cottage on the lake!

I am pooped out! not sure why. but I am! Just wishing I was taking a real vacation this year. What I really need is a cottage! right on the lake, so I can sit out on a sweet little screened in porch facing the lake at night. I love the sound of the lake at night. When I was little, my great grandparents had a lake cottage in wolcott ny. I remember staying over night sleeping on the back porch listening to the sound of the water while I was falling asleep, so soothing! and then bathing in the lake in the morning! we actually used soap and shampoo in the water. I think now they would say that isnt environmentally safe. but we loved it. I can also remember my grandfather pushing me off the dock when we had been fishing and there was a bullhead on the end of my line. I wasnt happy about that. I remember being very mad at him! I also remember stealing stuff from the little store in town. I dont remember what I stole, but both my cousin and I did and we didnt get caught... naughty girls we were!
You know, I tell you all the time, I was supposed to be a rich princess and i'm sure I was switched at birth. Just think, if I had been left with the right family, I'm sure I would have a beautiful beach house.
I have to admit that sometimes I struggle a little bit when I realize that I am 50 years old and what I have is what I have. not going to ever get a cottage on the lake. I need to be thankful for what I do have (and I am very thankful) and also be thankful that though I will never have that cottage on the lake, I do live just down the road from the lake and can be there in 5 minutes and really, my house is very cottage like. so its all good. right?
OK.. enough rambling.. Ive got to start work 2 hours early tomorrow so I better go figure out what I'm wearing and go to bed!
night all! sweet dreams!

wheres waldo?

Awww... Look at mr and mrs naughty pie. they love playing on my craft table! they're sooo freaken cute I cant stand it! lol.

Finally its sunday, which means BEACH TIME! however, mr weather man is not going to give me a perfect beach day. sunny and cloudy and only in the low 70's.. which means cooler at the lake. gee whiz.. doesnt he know how much I need the beach today? dumb weather man! I still feel like I should not complain as some places have had such horrendous weather situations. so I should shut my mouth and enjoy what I get. OK.. so thats what I'll do!

My craft room table looks like a page out of wheres waldo, or one of the search books that i love! I did make another firecracker dog because I decided to give the other to my friend Kelly. I think I'm done with the dogs now.. and ready to move on to the next thing hiding out in my brain! and for some reason, there are some halloween things already creeping around in there!!

I wish I had time to go to barnes and noble before the beach. I would love some new magazines.. but really.. I have stacks and stacks of them here and I dont need anymore! I would go though, if I wasnt going to church this morning to hear Jennifer sing Redeemer by nicole C Mullens. one of my favorite christian songs ever. Jen was in a show this weekend too, I went yesterday to see her. I'm always amazed when I here her sing and act. Please again keep her in your prayers, she had another interview on friday, and they called her soon after she left to set up another one for this wednesday. Please pray that this is the one!! (thanks!) she SOOOO deserves it. I dont know what is wrong with the loser principal at our own home town school that she didnt hire her. but I wont get started on that.. I think I should start another "secret" blog, where I can write what I really think! hmmmm... OH and you would all be so shocked! lol! of course if it were secret, you wouldnt really know!

OK.. off I go.. I should start packing up and getting my self together!

Have a lovely day all!

still playing with dogs!

TGIF!!!! what a week. 20 hours overtime on call (or very close to it, I havent added it all up yet!). Mostly do to naughty boys in foster care! Its been a crazy week.. there was the sick kitty.. and yesterday I was at training all day in buffalo... I am sooo glad its friday. I'm not doing anything this weekend that I dont feel like doing.

My biggest plan is to hit the beach on sunday.. for the whole day! I cant wait. gotta pray for perfect beach weather. I better go buy myself a new pair of sunglasses since I broke my last pair.

a little kitten update. shes still alive and shes at the Vets.. however, we will have to decide what to do with her today. She is mostly if not totally blind. She also may have some sort of nuerological disorder (yeah, ok.. I cant spell that). In that case we will put her down. the blindness I think someone could deal with.. but not the other. The vet said that she doesnt really respond to affection. it really just breaks my heart.

