delight in life

so good to be home.

photo taken somewhere in the sky between dallas and atlanta.

IT'S NOT THANKSGIVING YET.

Is it just me, or did Christmas start seriously early this year?  I know the stores push it up a little every year, but this year it just seems out of control!  The Internet has been getting in on the action, with cool holiday projects everywhere, like here and here.  I want so badly to join in!

Last week I went to Target, and they tried even harder to get me in the game.  They almost succeeded.  The lovely mini trees and wreaths and ornaments and lights in the dollar spot sucked me in and I almost didn't make it out alive.  I bought some pretty things, but I am fiercely resisting the draw.  I WILL NOT DECORATE UNTIL AFTER THANKSGIVING.  Christmas does not start until the fourth Friday in November.  That is a fact.

Only a few more days.  Then I can put up my tiny little tree and lights and fancy wreath.  Stop tempting me, people!

some days, i have so many things to say.

and on some I have so few.  Really, its more like some weeks.  Or some months.  I go through periods of intense creativity and thoughtfulness and articulateness and justdoitiveness, and then I go through mental droughts.  I have brief thoughts of "I should blog that!"  "I should write in my journal about this." "I should scrapbook."  But then it slips my mind and I get busy and I get lazy.

One thing I have been doing better about lately is taking pictures!  I'm trying to take at least one picture every day.  I'm getting a lot of pictures of things around my desk.  Nothing very special, but at least I'm getting back in the habit of snapping pictures.  Here's a recent one I especially love:
pure silliness.

This week is Thanksgiving, and I am very thankful to be going home and seeing my family.  My flight leaves tomorrow evening and I am counting down the hours.

I updated the blog look a little.  What do you think?  I'm not especially crazy about the banner.  Will keep playing and searching for something better.

In the meantime, have a wonderful week, and happy Monday evening!

have a great day :)

so i've been pretty awol.

School is crazy right now. Almost overwhelmingly so. Projects and tests coming out of my ears.  Factor in a little time to have fun, and I've been pretty busy lately. But here are some really cool things:

• If you are a paper addict, as I suspect many of you are, you need to check out this blog post with lots of awesome links.
• I got this cd in the mail today and it is rocking my world and seriously jazzing up my study time tonight. I really miss being able to go see this stuff whenever I want. Stupid Dallas Symphony doesn't have any darn student discounts.
• Also in the mail, I got the holiday Paper Source catalog and now I really want to make lots of beautiful sparkly things to hang on my non-existent Christmas tree. (Mom, I might bring home some glittery things for our tree. Really glittery.)
• Two weeks from today, I will be on a plane flying home to see my family. And my dog.

Peace out. Have a good rest of the week.

one hundred twenty six

I'm playing Scrabble with my boss on Facebook via Scrabulous, which is the single best Facebook app out there, although that's beside the point.
In one word, he scored nearly as many points as I've racked up in the whole game.

I really hate losing, but goshdarnit, that's impressive.

fabulous.

When I pressed the Pibb button on the vending machine, three bottles came out.

That about sums up how my day is going.

Happy November.