Doot, do doot, do doot!

Madame Cupcake (go check out her Etsy too, such cute stuff! The link is on her blog!) said my blog was missing me (hee!), so here's a pictorial essay for y'all!

Friday I had lunch at Specialties. Estor and I splurged and got the "special." Holy Ham Hocks, Batman!!! Ham, bacon, sharp cheddar, mayo, & sweet hot mustard, on potato, poppyseed bread! MadRetz, you shoulda got the cookies the other day!!! "Organic," (that means good for you, right?!) oatmeal/grain, chocolate chip. Crispy, chewy, textury...OH YUM!!!

I allowed myself the splurge because I RAN EIGHT MILES ON SATURDAY!!! WHEEEEEE!!!
This is what the sky looked like. The weather was breezy, but FABULOUS!!!

(I made some awesome curry chicken salad w/ apples for for dinner! (No picture!))

Cherry blossoms (?) On my walk thru the Santa Clara University campus this am. Gorgeous!

This squirm was playin' tag with his buddy! He's cute, kinda like the Geiko Gekko! Underneath this timid expression, HA!!! you think he'd be asking "Hey Lady, do you think you could spare an acorn for a poor hungry squirrel?" But no! Lil Spitfire!!!

Finally arrived at my destination...you guessed it, Starbucks!!! Got my chai and I was giggling so loud at the comics, this lady turned around and glared at me! Sheesh! Disapproval for laughing?

Whatever.

If there's anything I miss about my old house, its my washer and dryer. I went to GLM Launderland, anticipating that I could save some ducats. WRONG! I lost $1.75 (that's what it costs to wash a load!) in one machine and ended up spending the same amount as I would in the washroom downstairs at my complex. I guess I did save time, got 4 loads at once. Doncha just love the 70's decor? I think the patrons were holdovers from the 70's too!!!


Oh, Friday nite, I was invited to the Sharks game by my buddy Steve (an old friend, I was thinking of him 3o minutes prior to the call and the phone rings...Synchronicity!!!)

My beloved Los Tiburones are on an 11 game winning streak, franchise record and are hoping to make that 12 right now against the Oilers! We're in 2nd place in the Pacific Division!!!

I also got Happy Mail!!! More birthday celebrating for me! Ragged, how'd you know how much I love green???!!! Just in time for St. Patty's Day too, even tho' I found out I'm not Irish!!!

I LOVE IT!!! Its sooo cute!!! Thanks so much!

Last of all...some art. I keep getting inspired, and writing ideas down, but have been unable to get much completed. This training business takes up a lot of time!!! I finished up some mini art/daily cards, as well as a few for a bloggy pal that I'll show after she receives 'em!

Last week's run! 7 miles, with HILLS!!!

Obsessed with bleu, yellow, and birds lately. I braided the nest out of corregated cardboard strips.



Speaks for itself!!! Pix of that day's sky in the bkgnd.

Okay, another splurge, but only b/c I ran the 8 miles (8 miles = approx. 800 calories, I figured I could afford it.) Don't this make you smile? "Cake slice for 2?" Riiigggghhhhtttt! ahahah!

Habe a gud week, Friends!!!

Let the Celebrating Commence!!!

Today, March 8, 2008 ~ Things for which I am GRATEFUL...

Chocolate Fudge Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting!
(At the store, I was weighing the slices for the biggest piece of course and a lady next to me noticed and commented. I said "You're reading my mind." And she laughed and said "I'm looking in a mirror!" Caught in the act of a guilty pleasure, giggle! I love those interactions!)

Mike Palm's comment "Anything for you Linda, you know that!"
(When I thanked him for making an extra effort for me.)

Sharmaine game me a You Make My Day award on her blog today!
(Yesterday, Australia time.)

Tomorrow is SpRiNg Forward!
(More daylight and running in the evenings, not at the gym!)

The Sharks won their 8th game in a row!!! Whee!!!
(That requires extra exclamation points!!!)

Oh, and SEVEN miles of trail running (including HILLS!!!)
for me today!!!
Oh my Buddha! I am so HAPPY!!!

Today Would Have Been Her 77th Birthday

And she would so say 29th !!! : .)


Happy Birthday, Mom!!!

(miss you much)

Happy Birthday to Meeeee!

She's 29 today, people!!!

(and if you believe that...)

The ohsohappy B-day Girl herself. She loves to take self-portraits : .)
(And write about herself in the 3rd person!)

