A day of rest

Living Life - Jingle Bell Run

Today a coworker, a friend of mine and I ran a 5K to raise money for arthritis. It took place right here in Janesville and yes, it was snowing. We didn't think it would happen, but it did. So we ran in about 3-4 inches of snow at about 9:30 in the morning. Overall it was a lot of fun and well it was for a good cause. Bobbie came in first at 29 minutes and seconds, me at 31 minutes and seconds and Margo 33 minutes and seconds. I think we had good times considering it was snowing and at the end was quite slick! Good times had by all. . . . .

hair, hair, and more hair

So the girls and I are driving home a few nights ago and I'm scanning the radio stations for something to listen to. I come across a sort hip hop song and I think I hear "I whip my hair back and forth" and then tonight on the prowl for hair pretties I come across this. . . . and well. . . quite frankly it caught my attention. So with all the talk about hair, "I want long hair, straight hair, etc." I present two videos I've found on the great internet. . . . I have to say I well. . . like the second one best. . .

I like this one, it's cute, adorable and well just plain true! It gives little girls a positive image about having hair that is versatile.

Zeitgeist - what does it mean?

Zeitgeist = is "the spirit of the times" or "the spirit of the age." Zeitgeist is the general cultural, intellectual, ethical, spiritual, and/or political climate within a nation or even specific groups, along with the general ambience, morals, sociocultural direction, and mood associated with an era.
I'm not really sure what that means exactly, or it might be that I am too tired to really read what those words say and mean! I'm going to take it to mean that right now is a good time to be where I am with my family, doing what we do and living life to the fullest! Hopefully that captures the spirit of the times in my house!

So Zeitgeist is the theme for Decembers NaBloPoMo. We'll see. . . I might have to use some of the daily thoughts for writing this month. . .

December 1, 2010 let's try this again!

So it's NaBloPoMo for December. I've got very little homework, and well I don't know that I'll be able to post everyday as I will be out of the country from December 26 until Jan. . . perhaps I can con my hubby into posting for me. . .

So we'll see. . . School update: The doctoral manuscript has been submitted to the printer and hopefully I'll be receiving three nicely bound books with my name as the author. The topic: Spirituality and Health and Spiritual-Well Being. . . Deep huh?? Not so much. . . I'm looking forward to it being all done so that I can get on with some of lifes more fun occupations: quilting, reading, baking, etc. . . .

So we'll see what we can do for December daily posts! Oh yea the topic is Zeitgeist. . . can you figure it out. . . .hum! i'll post more about that tomorrow!

I know, bad blogger

My posts are about one month apart, I know, but it's almost over. I'm just way to crazy right now to blog. The girls are doing fine, Bond is well and I've finished chapter four of my capstone project for my doctorate. Some edits, and chapter 5 reflecton, and then graduation in December. WooHoo!

I'm looking forward to getting my life back. Don't get me wrong, I totally enjoy learning and love the learning, but it's soooooooooo time consuming and the time I spend doing homework, writing, etc. takes me away from so many other things.

I have two quilts in process and am really hoping to get them both, yes both, done before November and December, one each month. I'll try to be better about posting at least wordless Wednesday pictures, because really, I know it's the girls you want to see anyway :-) It's all good. Thanks for reading and checking up on the blog.

Melkam Addis Amet - Happy Ethiopian New Year!

Melkam Addis Amet - Happy Ethiopian New Year!

Enkutatash is the Ethiopian New Year which will be celebrated by the Gregorian calendar on 11 September 2010.

Yes, the Ethiopian New Year is NOT the same as ours! So the girls get to have multiple celebrations throughout the year! It is currently 2002 in Ethiopia as they use a different calendar system that the rest of the world.