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Indecision

November 11, 2009 in Miscellaneous by Julia | No comments

I was pack­ing for my trip to Roanoke this evening and try­ing to decide what to take to read dur­ing those few min­utes (mostly before bed) that I’ll have a chance to read. I had so many choices that I couldn’t make a deci­sion! Mag­a­zines or books; if mag­a­zines, ones I can read & aban­don or keep­ers; if books, fic­tion or non-fiction; if non-fiction, what type?

Then there’s the what to pack to wear on what day (know­ing that what­ever I pack I’ll prob­a­bly wish I’d packed some­thing else), and what to bring to keep my hands occupied.

At least there’s no inde­ci­sion on our travel route — going up is via Asheville to visit Moun­tain Glass Arts, com­ing back is at least part way along the Blue Ridge Park­way. If I don’t care for trav­el­ing, espe­cially work-related trav­el­ing, at least I can have some fun on the way up and back.

I just hope that decid­ing what we want for break­fast, lunch, and din­ner tomor­row isn’t such an endeavor!

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Respond and Rework

May 9, 2009 in Cat Comments, Lampworking & Glass, Miscellaneous by Julia | No comments

I got this from Kandice See­ber, who got it from the BeadedLily’s Sketch­book blog — sounds like a fun meme!

THE RULES:

Respond and rework. Answer the ques­tions on your own blog; replace one ques­tion that you dis­like with a ques­tion of your own inven­tion; add one more ques­tion of your own.

THE QUESTIONS:

What is your cur­rent obsession?
Once I fin­ish up my grades, I’ll get back to work­ing on borosil­i­cate glass leaf pen­dants, try­ing to work out some nice shapes & colors.


Which item from your closet are you wear­ing most lately?
Jeans, jeans, and more jeans, with the occa­sional cargo pants thrown in there.


What was the last thing you bought?
A cou­ple of mag­a­zines this after­noon dur­ing our reg­u­lar Sat­ur­day trip to Borders.


What are you lis­ten­ing to right now?
Noth­ing except the ambi­ent noise around here. Some­times silence is the best!


What are you reading?
Anna Quindlen’s Rise and Shine


What 4 words would you use to describe yourself?
Intro­verted, cre­ative, sar­donic, strong-willed


What is your cur­rent guilty pleasure?
I don’t really have guilty plea­sures, but maybe it’s read­ing “chick-lit” and romance novels.


What would you do if the inter­net was irrepara­bly dam­aged and you had to find another way to connect?
I would like to think I’d write let­ters, but I’d prob­a­bly just stay uncon­nected. I’m not a phone per­son so that’s out.


Where would you go if you could travel any­where right now?
Prob­a­bly New Zealand, since that’s the place I most want to visit.


If you could grant some­one else one wish, what would it be?
I’d give my father a cure for his heart dis­ease and pul­monary fibrosis.


What flower are you most anx­ious to see bloom this spring?
Actu­ally, I’ll be just as happy when every­thing quits bloom­ing since the pollen has made me utterly mis­er­able this spring.


What are you most happy doing?
Hang­ing out with my hus­band, or melt­ing glass, or both together.


Care to share some wisdom?
Two things:


  1. Life’s not fair, so get over it.
  2. If you’re in a hole, stop digging.


If I walked into your work space today what would you want to show me? What would you want to hide?
I’d want to turn on my torch and show you how I make my beads and pen­dants. I wouldn’t really want to hide any­thing in the work­space, but I might close some of the other doors in the house!


What makes you laugh out loud?
The ICan­HasCheezburger and IHasA­Hot­Dog web­sites. They also make me go “Awwwww!”


How many pets do you have, and what kind?
Three cats, plus the 80 or so I work with as a <a href=“http://goodmews.org>Good Mews volunteer.


Link back to me if you do this meme yourself!


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Christmas Presents

December 26, 2008 in Miscellaneous by Julia | No comments

DH and I don’t make a big huge deal out of Stuff as pos­si­ble for Christ­mas, since we pretty much have every­thing we want/need any­way, and if we don’t we get it for our­selves if we really want it. My fam­ily has got­ten so darn big (par­ents, five kids plus spouses, eleven grand­kids) that the sib­lings decided no presents for each other or for nieces/nephews. I do still bake a pound cake loaf for every fam­ily, though!

Still, there’s a few Christ­mas presents hang­ing around.

DH wanted nunchucks, now that he’s a black belt. So I got him nunchucks, plus a cou­ple of small tool kits (ratch­et­ing screwdriver/bits and socket driver/sockets) and some new t-shirts. He sur­prised me with the pair of boots I had been drool­ing over for a year in the National Geo­graphic cat­a­log but wouldn’t buy for myself because they cost way too much (mine are black, though):
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My son got me a copy of Mas­ters: Glass Beads, full of eye candy to drool over. He’d “wrapped” our presents each in a bag from Patag­o­nia, which will be just as val­ued? as the presents them­selves (DH promptly stored his nunchucks in his). Then my par­ents gave me a clamp-on mag­ni­fy­ing lamp, which I hadn’t real­ized I wanted/NEEDED until the Cyn­thia Rut­ledge class a cou­ple of weeks ago, when it was clear that my eyes aren’t able to see seed beads as well as I’d like! So I’m quite happy.

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Surprise! I sold something!

December 7, 2007 in Business, Lampworking & Glass by Julia | No comments

I had an email from Pay­Pal this morn­ing that I had received a pay­ment.? Being inad­e­quately caf­feinated, I thought at first it was yet another scam.? But when I checked, I dis­cov­ered that one of my hand­bound books had sold off of Etsy!

Then I went over to Mincot’s this after­noon to have lunch, return her pieces from the show, and? beat her com­puter into sub­mis­sion. I had my new boro pen­dants out on the table at the pho place for her to check out, so of course every­one else was curi­ous.? That led to one of them sell­ing to one of the staff there!

It just goes to show that you never know when you’ll end up with a sale!? Now I just need to get some more stuff out there, vis­i­ble and available…

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Today’s blogreading

January 27, 2006 in Cat Comments by Julia | No comments

I ran across this entry, with this quote, today as I was read­ing through the Ninth Wave Designs blog.

“The buy­ing of more books than one can read is noth­ing less than the soul reach­ing towards infin­ity, and this pas­sion is the only thing that raises us above the beast that per­ish.” — Alfred Edward Newton

Obvi­ously there is another bib­lio­phile out there who could be our twin. I also think Sarah, at least, would agree with their cat on the sub­ject of read­ing and books. As for Dono­van, well, maybe he’s inclined to agree with Pearl the dog, but I’m not sure he could put it quite so eru­ditely. I’m also glean­ing some good ideas from read­ing through the site — let’s see what hap­pens with them.

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