I hate people.

not any of you though.. just some people..

so anyways.. I made this other doggie on the firecracker last night. isnt it freaken cute!? I have to take it to work with me today so I can look at it. I just like to look at cute things sometimes. Well really all the time.. its a sickness.. I think I'm going to send the first one I made to my friend that I do the swaps with, Kelly. though I think she would like the one on the firecracker better.. so Maybe I'll make another one tonight...want to get stuff in the mail tomorrow.

speaking of the mail.. Suzeeez.. I have not mailed your package yet.. but will in the morning. You'll have it in time for the 4th! (I hope anyways.)

OK.. I have to trudge off to work... UHG!!! so dont want tooooooo!!!!!

huggles girls.. have a great friday and a wonderful weekend!!

xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxox

bow wow!

♫♪♪ take a bow. bow wow take a bow♪♪♫
When I was a kid, I had a record that was all songs about dogs, and "take a bow, bow wow take a bow , take a bow, bow wow here and now .." was on it. so was "I'm too big for my dog house, cant get through the door, I want to lie down there, thats what a dog house is for.." and of course.. "how much is that doggie in the window.. the one with the waggily tail, how much is that doggie in the window, I do hope that doggies for sale." There was probably about 10 more doggie songs on it but at the moment those are the only three I remember any of. (haha..lucky for you.) just be glad you cant hear me singing them!


I've been on call since friday and I have 19 hours overtime in at this moment.. I think.. maybe 19 and a half! I'm so glad I'm not on call again until sept! Its been a crazy week.

today I rescued a kitty.. a very sick little kitten. severely anemic from fleas! we tried to drowned off the fleas at work, and ended up picking off about 60 of them and she was still crawling with them! I took it to the vet this afternoon and left it. A few of us are pitching in to pay the vet bill. the vet couldnt promise that the sweet little thing would make it through the night. If it does.. then I have a whole other problem... what to do with it. I cant keep it. It will need a home. I have a feeling though that she wont make it. though the vet told me shed call me if she got worse, adn I havent heard from her! People make me so mad when they dont take care of their animals. I have so much more that I could say about this whole matter, but because it is work related, I will say no more!

So, do you like the little doggie I made this week? not sure if I'm keeping it or not. I have a special friend that I do a swap with every holiday, so I just might give it to her, though I'm leaning towards keeping it! I have a couple other 4th of july friends dancing in my brain right now too.. so we'll see what comes out this weekend!

I suppose I should get ready for bed, I have to leave and hour and 45 minutes earlier tomorrow to go to a training in buffalo.. thats going to kill me! (the leaving early, not the training!) I'm up plenty early enough but i have things I like to do here in the mornings..

OK.. off I go.. sweet dreams everyone! keep our little DSS mascot in your prayers.. k?

xoxo vivian

a quick little show and tell..

A few weeks ago I did a patriotic ornie swap with a few girls. we each made 6, one to keep and five to send. these are the ornies everyone made. it was a fun swap! the one above is from one of my newest bloggy buds Kim kenward.

This one was made by April Mechelle and the one below by Cindy from prairie's edge farm!

And this one is from Jill M from bucks county folk art.

This last one is by Linda Ruthie from linda ruthies aprons! Lots of talent and lots of fun. The girls should all receive their packages tomorrow I hope. I was going to wait to post this, but I couldnt.

This is what I sent the girls. I love making those little faux cupcakes!

IN other swap news, I received this bug collector doll with his butterfly and catapiller friends from Jan D in a bug swap! Who da thunk, I would ever in my life be involved in a bug swap?!

Do you ever look at your life sometimes and think.. REALLY??? how did I get here?? I think it ALL THE TIME!!!

Anyways, I love the things that jan sent me. I showed you a few posts back the ladybug pinkeep and the bumble bee doll that I sent her. And lastly, this was not from a swap, but something I won!! and believe me when I say, I never win anything! But I had a lucky day last week when I won this most awesome ever skully belt buckle for halloween from my very adorable friend Lulu! Isnt is freaken cute!?

OK.. thats it for show and tell for this morning. I may be back later with something else. Hubbys goign to the motorcycle races for fathers day, so i think some of us are going to the lake and were all meeting back her tonight for a steak dinner and to celebrate fathers day!

Happy day all!