There’s still time! Perhaps you’ve already heard about this… Shane Bernier is battling lymphoblastic leukemia & wants to break a world record for receiving birthday cards. His birthday is May 30th, although I’m not sure that there is a deadline to send/receive a card! You can mail a card to: Shane Bernier, PO Box 484, Lancaster ON, K0C 1N0. Here’s a link to his site: Shane’s Wish.
I was tagged by my friend Eleonor and apparently this means I have to list 7 random things about me. (probably more than you wanted to know!)
1) In my teens, I was a member of the Burlington Teen Tour Band – a city marching band that travelled to many places. The highlight during my years with the band was a trip to Europe to help commemorate D-Day plus 40. There’s a reunion to commemorate 60 years of the BTTB this June. I still have to complete my registration to participate in this!
2) I have bungy jumped off the bridge in Queenstown, New Zealand.
3) I have essentially no ligaments left in my ankles, thanks to my days in gymnastics. (Obviously I wasn’t _that_ good!!!) Too many sprained ankles.
4) My mother got me hooked on "Survivor" and I’ve been watching every season since the first!
5) I don’t watch any movies of true substance (I get to see animated flicks with my son, or watch light fluffy things on my own). Or at least, very few. I have enough stress in my life already.
6) Same goes for books
7) I don’t usually respond to email forwards or blog games of tag!!! LOL.
I’m also supposed to tag 7 people whose blogs I read. Unfortunately, these people have also been tagged (some of them multiple times) already!!! LOL.
I thought that I would add a link to this site right now, since you can pay by Paypal, which will allow non-US residents to make a donation. Ali Edwards is a fantastic scrapbook artist/designer, and she created this 6 Degree badge to raise funds for Autism Speaks, a cause she supports – her son has been diagnosed with Autism. The 6 Degree competition is on until tonight. The top 10 badges (most donations, not highest amounts) will receive matching donations up to $10,000 from actor Kevin Bacon, so consider contributing. Minimum contribution is $10 USD. Every little bit helps!
Did you know that a hamster can climb 2 flights of stairs? Neither did I until this evening. I am extremely happy & relieved to report that Pikachu Climber (that’s really what Dylan had named him, who knew how appropriate the last name would be) is back in his (I think it’s a "he") OLD cage – the wire one that I didn’t like because the bedding tended to fall out onto the floor when he pushed it around. However, bedding on the floor is much preferable than hamster on the floor, when given a choice. If only he knew – by escaping, he gave up the funky plastic condo and moved back to the starter wire cage home. (insert victorious/vindictive "HA" here) OK off to get some sleep now!! (Obviously didn’t get much work done tonight…promise to post some creative stuff over the weekend….)
It’s because I’m looking for a HAMSTER. Pikachu aka Houdini has escaped from his cage (AGAIN) – some kind of Herculian strength to knock out components of his plastic cage and escape. Last time we found him in minutes of the search starting. This time…….wish us luck. (or should I say wish ME luck). Dylan isn’t horribly broken up about the disappearance….yet. Off again for the search. We have the trail of food out….
Lots of light fluffy stuff dropped onto Burlington today…so our afternoon & evening events were cancelled – Dylan’s piano lesson, my choir practice… Had a good mail day – received my new Paper Crafts & Simple Scrapbooks magazines. I’ve decided I should have a creative mantra (as Ali Edwards advocates!) – she calls it a Personal Creative Manifesto. Mine should be…I will "Just do it" and not just read about it!! I love all the creativity I see in the mags and find it inspiring, but as many of you will know….I haven’t got a lot to show for it. Well, I do have cards etc from classes that I’m doing….but also have a pile of photos just waiting to be scrapped! (Disneyworld, how "scrappable" is that?!) So. I’m going to set aside some time each week to just "play" with all my stamping tools and see what happens!! I’ve put it out into cyberspace, so there it is. Now I’m off to do some creative paper work – have some cards I need to come up with, personally and professionally. I’ll try to post the results later!
