Scrapbooking can be a very expensive hobby! AC Moore has a great selection of scrapbooking products and sometimes a beginner like me can get lost within the aisles. My eyes light up at every new item and my mind imagines different layouts for my scrapbooks. The stickers and stamps are my favorite items right now. I also love finding great background pages that go great with the themes that I plan out. At the moment I am putting together a scrapbook of my fiance and I that will turn into our guestbook for the wedding. I have a maroon colored album that has a wonderful family frame on the cover that I started to use for our book. However, I realized that our wedding colors are tealish blue and white. So I had to make a shopping trip to AC Moore to find a new album and a few more embellishments that would make our pre-wedding scrapbook complete! I found a beautiful white album with a frilly design embedded into the cover with a picture cutout frame like the one I had at home. Of coarse it was in the wrong place on the shelf and had no price tag on it. Customer Service called the assistant manager over for me and we both tried to figure out the correct price being that it was the only one left! Now was it $32.00 like the other albums of the same brand that were boxed, or was it $21.99 like the albums of the same brand that were not boxed? They were all of the same brand, however they had different description labels on the covers. At first he thought it was $32.00 like the other boxed albums and asked me if I still wanted it...no! But as he read the descriptions he figured that it was probably $21.99...thank you AC MOORE assistant manager!!

9-11-08

At first I was surprised that the images of 9-11 are still being printed and shown on television. However, the victims and their families will always remember that day and they will always be remembered by others. When I saw pictures of children at the ceremonies for yesterday's anniversary I suddenly realized how small my emotions from that day were. These children couldn't be any older than 9 years old and they probably either never met their fathers or have little remeberence of them. But instead of remembering how their fathers lived their last day, I'm certain their family members are helping them celebrate how caring and loving these men were.

No one could have known or even thought that these two buildings were going to fall. Even after the first one came down the firefighters were still going back into Tower one. They gave their all to rescue anyone they could have. And now the volunteers are giving their lives because the debris is causing cancer and other illnesses in their bodies.

9-11 happened on one day and we hold vigils on that one day every year. But 9-11 is not just recalled on that one day, it is thought about every single day. When the date comes around each year we think about where we were on that day and the thoughts that were rushing through our minds. And we may think that it doesn't effect us every single day, but in the backs of our minds we know that it does.

Hope

As I looked at the news photos of hurricane Gustav I just hoped that everyone made it out alive. I also hoped that the government has learned from their mistakes and that the local people who wouldn't leave during Katrina were smart enough to leave this time. I wish that there were better places for Americans to live than in the path of a hurricane or tornado. Why are we building in the most dangerous areas? And why do we countinue to rebuild in the same area that has been knocked down before?