2013-01-28

This arrived in the mail today. Look at the shiny!! Can't wait to try it.

2013-01-27

This is my uncle with my cousin's daughter L. Today was Miss L's first birthday! We had a great time at her party, seeing several folks I haven't seen in years. Some, like my other cousin S, I hadn't seen in 5 years or more. She's had two more kids since then! We really need to do better about that.

2013-01-26

Luke had his first basketball game (and practice) today. I can't believe how grown up he looks in this picture! He really seemed to love it, which thrills my husband to no end.

2013-01-25

Zoya Aurora. Best shot I could get that showed both the color and the holo of the glitter. LOVE!

2013-01-24

Moving right along through Lord of the Rings. I finished Fellowship and have now proceeded to The Two Towers. The differences between the books and the movie are interesting! Sometimes I prefer the book, but honestly, I sometimes prefer Peter Jackson's take on things.

2013-01-23

I bought a pack of 12 monthly magnetic notepads several years ago. I wondered at the time if I would actually keep up with swapping them out each month and/or keep using them after the first year. Yes I did! Each pad is probably half gone now or more, but I still love them, and they still make me smile each month. (For the record, the menu for this week was: chicken salad, bubble up pizza, pancakes, potato cheese soup, and mexican cracker pizza.)

2013-01-22

Zoya has had some good sales lately, so I picked up a few new bottles. This is Gloria, a pink foil base with tons of gold micro-glitter. So pretty! Please excuse the crummy application on this job. It's actually harder to see in person; you're too busy being dazzled by the shiny!

2013-01-21

I'm always trying to explain how large our cat Bengal is. He weighs 15-ish pounds, but he is NOT fat. At all. In fact, the vet says he is exactly the weight he should be for his size. One of the best indicators of his size is his huge paws. Here is his front left paw, resting on my husband's laptop keyboard. That is a standard keyboard with standard keys (not the tiny keys that some on some mini notebooks or tablets). See; huge!

2013-01-20

I did finally finish The Hobbit and moved on to The Lord of the Rings. When I started it, I remembered why I never got very far. I don't think I ever made it past the prologue. I wish someone had told me that the rest of the book is *much* better than the prologue! Once I finally got through it and kept reading, things improved dramatically. I'm quite enjoying it now, though it is quite different from the movie(s).

2013-01-19

We saw Blue Man Group at The Fox Theatre today. It was a new experience for all of us, and we really enjoyed it! It was also our first time taking Luke to The Fox (though not his first visit; he went last year with his school).

2013-01-18

Hey, look at that, I do still have a shadow! I was starting to think I'd lost mine, like Peter Pan. So nice to see the sun today.

2013-01-17

Enough with the rain already! It's been nearly two weeks since we've seen the sun. Supposedly, it will be sunny tomorrow. I'll believe it when I see it.

2013-01-16

I've been doing my annual revamp of my Disney tips. I decided to get serious this year and really read everything in there. As you can see, I've made quite a few changes and clarifications. Most of the (14!) pages look more or less like this, and I imagine it will be at least a couple of pages longer by the time I'm finished. And we haven't even been yet this year! LOL

2013-01-15

I'm participating in my friend Heather's Theme-a-licious 2013. This is all I've gotten done for the mid-month check in, and only because I did it the weekend before. I decided to start a new piece (first large new start in years!), so that's why there isn't much there yet. Looking forward to watching her grow.