Home Sweet Home

We are finally back from Seattle. Had a FANTASTIC time. Will post pictures later, and add details later. Am VERY tired, loooong way from here to there. Dad bought Adam and I am really nice digital camera for our anniversary and we took tons of pictures. Am working on posting those. In the mean time here are the pictures of the gifts I made for my Seattle family.

Anniversary

Happy Anniversary to my wonderful husband. Two years!! Thank you for making it possible for me to become the person you knew I could be. Thank you for letting me be apart of your wonderful family. Thank you for being who you are, I wouldn't change a thing!
I love you.

Sorry we have to spend our anniversary in an airport...

Tooting my own horn

My husband HATES when I talk to him about my grades, so I figure I can brag just a little on here.
I made the Dean's list for the 6th quarter in a row! Yeah me! OK I am done now.

I am an addict

I am out of the denial stage and I will finally admit it... I am addicted to cross stitching and crocheting. They say you are not really "addicted" to something until it starts affecting other aspects of your life. My addiction IS affecting other aspects of my life. I make pretty things instead of cleaning my house or reading books that I want to finish before school starts again. I wonder if there is a group for this...
But to add to my addiction I am going to start posting pictures of my finished products online, for two reasons 1) I am just that nuts and 2) so I don't forget what I made.
So look forward to that little treat all three of you who read my blog!

Comment

This was a comment I left on my cousin's blog regarding his worry about the glow in the dark cats in Korea:

Speaking as a political scientist, there is little to fear from Korea. The North can hardly feed its own people, the South relies on the trade of the Western World for its survival. I do not think glow in the dark cats is a sign of the end, but I do think it is cruel and horrendous to screw with nature in that way. There seems to be no logical purpose for creating animals such as these, I feel bad for the cats, not concerned for humanity. At least not because of this, I would be more concerned with our desire to destroy our environment if I were you. There will be no where for people to clone cats if the planet has run out of resources.

** There is a lot of scary, horrible things in the world, but I believe our efforts should be concentrated on sustainability rather than novelty cats. Shame on you scientists for wasting your time torturing felines instead of finding ways to save humanity from itself.

Idle Hands

During an academic quarter I am the most diligent person I know. I get all of my reading done early and turn in all assignments on time. As soon as a break hits it's like I am a different person. A lazy person. I have so much extra time to get all sorts of stuff done around the house and yet here I am posting crap on a blog. What the heck is wrong with me? I leave on vacation in 6 days and my house is...well I suppose sty is the best way to put it. I have been cooking everyday, so i guess that is something. That is certainly not something I do during the quarter. Last night I made vegetable lasagna (from scratch!) and it was awesome. But as far as putting laundry away or sorting through the books I promised my husband I would sort through, no way. We have to be out of this apartment when Adam leaves on March 31, so I should really get my butt in gear. I can only take the essentials with me to the hotel where I will be living alone until I graduate. Ugh... Any tips for forcing yourself to do things you don't want to??

Yeah for Christmas!!

With my views (or non-views) on religion being what they are, it may seem strange that I LOVE Christmas. I think the reason for this is two-fold: 1) Christmas is so very commercialized that it is no longer about Jesus' birthday and what not (which actually took place in July and not December, the Catholic church moved the celebration to December so as to try to win over the pagans during their celebration of the winter solstice, bit of trivia for you there). and 2) The "meaning" of Christmas to me is a time to be with family, to be kind to others, to appreciate the wonders of humanity... which I suppose are things we should be doing everyday, but isn't it a lot easier to do when surrounded by tinsel, lights, pretty things to eat and festive music?? I love this time of year, its the rest of winter that sucks... I suppose it will not be so bad when I get out of frigid Ohio.
So to my fellow non-believers: suck it up, Christmas doesn't belong to the Christians any more, and Christians, you are just going to have to accept that. Unless you want to tell retail stores they can no longer endorse "your" holiday.
I will be celebrating Christmas in the beautiful city of Seattle this year with my dad and his family. I have not seen may dad for almost two years and have not spent a Christmas with him in 6 years. Adam has never been to Seattle and I lived there for several years so I get to play tour guide. I am really excited.
To everyone:
Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Happy Winter Solstice, Happy Kwanzaa, and Happy New Year! May we ALL practice tolerance, or better yet, acceptance this holiday season.