haiku 09/30/2007

Dexter starts tonight!

And High School Musical 2

is on at eight. Yay!

High School Musical

2 not as good as the first,

but still cute. Yay Troy!

How can I feel for

a serial killer? Dex!

Keep your work hidden!

haiku 09/29/2007

Qualifying at

one A.M. Lewis on pole,

Kimi will start third.

Relaxing day. Slept

in, hung around, napped, went to

Target. Bought cute stuff.

Trying my hand

at HDRI photos. Neat

but tricky technique.

Lewis won Japan

in the rain. It was a soaked

mess. Kimi got third.

Now Lewis leads by

twelve points. Two races are left.

Rookie champ? Maybe!

happy list 09/29/2007

09/29/2007

• Diet Sunkist
• Those "wimpy wimpy wimpy, hefty hefty hefty" commercials.
• Tealight centerpieces [include pic]
• Quesadillas
• Red tealights in red metal housings
• Red hoodies that are almost shimmery
• Pictures of me taking pictures
• Great new pictures of my husband [include 9425]
• Photos of pink flowers [include 9973]

haiku 09/28/2007

written for Haiku Friday in AM

 

Friday, you've arrived!

You sure took your frickin' time.

But you're here now. Good.

 

Annual review

at 3. Makes me want to hurl.

Have to wait all day.

 

Starbucks, you're my friend.

No plans this weekend. Hoping

for some rest and peace.

 

written 09/29/2007

 

Annual review

today. Still hate them, even

after 10 years. Ugh!

 

But it went okay.

Phew! Six months until the next

one. That's a ways off.

haiku 09/27/2007

Dorky Scrabble, Tom
C. style! Lots of super
nerdy "words. A hoot!

Sara, will you make
it? Did the Mini-Killer
kill you? Poor Grissom.

Oh, you're safe! It was
touch-and-go for awhile.
Vegas is safe now.

Michael, what stupid
things will you do this season?
Pam and Jim? I hope!

Michael ran over
Meredith with his car! Dwight
killed Angela's cat!

Ooh, they kissed! Pam and
Jim kissed! Let's hope it's sweet and
not all drama-filled.

haiku 09/26/2007

written 09/27/2007

 

Friday, you seem so

far away. Halfway there, but

it feels like Monday.

 

Six episodes of

Entourage. Almost done with

Season Four. Mmm Vin!

haiku 09/25/2007

Finished up Dexter
Season One. Very good! New
season starts Sunday.

All new Bones and House
tonight. My cute TV will
enjoy SVU.

haiku 09/24/2007

written 09/25/2007

A long day back at
work. Finally had to shop
for food. We had none.

New shows tonight. How
I Met Your Mother, Heroes,
Miami. Woohoo!

The whole week is filled
with season premiers. Had to
clear the DVR!

haiku 09/23/2007

written 09/25/2007

Woke up early to
head back home. Drive wasn't bad.
Weather nice again!

Baby Charlotte did
great at her baptism. She
looked like a princess!

haiku 09/22/2007

Congrats to Mark and
Jodi! The weather cleared up.
Couldn't be better. [photo]

Wedding on the beach.
Reception in the house. We
were out on the deck.

It all was lovely.
Blue and brown, everywhere. Theme:
Shells and sand and beach. [photo]

Bit of a tan on
my shoulder; sat right in the
sun. Dress worked out great! [photo]

Turns out the tan is
a bit of a burn! Shoulders
and arms and nose, too.

OBX brew pub
for beers and dinner. DQ
for dessert. Reese's!

Very nice weekend
(so far!) Getting up early
to head back on home.

haiku 09/21/2007

Having oil changed.

Patiently waiting. Kind of

rainy. Sun come out?

 

written 09/22/2007

 

In the Outer Banks.

Mark and Jodi's R.D.: Yum.

Cute slideshow and fun!

haiku 09/20/2007

written 09/21/2007

 

We leave after work

to spend the night with Terry's

folks in Chesapeake.

 

But first, Project+.

Tick tick. I passed! Wasn't too

bad. Now it's over.

 

Arrived in V.A.

after eleven. Looked at

T.V., talked, cake, slept.

haiku 09/19/2007

written 09/21/2007

 

I'm two days late! Got

a little behind. Studied

most of the evening.

 

Almost ready to

head to Mark's wedding Friday...

Project+ comes first!

haiku 09/18/2007

Project+. I've been

studying for the test. Not

very exciting.

haiku 09/17/2007

Busy busy bee!

Worked, shopped - didn't find shoes - bought

dinner at the mall.

