Three things I'm loving this week:
1. Air-popped popcorn with a little butter spray and lots of garlic salt. I could eat a giant bowl of this for dinner every night -- and often do. It's good and good for you. And, far as I know, sucking up hot air popped popcorn doesn't give you cancer.
2. Scrapbooking. Yes...I'm a member of the cut-and-paste cult. I have no patience for elaborate designs and page layouts -- you won't mistake my pages for works of art, but that's what I love about scrapbooking -- your books are as individual as you and are, ultimately, a reflection of self.
What I truly love about scrapbooking though -- and this will come as no surprise -- is the storytelling that it allows you to do. I've always looked at my childhood photo albums and wanted more -- I wanted to know where we were and why and who was there and what I did, etc. I have asked my mom, but...all these years (and kids) later, she can't remember the details.
With scrapbooking, I can give those details to my children and they'll have the whole story even when I'm gone or too old and senile to remember anything (not that I'm calling my mother old or senile...in fact, she's redeemed herself by maintaining a set of scrapbook for each of her grandchildren -- highlighting their time with Grandma).
We have a regular once-a-month scrapbooking group that meets at my mom's church. I love spending a night with my friends scrapbooking, eating and gossiping...laughing, sharing. It's my favorite Friday of every month.
3. Keychain drives. What did we do before these? Oh...yeah, we lugged around floppy disks and zip disks.
Three things I'm hating this week:
1. The Boston Marathon organizers who waived the qualifying time requirement for Katie Holmes (as reported in the latest issue of Us magazine). Katie -- the beautiful Mrs. Tom Cruise -- ran her first marathon last fall in New York City. She ran it in 5 hours and 30 minutes.
I applaud her for taking on the challenge and for completing a marathon -- it's a major accomplishment to cover the distance (26.2 miles) no matter how long it takes you. BUT....her 5:30 marathon is a far cry from the 3 hours and 40 minute time anyone else her age and gender has to run to be able to qualify to run Boston. And, that is just not fair.
I have to put in the time and training and so should she (cause Lord knows she has more time than me -- and probably a gaggle of personal trainers, too).
(I should mention that there's controversy over whether this story is even true -- OK! magazine is saying it's a false report).
2. Computer crashes, especially when I'm in Quark...working on a 60-page magazine. These crashes always happen when I'm rushing around between programs, clicking here...clicking over there while something else loads, blogging in between logging photos, etc. I know it's a frantic, erratic life for my PC, but...keep up or just die already.
3. hmmm...would you believe I can't come up with one? Surely I'll think of something else to bitch about tonight.
Comments (1)
USB drives make my techie life style so much easier :-) Something about 5" and 3 and 1/2" floppy A disks used to make me all giddy inside. Maybe it was the rainbow array of various colors that they came in :-/
I've managed to crash (literally... fry) 4 different computers in my life time, 2 of them twice, but I've repaired countless computers, so I think that makes up for it. My desktop quit working and I had to ship it to get it fixed and they told me that my hard drive came unplugged! LOL! I don't know how that actually can happen.
Technology helps... but it also hurts... severly... But I am an "addict" (or so I've been told many times).
ALSO - maybe you're just loving more things than you're hating this week? Hey, it can happen, right?
Posted by Michelle [is really random] | January 18, 2008 12:32 AM
Posted on January 18, 2008 00:32