Sunday, July 24, 2011

July

Danny and I've never really been able to find a long-term home for our aging PC. It resided, during semester, at the head of our dining table, but upon graduation, I wanted to change everything. With the movement of all of our furniture, our computer became a nomad and ended up in a jumbled, wiry mess on the tiles, jammed between book stacks and couch. 

This week has been about Serious Productivity. And Serious Productivity meant Resume Fixing, and Resume Fixing led to an above-ground home for the computer. At last!

It's without a doubt the ugliest piece of furniture we own, and currently, the most cherished. That desk is sanity-saving, to be sure.

Things have been hectic, in some ways, and delightful on all fronts. 
Learning to sew.

Crafting, manically. 

Family time. Friend time. Lots with some, and never enough with others.

Weddings and funerals.
Cleaning and moving furniture.

Reading Sarah Dessen like the books could sprout legs at any given moment and flee from me. 
Taking photos, taking photos, taking photos.
Making coffee. Lots of it.
Baby snuggles. Lots of them.

You name it, I've doing it or planning to in the next few days. 
I can't get enough of this free time, I hardly want it to end. But the job hunting has commenced, and I will do it with a glad heart, also.

Wednesday, July 6, 2011

The Ultimate Dinner Companions Wishlist

In the order of Jumble:
  1. Helen Thomas
  2. Betsy Ten Boom
  3. Moses
  4. John Howard
  5. Sufjan Stevens
  6. Catherine Booth
  7. Brooke Fraser
  8. Roald Dahl
  9. Yann Martel
  10. Billy Graham
  11. Bear Grylls
  12. QE2
  13. Nelson Mandela
  14. Cate Blanchett
  15. Tina Fey
  16. Don Miller
  17. Steve Jobs
  18. Baz Luhrman and Catherine Martin
  19. Ai Weiwei
  20. Samuel, son of Hannah and Elkanah
  21. Sir Michael Parkinson
  22. Allison Janney
  23. Grace Driscoll
  24. Amy Adams
  25. Thomas Newman
  26. The Pierponts
  27. Jill Greenberg
  28. Annie Leibovitz
  29. Mrs. John Piper
  30. Queen Elizabeth II