I find myself wanting to go to Michaels or my local scrapbook store (Scrapbook Territory) ALL THE TIME.

Since November-ish and now, I’ve completed my first 16 layouts. And I wanted to share them here before they get packed away in an album (click for bigger!)…

My cousin, Riz, and me. Photo of us from 1997.

My best friends, Carmen, Robyn and me. Taken in the summer of 1997 before we started college.

Disneyland with Riz, Rob, and Emery. March 1999.

Pilipino American Alliance semi-formal with Rob. April 1999.

Visiting UDUB with Rob. Spring Break 2000.

My college graduation! May 2001. With Robyn, Rob and Warren.

My 24th birthday. October 2003. Robyn and Carmen were in town to celebrate.

5th anniversary trip to Monterey. April 2004.

Dressed up for Halloween. October 2004. I was attempting to be Hermione. Rob was a “mystical wizard.” Hee.

First ever Girls Weekend with Robyn and Carmen. June 2006.

In front of the Eiffel Tower on our Segways! Paris trip, October 2006.

Sacre Couer and Moulin Rouge. Paris trip, October 2006.

Walking at Tilden Park. May 2007.

Diesel’s first weekend with us. My baby puppy. May 2007.

Diesel’s first walk! He’s so little in these pics. Awww. July 2007.

Christmas tea party with my good friend Shirley. December 2007.

Aaahhh, scrapping makes me happy. I’m so happy this is a long weekend.

1. 3-day weekend. Thank goodness for Columbus Day! Though I think I’ll probably be doing a little work from home anyway. There’s too many things going on that I really can’t afford to be swamped when I get back to the office on Tuesday.

2. My birthday is on Thursday! WOOT. The big 2-8. Damn, I’m old. :/ I told Rob I want cupcakes from Tea Cake Bakeshop. Hopefully he remembers. Mmmm. I’m salivating just thinking about it.

3. My cousin is visiting for my birthday. And I’m taking next Friday off of work so we can hang out in the city. I’m dragging her to a couple of bridal salons. Hey, she’s my Maid of Honor! She has to help me with wedding stuff! I’m sure she’s looking forward to that, hehehe.

In other news, I have decided to take up scrapbooking. I have no idea where the heck the inclination came from but there you go. I even went out and bought some patterned paper, cardstock, stickers, and a paper trimmer today. I honestly don’t have a creative/artistic bone in my body so this is going to be interesting.

I just downloaded Britney’s single from iTunes. I didn’t like it when I first heard it but it’s totally grown on me. You should download it too!