Thursday, May 17, 2012
Mother's Day 2012
From my oldest...
This one is just for you mom =) ... a beautiful foggy sunrise with Mt. Baker in the background looking over the whole valley =).. happy mother's day! ,, I love you and appreciate all that you have ever done for me. You are a great mom :)
Monday, April 30, 2012
Dreams
Here's something I had to blog about at the end of last week... dreams. Aren't they interesting?
They say that you dream when you hit that really, really deep REM sleep. So why is it, after my alarm clock goes off and I fall back asleep, I dream before the snooze button sounds off again? Do I really hit that deep sleep in just a matter of seconds? This is especially intriguing to me since it takes f-o-r-e-v-e-r for me to fall asleep at night in the first place.
Anyway, what I wanted to ask was... Do you see things in your dreams that you perceive to be something different, or a person is actually someone else? I wanted to know if I was the only one. I am sure I am not.
There will be a person in my dream, and I can't actually make out the face or anything, or they look like someone but I know it's my son, or my dad, or the lady down the street. Isn't that strange? Or I will see something and I can describe it perfectly, but it's not at all what I know it to be.
Case in point: Friday morning, I had a dream about a snowflake drifting down. Kind of like the feather in the opening scenes of Forrest Gump... seen from above, I just watched it float back and forth, going down. I know it was a snowflake. And I even said, "that's the biggest snowflake I've ever seen!" However, it didn't look anything like a snowflake. In fact, it wasn't even white.
What is did look like was a chocolate curl. You know, like on the top of a fancy cake, where you use a knife and scrape a curl from a bar of chocolate? My snowflake was the color and texture of a chocolate curl, only it was about 2 inches square. I could see the texture of it in fine detail, and it was perfectly square. It was a beautiful chocolate curl - but it was a snowflake.
Funny. Dreams can be really strange.
They say that you dream when you hit that really, really deep REM sleep. So why is it, after my alarm clock goes off and I fall back asleep, I dream before the snooze button sounds off again? Do I really hit that deep sleep in just a matter of seconds? This is especially intriguing to me since it takes f-o-r-e-v-e-r for me to fall asleep at night in the first place.
Anyway, what I wanted to ask was... Do you see things in your dreams that you perceive to be something different, or a person is actually someone else? I wanted to know if I was the only one. I am sure I am not.
There will be a person in my dream, and I can't actually make out the face or anything, or they look like someone but I know it's my son, or my dad, or the lady down the street. Isn't that strange? Or I will see something and I can describe it perfectly, but it's not at all what I know it to be.
Case in point: Friday morning, I had a dream about a snowflake drifting down. Kind of like the feather in the opening scenes of Forrest Gump... seen from above, I just watched it float back and forth, going down. I know it was a snowflake. And I even said, "that's the biggest snowflake I've ever seen!" However, it didn't look anything like a snowflake. In fact, it wasn't even white.
What is did look like was a chocolate curl. You know, like on the top of a fancy cake, where you use a knife and scrape a curl from a bar of chocolate? My snowflake was the color and texture of a chocolate curl, only it was about 2 inches square. I could see the texture of it in fine detail, and it was perfectly square. It was a beautiful chocolate curl - but it was a snowflake.
Funny. Dreams can be really strange.
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Social (Media) Dilemna
Today's burning question: Should I "friend" my son's new girlfriends?
UPDATE, May 17, 2012: The Answer is a definite "no." Don't do it, and don't feel bad about it either. You can message if you want to keep in touch, but do you really want them in your business? and looking at all your pictures and notes? And what if they break up down the line, then what do you? Chalk her off also? Decidedly, it is best not to even open that can of worms.
UPDATE, May 17, 2012: The Answer is a definite "no." Don't do it, and don't feel bad about it either. You can message if you want to keep in touch, but do you really want them in your business? and looking at all your pictures and notes? And what if they break up down the line, then what do you? Chalk her off also? Decidedly, it is best not to even open that can of worms.
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Discovering Something New
I have just discovered "Yarn Bombing." It's also called Knit Grafitti. There was one picture of a yarn bombed tree in an email my mom just sent me... you know, the kind of email with all the amazing photographs?
Well, I Googled images for Yarn Bombing, and have discovered a whole bunch, and that the "grafitti" has been around for some time. Makes me want to learn knit better and learn to crochet :) And I'm starting to look at ordinary objects so much differently.... hmmm.