 

Auntie Anne's pretzel

and pineapple Julius.

Best dinner ever!

 

Prison Break: The first

new show of the season. Watched

on my new T.V.!

haiku 09/16/2007

Lazy Sunday. Napped

on couch after breakfast and

studied for awhile.

 

Kimi won in Spa -

Ferrari officially

sewed up their title.

 

Lewis leads Freddy

by two points. Can he finish

strong and win it all?

haiku 09/15/2007

Knife skills class today

Hacked apart a whole chicken!

Gross, but cool to do.

 

Dinner with Chapmans

and Rosados. Ben and Jo

in town for two days.

 

Guess what? A tiny

Chapman will be joining us

for Leap Day next year!

 

He (or she!) will be

only nine months younger than

Baby Charlotte. Yay!

happy list 09/28/2007

09/28/2007 

• blype: The skin that peels off after suburn (pronounced "bliiip")
• Books filled with useless, but cool, information.
• lemniscate: What the infinity sign is called

happy list 09/27/2007

09/27/2007

• "eidetic" (word, meaning "Of, relating to, or marked by extraordinarily detailed and vivid recall of visual images.")
• "E" (Eric) from Entourage (TV show, played by Kevin Connolly)
• Playing a version of Scrabble in which you can use only IT-related words, acronyms, abbreviations, names, etc

happy list 09/26/2007

09/26/2007

• Saving so many episodes of a TV on your DVR that you can watch nearly the whole season all in one sitting, without having to wait a week betewen each episode
• "Something to Believe In" (song, by Aqualung)

happy list 09/25/2007

09/25/2007

• The versatility of the word "whatnot"
• Trying strange chocolates from other countries - like Turkish Milk Chocolate.  It tastes like roses!
• Tide To-Go pens
• Talking like a 1920's gangster, see?
• Getting a surprise Vera Bradley magazine in the mail
• Trying something new, because it's interesting and different, even if you're not sure you like it

happy list 09/24/2007

09/24/2007

• The time of the year when Kevin can find Tootsie Roll Vanilla Flavored Midgees and brings them into the office
• 15 pounds of chocolate from Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark, and London
• Gigantic chocolate bars, bigger than you ever knew existed
• September 24: National Punctuation Day! (http://www.nationalpunctuationday.com/ )
• Mini red Swingline staplers
• Willful suspension of belief

happy list 09/23/2007

09/23/2007

• Your 10th anniversary with your company
• Traveling by car at night
• The Outer Banks, North Carolina
• The International Delight mini-coffee creamers - little colored single-serving cups, in a dozen different flavors
• Being able to buy just a single song (from a place like iTunes), so that you don't have to buy an entire album for just one or two good songs
• iPods
• The new iPod shuffle, which clips to your clothes or anything else
• Dairy Queen
• Ritter Sport Milk Chocolate with Butter Biscuit candy bar

 

happy list 09/22/2007

09/22/2007

• The gorgeous weather on Mark and Jodi's wedding day
• Clean sheets on a freshly made bed
• Face lotion with SPF
• Adirondack chair placecard holders

happy list 09/21/2007

09/21/2007

• The sound of a distant train, in the middle of the night.
• Sisters-in-law

happy list 09/20/2007

09/20/2007

• Pumpkin Spice Latte + Pumpkin Scone = Pumpkinrific breakfast!
• Theme songs from old TV shows, like Growing Pains and Benson
• Being called a "delightful fruitcake."

happy list 09/19/2007

09/19/2007

• On a morning that's both cloudy and sunny, the way the sun can come through the clouds and light up trees in front of the dark sky.
• Turkey chili from California Tortilla
• The sound corduroy pants make when you walk (particularly cords with a narrow wale)

happy list 09/18/2007

09/18/2007

•  The start of a new Fall season of TV

 

happy list 09/17/2007

09/17/2007

• The first frost of fall
• Winning your fantasy football game
• "Hold Back the Night" (song, The Trammps, 1975)
• Flickr's "netflix notes": photos of post-it notes that people have put on discs they've sent back to Netflix
• Powdered hazelnut coffee creamer
• Entourage (TV show, HBO)
• That really neat feature in IE that lets you see a little picture of each of the tabs that you have open
• Creepy music
• Wendy's Frostys (chocolate, of course!!)
• Jingly bracelets
• Franklin Covey single-month spiral-bound planners

happy list 09/16/2007

09/16/2007

• Formula 1 statistics
• Monkey cards
• When summer has cooled down enough that you can turn off the AC and open the windows

happy list 09/15/2007

09/15/2007

• Hitting the one-month mark in a year-long project
• Knife skills classes (kitchen, not combat)
• Blogger Play: Google's website that shows a continuous stream of photos that were recently uploaded to a blogspot blog
• High School Musical (movie, 2006)
• Dexter (TV show, Showtime)
• Van Halen's Right Now video
• Paper Source rubber stamps
• When unexpected people, like grandmothers and men, use the term "BFF": Best Friend Forever
• Having dinner with friends who are visiting from out of town

 

haiku 09/14/2007

This haiku stanza

is the 90th you've read.

