Snakes & Scrapbooks

April 19, 2005

It’s a weird combination, yes, and there really is no connection whatsoever except that they both happened to occupy space in my brain at some point during the day today.

Yesterday I saw a snake and it scared the bejeebies out of me…but it was only a garter snake. I know this because the first time I saw a snake that looked like what I saw yesterday, I freaked out (which I’m thoroughly embarrassed to say because I don’t like to think I’m high maintenance), called my husband at work and demanded he do something about the snake.

Wanting to provide as much assistance as possible from a location other than mine, he relayed the problem to the church secretary who then relayed the problem to a faithful church member with extensive experience in snake matters, who then DROVE OVER TO MY HOUSE to rescue me from the thing and give me a quick lesson in snake identification. I felt like an idiot but at least I now know that the snakes I regularly see in my yard (and ALWAYS scare me) are not really anything to be scared about. So now instead of just feeling scared, I feel scared and then I feel stupid for feeling scared. Story of my life.

Anyway, so scrapbooking…

I don’t scrapbook. Sure, I tried it like any good stay-at-home mom should, but I’ve come to grips with the fact that I stink at it. I did start a scrapbook for my first child and I did complete pages (quite nicely I might add) all the way through her first week of life. I’ve since had my second child and he’s lucky we took a picture the day he was born. (I don’t know why we are so lame with picture-taking, but we are.) Yes, what my younger sister feared from the beginning has come to pass: As the second child, my son is getting the raw end of the stick. My sister is projecting of course. But I digress…

My point about scrapbooking is, if I was a scrapbooker, I’d spend a lot of time at TwoPeasInABucket.com. I did spend a fair amount of time there in my scrappin’ days…mainly in the Peanut Gallery. This is the place where people who really know how to scrapbook post their scrapbook pages so that those of us who don’t know how to scrapbook can copy them. That’s right, every single one of the ideas in my daughter’s scrapbook is lifted. But hey, at least I can admit it.

Category: Life, Recreation

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One Response to “Snakes & Scrapbooks”

  1. Christopher Sean
    February 24th, 2008 @ 2:17 am

    I am a man and I scrap book, anyway. In reality, I do keep pictures though of events. I do not do it as a hobby, unlike my cousin who is a professional scrap booker slash day care owner.

    I use white or black paper with two corners to hold the picture in place, if I want to I can put 4 pictures on a page or maybe just one if the picture is important or something.

    I tried the whole reel and film thing, but I quickly quit that when I figured that I do not care and would rather just remember the memory instead of remember the process of putting the image to paper.

    Plus it takes me 15 seconds to fix a picture on the computer and about 15 hours to fix it from a reel.

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