This afternoon, after my husband, Jay, brought the mail inside, I noticed that we received THREE identical postcards from the same Gibsonville Alderman candidate running for office. One was addressed to my husband, a registered voter; another was addressed to myself, a registered voter, and lastly one was addressed to my daughter, also a registered voter. Under each name it said, "or current resident".
My first, second and third impression of this local candidate,
Ted Barber, was if this is how he handles his campaign monies, there is NO way I would trust him to handle Town of
Gibsonville monies. This is wasteful. One postcard to our household would have been sufficient. One postcard to ANY household would have been sufficient (if postcards HAD to be mailed at all). I realize that he probably just gleaned the registered voter database in order to know who to send the postcards to, but it is still irresponsible, wasteful and lazy to not take the time to weed out duplicate addresses in order to save money and resources.
And yes, those postcards are torn in half because after my first, second and third impressions as listed above, my next thought was to tear the postcards in half and throw them away.
Also, and probably more importantly-he takes the exact opposite stance from those I hold on local issues. Like some of his opponents have stated, if you do not have money-you do not spend money.
Back in the summer, I saw where Legos for education was offering a small lego set to encourage educators to help them come up with educational ideas. The insert in the mail says "Are You Lego Smart".
One of the activities was to build a duck using only the red and yellow pieces included in this set. It said that each duck would be different and that it would be interesting to compare them all.
So, curious what we as a family could come up with, I decided we'd try it. My duck turned out like this:
My son, Christopher's looks like it is skimming the waterways:
Bayley was mildly interesting, probably because he thought that the sound of plastic indicated food for him to stare at:
Bored, he laid back down and went back to sleep again:
My daughter, Hannah, took her turn creating the Bunducky-patient pending of course:
My husband's duck, well...I think he has some sort of floatation device to assist him:
It was a fun activity, and sure enough we all created different Lego Ducks out of the pieces. We are not sure what we'll end up submitting for the educational lego thingy-but one thing is for sure...
I have fallen in love with this lime green piece that was in the pack. Who knew that lime green was a color? I didn't know-so if nothing else, this pack of legos taught me that lime green legos exist!
Playing catch-up with posting columns I've done since the last time I've shared.
Earlier this year I posted about the writing on the side of a box from starbucks. Today, my purchases were put inside of a paper handled bag that reads:
You're holding something special,
A tasty treat. A Thoughtful gift.
All inside a handy carrier.
Which becomes a lunch bag, A puppet,
A keep-it-new book cover
A garden tool holder,
A "bring a few CDs over for dinner" carrier.
Unwrapped, it's a sketch pad,
With handles,
So reuse it, Reincarnate it.
Re-imagine it.
And when it's served its
every purpose,
recycle it.
Love the creativity of these wrappings-keep it coming Starbucks!
Static
Neatly Folded Towels
Stacked in a Very Tall Pile
Fresh From the Dryer
Haiku by Linda Vestal aka Muddy
A few recent columns:
Two weeks ago, on August 2nd-We celebrated this:
Hannah was so tiny to us when she was born, so fragile. We asked ourselves, "now what" when we arrived home from the hospital.
We enjoyed learning about the ins and outs of taking care of a little baby, totally dependant on her parents for care. She arrived home in this little yellow elephant outfit-bought just in case she was a boy-or just in case she was a girl. We wanted something that could go for either. It had cute little knit pants with smaller elephants crawling all over them.
We affectionately called her chicken head, because of the hair of hers that stuck up on top. She found comfort in her "binky", the pink passy that we bought on a whim as we were trying various kinds.
I loved this little outfit she is wearing below. We called it her pebbles outfit since she looked like pebbles in the Flinstones. We teased that we could have taken some of that stick up hair and wrapped it around a bone just like pebbles. :)
She was quickly introduced to Scotty-the dog we had at the time. The first meeting did not go very well with Hannah, though Scotty seemed to enjoy the photo completely!(I must have been holding a cookie!)
Later on, we tried again....
and again....
They seemed to warm up to one another eventually....at least until she invaded Scotty's space.
I could do a whole series of photos dictating the Scotty/Hannah relationship.
From the very start, Hannah loved books-something that is still very true today. She would listen intently to the sound of our voice, and eventually tried her hand at making sounds-VERY loudly I might add...
She even practiced her rolling over skills as she took in a good book. Apparently she was a multi-tasker even at that early age.
We wrapped her in a "pea-pod" as we got her ready for bed for naps and night. This was before the "Back to sleep" campaigns that started in 1992 (or there abouts)..In this top photo she is laying on a spare bed in her room that is covered in an old bed spread of mine (can you say early 1970's?) I still have it somewhere around here...it's loud and bright-and it had curtains to match-but I loved it.
After the pea-pod roll, we would lay her on her tummy and tuck another blanket on top of her-tucking her in nice and tight. I cringe looking at these knowing the prevailing advice today. We did it to keep her still-from rolling over and waking up-at least for a few months. It worked-but ....wow-live and learn huh?
Her daddy and I love her to pieces, even to this day...
She was for the most part, a very happy baby-easy going....happy just be a baby.
She did have her moments though...
Don't we all?
She traveled well..
And made friends easily...
Eventually she learned to walk, and strutted her stuff around the townhouse we lived at that time..
Before we knew it , her first year had come and gone...and we were celebrating her first birthday...
Likewise, 19 years have also passed in a flash...as we celebrated her 19th birthday two weekends ago. Happy birthday Hannah....you make me feel old! Ha!
I've been doing Send Earnings and Inbox Dollars for a year now. I havent really said anything (though did have a referal button for a short time in my sidebar for a short time) . I guess I wanted to make sure the money I earned was "real" before encouraging others to go check it out via a link.
Back in April, I got my first check from Inbox Dollars, and then today got my first one from Send Earnings. It's not a huge amount of money, but it's something. Some was made reading emails, other parts of it was doing an offer or two for things we were looking to do anyway. Still other parts of it was made when I did a couple of surveys for them. No one will "get rich" doing this-or be able to quit their job to stay home, but it's money still the same....and who doesn't like getting a check in the mail now and again?
So in case you are interested, I'm putting my referal banners in the side bar in case you'd like to check it out. No obligation or pressure-just there with the above explaination of what it is if you're interested. Otherwise, carry on...and thanks for visiting my little part of the internet!
You know, a blog is a lot like a pile of stuff you need to sort through and organize. You can walk by it a couple of times a day, unfazed. You tell yourself that you need to get to that pile/blog - but you just keep walking because it's easier than dealing with the pile/blog at hand.
I guess this space is my dumping ground of sorts at times, much like a place where I might put papers or things that I need to sort through later. It's a bit of this, a smidge of that and a lot of messy disorganization.
I like to post stuff that made me smile or caused me a bit of silliness in my day. Sometimes it is a place to keep track of my columns or to join in MSM's fun TIMHT as I am able to.
It's not like I am not online-for I am...but my time here is often spent reading more than commenting or writing as you can tell. I enjoy the back and forth between bloggers - I just have a hard time dedicating the time to keep up with everything.
Last year (2008) I tried to write or post something daily for a while. It was fun-but then I saw the "shiny shiny" in the corner over there~~> and became distracted with other things.
This is where I am today, right now....at times I guess I'll write some stuffs here, post some "you tube" (get ready for when I do, because I have saved some real good ones recently I want to share), and type out whatever else seems to be on my mind that day. There is no pattern or reason in it all, just me-finally getting to the pile/blog when I make myself sit long enough to churn out a coherent thought from time to time. (or at least a stream of consciousness of garbled words)
So am here, saying hello. Not going anywhere....just making sure that my blog still knows who I am!