You've read them all, right?

 

My haiku-a-day

project is now one month old!

Happy Haikuday!

 

Part poetry, part

photo album - I love my

goofy new hobby.

 

Three hundred thirty-

five days left. That's a bunch of

stanzas of haiku!

haiku 09/13/2007

written 09/14/2007

 

Mark didn't hate his

desk TOO much! The confetti

will never be gone!

 

McLaren fined one

hundred million dollars for

Stepney-gate. Holy...!

 

Lewis and Freddy

can keep their points, but the team

is done for the year.

 

Ferrari clinched the

constructors' championship

with McLaren's loss.

haiku 09/12/2007

Decorated poor

Mark's desk.  Boy, is he going

to be revolted!

 

Dinner with Eileen.

Cheesecake Factory - our fave.

Cheesecake is yum-o!

haiku 09/11/2007

Today is the first

Tuesday since the Tuesday the

Towers tumbled down.

 

The memories of

that day are clear, 'though six years

have crawled - and flown - by.

 

The radio still

yaps non-stop about the war.

Will it never end?

 

Ten years with TerpSys

announced at today's meeting.

One-third of my life!

 

And, the six years since

9-11 is about

one-fifth of my life.

 

So many events

during my short life. What do

the next thirty hold?

happy list 09/14/2007

09/14/2007

• Knowing I may live a thousand years based on the quote, "He who laughs, lasts!" ~ Mary Pettibone Poole

happy list 09/13/2007

09/13/2007

• Turtles gifts from friends

happy list 09/12/2007

09/12/2007

• Decorating a male coworker's desk with girlie-bridal stuff before his wedding
• The Calvin & Hobbes snowmen comics
• Reading emails and other silly things using a text-to-speech reader
• "Grace Kelly" (song, by Mika)

haiku 09/10/2007

My birthday weekend

is over. Boo! It was a

very nice four days!

 

Next year, my birthday

will be a Sunday. A long

weekend is in store.

 

Shopped, watched movies, cleaned

in office - didn't relax

too much - got stuff done!

 

happy list 09/11/2007

-- There was no happy list compilation for today. --

happy list 09/10/2007

09/10/2007

• Using cute ice cream bowls to hold your paper clips and binder clips and whatnots
• Doing at least a litle something to be "green," like grocery shopping with reusable bags and using energy-saving lightbulbs.
• A list of hit songs from the year you were born.
• Nicknaming the car you rented on your honeymoon "Hester Sue." [2725]
• Slippers filled with lavendar and whatnot, that you can microwave and don to make your feet warm and cozy
• Pyramid-shaped tea bags

haiku 09/09/2007

Today's lesson: Don't
leave bottled root beer in the
freezer for too long. [8407, 8424]

Another year at
the Carderock Rest Stop for
the Tour de Canal.

haiku 09/08/2007

written 09/08 and 09/09

 

Birthday's over. Three-

sixty-five until the next

one! Thirty-three, ack!

 

Dress shopping for Mark's

wedding. Tried on one - perfect!

God bless Weight Watchers!

 

New TV & I

spent some time watching movies.

Office much more fun.

 

happy list 09/09/2007

09/09/2007

• Shutterfly notecards
• The Tour de Canal (bike tour from Cumberland, MD to Georgetown, Washington DC), to benefit the Alzheimers' Association)

happy list 09/08/07

09/08/2007 

• iTunes gift cards
• Turtle bracelets
• Pandora bracelets
• Fnding the perfect dress on the first try
• The "My Favorite Things" scene from The Sound of Music (movie)
• Izze sparkling fruit drinks (particularly Clementine)
• The Body Shop body butters and the tubs they come in
• Irish coffee mugs

haiku 09/07/2007

Written for Haiku Friday at 3:52 AM:

Okay, so it's kind
of early to start Haiku
Friday! But, oh well :)

Not sure how much I
will be around tomorrow -
getting it done now!