As one blogger said it, MAKING LIFE MORE BEAUTIFUL FOR THE LIVING
And here are some sites and blogs to check out...
Book review by a crochet fan: http://www.crochetconcupiscence.com/2011/05/book-review-yarn-bombing/
An array of photos: http://www.streetartutopia.com/?p=2014 of this and other types of "street art."
Hope you have a coloful day!
:)
Well, I Googled images for Yarn Bombing, and have discovered a whole bunch, and that the "grafitti" has been around for some time. Makes me want to learn knit better and learn to crochet :) And I'm starting to look at ordinary objects so much differently.... hmmm.
As one blogger said it, MAKING LIFE MORE BEAUTIFUL FOR THE LIVING
And here are some sites and blogs to check out...
Book review by a crochet fan: http://www.crochetconcupiscence.com/2011/05/book-review-yarn-bombing/
An array of photos: http://www.streetartutopia.com/?p=2014 of this and other types of "street art."
Hope you have a coloful day!
:)
Thursday, January 26, 2012
Still Life
If the Internet, and what we post today, lives on into infinity, I sometimes wonder what my grandkids, or greatgrandkids might think of me. I don't think too hard about that, but I wish I could know more about my ancestors... their viewpoints - likes and dislikes, their hobbies, their religous takes, their personal worlds.
With that in mind, here is a Still Life of my side of the bathroom corner. Stuff I use everyday to get ready. My toothbrush and toothpaste are in the lower drawer, and my hairbrush is perched on an upper shelf unit.
So hey Great-Grandkids (to be)... this one is for you :)
With that in mind, here is a Still Life of my side of the bathroom corner. Stuff I use everyday to get ready. My toothbrush and toothpaste are in the lower drawer, and my hairbrush is perched on an upper shelf unit.
So hey Great-Grandkids (to be)... this one is for you :)
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Nothing to Do
I remember when we first moved to this town, there was someone complaining in the Editorial part of the local newspaper that there was "nothing to do here."
Well last Wednesday after work, I attended a two hour Senior Grad Night meeting. On Thursday I went to a fund-raiser dinner, and on Friday I went to the high school basketball games. Then on Sunday afternoon, I attended the Art Council presentation of a Jazz Ensemble!
I never did understand what that guy was talking about! There is gobs to do here, but you have to make the effort to become involved.
:)
Well last Wednesday after work, I attended a two hour Senior Grad Night meeting. On Thursday I went to a fund-raiser dinner, and on Friday I went to the high school basketball games. Then on Sunday afternoon, I attended the Art Council presentation of a Jazz Ensemble!
I never did understand what that guy was talking about! There is gobs to do here, but you have to make the effort to become involved.
:)
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
How Social Media is Playing a Part in World Politics
A fourth assassination attempt has resulted in the death of a third nuclear scientist in Iran in the past two years. Iran says it will hold "the U.S., Britain and the Zionist regime accountable for their actions."
In response,
"Brig. Gen. Yoav Mordechai, a spokesman for the Israel Defense Forces, said on his Facebook page Wednesday: "I have no idea who targeted the Iranian scientist but I certainly don't shed a tear."
http://www.cnn.com/2012/01/15/world/meast/iran-nuclear-scientist-killed/index.html?iref=obinsite
In response,
"Brig. Gen. Yoav Mordechai, a spokesman for the Israel Defense Forces, said on his Facebook page Wednesday: "I have no idea who targeted the Iranian scientist but I certainly don't shed a tear."
http://www.cnn.com/2012/01/15/world/meast/iran-nuclear-scientist-killed/index.html?iref=obinsite
Thursday, January 12, 2012
Thots and Things
My little brain has been busy the past few days so I was thinking I should jot down a few items before I forget!
JAMMIES
I LOVE "Jammie Time" evening. Sometimes it hits me early in the evening, and sometime later, but when it's Jammie Time, it's time to get into something way more comfortable! I especially LOVE "Jammie Days"... when I don't have to work, or have any other plans, and I can stay home all day in my jammies. I don't usually just sit around and read and eat bon-bons... I'm getting dishes done, picking things up and getting them to where they ought to be, and running loads of laundry, all the while catching up on some favorite TV shows. But the fact that I don't have to get dressed is delightfully wonderful! :)
IOWA CAUCUS
I don't understand how Iowa can choose a presidential candidate. Look how many of them dropped out! Had they had the caucus in Oregon, perhaps the outcome would have been way different but now, our say doesn't matter really. Who decided Iowa represents the whole country's opinion?
