wandering mind

I was sitting in my study and my dogs were running around in the room next door. I was trying to capture them running on my camera - it somehow ended up looking like a ghost :)

My daughter just taught me a new word : kirigami. Apparently, when you are folding paper to create a form it is origami, but when you make cuts on paper, it is kirigami. Here is thanksgiving based kirigami on our kitchen door.

What happens when you let your kid decide how much bubble bath soap to pour in the bath? a squeaky clean kid :)

I have a few gray strands peeking through the brown. I color them brown - but I am often lazy about keeping up with it. It is funny how during conversations, some people try to sneak a peak at my gray. I would be saying something and in mid sentence they will break the eye contact and shoot a quick glance at the gray and go back to the eye contact - which is ok. What is really weird is that they keep shooting quick glances. I often feel like saying -yup - that persistent gray is still there :) Has anyone else noticed this behavior in other people?

you say what is the point there is total darkness out there I say I carry a ray of light with me I cannot vanish the darkness I am just a little lamp a small circle of light around me spreading happiness warmth in my vicinity you say I am naive and gullible I live in this bubble of utopia far from reality I am not deluded though this existence is hard there are strong winds of uncertainty if you see me struggling shield me from the wind until the flickering stops and I am myself again

...... these are a few of my favorites things....... I couldn't believe my luck when I won these earrings on Mary's blog. Can you imagine my excitement when I found a package bearing my name this evening?? These are the earrings that I won another pair that I bought from her Etsy Shop: extra bonus that she sent to mark the beginning of our friendship Mary, these cards are so precious that I would have trouble parting with them :) If anyone is looking for some great gifts for the holiday season, please check her out at Design By MC - I know that I will visiting her a lot for my holiday shopping. Thank you ever so much Mary!!!!

I don't remember ever being happier about an election outcome - ever!!! I remember being happy when Bill Clinton won. I remember being sad when Gore and Kerry lost. But last night... I was in my bed around 11, refreshing cnn.com to check on the electoral vote counts. It was 11:03 on my laptop when I saw cnn projection for Obama. I jumped out of bed and ran downstairs to watch it on TV. I jumped up and down - we won, we won. My daughter was jumping up and down as well - both of my dogs started barking. My husband (who otherwise does not show emotion easily) had a broad grin on his face. I watched McCain speak and I thought of all the the time I had heard him speak, this was the best delivery he had. And then I watched the President Elect Obama walk on the stage with his family, and I had tears in my eyes. I have never in my life cared for election outcome so much. This morning as I was driving to work, the whole world seemed happier - the trees were grinning, the clouds were smilin...

There is a lot of stuff being said in the blogosphere - I just want to say that