Back to the Real World

Well, it is back to the real world today! I am back from DC and am trying to play catch up with everything going on at work. I will try to add pictures from DC to the blog later today. In the meantime, I wanted to share with you a quote that my sister just sent me via email. I thought it was appropriate for my life right now and for alot of your lives as well.

Always Remember...
when life hands you Lemons, ask for Tequila and Salt and call me over!


Until later - just another day in Paula's Shoes!!

Lots of Updates on My Life

I am writing to you from Washington, DC!!! It is a work trip but I did have a little time to play. I arrived yesterday afternoon and to my delight, I learned that it is Cherry Blossom Season!! I thought I was arriving too early in the season to get to experience it, but lucky for me I was wrong. I can't get over how pretty it is here. It has been about 10 years since my last trip to DC so I am definitely enjoying my trip and wishing I had more time to experience the city. I know alot of my friends say they would hate to travel alone, but even though I would rather have my dear husband or a good friend to experience this with me, traveling alone is fine with me and never stops me from doing what I want. I am staying at the Willard InterContinental Hotel on Pennsylvania Ave. I am 2 blocks from the White House and 5 blocks from the Capitol. I went on a Moonlight Monument Tour last night which was a great way to see the sights of DC at night. I took some great pictures that I will post once I return. Today, was meetings, but late this afternoon, I was able to do a little shopping at a local scrapbook store that I found online. ( You know I can't go to a new city without finding a Scrapbook Store) It is called Ipso Crafto. It is in a cute area of DC called Eastern Market. I would have liked to do a little more window shopping in the area, but it was a rainy cold day. I am returning tomorrow afternoon and it is back to the real world and the stress of my job. I have a press conference to plan when I return. Wish me luck!

Since my last post, I am now fully recovered from my tonsil surgery. I was out of work for and in a pain medicine coma for what felt like forever but was 2 weeks. I only expected to be out for a week, but due to a infection, it ended up being 2 weeks. The recovery was just as bad as I heard it was going to be. If any of you still have your tonsils, I recommend you keep them. It is true that it is worse the older you are.

On another note, please keep my grandmother, Sophie Arcement in your prayers. We found out last week that she has cancer in her liver, lungs and bones. She is currently in ICU undergoing tests, and working out some complications of it all. Please keep my grandmother and our family in your prayers.

It is never a dull moment in my life and this week is no exception.

I am planning to go to the hospital tomorrow night to see my grandmother. I go back to work on Wednesday to play catch up and plan my press conference coming up. Wednesday night I will be attending the SCIA Crawfish Boil for work and Thursday I have 2 groups of people and events to take care of in Fourchon. Friday night I will be busy preparing for the Lockport Main Street Craft Show that I will be at with the Scrap Boutique on Saturday all day. Come stop by and say hi. I will have a Stampin' Up! booth there.

BTW - I have a Stampin' Up website now. check it out at http://paulaschouest.stampinup.net. Check it out for a calendar of my upcoming events.

Another exciting event I am helping the Scrap Boutique plan is the Girls Gone Crafty Scrapbooking Event. It will be at the Cut Off Youth Center on August 1-2, 2008. Registration opened today. Go to my their website at www.confessionsofadramamama.blogspot.com to learn more. I will be working the event and I will have a Stampin' Up booth there.

Whew, just writing about all the stuff I have coming up makes me tired so I am heading to bed for what I hope will be a good night of sleep before I return to the real world.

Till next time....it is just another day in Paula's Shoes

It has been too Long....

It has been too long since my last post. I have to get better at this. Work has been crazy since the beginning of the year and is taking up alot of my time.

For those Scrapaholics out there like me, I am helping the Scrap Boutique put together a "Girls Gone Crafty" weekend August 1-2 at the Cut Off Youth Center. It will be a mini scrapbook retreat. Lots of classes, crops, goodies and more!! Keep checking out my blog for more information to come soon.

I am also preparing for my surgery tomorrow - I am having my tonsils removed. Yes, I know that I am not a kid anymore and that having your tonsils out at 28 years old is not easy, but I have to do it. I have never had any surgery in my life and getting "put to sleep" is really freaking me out right now. I have flashes of Nip Tuck and the nurse saying count back from 10. 9...8...7...then they put the breathing tube down my throat. But don't worry, I have informed my husband, family and friends what i want at my funeral and who I want to get my prize possessions - jewelry and scrapbooking stuff, of course!!! Diamonds and scrapbooking is a girls best friend, right? I know, I know, that is a 99.999% chance that i will not die, but I have to be prepared just in case!!

