VCW #52: Its Our 1-Year Anniversary! Come Celebrate With Us!

• c-leaper Said:

Hee.. I was going to answer your Expression questions, but Liz & Ria gave a much better one. I guess Expression cuts the bigger size paper and the cart that comes with it (Accent Essentials) has the flourishes that was popular (is it still popular?)

Anyway, I'm going to see my Endo on Mar 20, and by that time he'll have the test results. Although I told my friends that my hormone levels (both TSH and prolactyn) were normal, many people told me thyroid or other hormonal symptoms can be sub-clinical. I was told by many friends that people have symptoms, but their blood test fail to show any abnormalities.

I keep telling these doctors I have abnormal fatigue. But most of them think it's because I have 2 kids (hello, there are those out there with 5 or 8 kids, I see that they're as tired as they can be, but they don't say they're 'sick'). I am thinking people are starting to think I'm a hypochondriac.

My chiropractor dr is also my acupuncturist. I know she can solve my symptoms, maybe if the drs really fail to find out why, and dismiss me as being a 'normal fatigue mom', I'll just have her fix my symptoms then...

• c-leaper Said:

Sure...let me scoot the glitter out of the way...

• jelly97 Said:

I don't know what your insurance situation is, or how you would pay your chiro/acu, but if you know she can help you feel better, why wait just to get more negative results?

All fixed up, Jenni.

• BlingPrincessRia Said:

Thanks.

I'm crashing. I think I'm going to have to go to bed. After the past few nights, even a long nap can only do so much good. And if I'm going to have to deal with my boss/supervisor tomorrow, it's going to take lots of rest and patience.

Goodnight, Jenni!

Am I here by myself now?

I am here...and at the blingy late night thread (seems to be the haunted blingy late night thread tonight. Darn creepy it is acting... I think it took Nic from us...)

I am back. I got sucked into watching a very interesting show called, "Really Big Things."

Hi Dawn!

Hiya Rio!!

How are ya tonight?

• Tink-Hildur Said:

I do already have a couple in my gallery, but they are both in red.

Hmm.......I have REALLLLY been wanting to do a purply flowery LO of me and also a PINKPINKPINK LO of me.

• riorabbit Said:

I am good thanks!
I am sitting here all giddy, staring at my monthly kit from More Than Scrapbooking.

Sounds fun... lol! We are opposites on layouts. I have two girly girly neices that love girly stuff. I am sick of girly layouts and want to do boyish stuff. No boys though. No husband..no boyfriend...no sons..no nephews. I do have a brother, but I can only sb him so much. His wife scraps too. I should do a lo or two of my dad so that would at least be one masculine page. I want a husband and a little boy though... I tend to stick to dog stuff for the dog too even though he is a boy.

Hi and bye ladies. I'm exhausted, but I wanted to show off my two new layouts. I'm having fun playing with my Disney stuff.

Hope everyone is doing well! Tomorrow I have to run out and buy a formal and then go to the Philly flower show with all three kids no less but I might get a couple hours to try to catch up before our weekly DDO date. Sunday I should have all day to catch up, since DH is supposed to go out. Anything I should know about that's not on the blog?

Missed you all tonight. Definitely Maybe was cute... but maybe not the best choice for us as a couple tonight.

Indy Speedway By Three Bright Lights

Merchant of Venus By Three Bright Lights

Thanks for looking, if you do.

• jelly97 Said:

What Target??

• riorabbit Said:

I wanna do a Dog album real bad. I have had my eyes on an 8x8 one, but I am waiting.

I have plenty of dog stuff...just need to make the thing!

• DawnInAZ Said:

Ooh! Do it! Do it! Do it! No peer pressure here! You could be "Pretty In Pink"!

• DawnInAZ Said:

TARGET Target. Ours carries the JetMax, but they don't have enough. And with the price of gas, I absolutely REFUSE to go all over Creation in search of these dadburned things. If I decide to go with JetMax, I think I will go to Target's website and order them there where I can order all of them online that I need at once. I like to get things done once and for all and not piddlefart around. DH, now he likes to piddlefart. Not me.

