New toy!

I finally bought a camera! Get ready for a snap-happy blogger! :D

http://www.usa.canon.com/consumer/controller?act=ModelInfoAct&fcategoryid=145&modelid=18183

I brought it to work to show people…

Me:  Look at my camera!  Isn’t it awesome?!
Coworker:  You bought it b/c it’s red.
Me:  Yep.

Proud new owner….

of Ssekos!  Go get a pair!

www.ssekodesigns.com

Toasts? Advice?

Writing a toast for my sis and Sean for their wedding this weekend!  Crazy!  Anyone have any advice?  (Kiwi – no one can ever beat “Twas the Night Before the Wedding”!)

Is this thing on?

Must start blogging again.  Otherwise my audience of 5 will be beside themselves! ;)

A Wonderful Christmas Present

Sean’s mom gave me a CRAZY amount of yarn!  An overflowing banana box and four bags full!!!  EXCITEMENT!

Books read in 2009

525,600 minutes
525,000 moments so dear
525,600 minutes
How do you measure, measure a year?

How about….. BOOKS! :D (mostly out of sheer laziness, don’t want to write about my year)

January
Breathing New Life into Faith; Dahlstrom, Richard
The Shack; Young, William
The Winter’s Tale; Shakespeare, William

February
Persepolis; Satrapi, Marjorie
Black Boy; Wright, Richard

March
Girl Meets God; Winner, Lauren

April
Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao; Diaz, Junot
Ballistics; Collins, Billy

May
Without You; Rapp, Anthony
Angry Conversations with God; Isaacs, Susan

June
Till We Have Faces; Lewis, C.S.

July
Persepolis 2; Satrapi, Marjorie
Velvet Elvis; Bell, Rob
Unaccustomed Earth; Lahiri, Jhumpa
Netherland; O’Neill, Joseph
The Last Family in England; Haig, Matt

August
Honeymoon in Tehran; Moaveni, Azadeh
Dead Fathers Club; Haig, Matt
Big Russ and Me; Russert, Tim
Holidays on Ice; Sedaris, David
Mudhouse Sabbath; Winner, Lauren
The Star-Spangled Girl; Simon, Neil

September
Vital Friends; Rath, Tom

October
Death Be Not Proud; Gunther, John

December
A Million Miles in a Thousand Years; Miller, Don
My Sergei; Gordeeva, Ekaterina

This makes me happy at work

Asking the Microsoft Office Assistant to “Do a trick.”  My default assistant is a dog.  It is fun.

Don Miller is coming to Houston!

http://www.itickets.com/events/236394/Pasadena_TX/A_Million_Miles_Tour.html

Adventures in hat crocheting

So my hat didn’t curl as early as it was supposed to.  Now it’s like a giant green pancake with a slight curl at the edges.  Blah.  Should I pull it all out and start over?  Or does anyone have a need for a giant green pancake?

My journalist crush is coming to Houston!

Anyone want to come with me?  :D   I know the price is a little steep – but you get the book too and he is AMAZING!

Event From Oppression to Opportunity for Women Worldwide
Nicholas D. Kristof, The New York Times Columnist
Rice University
Shell Auditorium, McNair Hall 
Date Sunday, October 25, 2009
Time 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM
Event Pricing
Ticket+Book $30.00 per attendee

http://www.wachouston.org/calendar?1=1&modpage=EventDetails&fid=9&ec=525