It's very late! Or
is it very early?? Who
knows? Happy Friday!

Written later on:

Happy birthday to
me! Happy birthday to me!
Thirty-two years old!

Taken out for both
breakfast and dinner! And watched
Casino Royale.

Beautiful roses,
red and white, a surprise at
the Silver Diner. [8219, 8242]

Turtle bracelet from
Dad. Pandora charm from Mom.
Two Red Sox stickers.

Lots of nice cards, and
Chinese Checkers from Steffie!
Also got phone calls.

From T: a tripod,
and a cute TV for my
office. Fun surprise!

It was a great day.
Terry always does it right.
I'm a lucky gal!

haiku 09/06/2007

Today? National

Fight Procrastination Day.

I celebrated:

 

Finally finished

a big work project! Worked on

it for months. Yahoo!

 

Tomorrow? Someone's

birthday! Who? I'm not sure. I'll

find out pretty soon!

haiku 09/05/2007

Two days to you-know-

what! Special plans? No idea.

A surprise? Maybe!

 

Thirty-two in two

days. Thirty-three not too far

away. Woe is me!

 

My gray hairs say this

did not sneak up on me, but

smacked me in the face.

 

But I am about

twenty-two at heart, and that

is what matters most!

 

haiku 09/04/2007

written on 09/05/2007

 

Yesterday? But a

memory. Work, grocery store,

dinner, Dexter, sleep.

 

Some days are like that!

'Specially the ones after

a nice long weekend.

happy list 09/07/07

09/07/2007

• Birthdays!
• Not having to go to work on your birthday
• How easy it is - using a camera phone, gmail, and snapfish - to post a current photo online
• The Nick Galifianakis comic that shows a bride standing alone at the altar with the officiant: "It's just going to be me. The groom was ruining everything."
• Finding out that the plant that you thought you killed is still alive after all.
• Receiving for your birthday, from a childhood friend, a game that you used to play together when you were younger.
• Remembering how you used to play that game by your own rules, and how your own rules were pretty crazy.
• Receiving birthday cards on your birthday
• Finding someone with whom you share your birthday
• When your cute pajama pants match your cute notebook
• Getting a birthday present that is a total surprise
• Chocolate cake with chocolate frosting, particularly when the frosting is the good, thick, creamy kind.

happy list 09/06/2007

09/06/2007 

• Finally finishing something that you've been working on for months
• Birthday cards that come the day before your birthday
• September 6 is Fight Procrastination Day!

happy list 09/05/2007

09/05/2007 

• "Wagel Wednesday" - the first Wednesday of every month, when we get bagels, donuts, and coffee for the office.
• "Do you know who would know?  The Internet would know!"

happy list 09/04/2007

09/04/2007

• Becca's brownie cookies!
• The Elements of Style, a.k.a, "Strunk & White's" (book, by William Strunk, Jr and E.B. White)
• Zatarain's Jambalaya mix with smoked sausage
• Safeway's Mango Sorbet
• Finding out that the designer of a cool card that you really love has a whole website of equally cool things: http://www.curlygirldesigns.com/
• Having photos printed at Ritz: Upload, order, pay, wait an hour, go pick up!

haiku 09/03/2007

Dorkfest '07!

Are to-do lists standard for

Labor Day weekend?

 

Deb's pink and orange

wedding stickers are so cool!

Scanned them; made fun pic.

 

Many murders solved

today during the Murder,

She Wrote Marathon.

 

I realized that

my haiku project is half

photo project, too.

 

happy list 09/03/2007

09/03/2007 

• Cornbread
• Picasa's Screensaver and Picture Pile collage
• Sticking to your guns
• Naptime
• Old typewriters
• Any book "Introduction" written by Stephen King
• The cute "relationship" between Jessica Fletcher and Doc Seth Hazlitt on Murder, She Wrote
• Finding out there were 263 episodes of Murder, She Wrote, plus the pilot and 4 made-for-TV movies
• Listening to/watching Mary Poppins while you work in your office
• The curlygirldesign.com card that says: "I am fairly certain that given a cape and a nice tiara, I could save the world."
• Cute, white, simple-to-install shelves
• Map pins with pink and orange heads
• Mango "goop": canned puréed mango, which you can find in Indian and Asian grocery stores
• Sudoku Fusion: a cross between Sudoku and Kakuro

photos to go with happy list 09/02/2007

The stickers Deb made for our OOT boxes for the wedding:

   

   

   

   

photo to go with happy list 08/27/2007

Decoupaged lightswitch panel:

haiku 09/02/2007

Bought cute white shelves for
my office today! Played with
Photoshop and pics.

