Me on Monday

I'm a little late this time!

April by the Numbers

Movies Seen: 6

*****The Great Awakening

***The Drama

****You Me & Tuscany

*Hunting Matthew Nichols

*****Michael

*****Fuze

Broadway:

***Boeing Boeing

Books Read: 13

5 star books:

Dear Reader

The Bluest Eye

Burn Book

Erasing History 

Anatomy of an Alibi 

My Lovely Wife

Just Mercy

Kin

Podcasts:

Scrap Gals: 6

Paul Burell: 3

Lunch Out—14

Dinner Out:—6

Happy Hours—1

Bridge—3

Documentaries/Movies/Series:

Hulu:

**The Testament of Ann Lee

*****Faithful: Women of the Bible (4E)

*****The Girl in the Attic

Netflix :

*****Bridgerton (8E))

*****The Predator of Seville (3E)

*****The Truth and Tragedy of Moriah Wilson

*****Untold: the Life of Lamar Odom

*****People We Meet on Vacation

*****Stay Close (8E)

*****Hold Tight (6)

****Dynasty: The Murdoch (4E)

*****The One (8E)

*****Trust Me (4E)

*****The Woods (6E)

****Ripple (8E)

***Thrash 

**Monster: Ed Gein (3E) too scary

*The Requin

***Husband Father Killer

*****American Godfather: the 5 Families (3E)

*****Missing You (6)

*****Leave the World Behind

*****Operation Mincemeat

****Don’t Look Up

*****Diana the Musical

***Bliss

*****What the Health

***Outreau Case (2E)

**Untold: the Shooting at Hawthorne Hill

****The Short Game

**100 Humans (1E)

****Unspeakable Acts

****Audrie & Daisy

*****A Fall from Grace

***Trees of Peace

**Death at Tea Time

****Gaslit by my Husband

*****Unchosen (6E)

****Denial

****Collateral (4E)

*****The Bleeding Edge

***The Lost Daughter

***Munich: The Edge of War

*****The Postcard Killings

****Lost Girls

*****The Best of Enemies

Prime:

*****The Tudors (3E)

Paramount Plus:

***The Madison (6E)

Scrapbook Pages Completed: 15

Trips & Events:

Beach

Kevin James at the Ryman

Boozy Bingo

Highlight: I was a guest on the Scrap Gals podcast

Happy Mother's Day

I just came across this and thought it was hilarious!!

I am not a phone person, but I do believe these statistics!!

Scrapbook Saturday

So, last Saturday I went to St. Louis. I mentioned that in my Travel Tuesday post. 

One of the things that was planned for this trip was to clean out Janet's scrapbook room. My niece, Jackie faces the whole house--it's so much--too much! Jeanne and I thought the least we could do was Janet's room. It's something anyway.

After visiting Janice, we went down to south St. Louis to get started. As we started to look around, we found lots of completed scrapbook pages that needed to be put in albums. We gathered them all together and started organizing. It took us 4 hours! Janet has 274--12x12 double page layouts--nearly 550 pages!! We sorted them in to categories and did 2 wedding albums for Jackie that day. 

Here are some pictures.

The next day we went back and worked another 4 hours. We got 6 albums put together that day. I did a rough calculation. 274 layouts equals about 21 albums. We've done 8! We still have 13 to go. That will be at least 8 more hours. Jackie said that they are having their basement finished and she's had to change the work order to accommodate all of the scrapbooks. 

Since Janet has many, many albums completed on her own, we think she just let it get away from her. As I've said many times--putting together albums is my least favorite thing to do!! I used to do it when my stack reached about a foot tall. Then I tried doing it every month. Sometimes I do, sometimes I don't. Usually, I do it about every other month--it's not too much at one time. There is so much satisfaction in getting it done! 

I have offered to help my friends and I'm going to really get on that now. We need to get it done before it's too late!

Friday Funnies

Ten Things Thursday

How about some laundry rooms for today? Guess which is my favorite.

1. I like the contrast of the white and wood. 

2. I like everything about this one including the wallpaper and fresh hydrangeas. But what's up with that third machine? Another washer? Or dryer? 

3. Love this color combination. I don't like orange, but paired with this aqua, it's really pretty. Are the doors bronze? Pretty cool with the rest of the room.

4. Love this shade of blue and the wallpaper.

5. I could go for pink--but only if there were pastels in the rest of the house. Love the shiplap and, of course, the flowers. I do not care for stackable. I'm too short for them.

6. Love this shade of green and I'm a sucker for the flowers. I don't know if that's the washer or the dryer. I guess the other one is on the other side. This looks almost like a kitchen.

7. I'm not sure about this one. But, I do like the brick floor and the shiplap.

8. Another pink one. I like it.

9. This is nice even thought it looks like a smaller room. Love those cabinet doors.

10. This one is okay, still don't care for the stackables. Love the ceiling.

Okay, what did you pick? For me, it's a toss up between 3 & 6. If I had to choose just one, I would choose 6.

Words of Wisdom Wednesday

Travel Tuesday

I went to St. Louis on Saturday for a few reasons: 

1. I wanted to visit my sister, Janice. She's in a memory care unit now at Delmar Gardens. She's doing fabulously! It's the right place for her. She's made a lot of friends. They all talk nonsense to each other and laugh like it all makes sense! It did my heart good to see her so happy! And, she eats everything put in front of her!! 

2. Jeanne and I met with our sister-in-law's daughter, Jackie to clean out her mom's (Janet) scrapbook room. Before we could even do that, we spent 4 hours organizing layouts to put in albums!! More on that in my "Scrapbook Saturday" post.

3. I was missing my siblings, so I was happy to get to see them too. I stayed with Jeanne this time! We all met for dinner along with a couple nieces. After the day Jeanne and I had, we needed this:

This blackberry martini was so good--I had two!! Then, I looked up a recipe--I'm going to make them at home!

Clockwise around: me, Jennifer, Matt, Alicia, Sharon, Ranya, Jeanne and Jim. I was so happy to see all of them. It's been too long.

I'm on my way home today.