My Cricut

My Cricut and I have been very quiet lately. Mostly, I have been trying to organize the next project, which is older daughter's photo album, which is late in being produced. I hope to add scrapbook pages to it and have been searching out papers for that purpose. Younger daughter should feel free to bring her album back here when she visits NEXT MONTH and I will attempt to add some scrapbook pages to her album, also.

In recent news, Provo Craft, and Make-The-Cut have settled their lawsuit which you can read about here. Now they have gone after Craft Edge, the producers of Sure-Cuts-A-Lot. I guess I never thought to check if there were any lawsuits filed before I bought my Cricut and my SCAL, I might have thought twice about it. One thing is for sure that I certainly cannot afford to buy cartridges ad infinitum from Provo Craft. Anyway, you can read about that lawsuit here.



 Copyright 2011, ACK, for Generational

Ford & CatalystRx & CVS

Sad to say, but I am beginning to think of this page as my rant page. Or my happy scrapbooking page. Mostly rant, unfortunately.

Sadly, Ford Motor Company always gives me something to get upset about. The latest is their change to CatalystRx for our prescriptions replacing MedCoRx. You know, Ford, getting your prescriptions via mail order is a royal pain in the behind, but having to deal with CatalystRx is really starting to piss me off.

Back in January, I sent in three prescriptions. All drugs were covered in the plan when I sent in the prescriptions. Two were filled with no problems. The third, for my asthma inhaler, Xopenex, has been rejected. It's no longer covered. Instead, my prescription insurances wants me to use something that is going to give me palpitations. What the heck is that about? And does anyone (doctor included) call me to tell me there is going to be a change? No. Supposedly, the doctor's office called in the new prescription on February 9th to a local pharmacy. Again, no one bothered to call me and inform me. CVS did not call me to tell me there was a prescription waiting for me. So today, after ascertaining that a prescription was supposedly called in on February 9th, I called the pharmacy. No inhaler, no record of it.

I thought this prescription coverage was a good thing. Part of Ford's preventative coverage plan. It's a load of horse you-know-what. I feel like I have to roll over and play dead just to get the medication that works for me. I can't help it, if it is new and doesn't have a generic equivalent, but why should I be penalized.

All this has done is ticked me off and raised my blood pressure. Great preventative care Ford.

Copyright 2011, ACK, for Generational

Hooray! Second Cookbook Done!

I have to say that this was a very interesting and fun project. First I printed out all the recipes from my MasterCook 8 program (these are the recipes in my personal cookbook) as if I were printing a book. After I got all of them in the first book, I realized there were some missing ones (about 7) and so I put them in a section called "Oops! These almost got left out!"

The Cover



Title Page





This is a good mint cheesecake



Andrea is famous for these

Sara's Chicken Quesadillas

This is one of the first recipes
I collected, from a friend's mom.

Sometimes you leave an ingredient out!

I wonder if my food processor
made the move to Tennessee?

Again I used a "magnetic" yet somehow acid-free album to mount all of these recipes. Above are some of the pictures I took. No matter the lighting, they just don't look as good in pictures as they do in real life!

Copyright 2011, ACK, for Generational