• Jesus Rocks Said:

For kids that are just plain obnoxious or ornery, without a medical/psych reason, a butt wooping is a good thing.
But it would do absolutely no good to a kid who has a diagnosed problem that requires medication.
ADHD is one thing, but things like OCD and ODD are very very different.

And no one in here would "jump on you" for what you said.
This group is great about letting people give their views and responses in an adultlike manner, for the most part.

• BlingPrincessRia Said:

I should have asked WHICH TARGET.
As in, specific location.

I already tried looking for them on the Target site and could not find them at all.

[quote=DawnInAZ][quote=Bl ingPrincessRia][quote=Daw nInAZ][quote=jelly97][quo te=BlingPrincessRia]I am getting ready to do a complete overhaul of my scrap corner. It's why I wasn't able to enter Monica's Scrap Space challenge, I won't be finished with it for a while. Might take me till fall, depending on the finances. I'm hoping to be able to take a couple hundred out of the tax refund next week and either go get a dozen JetMax cubes (from Target) or ordering some similar ones off the Internet.
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Hi, Ria.. I saw a bunch of the JetMax cubes on sale at Target ... go quick, go get them...
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What Target??
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TARGET Target. Ours carries the JetMax, but they don't have enough. And with the price of gas, I absolutely REFUSE to go all over Creation in search of these dadburned things. If I decide to go with JetMax, I think I will go to Target's website and order them there where I can order all of them online that I need at once. I like to get things done once and for all and not piddlefart around. DH, now he likes to piddlefart. Not me.
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I should have asked WHICH TARGET.
As in, specific location.

I already tried looking for them on the Target site and could not find them at all.
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[looks around]

[slips Dawn a piece of paper with a URL scribbled on it]

[The URL takes her to http://www.target.com/gp/search/602-3364407-9939854?field-keywords=JetMax+Cubes&url=index%3Dtarget&ref=sr_bx_1_1&x=0&y=0 ]

[On the back of the note another option is scrawled: "Come to Lee's Summit and meet up with Ria."]

• BlingPrincessRia Said:

OH RIA! I love those cubes!!

Thanks for the Target info too.

I have the Crop In Style ones. Right now they are all I have so they shall stay here, but I have contmplated getting rid of them in the past. If I decide to... I'll let ya know (in other words they are yours if ya want them). I can't afford what I really want right now though.

• DawnInAZ Said:

There's good news and bad news with those cubes. The good news is M's also carries them. Similar price or maybe a bit higher BUT you can use the 40% off Coupons , making them cheaper than Target's. Now HL prints their Coupons in the paper (at least they do here), so if you have all four stores (M's, HL, J's, and ACM) you can go in armed with Coupons out the wazoo. M's cubes are JetMax, too, so they'll all coordinate.

Bad news is, our M's is out and has been out for weeks. I don't know about other M's, though.

• c-leaper Said:

DH's insurance doesn't cover chiro/acu. It's going to be expensive. In addition, I want to rule out any potential big issues (tumours) and other serious underlying factors, before I just go treat the symptoms. Getting rid of the symptoms w/o knowing what caused them make me feel uneasy. I need to have some confidence that it wasn't sth serious... (wish I know a Dr House? )

But if everything tests negative, chances are I'm having sth sub-clinical, then I feel ok to treat the symptoms. I know there are alternative ways (herbal, changes in diet, etc) that can help fix these problems.

I think stress is a main factor, I think the adoption issue has kicked me back into grieving and it's taking me a while to adjust. I was just watching an episode of Without A Trace this afternoon about a girl being misplaced in a home even though she has real parents.... and she finds her biological parents when she's like 16 or so.... I was crying so hard.. good thing this is the day I work from home so both kids are in school/daycare. I usu watch some TV during lunch on Fridays...

• DawnInAZ Said:

I went to the Tarjay on Val Vista and Warner (SW corner) and saw them on sale...

