Blank Sheet of Paper

I've decided that I'm going to be a Change Maker this year for Eric & Kathy's 36 hour radiothon for Children's Memorial Hospital . Would you like to be one with me? If you check out the second link, you'll learn that the radiothon isn't until early September, but why wait? It's for a great cause, and if our own little ones haven't had a few scares, we certain know someone who has. So, instead of just tossing our change into a container, why not do something else with it that will make us a part of something bigger?

With the exception of 1.5 people, I AM DONE CHRISTMAS SHOPPING! This has NEVER happened to me before!

There is actually one "gift" that I really want. Perhaps more than anything. More than that pony I've wanted since I was a kid. More than that dream sports car I've been wanting for a year or so. More than... like I said.... anything . You wouldn't have to wrap it. You wouldn't have to waste any extra time. It wouldn't cost you much. Maybe it would even save you some money. It's kind of a selfish gift, I know. Yet at the same time it's a much needed reminder. My last real "gift" as a teenager. And one I know I won't get.

How many weeks are we into summer already, and for the first time I feel like I had a brief moment of summer. FINALLY! Granted I did my laundry and had it done by 10am, I laid out for a while this afternoon. Then, even though after only a measly 30 minutes I was sweating, I decided to jump into the pool to cool off. AND I even created a whirlpool. :-) Thank you, summer goddess, for giving me some temporary serenity.

...The second most brilliant weather miracle.

grand (adj) impressive in size, magnificent or splendid gesture (n) any action, courtesy, communication, &c., intended for effect therefore (broadly placed) grand gesture (n) an impressive action To be perfectly blunt, I'm missing my grand gestures. I haven't gotten many during my life, probably because of the amount of "risk" involved, but there are some things that are simply shoe ins. I like to know that I've been missed/thought about/&c (who doesn't?) I mean, I'm not necessarily talking John Cusack in Say Anything grand (though I admit that I would give you a crazy running jump hug and a kiss of some sort if you ever did that), it doesn't have to be like that, it's just... something, I don't know. Even a little one. Just let me know, okay?

He hasn't even been baking that long, but it smells wonderful in this house. I love it.

So I was snooping around today (not even really snooping, I was actually looking for something and thought that this may be a plausible place to find this object I was looking for, but then I found something else that caught my eye, and I'm one of those people who have to feed their curiosity whether it ends good or bad, but that's another story that's getting anyway from my point, if I even have one). Anyway, during this time I found something that shouldn't have surprised me, but it did. It was amazing, this other thing I found, and even though there are some things we just know, things that are facts, things that we know and accept and even utilize our knowledge of this every once in a while, it was still amazing. It made the little known fact even more apparent, and all I have to say is wow, that's amazing.

My friends tend to think I'm crazy when I say I'd pick winter over summer nine times out of ten, but on nights like this I want to tell them to look outside and try to convince me otherwise.