Still here!

It's been a long couple of weeks. I find myself depressed about the house because no matter how often or when I clean it, the kids come and clutter things up again within 10 minutes. It makes me wonder, "why bother?" The Fun Room was one such place, which was a shame because there were some sketch challenges I wanted to participate in, but things were way too messy. To make everything worse, my back began to hurt really badly last Saturday. I didn't realize it was serious until Sunday when I took some ibuprofen and still felt every ache. Uh oh!

So apparently, I'm getting older! I kept running and playing soccer because it didn't hurt TOO badly (except when I leaned over to pick up the ball for a throw-in - it was really hard to stand upright again). DaddyDude told me I was crazy and to stop running but I know that for every week I don't run, it takes 3 weeks of running to work back up to that point. Really, I was fine playing soccer - as long as I didn't have to pick up the ball or get knocked off balance. Of the four games I played this past week, my team only lost one!

ANYWAY, so the point of all that was - I couldn't clean the Fun Room last week because my back hurt so much. Finally yesterday, I could choke down the pain and cleaned things up enough to get a layout done! This is based on Sketch #143 at Sketch Inspiration and submitted to a Halloween contest at YSS...

All materials are from the "Happy Halloween" collection by Echo Park.

It's a good thing I cleaned up when I did, because DirecTV came yesterday (and they trapsed around in almost every room) to hook DaddyDude up - he had to change service providers because DISH wasn't carrying the Cal games anymore. So, we'll enjoy the three free months of Showtime and Starz and I am glad I finally get the Sundance channel for my indie films.

I'll be back with another update shortly. Hope you're all well!