it doesn't feel like monday.

it feels like wednesday, or thursday, or something much further along than monday. and holy bananas. vacation is fun, but in our family it's also exhausting. there were 23 of us up there on lake winnnipesaukee (new hampshire). doing all manner of cheesy together-ness things. there will be photos soon one day when i'm un-tired enough to do all the wires necessary to get them on the computer. if i could get blogger to let me press enter, i'd do so here. consider yourself notified- this is a new paragraph: in other news, i made it into ranger u! i almost punked out on the application but someone threatened to punch me in the head if i didn't apply and besides, the whole damn application was finished i just couldn't get the computer to send it. but finally with the patient and kind help of my lovely aunt donna, i finally sent it off. 9 emails, my application took. can you imagine? anyway, i'm so freaking excited. i get to go to jerz to learn all about inks & embossing powders with robin beam and tim holtz, in september. (provided i can afford the damn hotel, of course. i hate money. but we're not dwelling in the practical today. today we're still in unbridled joy) i am amazed and honored and so freaking psyched to have the opportunity to learn from these incredible teachers. i'm trying to take this as a validation of this particular path, especially on the crappier days. in honor of ranger and the u, here's a rangerrific layout (made my own background paper using resist technique, rhonna stamps, and distress inks with cut & dry and water. the stamp says "prepare to be amazed" and the handwriting says "the world is not ready".):