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I have learned a few things from my first experience at a scrapbook expo.

1. I am glad I do not know any bitchy scrapbookers. Actually, they should be glad they don’t know me. I was ready to slap some rude ass hos today.

2. There’s not enough time in the world for me to take on all the various project tools and kits I saw today.

3. Although I had my two canvas bags (plus my Target zippy, just in case) I should have brought a giant canvas bag…or two.

Even though it is Saturday and I *really* wanted to sleep in, I dragged my ass out of bed an HOUR earlier than I normally do for work. Shannon picked me up and we hit up Starbucks for some yummy, caffeinated treats. After we find the fairgrounds in Pleasanton and meet up with some of Shannon’s co-workers, we stand in line and wait for the doors to open. I’m checking out the little program doodad and notice that some of these smart vendors have placed coupons OR notices about FREE things in their ads. I point out to the group that a specific company is giving away a free kit. (And 5 free kits if you sign up to some kit of the month club.) They deemed me leader and once the doors opened we b-lined it there.

Now, if you know me, I don’t like kits. I don’t like to be told THIS IS WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE. DO THIS. Screw that, I want to dream it up myself or be inspired by multiple projects and build my own. But.. free is free. A girl won’t knock free. So after the guy gave his speech about the difference between kits, I picked out one that I liked the paper the most. These kids had little paper embellishments that LOOKED like items (paper that looked like ribbon, paper that looks like an embellished tag, etc) so unless I work those up a lot, I won’t be using them.

Doors had opened at 9am. We walked out of there sometime after 1:40 or so. Here’s my loot:

• I bought a 12×12 book for myself (going to be a 2008 book)
• Embroidery templates
• Cute paper frames (which I hope I don’t distribute as gifts to anyone reading this right now)
• “Souffle” pens
• T-shirt that says “Holy Scrap!” teehee
• stamp pads and other crap

All of this, and a few items taken out of the photo (they’ll be used in gifts) and I was under budget! Yay!

Now, it’s nap time. Tomorrow I begin to USE all this stuff.

I just turned on iTunes and the first song that started was “Give Me One Reason” by Tracey Chapman.

You know, I remember hearing this song a lot in … sophomore year of high school? There was some contest and our teacher wanted us to listen to Tracey’s music and be inspired (?) and write our own song. I think it was for extra credit. So, get this, she drags all of us to the library and puts us into the small study room (many of us had never even been in, let alone really knew was there) and throws a tape (or CD, who knows) into the player and tells us to listen to the music.

She leaves! I have no idea where she went, but clearly she thought she could leave a bunch of high schoolers in a small room and we’d sit there and be good little students and listen to the music and let our minds grow. RIGHT. We were loud. We were obnoxious high schoolers. The librarian had to tell us to shut up several times, then she kicked us out. Heh, oopsie.

That’s all I remember about that. So.. the end.

“Come On Get Higher”

His video is a part of Yahoo’s Who’s Next campaign, and if you vote for Matt and he wiiiins… he will be recording an original session exclusively for Yahoo! Still a bit flashy in style, but much better than his last video. Big plus this time – he’s on screen for most of the video!