To many challenges....too little time.

I seem to be going in circles lately trying to keep up with everything in my life. It seems inevitable that something falls through the cracks and as much as I have tried I am still not doing a good job keeping up with the blog challenges so this is once again my pathatic attempt to play catch-up. Thanks to Shandy and Lisa from scrapgal for the inspiration....here it goes.

Challenge #12
Shandy wrote:
Tell us about your NAME! yep, that's right... your name. How did your parents come up with it?... is there a story behind it?.... Do you like your name?... if you could have named yourself, would it have been the same or something different?... just go with it!... no rules! We just want to learn more about ya!

Well my name is Michelle Lee. My Dad grew up in the 60's and was a big Beatles fan. He told my Mom that if I was a girl he wanted to name me Michelle after "My Michelle". My grandmother (maternal) loved the song and the name too, so there it is. It may be unoriginal but I was named after the Beatles song. As far as my middle name goes.....My Dad's 1st name is Lee my Mom's name is Deborah Lee. My Mom thought that was neat. So I was named Michelle Lee and my sister is Tammy Lee. Lee has become a family name for us. My boys are lucky and have been blessed (or cursed depending on how you look at it) with two middle names......Riley James Lee and Aiden John Lee. Lee just had to be in there somewhere!


Challenge #13
Lisa wrote:

"Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're going to get" My challenge to you is twofold 1) Write about what this quote means to you. How have the unexpected moments impacted your life? Do you have a particularily memorable unexpected moment? Do you hate surprises or do you go with the flow? These are just suggestions jumping off points, feel free to go where the quote takes you!

I loved Forest Gump. He always had the best perspective on life and he truely lived up to the motto. For me it just means that in life you are going to be thrown some home run pitches and sometimes you are going to strike out. Life is not meant to be easy, you would be bored, you just strive to make the best of what your given. That's all you can do.

Challenge #14
Webster's Wednesdays! On Wednesdays we will play with words. We will embrace the word. We will celebrate the word. So let's Define our Needs shall we? Because Webster's, after all, is largely about definitions. You thought it was all about the spelling? Or pronunciation? Or origin? Pshawwww So here's how you play the game today. Go to the Google search engine and type in your name and the word needs For Example....Lisa Needs

This one is fun....well according to yahoo......Michelle Needs.......

1. Outcomes.......so true I need to be able to see results to stay motivated!

2. Help.......in so many ways.

3. To win......the Lotto would be nice!

4. Coffee.....someone on yahoo must have seen me at 7 am!!!

5. A "wie" bit of luck.....is there a leprachaun out there who will help me win the lotto or give me his pot of gold? I am Irish after all!

6. To accept.......there are a lot of things in my life I just need to accept but the list is too long.

7. "Sadly Michelle Needs Help" (No literally)....ok ok I can take a hint (yahoo's direct quote), really who out there designing that search engine has a crystal ball pearing into my life?

8. Advice....wasn't that already covered in 2 & 7???

9. A new putter?.......I don't play golf but I am open to learning.

10. Michelle needs to take photography and graphics classes...really it said that....how insightful! I'd love to do both if I only had the time.

-Thanks Lisa this was so fun and uplifting.

Challenge #15...I am really catching up!!! Woot Woot!
TRUTH OR DARE! Here's how we play. I pose a question. You can either choose to answer OR take the DARE! So here we go! TRUTH Have you ever "regifted" a present. If you have, tell us what the gift was, who you gave it to and why the gift was passed on to another person. Was it a hideous velvet Elvis painting? A chia pet? A sweater that was three sizes too large and in a color you'd never wear? Go to your blog and tell us about it. or DARE If you haven't or don't want to answer, go to you blog and tell us about the best gift you ever received and why you loved it. Maybe it was an family heirloom that was passed down to you. Or a special vacation? A handmade piece of pottery from your child? Share with us in your blog post why that gift, out of all the gifts you have ever received in your life is the one near and dear to your heart!

I'll take the dare...I like to live dangerously. I was actually a little suprised myself when I thought about the answer to this one........

A few years back my fil bought me a Mr. Machine off of e-bay. I had told them that it was one of my favorite Christmas toys when I was about 6 and my father in law went out of his way to win a bid on e-bay and gave it

to me for Christmas....It was one of the most thougtful things he has ever done!

Well I feel somewhat like a failure. I was really going to try and keep up with the blog challenges on scrapgal but I just am too far behind. I feel a little overwhelmed. Though I don't want this beautiful blog that Shandy created for me to go to waste.

