What made you smile today?

After Her Fiance Left Her At The Altar, This Bride Took The World’s Best Photo Shoot
http://tinyurl.com/qjrvnzm

I love this. good for her

My lost stray Kitty is back. A clinic called me. As it turns out it's a boy!!! Changed his name from Abby to Toby. :-). My first cat ever....I guess it's destiny. He has a goatee...I should've known better LOL.

Next time, just lift the tail and think punctuation marks. If you see a colon, it's a male. Semicolon means female. Of course, an unneutered male is quite conspicuous.

Hey, that's wonderful.

Good for both of you!

I liked it, that she and they did that - had to chase the link on buzzfeed, by the way.

On the other hand, I can understand the guy; people should talk more pre wedding..

I'm feeling a bit like Miss Emily Litella.

I'm badly in need of a new computer, and will be buying one in the next day or so.
I'm a self professed klutz when it come to anything mechanical, so I texted Wallette if she could stop by on 1/1 to help me.

I could just hear the concern in her voice when she replied. "I wish I could be there when you pick one out." and then "Send me the links to one ones you're interested in, and I'll looked them over.


What's all this about Inter Debt Confections? I'm certainly not going to go into any debts over a box of petits fours!

Me and Wallette. (I'm on the left)

Just opened an email with another holiday note from one of my old design colleague-friends. Five of us who worked together at different times still keep in touch once a year. It's interesting to me as old friends often stop a lot of the connections as we get older. But there's a kind of closeness with these people - we met in middle age and still want to know how we're doing as years zing on by. Different genders, sexual orientation, different nationalities, religion or not - the commonality being the fun of designing.

Anyway, this fellow sent me a jpeg of his design plan for his own property (he built a house, that's done, now the yard..). Got to get him to send me more photos.. I want to see the house plan.

That's what happened...we were taking "her to get spayed ". We had a pink collar on him and a big Abby tag on his box. I still mess up and call him her at times. The semicolon test makes sense. :-)

Watching Bao Bao, the 16 month old Giant Panda, enjoy her first taste of snow today at the National Zoo in Washington D.C.





I first started watching Bao Bao on the zoo's panda cam when she was about 4 months old. It was wonderful to watch her development, to see her gradually acquire skills, and to observe her interactions with her mother. It was a real delight to see her today, almost all grown up, enjoying her first snowfall. It was impossible not to smile.

That's super adorable Firefly!
♡(人･㉨･)♡

Well, to continue, I'm smiling again from hearing from my old colleague/friend.
We've pumped up the emails to real talk - such a breath of fresh air relative to the general nature of holiday missives that can be/usually are the only missives from the cheery many. Those are appropriate to the season, but a bit bare.

He's the guy who taught my first class in design, an artist from Japan. I was one who spoke up in class. Looking back, he's the one who taught us about play in design (mixed with some sense). A year or two later he pulled me and another student into one of his projects. And time later, he and I were reviewers together for passing the students to go further or not. And then when I was in practice he involved me in a few interesting projects. 35 years have gone by. I still rue not using a credit card to go on a group tour of Japan with him, back in those beginning years.

The point, though, is the pleasure of real talk.

My bestest of best friends and I communicate by only e-mail, at least until I visit Stateside. Once, the topic of Skype came up. We were both like, 'Why would anybody want to do that?' Maybe it's a guy thing?

I dunno. I'm skype free, and much else, but I can see it for lovers far away and family.

Seth Cub has only been on the new job 6 weeks and today they promoted him to a salaried position

No, I'm with you. Then again, sometimes I think I shoulda been born a guy.

ok great, now I can't just email you while looking like my head just came out of a blender?

Give me a break.

Now that our daughter and her husband live a thousand miles away, Skype is an improvement on phone and e-mail. The next best thing to speaking in person.

I can see it in certain situations. One of my friends over here has parents Stateside who like to interact more-or-less directly with their granddaughter, so they Skype pretty often. But as for all my friends back home, if I Skyped them up all of a sudden, they'd be like, "This had better be an emergency."

Smiling because the spareribs I baked for dins tonight, with sauerkraut and BBQ sauce, turned out better than expected and didn't end up in the garbage.