'til kev is home.
He's SO photogenic. And the pics of his "best side" are always my favorites.
Lordy he's HOT!
Luv ya kev! SWEAR
and I'm not ready! I worked again today, so nothing accomplished on the home front. I did buy the last present I needed last night. My daughter's father-in-law died Saturday night, so we will be going to the wake tomorrow. My hubby did put the tree together this morning, but I don't know how he is going to get it up the stairs. I'm going to have to move some more stuff out of the dining room so we have a place to put it.
I'm going to post the photos from Saturday, even if the quality isn't what I had hoped it would be. I may try editing them again to see if I can fix them. Here goes!
Well, this is a bit better. I had changed it to black and white, and really like the effect, but it was too fuzzy. I lowered the saturation and brightness on this one for a similar effect. It is still fuzzy instead of crisp, but not as bad as it was in black and white.
Well, you can sort of get an idea. Wish I could show you a good shot. I sent a "help" message to Vox, but haven't heard anything back. I am really disappointed. I'll try to find something to take a picture of tomorrow and see what happens.
Waiting
for our Holiday Special at Swiss Chalet. It's a tradition with us now,
every year after the Christmas Pantomime, we head here for our quarter
chicken meal and Lindor chocolate truffle dessert treat! Simple
pleasures.
* I got my Food For Boobs cookbook today in the mail! I love it. Great job Melanie! Lovely wee gift and the money goes towards BustaMove too. Bonus! Chockfull of yummy recipes. I am looking forward to trying Mexican tabouli, Fried feta & marinated pear salad, Chicken with Thai noodles and Peanut sauce, Tognetti's Bolognese, Maple curry pasta, English toffee.....nom, nom, nom, I think I had better stop now. You can order it from the sidebar on the right if you are interested.
* Here's a fun thing to do. My friend Mary, decided to collect pennies last year. She made a decision last December and kept a lookout for pennies all year. She rolled $129 dollars worth this month! She did it in half hour increments while watching Coronation Street! I'm thinking it might be fun to do the same thing. I'm going to keep a big pot and write today's date on it and start from right now. See how much I can collect by Dec 21, 2010. Mad money!!
* I got a Christmas card in the mail last week from a pal whom I've only met once. We met in Greece at a place called Claire's House where everybody sits together for breakfast. I was a young thing on my way to the Islands and he was on his way back to the US or it might have been the other way round can't remember now. We had a really great chat and exchanged addresses as travellers do. Well, over 25 years later, we are STILL exchanging Christmas cards! That's all, just a card and hello each December but it is another tradition I look forward too:) He is a poet named George Ellenbogen. I have yet to get my cards out this year (I know, I know) but I will manage a few.
* Just made a loan this morning via Kiva to the Pure Joy Group in Ghana. Don't you love their name?? 62 other Kiva lenders and I made the $1,775.00 loan and it will be used to buy goods in bulk to expand business. This is my 11th loan and I must say it is an easy way to make a difference and learn about the world. It is interesting choosing who to help. I tend to pick women to help. You can do it in $25. increments which is great. It gives me a lot of joy.
* Hooray! Daylight will start to reclaim it's territory starting tomorrow. Winter has officially started. Longest night of the year tonight. Light a candle and enjoy.
I am keeping this here on my blog until Dec 30th. The BustaMove BIG PRIZE DRAW
, hoping that you might be interested in donating $10 to help purchase
a digital mammogram machine & be entered in our fabulous draw. Help
make the boobs of Nova Scotian women merry! Thanks to all of you who
have done so already:)) Prizes are continuing to be added:) Latest is a CD by Shannon Quinn! Winner takes all. Great odds!
December Views
It would be my honor to meet the young people interviewed in this video.
I am grateful to all of those who volunteered their time to lay the wreaths, honor, respect and remember our fallen heroes from all wars.
So... I will try this post again since I had to walk away in frustration yesterday.
Things are going great! I feel wonderful, this weird ass diet is working! No more headaches, yeah life is good. I am back to editing pics. Even got around to doing a fantasy piece again.
Edited some pics from the trip down south that made me realize that something was wrong with my belongings and not me!
So yeah this is not as good of a post as I had written up last night. Heck if anything it is minimalistic. But it's a start.
So I am off for a walk!
Namaste
It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.” ~Bilbo Baggins
Don't
adjust your computer. This ia a picture of my Christmas tree! I had a
happy accident with the camera and was really chuffed when I saw what
it looked like so of course I fooled around a bit more. Basically I
moved the camera around as the shutter was going off. Not rocket
science but fun to do.The room was too dark for anything but the lights
to register.
This one is a picture of our tree topping. I snapped and quickly tilted the camera down as I was taking the pic:)
We have a gigantic storm bearing down on us. I was looking at the radar and it appears as if we are going to get a LOT of snow. Click on the wee arrow above the radar picture to see it animate.
I've been to the store and stocked up on goodies, filled up the car and now am firmly ensconced awaiting the big blow:)
I am keeping this here on my blog until Dec 30th. The BustaMove BIG PRIZE DRAW
, hoping that you might be interested in donating $10 to help purchase
a digital mammogram machine & be entered in our fabulous draw. Help
make the boobs of Nova Scotian women merry! Thanks to all of you who
have done so already:)) Prizes are continuing to be added:) Latest is a CD by Shannon Quinn! Winner takes all. Great odds!
December Views
There are times that I really hate Voxes posting. Well.. I had a huge post but clicked on a pic that I was putting on the post by accident and of course it took me to the pic and lost my whole post... so blah.
I know I haven't been here in a little while. Sorry. I was posting on my regular blog and thought it showed up here, but I see it didn't(smile). That's ok.....now, I know.
The reason for my title.....a lady friend from church asked me to read "The Shack" and give her my opinion. Well, I finished it up today & I'm just not real sure how I feel about it. I think it's one of those books one must "digest" before forming an opinion. Does that make sense? First....all I can say right now is I thought it was a very good "story". Some of it I did not agree with..&..some of it was very,very good. One part really grabbed me where he wrote about Adam's death expelled the very breath of God. That never occurred to me...until reading that and remembering that God breathed into Adam to bring him alive & putting it all together, just made me go WoW!
So, I guess my question is this...."Has anyone here read this book & do you have an opinion you would like to share?" "What did you get out of it?"
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