I had a lovely lunch with MadRetz and a visit from Mary and Megan (and GIFTS, yay!!!). Phone calls from Kiki-Carumba and Roma, Aldien, and Kathy. Text msg. from Bun-Bun!
That made me very happy!!!

I can't have my cake tho'! Titanium implant, implanted on Friday. Now the aliems from outside space can track me. No beer, wine, dairy or refined sugar until next Friday, sheesh!

Then its all about the white cake with buttercream frosting and the Lemon Drop Martinis!
Yeah Baby!!! I can't wait!!!

(Cupcake photo by Crysti @ Every Stock Photo)

Bibbity Bobbity Bacon!

It may be the hydrocodone (medication of choice of the glamorous and famous) talkin' or if you you know me at all, my LOVE of BACON!!!

Release Your Inner Princess!

Saw this tonite. It was darn cute!!! So happy and perky. Little vignettes of each of the Disney princess stories, colorful and musical.

Estor bot a blinking tiara for her friend Mike. I so wish I had a card in my camera!

Scraptastic!!!

Busy weekend! The usual, exercise (see last post!), some shopping (groceries), and art!

Inspired by this! (Bot it at stamp club on Thursday.)


Made the wire heart on the cover, buuuuttt, not sure what to do with it!!!


Made these!!!


Stealthy, sweetgum Ninjas! See Nudge-Nudge!

And...Elsie Challenge #8 - Group 4 Photos, Paper Adventure 08 #8 - Something Old, Postcards from Here - Love, a daily card (at a Skosh More), and Starbucks Love, an actual scrapbook layout! whee!


Panda Love pixs taken at the (world famous) San Diego Zoo, last fall.


Elise's prompt was Something Old...As a kid, I didn't like dolls, I preferred stuffed animals. Smokey the Bear & I first met at a flea market. We share many memories. He was the inspiration for my fire prevention poster, with which I won my 2nd grade fire prevention picture contest! : .) Smokey sports a coffee stain on his jeans, spilled coffee during a camping trip with my Dad. He's missing his belt and has a hole cut for his mouth for a pacifier because at one time, I wanted him to be a baby. Smokey's been a great friend, and altho' he's quite old and a little worse for wear, I still love him.



Christina's recent postcard prompt was tell a story about someone or something you love. Since I don't have a "someone" I had to art about a "something." Disneyland, I love Disneyland, the Happiest Place on Earth! Fun with girlfriends, rides, fuds, excitement!!! I had in my mind a Mickey Mouse icon head milagro, but it ended up being a Burning Mickey! I like the result, even if its not what I had envisioned.


A Starbucks Love layout. I saw a photo on flickr that I had to copy, so I spent part of my work day Friday shooting pixs. Zoolander was on yesterday and Mugatu said " Are you not aware that I get farty and bloated with a foamy latte?!" And I had to make the piece. I love the juxtaposition of the elegant layout with the off "off" quote, hee!

Finally, I wanted to share an article with y'all. I was so impressed with what these kids are accomplishing. It made me ask myself..."What are you doing to help the world, Linda." Yeah. What?!

9/11 Victims' Kids Help in New Orleans

By STACEY PLAISANCE, Associated Press WriterThu Feb 21, 8:01 AM ET

Sixteen-year-old Caitlin Leavey remembers people she didn't even know coming to her family's aid with food and comfort after she lost her firefighter father in the World Trade Center in New York on Sept. 11.

On Wednesday, she and more than a dozen other young people who lost parents in the terrorist attacks were hanging siding on a house in New Orleans — their way of helping a city and its residents recover from the loss inflicted by Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

"It feels so good to be able to give back," Leavey said as she hammered away. "I know what they went through. I know what we went through, and I wanted to give back."

This week, Leavey and the others are working with Habitat for Humanity in the Musicians' Village, a housing initiative launched by New Orleans natives Harry Connick Jr. and Branford Marsalis in the Upper 9th Ward to help displaced musicians.

More than 40 candy-colored homes have already been built, and 23 more are under construction, project spokeswoman Aleis Tusa said.

The youth, ranging from 9th- to 12th-graders, arrived in New Orleans on Sunday with the help of Tuesday's Children, an organization that provides support to family's affected by the Sept. 11 attacks.

Besides manual labor, the teens took a tour of flood-damaged neighborhoods and learned about the city's levee system. They also visited the Aquarium of the Americas and French Quarter.