Ordered prints from Ritz
and put some in frames with fun
paper. Very cute!

Not dumb, like T says.
What does he know about cute?
Oh wait, he has me :)

Urban Acid, Pro
Retro, Lomo, Vintage, Sketch:
Photoshop Actions.

So much to do, so
little time. The long weekend
is almost over.

[scan framed things, include photoshop collage]

photo to go with happy list 09/02/2007

mucking about with wedding photos and photoshop actions

 

happy list 09/02/2007

09/02/2007 

• "Where Is The Love" (song, by the Black Eyed Peas)
• Ruffle-get-togethers
• Being a "Featured Book" on Blurb.com [include screenshot (2?)]
• Pictures of you and your mom, circa 1980 [include kitchen pic]
• Mucking about in Photoshop with wedding photos [include]
• The little bird in the "Green NYC" TV commercials and the way he says, "tweet-tweet"
• Photo corners
• Finally finishing something you've been putting off
• Jake Gyllenhaal
• Paper Source's endless matching papers and accessories
• The stickers Deborah designed and made for our wedding [include scans]
• "House" (TV show)
• The Day After Tomorrow (movie, 2004)
• "Some people march to a different drummer - and some people polka." ~ L.A. Times
• "The earth laughs in flowers." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
• "A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water." ~ Carl Reiner
• Chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream

  

  

haiku 09/01/2007

Errands: Bought fun things
Dinner: With Ruffles (sans J)
T: Still feeling sick

Visited Blurb to
view new books. Guest what? Postcards
is a Featured Book!

happy list 09/01/2007

09/01/2007

• The first day of September
• The soundtrack from the movie Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain ("Amélie," 2001)
• K&Company craft stuff
• Dutch market soft pretzels
• Sweet mustard
  
• Caribbean mango salsa
  
• Anna Griffin craft stuff - particularly her orange and pink papers
  
• Perry Mason
  
• Spam filters
  
• Library pockets
  
• "Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room." ~ President Merkin Muffley (Peter Sellers), Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (movie, 1964)
  
• The quotes we used on our wedding programs:
  

  • Love conquers all. ~ Virgil
  • All you need is love. ~ The Beatles
  • When there is love, there is life. ~ Ghandi
  • Love is like a friendship caught on fire. ~ Bruce Lee
  • Happy is what happens when your dreams come true. ~ Glinda
  • I am my beloved's and my beloved is mine. ~ Song of Solomon
  • At one glance I love you with a thousand hearts. ~ Mihri Hatun
  • Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be. ~ Robert Browning
  • There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved. ~ George Sand
  • Today I marry my friend. The one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
  • Two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one. ~ Friedrich Halm
  • True love is your soul's recognition of its counterpoint in another. ~ John Beckwith
  • Once in a while, right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale. ~ Unknown
    

  
  

haiku 08/29/2007

We had Chili's for
dinner tonight. Ordered from
Waiter on the Way.

Fun! Kinda cold, but
not bad. We both feel ookie,
so this was easy.

happy list 08/31/2007

08/31/2007

• The second Pumpkin Spice Latte of the season
• Getting in to the office before anyone else
• Raising a lot of money for charity
• Haiku Friday on thenest
• "FT" - Friday Treat - typically something like a fancy Starbucks drink that you would resist during the rest of the week, but that you pick up on your way to work on Friday morning.  Might involve some sort of pastry, as well.
• The "Istanbul" video that Terry's building did for the TEAM Scavenger hunt in August 2007
• Chipotle burritos, bols, and salads
• Weight Watcher 1 point Caramel Cakes
• Hearing the birds from Joe's headphones
• Pineapple Juliuses
• Auntie Anne's pretzels with sweet mustard
• Finding Junior Mints in a movie theatre - most theaters don't carry them anymore!
• Alltaglich: Folio No. One (book, by Megan E. Bluhm Foldenauer) - the inspiration for my Year Of Haiku project
• Finding the Buffy: Season Seven on DVD - the last season you need - for $20
• FranklinCovey Compass Planning System Undated Daily Two-pages-per-day spiral-bound monthly planner
• "No day is so bad that it can't be fixed with a nap." - Carrie Snow
• Stretching out on a cool couch
• A moment of stillness in a busy day
• Nortiake Colorwave Holiday Snowflakes Accent Plates
• How well my Postcards from a Honeymoon: Romance at 18 to 300mm book from Blurb.com turned out
• "fancypants"
• My "Ruffles"