Category Archives: Creativity

Birthdays

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Jon’s birthday is Thursday. I got his present yesterday.

My father-in-law’s birthday is in September. I just ordered some llama parts for him off of The Heifer Project. (OK… it should technically be “shares of a llama”, not llama parts. Then again, you probably started reading more closely at that point, didn’t you?)

The giving of donation gifts started when my mom sent me an article on Project Linus and asked if I was going to do anything for them. I offered to donate a blanket or two in her name as a birthday present. When I told my mother-in-law, she told me that she wanted a donation to The Heifer Project. My father-in-law asked for the same thing and asked that it be an animal with big brown eyes and soft fur. I love it when my birthday giving is tax-deductible!

My Blogathon Experience

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I got up at 7:45, did devotions quickly, made some oatmeal and headed downstairs. I had taken the pictures for my first post the night before, so my 8:00 post was pretty easy. I settled into a routine of writing something original (or using someone’s suggested subject) for the :30 post and then crocheting/pinning, photographing, and uploading for the :00 post. It was actually a really good thing that I had a pattern because it made time go faster and it gave me some rhythm to what I was doing.

I ate at fairly scheduled intervals and made sure I was consuming at least a glass of water or Crystal Light for every can of Sun Drop (I actually did more water and CL than I had to). Foodwise, apples with peanut butter worked the best — it gave me some protein and I wasn’t really hungry for awhile afterwards.

One thing that I really did love: there is a community feel among all the ‘thonners. I had some *interesting* chats on mIRC (I basically left whenever they started getting too raunchy) and I also got to chat up Dreama whose site I’ve been kind of admiring from afar for a couple years now. She did the radio stuff from midnight to 4:00 CDT and her stuff was keeping me awake. (She even played “Timewarp” for me!) My afghan also graced the Blogathon home page which was really great since I’m pretty much a no-name among a lot of the more popular bloggers.

The best thing: $325 (and hopefully more if I get some more pledges) is going to help people in Afghanistan.

Blogathon Over

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Kittyface!!!!!!!!!
It was 24 hours of crocheting, caffeine, coming up with stimulating writing, strange IRC conversations, listening to music I don’t usually hear, and a strange sense of community with other bloggers who I don’t encounter in my normal travels.

If you sponsored me, go here for some instructions.

If you want to see the afghan from start to finish, click here.

If you want to pledge me (which you can do until the 9th — HINT HINT HINT), go register, then login and go here.

I’m still a little too tired to write anything coherent. I got 2 hours of napping in and I think I’ll hit the sack after Grey’s Anatomy.

Prayer Shawls

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The WELCA at one of Jon’s churches is considering doing prayer shawls. Even if they don’t do them, I’ve started making one on my own which will likely go to Sheila’s Shawls. It might be good to also have one or two on hand for parishioners who lose family members…

(It’s a new-agey website but whatever prayers I’ll include will be from the LBW or LW.)

Cat Licenses

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I should explain… for the last 4 years, my dad has made “pictures” for Mom to cheer her up when she’s been travelling. Originally, it was of her evil cat Bessie. Bessie passed away in February and so Mom’s new kittens (Homer and Jethro) and their sissy Maine Coon cat Trail Kitty are now the subject of the pictures.

I guess the cats got licensed by the City of San Jose recently?

My parents' cats with their licenses