408.3 miles.

well.
i'm back.
i almost can't believe i made it.
i only got like 4 hours of sleep, but it worked out.
i ended up getting a really bad head ache while i was there... but i think it was more from not eating than from a lack of sleep. usually i do ok with minimal sleep.

& & yeah. that's how many miles i drove today.
[except that doesn't count my morning trip to best buy. yes. once i replaced "pink magenta" and yellow, the printer decided that magenta was also out. but best buy was closed... so i had to wait until this morning to go get a magenta cartridge in order to print my photos. good times. you can bet that i just went ahead and bought all the other remaining colors while i was there this morning.]

so the stats are:
408.3 total miles
6 hours total travel time.
5 hours 20 mintues total driving time.
2 stops. [1 for gas. 1 for food and stretching and to keep my sanity.]

i'm so glad that i went. it was really a lot of fun. and kristina was so nice and fun to talk to.
oh and she had the new dare book there. [!!!] i *need* that book. seriously. it is just packed with amazing-ness.
the only real problems were the whole printer thing this morning, not having anything to eat except carrots and vitamin water in the car because i was running late because of the printer thing, almost running out of gas on i-5... i had 10 miles until empty, and the bean festival was going on in downtown tracy, so all the streets were blocked off, so i had to park in a random neighborhood and walk to the store... so i was 5 minutes late. [don't ask me what the bean festival is... i couldn't really figure that part out. all i really caught was some terrible hip-hop-ish live music and a pretty good strawberry, banana, peach smoothie. yes. all three flavors were layered into one cup. not too sure about that either, but it was my dinner, so at least it was good.]

oh. and i decided to use a harajuku bag that i bought a while back to carry all my scrappie stuff. my big coach bag had too much stuff in it that i didn't feel like cleaning out. ha. the harajuku bag worked pretty well.


and i made a few purchases at the store. they had a pretty good selection of fontwerks stamps. i was really tempted to buy just about all of them, but i made myself choose one. they didn't have the starfiin alphabet stamps though. :/ they also had some hambly. even though our store should be getting it like this week, i couldn't help myself... i had to buy some. and also some other elsie stuff that was on sale.

so. here are the two little albums we made. you can pretty much tell that the 6x6 american crafts album is still blank. my head was hurting too bad to keep working on it, and i was getting kind of anxious to leave. now that i'm home though... i really want to finish it. so i'm off to work on it some more. :]

i hope everyone is having a good weekend! :]