My Craze!

Finally, my internet is fixed.  My webinz crazed seven year old has been dying!  He's been worried that his seal is starving!  I bought him one just to check it out, and now he has already made a list of what other ones he wants.   He's just like me...I'm afraid to say.  I even went on there one night and played a game so I could earn him some money to purchase some stuff for the room.  You know me...I'm all about decorating.  Anyways, I have been sick since Dec. 14th.  After a good solid week of sickness, and me trying to ignore the fact that I was about to pass out, I finally decided to stay home and get some rest.  I did not leave the house for 4 days.....A RECORD!  It kills me to be sick, and unless I am vomiting, I never stay bedbound.  Therefore, I had to find something that would be productive, but I could still sit and somewhat get some rest.  So I totally braved into the world of digital scrapping.  Now, I don't know if I have ever said that I am computer retarded, but I am.  I have no clue what the names of things are, so it does me no good to try to read to learn.  I just have to trial and error it.  I have memory mixer, which is pretty idiot proof, but I already tired of what they have to offer.  From what I read, you can not download other peoples kits into it, so I went to their sight and downloaded a few freebies, but wasn't impressed with the kits they had for purchase.  So kind of with my own stupidity, I kind of tricked the system, because I had also downloaded other freebie kits off the internet and they showed up in my picasa file as pictures, so I was able to use the papers and embellishments with my memory mixer, by opening a picture.  Works like a charm, but i have not printed any, so we will see.  I will eventually upgrade my scrapping software when I feel brave enough.  Does anyone know of a good one that lets you have a lot of options, but is idiot proof???? Ok, here is a little entertainment.  I threw in some pictures to get you through all my rambling.  This is my baby, who is 3 1/2 now and will not let me call him a baby anymore...sniff.  I can't help it but he is a gorgeous little thing!  His eyes are green now.  They were so blue for the longest time.  ANYWAYS, this leads to my latest obsession.  With my down time, I noticed that my computer was getting really slow.  Of course, I don't have a clue and my hubs told me that I probably had too much junk on it.  Guess what?  I DID!  I cleaned out everything.  My documents is almost empty.  Deleted all those paper scrapping scans...AND cleaned out my Picasa2.  If you don't have this for your pictures...it's a must.  I downloaded it a few years ago and I just absolutely love it.  I use it to adjust all of my pictures and it has so many options.  I have adobe, but heck, I can't even crop a picture in that thing...seriously.  The only thing I use my adobe for is to resize a picture, erase something, add words to a picture, or clone tool to erase boogers or a fly away hairs.  Other than that....Picasa does the rest.  My picasa is so organized and clean now.  I went through every file and deleted I am sure thousands of pictures and only kept what was truly a good picture.  I also edited every picture that needed it and renamed my files.  I also combined some folders, which was something I learned through trial.  Now all of my design pictures are in one folder.   I also moved pictures around in each folder to better make since to me when viewing. I only have  a few files to go, but my computer is running super fast now.   I completely deleted my kodak easy share.  I also found that I have a costco organizer on my computer in which I am not sure where it came from, but I sure do love it as well.  It updates pictures files everytime you open it and it has a few  collages that I have been playing with to use in my digital scrapping, therefore saving time.  And I can order my prints, since this is where I get all of my pictures developed.  Ok, I guess this post is long enough...I'll shut up now.  I'm just so proud of my Picture organizing accomplishment, and since it is a new year....I vow to keep up with it deleting and editing as I load, so I never have to deal with 4 years of pictures again.  Seriusly now...I will shut up!

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[chris]

Welcome to the world of Webkinz, my daughters love them, they haven't asked for anything other than Webkin in a full year,they have an alarming, 63 and 67 , they use them all in rotation, for every occasion over the year that is what they have been given my frineds and family and bought with their allowance if they earn one.