Kayak Kid

Evan is getting more and more comfortable in the water, and he digs hanging out with his dad and the kayak crew. Here are some pics from yesterday downtown at the whitewater park. The water is flowing really low, and really cold - you can see the ice on the rocks. Crazy 'yakers!

Check It Out Now

This happens all the time. Ashley (the cat) gets ribbon from my scrap table in the other room, brings it into the kitchen and puts it...in the water bowl. Today she chose two lovely coordinating red ribbons.


Oh, and check my new grillz yo-


It's super hard to smile with these suckahs in, especially since the candy on the back is crapnasty! So, I decided to do a more serious photo-



Respect.

Holy Crap!

Jordan has been working on this project for months now in ceramics class, and it's finally done. The pics really don't do it justice, this thing is amazing! The top comes off kind of like a cookie jar. Dude's got talent!

My Lucky Day!

Check out this email I got, I am soooooo lucky!

From: MR. V H C CHENG. Email: (vincheggg@yahoo.com.hk) Good Day I am Mr. Vincent Cheng Hoi Chuen, GBS, JP Chairman of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited. Gen Zaiki Taha Abdel, a businessman, also who was with the Iraqi forces and our Client, made a fixed deposit of Thirty million Five Hundred Thousand United State Dollars only in my branch, a number of notices was sent to him after the war, which began in 2003 , but no response came from him till date. We later found out that the General along with his family had been killed in a bomb blast that hit their home. After more inquiry it was also discovered that the late Gen. did not declare any next of kin in his official papers including the paper work of his bank deposit. What bothers me most is according to the laws of my country at the expiration of 6 years the funds will be revert to the ownership of the Hong Kong Government if nobody comes for the funds, Against this scenery, I have all the information needed to claim these funds and I want you to act as the beneficiary of the deposit, there is no risk involved in this matter, as we are going to adopt a legitimate method and the attorney will prepare all the necessary documents. All I require is your honest co-operation and I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect us from any breach of the law. Please accept my apologies, keep my confidence and disregard this email if you do not appreciate this proposition I have offered you. All confirmable documents to back up this funds shall be made available to you, as soon as I receive your reply, I shall let you know what is required of you. Your earliest response to this letter will be appreciated via (vincheggg@yahoo.com.hk). Regards from, Mr. Vincent Cheng.

Eyeroll. Maybe I can get a job as spell/grammar checker for internet scammers.

Got a hot date with my man tonight at the pool hall. His team is in the playoffs and this is a do or die tournament so cross your fingers!

Feeling pretty good and hopeful about work, got some new leads and an invitation to attend a free business expo at my friend's school. It's a private school at the largest Catholic church here so it could be great exposure for us. Brainstorming, brochures, coupons, etc. Maybe I'll have Jordan (the resident artist) do a display of some kind. The weather is fantastic. Sorry all you in the Midwest.

Week two of daily cards:

What Up?

Had a pretty productive day, got some errands done, went grocery shopping, made a batch of crack. Yeah, that's right, crack. It's a delicious, wickedly addictive concoction of chex cereal, coconut, and cashews smothered in caramel. Mmmmmm.

Up to my ears in crochet projects at the moment. Just finished Mom's birthday gift on Sunday and since then I've made three beanies and started a "market bag" - all for the kids' friends. And these are paid orders, woo-hoo! Guess that makes me a professional hooker. hehe

All set for the inauguration, ready for the new administration to get on with it already. Wonder what's going to happen on the Bush countdown meter over on the sidebar when it reaches 0:00 - will it just stop or will it do a trick?

You know I'm all for Obama and everything, but I kinda think it's weird all the merchandise being hocked everywhere with his name on it. Like I don't think I'll be sporting an Obama t-shirt now. Before the election, ok, but now? And I don't ever remember a politician having a logo before. I'm just saying...it's a little odd.

Speaking of political merchandise -

TGIFF!

Happy Friday! I'm so glad the week is over and tomorrow is sleeping in day! It's been hard getting back into the old routine after the holiday break.

Thoughts of the day:

• Facebook is freakin awesome! Today I chatted with some old friends, people I haven't talked to in like 20 years - so crazy cool.
  
• Youtube is also wicked cool. Anything you could ever want to see is on there - old music videos, flushing jello, live concert footage, people falling on their asses - it's all there. Such sweetness.
• I've been spending too much time online (see above two items).
• So glad the washer is working again, actually enjoying doing laundry and having clean clothes!
• Reading A Fine Balance, it is so good. Heartbreaking, but good.
• Jordan has been watching all these Armageddon shows on The History Channel - me no likey. I've got enough to worry about thank you very much!
• 24 and Big Love are about to start up again, finally something to watch! TV has been lame lately.
  
• Getting ready to return the dirt to Dr. Zhivago. Yeah, that's right!
• Soup for dinner. Yum!
  

Later-

Finally

So long, see ya next year!


Yep, finally packed up the Christmas decorations. We have accumulated about 5 boxfuls over the years. It's good to get it down and get things back to normal.

Keeping up with the daily cards, and enjoying it. I really think that doing just a small project every day keeps the creative juices flowing. I think I'll post them weekly here, then I have to stay on top of it!

Daily Cards 2009 - Week 1


There, I blogged. Eat it, TreeGirl!