What I really, REALLY want is http://bestscrapbookshelf.com/?action=view_catalog&Join_ID=106418 OMG. [drool]

• BlingPrincessRia Said:

Ria, I realize Jory has ODD, but do you think on some level he does this to rile you and get a rise. Maybe if you shock the living daylights outa him by responding with a sweet smile and telling him you love him very much. Then let him yell and hoot, you have not given him the negative attention that he may have been seeking.

I have 5, but don't see myself affording what I want soon....

Ria.. I just remember OTC sell CIS cubes. BGo to their website and search for Crop In Style .. they sell individual cubes too...

Or you can follow this category:
Home »Craft Supplies & Hobbies »Scrapbooking »Portable/Home Storage

and you should see the listed cubes. They have sets too (e.g. 4 cubes + 1 desktop)

Oh. and I saw a knock-off ribbon tote that looks like the real thing, but costs $9.98 only. But then I was thinking about IP... or the lack of...

• riorabbit Said:

But don't you need them? I would SO TOTALLY road trip to you to pick them up sometime!! I could bring scrap stuff, we could scrap party!!

• DawnInAZ Said:

I am not saying this is not worth a try... However, the thing I think most people don't realize with stuff like ODD is it is not just the parent not giving enough attention or the parent not knowing how to react to it. In all honesty, when they test a child for ODD unless they have some completely incompetant individual doing it, they would try a variety of things with him and part of the diagnosis is based off a child that basically does stuff for no reason. For example, we had a little guy in my classroom that kicked a pregers teacher in the belly. Nothing had happened earlier that day that we knew of. He had not been acting angry. He just did it. He did become angry once he got in trouble for doing it. In general though, I would say it is similar to depression or any other illness that people don't understand. There are people with mild depression that can do other things and basically snap out of it, but there are also people who chemically something is off. It is not them just being all gloomy. They can't just fix it. It is a legit problem. There is still not a lot of research on ODD that I can tell (I am a psych major and did my research for my research class last semester on it). However, it is a bit more than a child just acting out because they want attention.

• DawnInAZ Said:

lol! In my old apartment, I had lots of space and had something else I wanted to do so I planned to get rid of them. In the room I am renting, I kind of need them... However, I should be moving again in a couple months. I am not sure where though... If I end up somewhere that I don't want them again (sorry that is a bit of an if cause I really don't know), I will totally let ya know. If you happen to still be needing some then... or wanting more , I will let ya know and I go to Chandler to see the family often enough I can bring em down.

I am actualy probably going to be in Chandler sometime soon... Have yet to decide when...

• c-leaper Said:

It was good thanks!! My BFF, Mellisa asked me to help chaparone a Six Flags Trip at end of June with our youth group. Only catch is it will be about $250/person. We would be using the church van plus renting one or two others.

• riorabbit Said:

Hey, no hurry!!
I keep changing my mind on what I want to do in my scrap space.

• jelly97 Said:

EXCELLENT!! Thanks!

Dawn...where do ya go to church? You can pm if you want..just curious...

• riorabbit Said:

My church is called Morningstar. It is located in Gilbert. Near Higley and Guadalupe.
I am an open book, its ok.

• DawnInAZ Said:

Hmmm...never heard of that one. Have fun at magic mountain though!

• riorabbit Said:

Thanks, Rio. That pretty much sums it up. And Dawn? I tried it your way. It didn't work. In fact, I react that way in the very beginning every time. But when he keeps on keepin' on, and then runs out the door, what more can I do? He doesn't know when to quit. He runs his mouth until he gets himself in trouble, and even then he doesn't quit. He keeps going until he's dug himself into deeper trouble. And STILL he keeps going. He treats me like and yet I'm the only parent he's got who truly understands what he's going through right now, healing from the sexual abuse, I'm the only one who's been there. I don't know what more to do.

Sometimes I really REALLY wish I had enough money to take one of those "scrappin cruises" that are advertised in the backs of scrap magazines. I could really, REALLY use a break. Problem is, I can't bear to be away from my family for more than a day. Oh, I can go out with Tinkerbrat and we can "shop-it" all day, but at the end of the day I have to go HOME to my family. And the whole time I'm out I'm thinking, "Lizzie would LOVE this...Jory would adore that..."