"It helps so much to be here because we're working with people who have been through what we've been through and care just as much as we do," said Thea Trinidad, 17, of Pawcatuck, Conn.

Adult chaperones say the visit goes beyond helping storm victims.

"Helping heals," said Candy Cucharo, program director for Tuesday's Children. "Doing for others, you're no longer viewed as the one needing help. Helping others builds resistance and helps strengthen your mental and emotional well-being."

Leavey was 10 when she lost her father, Joseph G. Leavey, a New York City fire lieutenant who led firefighters from Ladder 15 as high as the 78th floor of the south tower before it collapsed on Sept. 11. She said the New Orleans visit was a rewarding way to honor his memory.

"My dad was always helping people, painting and fixing the firehouse, just doing whatever he could do," Leavey said. He even helped a woman get her cat down from a tree.

"He was great," she said, smiling.

Wheee!!!

6 six
SIX!!!
SIX SIX SIX SIX SIX
Six!
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: .)

Listen...You smell something?

Sorry, Ghostbusters is on. One of my all time favorite movies!

Productive weekend finally. I didn't spend much $$$, did some tv viewing, a couple of workouts, had lunch with Julie and Bill (chorizo y papas burrito, yummmmm!), made art, finished the gel xfer tutorial (its over at Nudge-Nudge if you're interested), paid attention to my eating (well, except for the burrito) and my H2O consumption, talked to my Dad (he's got the flu, "how?" I wondered aloud, "oh, you got the flu shot." hummm, does that seem like its working in the correct manner?), considered doing my taxes, managed a potential problem returning a hand vac at Target, talked to Karen about my b-day weekend, dropped my laptop on its almost brand new $80 replacement power-supply (*$%&#! so now its busted!), listened to my oh so considerate neighbor's new surround sound system thru my walls, blah, blah, blah, blah.

The coolest thing happened on Valentine's Day! (A cool thing happened today too, but more on that later!) During my department meeting, I was thinking about the 2 X-mas cards I haven't sent. I was gonna mail 'em with the Valentine's cards I was gonna make, ha! When I got home that afternoon, the childhood friend I reconnected with in May (Oregon) had sent me her X-mas letter and photos of her kids and us at the anniversary party! Synchronicity!!! She said she found it on her desk, all addressed, never mailed. The same state my card to her is in. It was just funny.

Anywhoo, on to the art!

The gel xfer example...Yes, I hand cut the letters for the band's name, Sublime! A pain in the ... If you check out Nudge-Nudge, you'll know why I'm annoyed.


My take on the Postcards from Here prompt Journey. Christina's prompt was tell a story about a journey. I started out thinking about Dan Eldon's quote, "The Journey is the Destination." (If you don't know Dan's story, check out his book w/ the same title on Amazon. It will touch you.) I love that concept, so I used the quote on the front and my story, which is an excerpt from an Antonio Machado book (roughly translated...) on the back.

Wanderer, your footsteps are the road, and nothing more; wanderer, there is no road, the road is made by walking. By walking one makes the road, and upon glancing behind one sees the path that never will be trod again. Wanderer, there is no road--Only wakes upon the sea.

I printed the edited photo directly on linen cardstock and tore the edges, that's it!



This is for Sista Linda's Elsie Challenge #7 which was take an artistic photo. (Now that I think about it, MadRetz may have actually taken this photo! Or I took it with her camera, or ???) OK, a Twin Peaks moment for Sobe Life Water, the commercial with the lizards and such dancing to Michael Jackson's Thriller. Almost scary! Simple, printed on linen cardstock (how I love the texture) and embellished with the alphas (love Alice in Wonderland too!) and the flowers.


Are we through yet? Geezohpete!

Elise's PA 08 prompt, the Little Picture. (You know, we always talk about the BIG picture, what about the little picture?) You recognize the Morro Bay pix Hockneyized at Big Picture Labs? I inked the alpha stickers with gel pen. Remember that Wendy's chicken sarni commercial??? hee!!!


Last of all, Elise's PA 08 prompt "Make a Big Statement." I've always loved this quote from the Lee jeans commercial, "Whatever you do, don't FLINCH!). I think about it every time I think something will hurt, mentally, emotionally, physically.

Recycled cardboard, verdigris embossing powder, Prima flower, brads.


Oh, and I did one more thingy, but it was a "I have a bad attitude," venting piece and y'all don't need to see that. (It absolutely does not reflect a bullet-proof positive attitude!)

