Fiddling with the Side

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In Three Words, Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, twitter

Good morning Everybody!

This morning I have been fiddling with my sidebar, adding some new content.

WordPress released a Twitter widget this week which I added this morning.   I have twitterfeed updating my twitter account with my shared google reader feed, my facebook status, as well as new blogposts here and from my art blog.  Honestly, I really don’t understand the what, why and how of twitter but I am trying to figure it all out.

I added a new category to my sidebar called Participating.  This will include links to various challenges and memes that I am participating in around the blogosphere.  Today, I added In Three Words which simple asks a question to which you answer in just three words.  Have to love the simplicity of that!

On my Reading and Watching lists, I am only keeping up with books read and movies watched during 2009.  Each year, I’ll start a new list.  You may notice that there are quite a few dvds listed already.  Each Friday is family movie/pizza night.  We only started doing this recently and I have a firm commitment to my children to sit with them and watch the entire movie, without distractions.  It has been so much fun! If you have any recommendations for our movie list, let me know.

I divided my reading list as I am not reading just books from 1001 Books you Must Read before you Die.  I am taking a break now and then to read something for fun or to read some non-fiction.  I just finished reading all four Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants.  My 17 yod (she’ll be 18 next week … wow!) read them and passed them on.  They were light, fun reading however, I was frustrated at how each girl was written as incomplete without a love interest.  As they grew, they did individually find interests but still, the main focus seemed to be on resolving their romantic life.

Each chapter began with a quote and I LOVE quotes so that was a bit redeeming.  I decided to pick one favorite quote from each book.

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants:

“What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Second Summer of the Sisterhood:

He made the world to be a grassy road Before her wandering feet. – W. B. Yeats

Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood

Following the light of the sun, we left the old world. – Christopher Columbus

Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood

Illusions are art, for the feeling person  and it is by art that you life, if you do.  – Elizabeth Bowen

So, there you are … just a rundown of a few updates.  Have a great day!

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Thursday Thirteen: Starting Over

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Thursday Thirteen

Since I have spent the past couple of days immersed in painting and creating, I thought this header would be appropriate.  Then I sat at the computer and have tapped my head over and over trying to figure out what thirteen things I need to list.

With a  touch of adult ADD, distractions are the biggest obstacle that I have once I sit down at the art table.  Even when everyone is honoring the closed door, the distractions always find me and sometimes, I find them.

So for today, here is a list of thirteen distractions I chased the past couple of days instead of staying focused on my art work.  I would like to say that in the end, I accomplished a lot.

1.  Watched a bit of Dr. Phil’s episode with Nadya Suleman, the mother of the octuplets.

2.  Had to go out and tell someone about how an organization is working with Nadya Suleman and the octuplets to help them bond to their mother … all the volunteers are trained to do everything exactly as Nadya would and they all will use lavendar hand soup.  The babies will be swaddled in T-shirts worn by their mother to help them identify with her scent.

3.  Checked email

4.  Posted on Facebook that I was busy painting

5.  Phoned a friend … or two

6.  Watched  Ellen Degeneres and Carol Burnett singing in the shower together

7.  Kissed the children good night … proves I worked late last night

8.  Sorted the laundry

9.  Petted my cat

10.  Worked on the sidebar of my blog

11.  Read new articles on Huffington Post

12.  Watched The Office

13.  Bought Meat

So, I am thinking, without the tv and the internet, I would be able to get a whole lot more work done!

Grace and Peace Y’all!

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