Speedlinking & my redesigned (again) portfolio

So, a couple days ago I was washing my hair and I thought it felt seriously weird, I continued washing, trying to decipher what was happening, then, to my literal horror, realized that my scalp was numb. Now, being the over-dramatic hypochondriac that I am, I came out of the shower immediately and waited to collapse, or something to that effect. Nothing happened. I think I am fine, I hope. It remained numb all day and the feeling came back in the night. Anyone ever heard of such a thing?

This made me laugh, and I am pretty sure that most kids would agree!

Is it just me, or is it utterly fascinating that we live in a time where there are such things as cupcake camp, for like, grown-ups. I am neither a cup-cake baker, nor a cup-cake eater, in other words, definitely not a “cuppie”. However, I love to look at great photos of cupcakes, and one of the absolute best “cuppies” ever, EVER, is zalita, easily the queen of cupcakes!

Huh.

I have this tendency to over-listen to one song, if I like it, until I get sick of it. Thanks to Organica, I’ve listened to Heartless a great many times today. Actually, I liked it before, but somehow it stuck after her amusing story. That, and Love Lockdown, controlled my iPod today at work. Thought I’d share that in case you wanted to, you know, share in my unhealthy addictions.

Lost is back. Yay!

Finally (in every sense of the word) I’ve mostly-finished my portfolio – again. I plan to update it regularly with webby-things, so if you are so inclined, please subscribe. K, thanks!

And you may go now. Happy Friday!

Speedlinking, crafting, and just a bit of Obama

Yesterday I got to my mom’s house and she was watching CNN (nothing new) but this time she was extremely pleased, and I had to agree, this is great news, I really hope it happens. I, however, was very fascinated by the whole first president with email thing.

Anyway, in crafting news, my kids would love this table cuz they loooove dominos, and I am planning to make a version of this cool looking calendar with them. Now, something strange, something cute and creative, something bizarre, and something practical for you to try!

I don’t know that I am an avid flower lover, I never tried planting any (the only thing I ever attempted to plant was pepper!), I do like occasionally being gifted with some, but I thought these fields of color were very cool.

Happy Friday!

Just for me

You know in iTunes, there is this thing called Genius, apparently I asked for the service – must of been a while ago cuz I forgot I had it – anyway, today I realized there is this section called “Genuis Just For You”. I looked at the songs and laughed.

What kinda songs does it recommend for you?

And just in case you’re looking to commemorate the event, here are all things obama!

Officially 3, 3rd edition

My not-so-much-a-baby-anymore is 3! We hung out all morning, going to many different types of shops – grocery, fruit place, Indian store, West Indian store – I like to celebrate in a big way like that! His favorite thing to say is “Aka!”, as in, “you bought me ice-cream? Aka!” It means, wow, I think, or great, or great mixed with some wonder and excitement.

Anyway, I have a slight shoveling problem – I stopped doing it – shoveling is so totally overrated, no? Today, it occurred to me that I may have a bit of a snow issue happening outside the house, so I looked at all the other houses, trying to find one that looked like mine. Sigh. Nope, just me. I was the only one with a mountain of ice forming outside the door because the icicles on the roof were melting and fusing with the snow on the ground. I was the only one whose car kept sliding on the driveway because the layer of snow and ice was so very thick. Sadly for me, I attempted to rectify the situation by shoveling now. I don’t think I need to tell you how that went, do I? Yes, the place is still a complete mess.

Aka!

And for those of you wondering what happened to the nice guy that would shovel the snow, well, apparently the last dish I made earned me a 6, yes s.i.x., and I said to him that I didn’t care, and he said that he was never going to rate my dishes again, and then he said that I had “changed”, and I feel like maybe because I don’t really feed him anymore, he may be on strike or something along those lines. Or, possibly, everyone is just so completely fed-up and tired of the never-ending snow!

My last strange post, I hope

Back in 2003, you may remember a little something termed shock and awe, I was at home and somewhat mesmerized by the images on the news, I watched it day and night, basically rendering myself almost completely non-functional. I had never in my life seen anything that terrifying. After a while, I finally looked away. Subsequently, I realized that I had a problem handling “sadness”. I really could not handle it. I banned myself from anything sad – news, movies, stories – whatever it was, as long as it was sad, I avoided it like the plague.

In very recent times, I thought, for some reason, that I was able to handle things again, so I sort of, like everyone else, immersed myself into learning about this Gaza crisis and then did not sleep for days. Again, it bothered me to the point of me being almost non-functional, except now I have kids, and work, and more work, and a million other things that bother me and everything rendered me overwhelmed.

So, I just stopped. I blocked out the news, the photos, the stories, everything, and I was able to sleep for the past 3 nights. I feel a thousand times better, but guilty, sort of, because I am back to pretending that nothing horrific is happening anywhere. Most times for me to “operate” I need to block out my feelings, so there you go… that’s my story. Thanks for the emails, thoughts, and concerns, I always appreciate it!