Yeah, yeah, yeah, ok...I'm done now!!! Got get yourself a bowl of ice cream as a reward!

I hope y'all have a gud week! Catch ya next weekend unless something EXTRAORDINARY happens to me in the next few days!

Happy Heart Day!!!

There Are Decaffeinated Brands on the Market That Taste Just as Good As the Real Thing

I must disagree. The real thing is ohsomuch BETTER!!!

Running on Treadmill ≠ Running Outdoors on the Trail

My cells sang. My aura glowed YELLOW with HAPPINESS.

I listened to the birds speak.

I smelled the dirt mingled with the smell of the trees and grasses.

I saw the sunshine sparkle off the Loch.

I did my first 5 mile run in almost a year.

It was a very, very good morning.

Mike Ness ROCKS!!!

Social D! Social D!!!

I had tixs tonite to Social Distortion at the Filmore in San Francisco!!! OMG!!! I am so lovin' this tattoo'd man!!! (His band is pretty good too! : .) I'm still on a high! I don't know if I'll be able to sleep!!! (This concert was as good [better? hard to decide!] as the one I went to in September when Social D played the Catalyst in Santa Cruz!)

Best moment of the evening...My concert buddy Paul and I were standing upstairs by the "restaurant" and who walks by, not 5 feet away from me, ready to go back stage!!! Ooooh yes! It was the man himself!!! Eye contact even!!! Swoon!!!

I call it Rockabilly, I was corrected as Social D is one of the leading bands in the American hardcore punk movement. Yes, there was a mosh pit, there always is! Either way, when Mike Ness sings, I.am.in.LOVE!!! sigh. What is it about me and these bad boys?! hee!!!

P.S. Don't forget to VOTE!!!

Paul found this pix online somewhere...I'd like to credit it.

When its over...

Not enough time to do art stuff this weekend. A lot of time for couching. My muse vacated the claustrophobic premises of my mind and I only got one piece done b/4 it went. I still need to do the Elise Paper '08 Challenge, "The Little Picture" and the postcard challenge, "Journey." sigh.

This is Bun-Bun and Brob. (That's short for Brobdingnagian...Look that one up!) Obviously a bunny and an elephant, yesh? They are really good friends. I took this photo at Anthropologie b/c I couldn't decide on either as a bebe gift for one of my running buddies, even after playing with and making up stories about them for 20 minutes : .) I ended up with Fat-Bottomed Girl Zeeba! (If you read the comic Pearls B/4 Swine, you'll get why I named her Zeeba!) The pix ended up on the gift card. (Sorry, no pix of the Zeeba. I boxed her already.)



This is the only art piece I completed. Its for the Elsie Challenge this week, embellish a floral accent. I guess they're not enough by themselves. Me being me, didn't want to "waste" the branch sticker, so I traced and cut it out, cut the paper flower from the background paper, mounted that on a felt flower and finished it off with a stitched on crystal.


Other highlites of the weekend, guaranteed to blow your top:

A viewing of Sweeny Todd. You can read Madretz's spot on review, 3rd paragraph of the post. While you're there check out her pukey cute kawaii banner in her most current post. It is sooooo freakin' TUTE! I love it!!!

Forgetting to pay the rent (to the tune of a $25 late fee) and beating myself with a 2 by 4 in the hopes that I WILL NOT FORGET NEXT MONTH!!! (Its not like the first doesn't come EVERY MONTH! Arrrrgggggghhhhhhh!!! Grrrrrrrrr! I'm so mad at myself.)

Oh so fresh 5 loads of laundry!

And the winning of the SUPERBOWL by the underdogs, the NY Giants. What the HECK!!! I feel sooo sorry for the Patriots!!! To finish their undefeated season with a LOSS! Ay Carumba!

Rainy Days and Scavenger Hunts!

Sis Linda's Elsie Challenge this week was "make your own chipboard accents." This is Ver. 1. Didn't like it, so I tore it down and re-did it (that's my artistic proccess, can you dig it?) The pix was supposed to be bleu, but it printed purple and therefore, I did the flowers in purple. Ick!



Ver. 2...I like this one much better. B&W photo and bleu flowers. The text is (are?) song lyrics from Crazytown's 'Butterfly.'


Another piece that just needed finishing. Another gel transfer. Nan/Cate was interested in the technique, so I'm gonna put together a tutorial and post it on Nudge-Nudge.



