top ten tuesday

top ten reasons why seeing an old friend rocks:

- details i forget, she remembers.
- stories from when we were crazy kids.
- ease of conversation.
- driving the road to her mom's house for the first time in 8 years.
- calling ourselves old because we now drive that road at or even below the speed limit.
- listening to her talk about her husband & daughter.
- knowing she's an awesome wife & mother.
- understanding the rule of never admitting to anything.
- eye contact communication.
- knowing that 10 years from now, we'll still be enjoying one another's company.

top ten tuesday!

top ten reasons why snow rocks:
- snowball fights
- the magic of a blanket of white
- when the sun is right, it appears diamonds are falling from the sky
- deranged mutant killer monster snowgoons
- sledding
- ice on the lakes and ponds
- it's temporary - eventually it *will* melt
- fun to catch
- snowmen
- encourages appreciation of warmer weather :)

top ten tuesday!

top ten crafty projects i'd like to accomplish:

- finish my mom's quilt.
- a secret sketchbook.
- another secret sketchbook. :)
- a sketchbook with a sewn-on fabric cover.
- st. patrick's day doodads.
- redesign of this website for the 1 year anniversary. well... 13 month anniversary, perhaps. :)
- a topsy-turvy cake.
- a pantone-like book.
- a purse for my little cousin alyssa.
- a secret quilt.

and you?

top ten tuesday!

top ten reasons i like my job:

- snowball fights in the parking lot
- foil balls
- bake sales & cook-ins
- working on the "party side" of the room
- singing the name game with olga
- lunch with the ladies
- rockin' artists
- noodle balls
- images of tigers hugging girafes
- having "too much fun"


why do you like your job?

top ten tuesday returns

top ten quandaries of today:

- why did i have to look up "quandaries" at dictionary.com? where, oh where, have my spelling skills gone?
- why couldn't psa inform us they were changing the size of the magazines & therefore we needed to take note of the new sizes for all the ads we were building?
- how did nelly furtado come to equal happiness on a cd?
- why was there no glass of fresh squeezed orange juice on my desk this morning? this is national fresh squeezed orange juice week, folks. where's the love?
- why didn't i use my e-mail address when purchasing from uncommongoods.com? how am i to know when they ship my order?
- what does it say about us if the only way to keep a 5-person conversation going is to talk about jobs that we're not exactly happy about?
- why do i love to read, yet read so little?
- if i were to match my socks one day... how long would it take before i forgot that i had matched my socks?
- why must we say "the customer is always right"? we all know that's not true. even the customer knows that's not true.
- why are monkeys on unicycles smoking cigarettes so stinkin' funny?

c'mon... you've gotta have a quandary or two of your own...

top ten ... thursday?

alright, so i didn't hold up my end of the bargain on top ten tuesdays. but i'm here to make an effort. and here are the top ten reasons why today was a GOOD day. (for those of you who i've talked to today, you'll know that this is a challenge for me, but i'm determined to think positive. determined.)

- i'm wearing my new non-becca girly shirt with a pink bow. and i LIKE it. so there.
- we had a good time at monica's birthday lunch. and tossing a few slushballs in the parking lot afterwards.
- all of my magazine ads are FINISHED and UPLOADED.
- jeff didn't quit. that's always good.
- i shot three very nice dart balls at the end of the day.
- nelly furtado.
- black beans & rice.
- i kicked butt playing split tonight.
- e-mails to cheer me up during the day.
- a God who holds everything together on days like today when i feel like i'm falling apart.

why was your day a good day?