Easter Memories

We had a nice Easter. The boys had an egg hunt everywhere they went. On Saturday we went to my parents house and after dinner we were clearing the table. My Dad was leaving the dinning room and Aiden was running in and BOOM they ran into each other and Aiden went flying into the corner of the cabinet. He had a HUGE goose Egg and a big bruise down the middle of it. We had to take him to the ER. It looked horrible. He was screaming and my Dad felt horrible!!!! This picture is almost two days later so it looks a little better.

The BIG reveal.......


Ok so how did you do?........

Yes I did have a Pajama Jammy Jam with Kid N' Play. I won a radio contest when I was a sophomore in high school. Me and 50 of my "closest" friends hung out at my house with Pizza and food supplied by the radio station. I have pictures and will try to post later. I also won a stereo, camcorder, and a 32 " TV, which is in my living room right now, amazing I just realized how old it is but it still works great! (knock on wood).


When I was a junior in college one of my sorority sisters (Gamma Sigma Sigma) convinced me to enter the Miss New Britain Pageant, a preliminary to the Miss CT pageant. I did place (My friend won) and my sister who lived in New Jersey was Nannying for a family who owned Gothem City a modeling agency and in exchange for her nannying they assisted he in finding modeling jobs/contracts as a runway/fashion model. It was the only time in my life that I felt for once that it was not just my sister who got all the looks in the family. She continues to be drop dead gorgeous!






Though this is not the best picture!





So to finally let the cat out of the bag......while I have driven over 100 miles per hour on a race track it was not in a race car so for all of you who guessed #2 you are right!

Thanks for taking the time to guess and thanks to Shandy for this wonderful blog challenge......I can't wait to catch up with the other challenges.

For anyone interested in Digital Scrapping I now have a link to Shandy's design page SV Designs....she is ubber talented so please check out her stuff!

Blog Challenge #11

Well Shandy has such an awesome challenge this week I had to skip ahead.

Three statements about myself 2 are true one is false.....boy this could be fun!!

Here it goes........see if you can guess......it'll be tough.......ready....set.....GO....

1.) In high school I had a Pajama Jammy Jam with Kid n' Play two well known hip hop/ rap stars of the late 80's early 90's.
2. ) I once drove a race car on a track at over 100 mph.
3.) I placed in a local beauty pageant in college thanks to tips from my sister who was a runway model in NYC.

OK go ahead guess....I dare you!

Catching Up...

Well first I need to thank a very special person for helping me update my blog and get me on the right track.....Shandy....a really SWASS gal from a scrapping site I am sort-of addicted to created this beautiful header for me and helped me to freshen up my blog space. It now feels more like me. So in return I really need to keep up with it. Shandy and the other awesome women at scrap gal have given me the perfect way to do this. We have a blig challenge going on and right now I am 10 posts behind!!! So getting down to business....

Challenge #1. Finish this sentence; I think......

Well this is an easy one. I think I am pretty lucky to have a wonderful person who was willing to help me create an awesome blog and I think that I am going to have to do something nice for her....haven't figured out what yet but I am brainstorming!!!!

Challenge #2. 10 Things that make me happy.

1. My boys (husband included)
2. Iced Coffee preferably blueberry.
3. A summer breeze at the beach.
4. Family Time
5. Sleeping Late
6. Chocolate
7. New Scrap Supplies
8. Spending time on Scrapgal.com
9. A message
10. Girl Time

Challenge #3. Fad we had to be a part of...

Boy there are soo many over the years...staring with pink Reeboks in 5th grade....yep had to have them and my Guess overalls and my Swatch! I only wish I had a pic to post.

Then there was the beany baby craze.

Um lets see then there was big bangs....then no bangs....then heavy metal music...yep I listened to Metallica (My senior year book quote was "Under wandering stars I've grown by myself but not alone" from a Metallica song) Then their was the rap stage.....Cypress Hill...then the female rocker stage.....Tori Amos, Indigo girls.....boy there are too many to name but it was fun to reminisce!

Challenge #4 What do you do when you are all alone and no one is wathcing?

I sing like I am the best singer there ever was........easy to do when you have no audience!

Challenge #5 Share a link with everyone that you enjoy.

I usually don't surf the web other than scrap sites and for research on autism but I was interested the other day when I was typing away at work to see how fast I could type and I did find this site... www.typetest.com Check it out...I was between 45 and 50 wpm each time. How did you do?

Well 5 Challenges is a start....I will catch up on the other 5 later......right now its close to bed time, so g'night everyone!

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