Another Setback....

Where was everyone yesterday? I think you were all taking a long 3 day weekend and blew off your bloggin! I only got three responders to my poll and only a few comments for the day. I miss you when you don't come visit me!!! Hello....is anyone out there?????????????

Yesterday was a rough day. To make a long story short, Muriel is having another surery today to remove a chest tube that the doctor accidentally stitched in during Monday's surgery. Considering we've had a relatively "good" news week with Muriel, yesterdays news was a shock we did NOT anticipate we'd ever hear. It's vital we have the surgery done today in order to attempt to get Muriel off the vent sometime over the weekend. Apparently, there is a limit to how long you can have a vent in without causing major damage and she has reached that limit. If they can't get her weened off the vent, they will have to give her a trache. We do not want that.

Ok, moving on to happier things.....did you see who the Friday Featured Artist was on Colleen's blog, Distictive Touches was yesterday? That artist would be ME!!!!! Yikes-a-rooni!! I about hit the ceiling when I saw Colleen's email on Wednesday night asking me if I'd consider it. Ahhh, duh....of course I would!!! Colleen did an amazing job of making me sound like I was actually a really interesting person:)! Colleen is an editor by trade, so she does a fabulous job writing stories, and this was no different. I am so honored she thought of me--she's such a great girl! She cheers me up when I'm bummin' and makes me laugh alot cuz she's a little spitfire! Be sure and take some time to visit Colleen's blog and read her article about me, ok?

Here's my card for the day. I needed some sympathy cards for my personal stash, so here's one I whipped together using my new set Beautiful Life. Sympathy cards aren't as hard for me to make as they are for some people. They seem to come together pretty easily for me. I tend to make them very simple layouts, not alot of fluffy stuff--totally unecessary IMHO on an sympathy card. The flower and stem is from the Beautiful Life set, and the sentiment is from Close as a Memory. The paper is WR Memory Keepers, their Comstock Collection (I used Marigold and Buttercup on yesterdays card), this pattern is called Sage. The scallop mat on both sides of the main image is cut using decorative scissors.

Well, that's about it for this morning! My hubby's been out of town since Thursday. He was due back at 1p today, but received an email from Northwest last night saying they were cancelling his flight (they had already cancelled his first flight...this was a reschedule of the original). We were supposed to get together with a bunch of friends for boating and dinner at 2p this afternoon, but that's not going to happen. Now he's taking the train from Philly to New Jersey and taking a flight out from there, which is due to arrive today at 530p, given they don't cancel that as well. Northwest is headquartered out of Minneapolis, so most of us refer to them as NorthWORST cuz they've screwed our state so many times with this bankruptcy stuff over the years. These cancellations are at an all time high EVERYWHERE because pilots are calling in "sick". I personally think they are just sticking it to Northwest for all the crap they've taken away from the pilots and flight attendants. I can sympathize, I really can, but this is getting ridiculous. If you can, don't book with NW this summer....this is only going to get worse. You might be better off flying a different airline for a while....Keep your fingers crossed Doug gets home today. On a separate front, my oldest son and a few friends are going to their FIRST rock concert tonight.....ZZ Top, Gin Blossoms, Stray Cats and the Pretenders!!! He's so excited! I got tickets from my radio rep...so the kids will sit on the floor, 22 rows back!!!! Woo-hoo!

Hugs,
Amy