I think this is pretty cool. We all post so many things in different places now. Flickr, Twitter, Tumbler, blogs, FaceBook, MySpace, YouTube, blahdeeblahdeeblah...that I think we might actually be making it harder to keep in the loop rather than easier. Today I stumbled upon FriendFeed which lets you link all those other things together in one place so that whenever you update them, they show up in one big list. I signed up http://friendfeed.com/tonyadoughty and thought I'd give it a try. It was free and easy. I can think of about 2 dozen people (all the blogs I read) that I would love to be this way. Think of all the time I could save. To read more blogs. LOL
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Allyson Bright Meyer, author of The Complete Idiot's Guide to Altered Art Illustrated and The Complete Idiot's Guide to Scrapbook Projects Illustrated is hosting a contest on the Journaling Junkie Blog. My take can be seen there as well (not for the contest though, I am on the DT). I have to say, I didn't"want" to do this challenge, but I LOVED it. What a process to write a letter to yourself, the you from your past. Quite therapeutic, I must say, and released a flood of emotion that I wasn't quite prepared for. Even if you don't enter the contest, I encourage you all to at least take the challenge just for yourself. And remember, it's not a design contest, its all about the journaling.
I thought I'd give a little update on my Dad. So many of you put us in your thoughts and I can't tell you how much it means. My Dad is not the best patient and when this happened he turned very negative, saying things like "I'll never leave this hospital". Trying to remind him that attitude is SO IMPORTANT has been all I can do, from 1,000 miles away, and dealing with my own recovery. Having your well wishes to pass on to him is such a gift, so thank you.
He hasn't had surgery yet. What was discovered is he has 2 pockets of Staph infection on his L4 and L5 vertabre. He underwent a test today where they radiated a pint of his blood and then re-injected into him in hope of then doing another MRI and seeing where the now nuclear blood goes...should lead to any other "hotspots" in his body. Hopefully we'll know more tomorrow or the next day.
I am recovering from my back surgery and it feels so slow. I think "I should be up and doing something" and then can barely make it from the couch to the table and have to remind myself its only been a few days. "This too, shall pass..."
I recently found, and fell in love with, the work of Sarah Bowen. When I saw she was hosting a Twelve Days of Christmas class, I signed up post-haste. I've not been in the position to really feel much holiday anything lately, so thought this would help. I saw she posted her first project today and am excited to put my focus on something a little more creative than nausea, heartburn, backache and constipation, LOL.
This is what my day looks like today:
Flickr, scrapbook, Flickr, eat peanut butter toast, shower, find donuts in town somewhere (craving one), BBQ at inlaws (bring camera), try to get MIL to watch 8 yo so we can go see the Bourne Ultimatum, hopefully watch Bourne Ultimatum, process pics, Flickr, sleep.
What do you have going on?
I've notced lately that there are a few things that consistantly make me happy. Some I just remembered "hey, I really love that" and others I never forgot. In no particular order, these are some things that I always love:
American Typewriter font, Raspberries, Banana flavored anything (not actual bananas), good pizza, birds chirping outside, the sound of water, making something I think is beautiful, chubby beautiful pink babies, sitting outside in the shade on a warm day with nothing to do but breathe the sweet air (and hear the birds and water I mentioned before), watching a really entertaining movie that I can lose myself in, beautifully designed fonts from veer.com, colors that sing to me, processing a good image into a great photograph, my camera, computer and software, vacations with my whole family, coming home, the internet, good rootbeer, creamy peanut butter on toasted english muffins, waffles, ice cream, rainier cherries (best bought from a local family fruit stand), black frames with big white mats, painted white wood moulding/wainscotting/trim with colored walls, black as an accent color, warm homemade fruit muffins, natural fiber yarns, calendars, music, stars, my original-style crocs, mary jane shoes, seeing my daughters happy and healthy, Friends re-runs, laughing so hard with my husband that we're crying and gasping for air, hooded sweatshirts and jeans, books, funny tshirt and bumper sticker sayings, cotton quilts.
OK, enough for now, but I know this is just a start.