His psychiatrist and therapist explained it to me as this: "ADHD is an actual disease, much like diabetes. Diabetics take insulin, and kids with ADHD take a variety of medications to help them function. ODD is very real, but is one of those things that cannot be medicated. It is something that all we can do is behavior modification."

For the record, Daytrana patch is the fourth med we've tried with Jory in the past three years. We tried Concerta and Adderall, and with both of those Jory became a zombie. Wouldn't eat. Wouldn't do any of his usual activities. Just sat. Metadate CD was the third medication we tried, and it worked wonders. He took it for two years, and the doctor had to up his dose a few months ago because he is growing. With the raise in dose, the pills got a little bigger because Jory started to complain that the pills hurt him to swallow. So the last visit, he complained to the psychiatrist about it, and the psych suggested the Daytrana patch. Jory still takes his Abilify to stabilize his moods (it is a teeny little pill) but now he wears a patch. His day is no longer disrupted by a noon-time visit to the nurse for meds, and then another dose of meds as soon as he walks in the door after school. We were doing wonderfully with it, he wasn't acting out at all. Until tonight. Until he and Lizzie had been fighting for over an hour SOLID. (NO break in between screaming and fighting.) Then the hit the fan, so to speak.

Jeremy and I have been through PAUSE parenting classes as well as Love & Logic. None of it works. None of it. It works on Lizzie, but not Jory. We're at our wit's end. His behavior tonight cost him his GameBoy until summer. June 22nd summer, not the end of the school year summer. He also went to bed at 9pm, whereas I usually let the kids stay up until around midnight on Fridays. (If they sleep in on Saturdays, Momma sleeps in on Saturdays and Momma is a happier Momma for having done so.) Lizzie laid on the sofa tonight and we watched "Princess Diaries," a Disney "girl movie." Let me rephrase that. I watched it. She was out like a light within 10 minutes.

The very things you want to go on a scrapping cruise to get a break from are the very things I would love to be blessed with.
I hope you know I wasn't at all trying to say you are not a good parent, Ria. I would not say that about you or ANYONE else in VCW, past or present.
I am not a parent, so I "have no clue" until I am. Even then, I may not.

• riorabbit Said:

Even though I would love to go, I cannot justify spending that kind of money right now for a super fast trip. We would leave late Fri night and return by noon Sunday.

Hey Ria, the title is a bit jacked up with the "it's" part. Maybe remove it so its not so messed up looking? The apostrophe is messing it up.

(Am I only one here now?)

No, I'm here. I was picking up my scrappy toys. I got almost to the end of the mini-book, 2 mini-LOs to go. Really 1 1/2. And got scrapper's block. So I put everything away. Going to fix the title now. I don't know why it does that, it drives me up the wall.

OH... I thought you were going... Sorry. I love youth group stuff. I used to lead the yg at the church I attended in Chandler. We would do an overnight trip to Magic Mountain every year in September. Luckily, the church paid for me to go. We generally would try to pay for chaperones...at the most we would charge them for the park entrance fee and offer everything else free. It adds up though. That was a Nazarene church and they denomination basically rents the park for the night so it is a sweet night to go. They don't let us in until like 6 pm and then we can stay until something like midnight or 1 am. There are no lines to wait in though. It is a shorter amount of time at the park, but you literally walk up and just get on the ride. I have done that so many years that the one time I tried going on a regular day I was disgusted with lines. I just didn't know what to think of it. It is fun too because everyone from camp and all the other district stuff is there. They often do it as a literal overnight trip though where they load in the bus at 1am and drive back to Phx that night! I would never do that with teens. I know it is cheaper, but for safety reasons. I cannot imagine the nightmare of if one of those buses got in an accident because the driver was so tired. They are allowed to sleep while we are in the park, but that doesn't mean they can make thier body sleep then. So I would pay for a hotel and stay that night.