expenses for CE.
it's all good.

AND yesterday was Leica's cruise crop - so i stopped in to say hi... wonderful work being done and Leica is an awesome hostess! She's worked so hard for what she's doing and I really admire her! and am a wee bit green with envy....
she so deserves all the recognition! Awesome work and an awesome mommy and a great friend! some day, i'll be able to say, i knew her when..... pretty much that's now.... You go my friend!

AND - since i didn't have THAT much to do yesterday, i was in a card making mood.
so i followed the challenges from Angelosity - i've made 14 of her challenges so far, maybe more today.... hopefully i'll get the cards scanned and into my photobucket soon (like this week). and get this - i've haven't even used up 5 sheets of my Christmas paper. rats. i was hoping for a LOT more.... i made 6 cards with one set of the papers - Dream Street - Act Naturally - Elemets - it's all red and white and blue & green - not the traditional colors but cool. and the other 6 cards were with Paper Adventures - red stripe and the blue dotted one. i'm so tired of those papers!
so now onto the other collections of Christmas papers. i'm saving the "good" - read that new - paper for my own cards!
i've got 10 to make for a swap and then my family ones
6 sympathy cards to make for another swap .... those are hard... so off i go!