Elise's Paper Adventure '08 prompt for this week was freeze a day. Pick a day, any day and record what you did so in the future, you can look back and see how you spent your time. The background paper is from a bar of seaweed/lavendar soap (there's actual bits of seaweed as an exfolliant!) I bot at LUSH. I love the LUSH life! All natural product, mfg'd in Canada. Gotta love those Canadians. I found the store b/c I'm allergic to the aluminum whatever in everyday deo. I was surfing the net, and found they mfg a deo called Aromacreme and I LOVE it! No more itching!!! Acrylic paint, Meer image and Hero Arts stamps. Text from Word.

Today Sue put together a scavenger hunt for her daughter's b-day. She went to Stanford Mall and made a list of landmarks, then created questions with different point values. "What product is in the Nike store window" for instance. She invited me, well, to take a group of girls around, but I'm game. It sounds like so much fun!!! It should be interesting in the rain : .)

I did a couple of "daily" cards (slacking off there) and will post on Skosh a bit later.

Just got a txt msg from the cute boy that works at the gym, so I'm off to read it, hee!!!

You know you have too many pairs of running shoes...

When this happens!

(I didn't turn the light on when I got ready for work this morning.)

Happy Friday Everyone!!!

Do or Do Not. There is No Try.

Well, I don't have anything particularly clever to say this evening. Maybe because I'm distracted by hockey. Maybe because I need to up the blood sugar. I did do art, so here it is with its inspiration. Get yourself a soda and a sit, it'll take a while to read thru...


This came to me during my run Saturday morning. That would be a 4 mile run, outside, on the asphalt. (Too bad you can't see the biggest grin, its blinding!) Day one of 1/2 marathon training. Anywhoo, just thinking and day dreaming away the huffing and puffing and Yoda's voice came to me..."Do or do not, there is no try." Of course, I had the perfect photo and the layout was born. I just happened to have the dictionary page with the definition for "runner." Hee!

This was for the SIStv Elsie Challenge, week #3 - Use a ribbon border. A friend asked me Que quieres? (What do you want?) and I've been tossing the thot around for a few weeks. I've come to no answer to the question (mostly because it seems as if what I want is unobtainable), but it was a great title for this layout.

I love how the background on this piece came out. Its a gel transfer of the photo from Friday's post. The Paper Adventure 08 prompt this week was "What's next?" Inspired by the West Wing and the president's always asking 'whats' next.' I had a lot of trouble with this...

What's next, what's next???

What's next in the next few moments, or
what's next in the next week, or
what's next in the next few months, or
what's next in the next year???
WHAT'S NEXT for the REST of MY LIFE?!

OMG!!!

How about more art classes?
Maybe more physical therapy?
You really should be concentrating on your spirituality!
Romance?

Sheesh!

Then, as I was stressing about completing the piece, a quiet voice said...

"Be patient and it will become evident."

I need to apply this to "Que quieres?" too!

Ha! Again the universe speaks to and thru me!



Lastly, (is that a grammatically correct word? are there enough letters in grammatically?") Christina Clouse (click Eye Candy in the right sidebar) has started a new blog called Postcards from Here (http://postcards-from-here.blogspot.com/ Blogger won't accept the tagging for this.) where she is posting prompts (and tutorials) to inspire the creation of art & journaling, using postcards. Correspondence to yourself.

The prompt made me think of the quote from Sleepless in Seattle, where Sam Baldwin speaks of meeting his (deceased) wife for the first time. "I knew it the first time I toucher her. It was like coming home. Only to no home I'd ever know. I was just taking her hand to help her out of a car. And I just knew. It was like...Magic."

Yes, taking someone's hand and knowing its where you are supposed to be...Home.

What did you end up doing this weekend?

Ready for the Weekend

Its been a busy week at work. I am so ready for the weekend! Who has Monday off?!

Friday: Couching & Ghost Whisperer viewing.
Saturday: RUNNING!!! wheeee!!! Then hopefully massive amounts of art!
Sunday: Step aerobics class and then crafting with Mary and MadRetz, yay!!!
Monday: Sleep in! Get up and start training for my 1st half marathon in almost a year.

WISH ME LUCK!!!

Here's to the body responding positively to increasing mileage!

What do you have planned? : .)

This Smile Means Lyrics

Here are the lyrics to "The Song."

I was very broken for awhile...separation/divorce & 9/11, it all happened at the same time. My friend wrote this amazing song for me, about me. I wish you could hear the version where Erik plays the guitar and sings, but I need to upload to some "free" music site in order to be able to tag the file to post here. I'm not comfortable doing that.