Results for Iowa Republican Caucus (U.S. Presidential Primary)
Jan 03, 2012 (>99% of precincts reporting)
Mitt Romney 30,015 24.6%
Rick Santorum 30,007 24.5%
Ron Paul 26,219 21.4%
Newt Gingrich 16,251 13.3%
Rick Perry 12,604 10.3%
Michele Bachmann 6,073 5%
Jon Huntsman 745 0.6%
No Preference 135 0.1%
Other 206 0.2%
In the caucus, Santorum and Paul were 2 and 3, but in the New Hampshire Primary on January 10th, Paul and Huntsman were 2 and 3! So has Iowa and New Hampshire already chosen the Repulican candidate?
Results for New Hampshire Republican Primary (U.S. Presidential Primary)
Jan 10, 2012 (100% of precincts reporting)
Mitt Romney 97,532 39.3%
Ron Paul 56,848 22.9%
Jon Huntsman 41,945 16.9%
Newt Gingrich 23,411 9.4%
Rick Santorum 23,362 9.4%
Rick Perry 1,766 0.7%
Michele Bachmann 349 0.1%
Other 3,272 1.3%
And when is the Oregon Primary?
THANKFUL
Lord Jesus, I am so thankful to be able to come home at the end of a workday, chilled by this non-winter but COLD type of weather, and have a snug little house where I can crank of the heat! Thank You that you have provided the means by which I can work, and earn money, to keep this little home :)
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Well, school has started and it's looking pretty good. My main teacher has altered a few things, and maybe not so much is required during the week, but I am sure this makes the other assignments all the more important. I feel confident about a good quarter :)
I LOVE "Jammie Time" evening. Sometimes it hits me early in the evening, and sometime later, but when it's Jammie Time, it's time to get into something way more comfortable! I especially LOVE "Jammie Days"... when I don't have to work, or have any other plans, and I can stay home all day in my jammies. I don't usually just sit around and read and eat bon-bons... I'm getting dishes done, picking things up and getting them to where they ought to be, and running loads of laundry, all the while catching up on some favorite TV shows. But the fact that I don't have to get dressed is delightfully wonderful! :)
I don't understand how Iowa can choose a presidential candidate. Look how many of them dropped out! Had they had the caucus in Oregon, perhaps the outcome would have been way different but now, our say doesn't matter really. Who decided Iowa represents the whole country's opinion?
Results for Iowa Republican Caucus (U.S. Presidential Primary)
Jan 03, 2012 (>99% of precincts reporting)
Mitt Romney 30,015 24.6%
Rick Santorum 30,007 24.5%
Ron Paul 26,219 21.4%
Newt Gingrich 16,251 13.3%
Rick Perry 12,604 10.3%
Michele Bachmann 6,073 5%
Jon Huntsman 745 0.6%
No Preference 135 0.1%
Other 206 0.2%
In the caucus, Santorum and Paul were 2 and 3, but in the New Hampshire Primary on January 10th, Paul and Huntsman were 2 and 3! So has Iowa and New Hampshire already chosen the Repulican candidate?
Results for New Hampshire Republican Primary (U.S. Presidential Primary)
Jan 10, 2012 (100% of precincts reporting)
Mitt Romney 97,532 39.3%
Ron Paul 56,848 22.9%
Jon Huntsman 41,945 16.9%
Newt Gingrich 23,411 9.4%
Rick Santorum 23,362 9.4%
Rick Perry 1,766 0.7%
Michele Bachmann 349 0.1%
Other 3,272 1.3%
And when is the Oregon Primary?
Lord Jesus, I am so thankful to be able to come home at the end of a workday, chilled by this non-winter but COLD type of weather, and have a snug little house where I can crank of the heat! Thank You that you have provided the means by which I can work, and earn money, to keep this little home :)
Well, school has started and it's looking pretty good. My main teacher has altered a few things, and maybe not so much is required during the week, but I am sure this makes the other assignments all the more important. I feel confident about a good quarter :)
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