Speaking of scrapbooking - I have so much scrapbooking to do. I have a great idea for a "Forever Friends" page of my girlfriends from college and a page idea for the "Grabert-Schouest Date Night". I need to seriously spend some time creating an art journal so that i can write by ideas down in. Don't you just hate it when you have a great scrapbooking idea and no time to see it through? That's how I feel. I also need to finish the scrapbook i am doing for my cousin's trip to England and start a scrapbook for my friend Lacey who is having her first baby. Why would anyone want someone else to do their scrapbook for them is besides me, but I am always the one who offers to do it. HA

Well lets hope that my surery good really good and I feel good enough to maybe do a little scrapbooking while I am recuperating. Did I mention that I have never taken a full week of work off for anything except when i got married? Being away from my job for a week really makes me nervous too.

Oh well, till next time, glad you stopped by to read what a Day in Paula's Shoes is about.

Lemonade and More.....

Do you ever feel like you are losing your mind? Like today is the day I am going crazy? Well today is that day for me. I think I am officially losing it! I was mad as hell this morning because I couldn't find brown socks. Brown socks!? Then I cried uncontrollably all the way to work and the first hour I was at work. Is it hormones? - Yes Is it stress? - yes.....But it is not just one thing, it is everything adding up at one time.... Everything is getting to me.

You know that saying - "when life gives you lemons, make lemonade". What happens when you don't know how to make lemonade?

The only thing that made me stop crying this morning was the potential security threat to Port Fourchon that I had to quickly respond to from a PR standpoint. Well, the good news is that it looks like the security threat may have been a false alarm. Maybe my potential nervous breakdown will also turn into a false alarm.

By the way - I would rather be scrapbooking today!!!

Till next time.....just another day in Paula's Shoes

Tired . . .

Is there ever enough time in the day to get everything done? Maybe it is because it is nearing Christmas or maybe it is because it gets darker sooner these days, but there seems to never be enough time in the day to get everything done. Work is slowing down the sooner it gets to Christmas, but personal errands, Christmas shopping and of course my crazy need to scrapbook is taking over. But you know what, some days, I just want to go home and do nothing. No folding clothes, no errands, no answering the cell phone, some days no stamping - some days I just want to spend a day in my pajamas doing NOTHING. I believe that today is one of those days and I think I will plan to do nothing all night tonight.

Here's to another day in Paula's Shoes . . .

Blog Addict

Ok, now that Michelle got me started with all of this blogging stuff...i am not only a scrapbooking addict, but i love to blog too! (thanks Michelle for sharing both of your addictions with me!) Speaking of scrapbooking addict - I had a meeting for work today in Baton Rouge so after my meeting I met Deanna for an afternoon shopping excursion to HOBBY LOBBY!! We had a blast!! Ok, I know i am a self proclaimed scrapaholic, but I have never been to Hobby Lobby. Well virgin i am no longer! I went crazy over the rub ons, raw chipboard, and brads. I also finally bought not one, but two bags of the Bag O' Buttons that Kelly always uses. I can't wait to use all of my new stuff! I will try to take a night this week to scrapbook. I am upset that I won't be able to make the crop night at the Scrap Boutique on Saturday, but I will be spending the weekend in New Orleans at the Hornet's game in the Chett Morrison suite I might add and at the Saints game!! I am looking forward to some much needed stress release weekend with my hubby and a few good friends....did i mention there will be lots of drinks too? That will definitely help relieve the stress also!!

Oh by the way, I may have scared my friends away with my last blog...HA I have gotten a few calls from family and friends making sure I am still alive and haven't killed anyone. HA

Till next time..... It's just Another day in Paula's Shoes......

My first post!!

I am new to this blog thing so bear with me. I visit blogs all the time and throughly enjoy reading them, but never posted one of my own so I thought...what the hell, I will give this a try. So with the encouragement of my friend Michelle, here I am with my own blog!!

A little ranting for now....
Why the hell do people say, "if it is meant to be, it will be" or "when the time is right it will happen"!! I personally have heard this way too many times recently. What exactly does this mean? I think it is what people say when they don't know what else to say. I think it makes people feel better to say it so they feel like they are helping you through your situation. I would much rather them say - "that frickin' sucks". Or my opther favorite comments are "It's just a test. He wouldn't give you these things if he didn't think you could handle them". Well dammit, I can't handle it, I don't want to handle it ....I give up!!! So many people have said this to me recently that I just want to strangle someone....does this sound like the rantings of a woman that can handle it....so what you are telling me is that if I don't handle things so well, then I can have an easier life?! Well I quit! I quit handling things. Will someone else take over? There is only so much one person can take.

Whew....I think I will like this blog thing! It is kinda like seeing a counselor. It helps to get all of the crap you keep to yourself out! So since it is cheaper to blog that pay for a shrink....Here's to you for listening to my crap...HA

By the way - If you haven't tried it - SCRAPBOOK - It is cheaper that therapy and it takes your mind off of life in general. Maybe I will have to take some time to scrapbook this week.

Sorry for the ranting- here's to another day in Paula's Shoes.....