Anyway, here you go!

This Smile Means

I can see you’ve been walking a lonely mile,
And you don’t want to talk about it,
But I bet that you could use a smile,
Whatever has brought you down this far,
Must have hurt so much
To cause a flicker in the light you usually are,
I won’t ask you how you’re doin’, because I know,
How hard it is to say that you feel fine, when you don’t

But This Smile Means,
I’m thinkin’ about you,
‘N This Smile Means,
I’m hopin’ for your best,
Because I believe that you will see
Love has plans for your happiness,
There always is a rainbow,
There’s always a new dream,
Until it comes, I hope you know,
All that This Smile Means

I don’t know why life sometimes knocks us down,
So we have to face our fears,
‘Til somehow we reach a higher ground,
No one can tell you what you should do,
But I know you’ll find your way,
‘Cause even when you doubt, I still believe in you,
So when everything starts changing, going insane,
Know this smile I offer you will always stay the same,

‘Cause This Smile Means,
I’m thinkin’ about you,
‘N This Smile Means,
I’m hopin’ for your best,
Because I believe that you will see
Love has plans for your happiness,
There always is a rainbow,
There’s always a new dream,
Until it comes, I hope you know,
All that This Smile Means

Yes, the future’s still unwritten,
Love has something up it’s sleeve,
But until it is revealed remember

All that This Smile Means

All that This Smile Means

Words and Music by Erik Swerrie
Copyright, 2002 Erik A. Swerrie

"This Smile Means"

The prompt this week over at Elise Blaha's Paper Adventure 08 is "Certain Souvenir." It was inspired by Van Gogh's thoughts on art. He wanted to "leave a certain souvenir" to humankind.

Elise asked us to ask ourselves "What sort of souvenir am I leaving?" What are we leaving as a representation of our lives?

Marianne Williamson's quote (above) came to mind and I would love to leave my LIGHT as a representation of my life. Sometimes we do not own what is best about us and we should, as Marianne so succinctly communicates with her words.

My "LIGHT" (or lack of at the time???) inspired a song, written by my good friend Erik who is a budding country music songwriter and is actually recorded on a demo CD.

(Its called "This Smile Means," yeah, hence the blog post title. I'll share the lyrics if you
ask : .)

This was a great prompt! It really made me ponder!

Sista Linda's Elsie Challenge Week #2

Y'all know how much I love Starbucks!

So, its not surprising that I made this mini album out of the Starbucks cards I collected last year, yesh?! Simple scrapbooking, photo highlights from each month in 2007, and titles (descriptions) for each photo.

Also posted on Nudge-Nudge : .)

2008 Art Challenges

(Note: E-lise vs El-sie)

The internet is bustin' out with a bunch of new mixed media challenges at the moment. While I typically hate to art under pressure, I thought I might be able to attempt a couple because, as usual, my "not-a-resolution" is to "art more."

Linda, a Sista on SIStv, threw out a challenge based on Elsie Flannigan's 52 Scrapbooking Challenges. One a week. You might recall, I tried following the book last year, but as you know, life gets in the way, and I flaked.

I decided to step up to the plate again, however, I'm doing 5"X7" pieces, which to me is so much more manageable than trying to come up with an 8 1/2 X 11 or 12 X 12 layout.

The first week's challenge is "Work those Words." Here's my take:



(I think I need to invest in some of those whitening strips! eee!)

I also love and am inspired by Elise Blaha's work. Elise is posting a prompt a week on this blog, Paper Adventure 08 Her first prompt is "BALANCE." My take:



Lets see if I can keep this up!!! ART ON!!!

Feed the Warrior

Lance Armstrong said running his first NYC Marathon was one of the hardest things he's ever done. Wha? Huh? The man who rode the Pyrenees and won the Tour de France 7 times?! That makes me proud that I've run and finished two marathons of my own.

Anyway, watching the 2008 NHL Outdoor Classic in Buffalo, NY where it was a brisk 33 degrees when the game started. The Pittsburgh Penguins (The "Phenom" Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin) vs the Buffalo Sabres, one of the sponsors of the event is Dick's Sporting Goods. As always during broadcast sporting events, there are a plethora of commercials. I'm a rare bird that actually likes a lot of commercials : .) and I found this one cool and hysterical at the same time.

BTW - Happy New Year!!!