As Winter drags on and I hear the freezing rain clicking outside, I am reminded of a phrase that appears often on my FB wall – “choose to be happy.” I really have to remind myself that I can’t let the elements interfere with my “celebration” of life!! I had to remind myself of the […]
I may have written about 3-D printers before. They have come down in price, such that they are almost affordable for the average family. These printers actually create 3 dimensional objects, such as, wrenches, bicycle chains and probably knitting needles, to name a few. Just as our regular printers lay down ink to produce pictures
I almost forgot to post today. I am finally back at working on this website that I started in October, when I ran into all sorts of compatibility problems, such that I had to uninstall everything and start from scratch again, except that my login had somehow become invalid and I couldn’t just start again.
It’s about 8:30 on a cold Saturday morning and I am surfing around looking for a blog topic. I tried “Word of the Day.” There were some interesting ones, if you take a look at the words around today’s word as well – peripatetic and mellifluous are two, I could work with. However, I also
My husband came downstairs yesterday and said that because it was Valentine’s Day we should do something special for dinner. He suggested lobster – my thoughts exactly. I offered to pick up a baguette and the lobster since he has been really busy at work lately. The supermarket just down the road always has a
It’s Valentine’s Day. However, I did have a usual mid-week dinner planned – Lentil Soup – not very romantic or celebratory – is that even a word? In the back of my mind a little voice keeps saying, “Lobster, lobster.” But who has lobster on a Thursday Night? When the kids were little, we used
Amorphous is an interesting word. It means without a clearly defined shape or form. To me this is not a negative. I actually think that this is how the creative mind works. An idea starts out as an amorphous thought – something that is not clearly defined. Then it grows and starts to create its
This is day 42 in the 2013 blog-a-day challenge. I decided to post about the number 42 today because it is the meaning of life according to the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Fortunately it falls on a weekend this year. I always think that weekends are more about life or at least the fun
I was feeling a bit cabin fevered yesterday. By noon it had been snowing for 24hrs and we had more snow than we knew what to do with. I went to work in the morning but decided to leave at noon, before I got really snowed in. The city plows do this neat trick of
