Engineers' perspective on cats

*grin* I especially like the Cat Yodeling!!! We've GOT to try this!

Welcome Spring

The winds are blowing at about 30 miles an hour ... and the temperature is supposed to creep up to above 70 today.

Spring has officially sprung!!!

We've completed an item!

We finished one item on our list of 101 Challenges in 1001 Days ... check it out, here. I have to say, we are really enjoying coming up with items on our list ... and it's a really cool way for us to consider what is important for us over the next several years. I can see us doing another 101 list when we finish this one, in January 2011. Seems like a long way off, doesn't it? But it'll be so cool to see what meaningful and fun things we've done by then!

I'm resuming my sword classes tonight, after a hiatus due to work & travel constraints. I am looking forward to it ... and dreading it, too. I'm feeling a bit rusty, but I think it'll come back to me pretty quickly. My body knows it, even if my brain doesn't. *grin*

My other personal goal over the next six weeks is that I want to finish the remaining 20 pages in our Disney 2007 album. So, I may post a few pages up here for you all to check out, if I get inspired.

Now, I have to go sift through paperwork to get quarterly taxes ready. My playlist should have some kind of creepy scary music for that one. There's something about writing out a check for several thousand dollars that just makes my skin crawl. Well, at least when I'm writing it out to state & federal tax authorities ... if I were writing it out for a down payment on a car, I think that would be different. Which, according to our list, is going to happen in the next less-than-1001 days!

101 Challenges in 1001 Days

My sweetie & I are creating a blog of 101 things we wish to accomplish in 1001 days, which can be found here. It was inspired by Day Zero, and I strongly encourage my readers to consider making a list of their own. It is quite invigorating!

Mission Accomplished!!

I'm back from my trip to Connecticut (with some side trips to Massachusetts to visit Karen & Dawn), and my weekend 'o scrapping fun! I completed a whole 9"x9" album while I was there & am very pleased with the results! The album contains a total of 42 pages, and I was able to do another 10 pages for my chronological album!

I think next time I'll work on a Disney album! It was so gratifying to finish an entire album & come back to show it to everyone here at home!

Busy, busy, busy

The past week has been insanely busy for me -- professionally, socially, personally, all-ally! I am still running around a lot, trying to get everything geared up for a weekend away with friends, but if everything goes according to plan (how often does that happen, I wonder?), I should be able to get all my ducks in a row before I head out. For me, that's awfully important, because if I've dotted all my i's and crossed all my t's, it is so much easier for me to slip into relaxation mode. And because the very very few times I've not made sure everything's taken care of, it's come back to bite me in the butt! So, wish me luck ... here I go, back to my busy-ness!

So, about my leftover books...

...as I look for places to donate books, I stumbled across the Camel Book Drive, an organization in Kenya! I will have to check into shipping rates & see if it's worthwhile for me to pass some of these along, but I thought I'd let the rest of my blog readers know about it. It seems like there is a huge need for kids' books -- the one type of books that's not well-represented in my leftovers -- but I will do some more reading & see what may appeal to this group!