 1.Totes Awesome Channel went live this week. This week we’re doing introductions. Click on over to see the other lovely ladies and hear more about who they are. Friday is my turn to vlog and below you’ll find my introduction vlog. Youtube Link 2.Squirrels on our campus have been fascinating me as of late. Our campus is overrun by squirrels and being as I’ve been on and off this campus for ten years now, it’s nothing new to me. But I was sitting on a bench reading when a squirrel hopped on and started to inch closer to me. I’m skittish with close contact with squirrels because I’ve been attacked by my friend’s squirrel a couple of years ago (it was IN my hair). I moved over to another bench, and the critter followed me. We carried on like this for at least 5 benches and til I had enough and just went home. I’m curious what would the squirrel have done if I stayed and let him creep even closer. Then this morning, I saw a squirrel drag out a McDonald’s bag from the trash, open it, and nibble on fries. Weirdos. 3.I saw this chalkboard correspondence in my building and it made me smile.  4.Danielle, a friend I’ve had the pleasure of meeting through Alan, sent me such a sweet email. She said she enjoys my “zest” among other things and it made me so happy to receive it. Her email inspired me create a new email label in my inbox that I so creatively named, “happy.” In this folder, I shall file away emails that made me happy so that on gloomy days, I’ll have something to click through to cheer me up. Do you guys keep all your emails? I have them usually labeled by sender. 5.Speaking of electronic organization, I’ve created a new Google Calendar to add to my collection of Google Calendars to input my Groupon expiration dates. Sometimes I get so caught up on these great deals, that I forget if I don’t use them, they’re not deals at all! 6.I’ve willed myself to get up 40 minutes earlier so that I can leave earlier than I normally do from my apartment. I loved cutting my commute time in half and getting a better parking space. I haven’t had to walk 30 minutes in the heat to my car all week. This also afforded me some reading time before work. I’m in the middle of Kitchen Daughter. I heard about it from Bree who has since decided she couldn’t connect with the book and dropped it. It’s about a 26 year old girl with Asperger’s Syndrome whose parents just died. She learns when she cook certain recipes from handwritten cards, she can summon ghosts of those who wrote the recipes. I normally don’t like to read anything with any supernatural aspects. Ghosts, yuck. Wizards, yuck. Magic, yuck. Vampires, yuck (unless you dump some glitter on them and add some teen angst). However, the food imagery in the book is keeping me still and tolerant. I daresay I’m actually enjoying the read. Maybe one day I’ll find myself a fantasy convert. 7.This week’s moments of bliss: ♥ Totes Awesome Channel ♥ 4 day work week ♥ Alan tucking me into bed at my place and staying til I fall asleep ♥ Watching really really bad TV with Brandi (Bachorlette and Sweet Valley High) ♥ cupcakes ♥ learning that in the UK, they call cupcakes “fairy cakes” ♥ yogurt friend date, sitting outside in cool night air ♥ coffee breaks ♥ emails and wall postings with links to hot men speaking French from Kim Question: What are a few ways you organize your electronic life? |