Happy New Year!

Happy New Year Everyone!

I sure hope you all had a safe and fun New Year's Eve. Personally, I spent mine on the couch, in the famous Wii Fit Yoga pose of Couch Potato.

Today I'm sharing with you some of my recycled digi layouts, which I've regurgitated special for my 2009 calendar. The calendar that, because I'm such a procrastinator, I probably won't have in my hot little hands until sometime next week.

I'm okay with that because I'm on vacation and I don't know what day it is anyway.

Who cares?

I haven't made any New Year's resolutions, but I do love the fresh start that a new year brings, don't you?

I have some goals for 2009, for sure. One of them I told you about earlier. Remember that? I'm going to conquer the chin-up bar in '09.

And with that, I'm sure, will come some changes. But change is good, right?

Uncomfortable, yes, but good.

We got the Wii Fit for Christmas, so Peanut Head and I have started with some of that uncomfortableness.

When we walk down the stairs, we yelp "Ow, ow, ow, ow, ow . . . ."

Just call me Jelly Legs.

I also want to declutter my house and get more organized. But don't we all? I've found that this is a lifelong process. I'll never be done.



I also want to take more time for myself to read. I love to read.

If I take more time to read, I can do more book reviews too. I could tell you which books have the word smolder in them. Wouldn't that be cool?



What I really need to work on though, is separating myself from my computer a little more. The problem is that I use my computer for so many different things.

Many of those things are productive, but others are not so productive.



Like constantly checking my e-mail. Why do I do this? I think it's just another form of procrastinating, and you all know I'm the Queen of that.

Anyway, I have a few things to work on, but I'm ready to get started. How about you?

Thinking About My 2009 Calendar

Last year for Christmas I made the Grandmas 2008 Calendars. I'm thinking that I need to get started on 2009 now, if I want to do it again this year.

I basically just picked a handful of pictures from each month, or if a month didn't have any good ones, I used some from a month that had a lot.

Then I just digitally scrapbooked them, saved each month as a jpg. and uploaded them as "pictures."

One of the features I love about the Creative Memories calendars, is that I was able to have birthdays and anniversaries of my family members actually printed on the calendars on those specific dates. It was so handy not having that yearly chore of writing all the birthdays in.

Here are some more pages for you to check out.

This one was also our Christmas card last year. I uploaded it to my local photo center and picked my pictures up an hour later. It's a very inexpensive way to do Christmas cards. You can even address the back and mail it as a postcard. It really works.